AIDS

ACT UP Did March for Single-Payer Health Care

By Steven Thrasher Thu., Jun. 21 2012 at 8:47 AM
Categories: AIDS, Department of Corrections, Follow-Up, LGBTQ, Protest, Steven Thrasher

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In this week's Pride Issue feature "Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?" we report about how the mainstream gay organizations, even the AIDS groups, were largely absent from Zuccotti Park in 2011 and were not advocating a single-payer option during 2010's raging health care debates.

Reader Eustacia Smith wrote to inform us that ACT UP New York did march for single-payer healthcare.

Earlier in our article, we'd written:

Today's movement is quite unlike ACT UP, the Gay Liberation Front, or the Mattachine Society. In their use of confrontation, those groups looked far more like Occupy Wall Street than the Human Rights Campaign. Today's gay organizations tend to present queer voices that are well polished and well financed.
Because of this, we didn't consider ACT UP to be part of what we were later discussing about today's big gay organizations, as it was never part of 'Gay Inc.'

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Department of Education

School Has Trouble Spelling 'School'

By Jen Doll Tue., Jan. 24 2012 at 8:50 AM
Categories: Department of Corrections, Department of Education, Jen Doll, Or However You Spell It, Things You Should Know

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Another school, another spelling mistake.
Attenshun, streat crossang gards adn teechers and stoo-dents, and, peeple who paynte street sines. Spelling is still very important! Not doing it properly, or at least double-checking your work before it goes down semi-permanently in the asphalt, makes you look stooooopid. Hence, the mockery that has been heaped upon the Lower East Side's own Marta Valle High School, which features, on nearby Stanton Street, the designation "SHCOOL X-NG." It has been there for months, reports the New York Post. Monfs!

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Anonymous

Anonymous Doesn't Actually Want to Destroy Facebook

By Rosie Gray Thu., Aug. 11 2011 at 8:42 AM
Categories: Anonymous, Department of Corrections, Facebook, Hackers, Internet, Internet Trolls, Oops!, Rosie Gray

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Stop backing up your Facebook photos, because hacker collective Anonymous' plot to kill the 'book was all a big misunderstanding. Not a hoax, exactly; there was once a plan by an Anonymous user named Speakeasy and associates to raise awareness about Facebook's privacy policies and start an alternate social networking service. The originators of the idea handed over the reigns to the social network, Anonplus, to others, but left scraps of their work behind. Like in a game of Telephone, those scraps were distorted in the hands of other Internet trolls and eventually it was made to seem as though Anonymous was hell-bent on Facebook's destruction.

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Oops!

Sarah Palin Not So Good at American History

By Jen Doll Fri., Jun. 3 2011 at 5:05 PM
Categories: Department of Corrections, Historical Shit, Jen Doll, Oops!, Sarah Palin

Remember how in elementary school you learned about that guy, Paul Revere, who rode from Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts, on horseback during the American Revolution as part of an organized alarm system to warn folks that the British were coming? He didn't, despite popular belief, actually shout "The British are coming!" He also did not shoot guns or ring bells, as Sarah Palin mistakenly tells America in this video, taken during her bus stop to Boston yesteryearday, 'cause that would have been pretty obvious to, you know, the British. Oh well, elementary school was a long time ago, right? You betcha it was.


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Vindicated!

Kian Khatibi Graduates NYU After 9 Years in Jail for a Crime His Brother Committed

By Jen Doll Wed., May 18 2011 at 2:31 PM
Categories: Congratulations, Department of Corrections, Higher Learning, Jen Doll, Vindicated!

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Walking in NYU's commencement ceremony today is a guy with a particularly moving story: He's 35, and was imprisoned for 9 years for a crime he didn't commit, which his brother finally confessed to, allowing for his release three years ago. At 22, Kian Khatibi had been at a bar in Pleasantville, New York, when a fight began. His brother was also at the bar. A man was stabbed outside and almost died; another bar-goer was injured, and Khatibi was blamed, then imprisoned.

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Press Clips

Julian Assange & the News Cycle: Guantanamo Bay Info Starts With WikiLeaks

By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Apr. 25 2011 at 6:00 PM
Categories: Dan Abrams, Department of Corrections, Joe Coscarelli, Julian Assange, New York Times, Press Clips, WikiLeaks

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Earlier today, we reported on the new information available about Guantanamo Bay, as some of the world's largest news organizations began publishing piles of previously classified documents about more than 700 prisoners detained there since 2002. The information was leaked to Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks organization, but the New York Times and the Guardian, both of which pissed off Assange personally and have ended their working relationships with the polarizing figure, also had scoops of their own based on the same info, adding a complex media component to an already multifaceted story. Yes, Obama promised to close Guantanamo and hasn't, all while human rights violations continue, but in Press Clips, our daily media column, we'll spell out the behind-the-scenes drama in publishing this week's leak.

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Department of Corrections

Sad Japanese Cat Is Reportedly Safe!

By Jen Doll Wed., Mar. 16 2011 at 2:36 PM
Categories: :), Adorable Animals in Trouble, Department of Corrections, Jen Doll, Things for Which We Are Thankful

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Yesterday we posted an image of a cat in Japan that seemed to be just hanging on with the most heart-wrenching of expressions above what we, given the timing, interpreted as tsunami water. We would like to correct ourselves. It turns out that the photo, which had been reblogged by WNYC's Transmitter from another Tumblr, Nikki-Meow, has a date on it that -- as some of our commenters pointed out -- indicates it may have been taken pre-tsunami.

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The Stars

Relax! Your Astrological Sign Has Not Changed. Probably.

By Jen Doll Fri., Jan. 14 2011 at 12:49 PM
Categories: Department of Corrections, Jen Doll, The Stars, Things We Are Seriously Invested In, WTF?, We Guess We're Happy

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ZOMG! We were stressed about the latest life-changing astrological information, which actually is not "news" at all, but something people have known about for years! Still, we were stressed! Fortunately, CNN puts an end to our worries that our astrological sign might have changed with the very important news that it (probably) did not: "If [people] adhered to the tropical zodiac -- which, if they're a Westerner, they probably did -- absolutely nothing has changed for them." As they go on to explain,

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Reality Check

Daughter-Raping Murderer Is Fan of Charlie Sheen's Show, Which Sheen Actually Can't Help

By Jen Doll Tue., Nov. 2 2010 at 5:11 PM
Categories: 'National' 'News', Celebrity Dope, Department of Corrections, Jen Doll, Reality Check

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In what we assume is a bid to put together two SEO-worthy tales of sex and woe, the Daily News made the decision to publish the info that self-described "world-famous" Austrian Josef Fritzl, who raped and fathered children with a daughter he kept in a dungeon for 24 years (and was found guilty of murder for letting one of those children die), is a huge, huge fan of Charlie Sheen's Two and a Half Men.

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New York Times

Why Did the New York Times Scrub Sudsy Story on a Brooklyn Beer Brouhaha?

By Foster Kamer Tue., Nov. 2 2010 at 3:50 PM
Categories: Beer, Blogs, Coney Island, Department of Corrections, Foster Kamer, Media Ethics, New York Times

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Why are people protesting Williamsburg's famed Brooklyn Brewery for contributing to the death of Coney Island when they have nothing to do with it? Because of the New York Times being totally wrong, is why!

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