Did Portishead kill trip hop?

Sure. Just like "Charly" killed rave.

http://www.nekozine.co.uk/prodigy/info/mixmagapology.html

Reading this makes me realize what John Allan Muhammed (DC sniper) did wrong: he should have said it was all just an art project. When he killed all those people, he was attempting to recontextualize the interrelationship between racialisticism and identity politics as refracted through the lens of the violence endemic in our patriarchy-framed-Caucasio-hetero-normative society. Art is above morality! You disagree? Then YOU'RE at fault for pushing us down that slippery slope into censorship.

This is great; I'm rich AND white AND I went to Harvard -- society will permit me to commit...er, I mean, to DISPLAY art with impunity! Thanks Aliza!

didn't "personal maternity shoppers" and "mother's assistants" used to be called sisters, aunties, girlfriends and Grandma?

Ah, but what chance do all of them have against the two most important words in America today:

Economic optimality.

Outsource everything you can - you deserve it! After all, your baby is only a baby for a year, but your money is forever!

Sacrifice is so last century.

We live in an ADHD society. People can't even remember the hurricane in Burma, let alone what happened in the primaries. I had high hopes that the one good thing to come out of Nargis would be that Americans (particularly American women because of Aung Saan Suu Kyi) would be awakened to the conditions in Burma and help increase pressure on the ruling junta.

Hah. If there's any justice in this world, 100 years from now the planet will be controlled by hard-working southeast Asians, while Americans break into 150 million separate political parties (each with two members) and stand around arguing about who's to blame for our crushing trade deficit, crumbling infrastructure, and low wage jobs. Because isn't that really the most important question: who's to blame?

Anyway, sorry for the O/T rant. I believe that by November, McCain and his supporters will have said enough stupid/controversial/racist things that Clinton supporters will vote for Obama.

@Patrick Morgan: These 2 are unabashedly drunk, stupid and nihilistic -which I guess is what passes for cool these days?

In NYC, yes.

New York is like Animal Farm meets high school: all the artsy types from high school suddenly find they're "cool", so they start behaving exactly like the beautiful people they claimed to hate in high school: drunk, cliquey, faux-jaded idiots. Reminds me of the "stupid spoiled whore party" episode of South Park.

Regarding this comment:

Now attribute actual assertions to actual feminists and we'll have actual discourse!!!!

Until then... its Limbaugh regurgitation.

Why do others have to "attribute actual assertions to actual feminists", while you do not have to attribute actual assertions to Limbaugh and/or to actual posters?

(I already know the answer, BTW; I'm just wondering if you do.)

I went to school in Boston and met a guy named Kendall who had two brothers: Park and Charles. Those are three consecutive stops on the Red line of the subway system.

Good thing they only had three; they would've had to name the the fourth one Central Square or Downtown Crossing.

Did Ms. Harding also have a girl crush on Marion Jones?

Sorry, but Torres is dirty. Look back through the swimming record books. No swimmer (male or female) has ever been able to perform at the world class level after age 40. Also, look back at the ages of retirement for other American great female swimmers: Evans, Thompson, Sanders, Meagher, whoever you want. The oldest retired in their early 30s, because they knew the truth: you can't be a great swimmer after that age.

Frankly, I don't think anyone would believe Torres if she wasn't American. Look at Ireland's Michelle Smith or East Germany's Kornelia Ender, or in track Wang Junxia. In every case the American media accused them (with no proof) of cheating. And in every case their trainers said the success was due to "improved training methods" (Wang's trainer said her secret was consuming a fungus that only grows on caterpillars found in southwestern China). But somehow Torres just sails through. She must've hired Lance Armstrong's PR firm.

And the sad thing is, she probably won't get caught. She's using the Florence Griffith-Joyner method of cheating: fly under the radar for years, make a big splash while you're off the juice, and then retire immediately so you'll never be tested again.

To be clear, I don't think Torres is doing performance enhancers right now - she'd be an idiot. I think she did them at some point during the last 8 years when she was not being monitored. If you take a muscle building aid, train like hell, then go off the aid, you still get to keep the muscles - it's not like the IOC confiscates them.