pando.com: I am not 100% satisfied with the box of shit I received in the mail #

david holmes lässt sich vom neuen shitexpress.com einen haufen scheisse schicken und beklagt sich, unter anderem, darüber, dass die „smelly surprise“ nicht ordentlich stinkt. sehr witzig

 telegraph.co.uk: Why Adele was right to ignore Bob Geldof and Band Aid #

bryony gordon:

Nobody wants a world full of Ebola, but nor do I want a world full of Malaria and HIV and Tuberculosis and numerous other diseases - not to mention conditions such as hunger and poverty - that are destroying the lives of many millions of Africans every day.
Certainly, I don't want to be told how to behave philanthropically by a man worth an estimated £32 million, a man who is said to use tax avoidance schemes (it is telling that when a journalist asked him two years ago how much tax he paid, Geldof exploded at her, saying: 'My time? Is that not a tax?' Well, no, Bob, it isn't).
I don't want to be implored to give charitably by a band that travels in separate private jets because they don't get on (One Direction), or by a man who avoids Irish taxes while simultaneously telling the Irish government to help developing countries (Bono).

/via @PeterBalzli und @niggi

 theatlantic.com: The Rape Accusations Against Bill Cosby Must Not Be Ignored #

ta-nehisi coates:

Perhaps it is not fair for a journalist to consider, or even publicize, anonymous allegations of criminal activity. Even then we are left with six accusations of sexual assault: Tamara Green says that Cosby drugged and groped her in 1970. Beth Ferrier says that Cosby drugged and raped her in 1984. Janice Dickinson says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982. Barbara Bowman says that Cosby drugged and raped her "multiple times" when she was 17 in 1985. And Andrea Constand says that Cosby drugged and raped her in 2004. Taken together, the public accusations span some 30 years and are remarkably similar in their detail.

The heart of the matter is this: A defender of Bill Cosby must, effectively, conjure a vast conspiracy, created to bring down one man, seemingly just out of spite. And people will do this work of conjuration, because it is hard to accept that people we love in one arena can commit great evil in another. It is hard to believe that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist because the belief doesn't just indict Cosby, it indicts us. It damns us for drawing intimate conclusions about people based on pudding-pop commercials and popular TV shows. It destroys our ability to lean on icons for our morality. And it forces us back into a world where seemingly good men do unspeakably evil things, and this is just the chaos of human history.

2007 hat coates eine reportage über bill cosby geschrieben, in der er viel gutes über bill cosby schrieb, aber nicht erwähnte, dass er ihn für einen serien-vergewaltiger hielt. wie er seine gründe dafür darlegt und welche konseqnezen er aus dieser auslassung zog, lohnt sich zu lesen.

 reddit.com: Being a Black woman in Berlin #

ich bin sicher, dass harald martenstein, läse er diesen text, gleich eine kolumne schreiben würde, in der er sich über die niedrigen standards beim abitur beklagen würde („Um in Deutsch das Abi zu bestehen, reicht es wahrscheinlich, die Zeichentrickfiguren Wum und Wendelin unterscheiden und einen der beiden Namen richtig schreiben zu können.“) und in der er darauf hinweisen würde, dass in kinderbüchern nicht mehr von negern (tafeln, von denen schauspieler im fernsehstudio texte ablesen), kümmeltürken (osmanen), wichsern (schuhputzern), kanaken (ureinwohner der südseeinseln) oder fotzen (backpfeifen) geredet werden könne und das früher (für ihn) irgendwie alles besser gewesen sei.

ich persönlich würde den text einfach mal so stehen lassen und darüber nachdenken, ob ich mit meinem verhalten, meiner sprache und vorurteilen nicht auch zu den im text beschriebenen situationen beitrage.