Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
On the seventeen-year anniversary of Rodney King’s police beating heard ’round the world, I wondered what he was up to — besides getting shot while cycling drunk, that is. Thanks to TMZ, I now know that he is living in a house with a porn star and the guy who sang that stupid “Butterfly” song [...]
The Kevin and Patrick Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Man Calls 911 To Complain About Sauce Left Off Subway Sandwich Reginald Peterson needs to learn that 911 is not the appropriate place to complain that Subway left the sauce off a spicy Italian sandwich, Jacksonville police said. The 42-year-old man dialed 911 twice last week so he could have his sub made correctly, police said. The second call was to complain that officers weren't arriving fast enough....
The Terriorists (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... blame the French for that haircut, too—the French circus to be exact. Sounds about right. Combine Rodney King diplomacy with Circque de Soleil and ya' got the Bar- campaign. As the Democrats were meeting in Denver this week to crown Barack Obama as their presidential nominee, the American public selected the Poodle as its choice for his family's dog.In a national poll of 42,000 people,...
Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... my top priority and helps explain why my iRead list is often out of sync. In the immortal words of Rodney King, why can't we all just get along? Seriously, there's no good reason why I should have to manage multiple services that are so darned similar. If I read a book I should be able to enter the info about it in one place and have it picked up everywhere. Tim O'Reilly makes a wonderful...
Politics.bm (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... LAPD instigated riots in the 1940s, numerous brutality incidents in the 1950s and the Watts and Rodney King riots.The man who first approved Special Weapons And Tactics units was none other than Daryl (Blacks' blood vessels don't open up as quickly as normal people so that's why they die in choke holds) Gates.Ewart Brown lived in LA for a good 20 years. He knows all about LAPD. Will...
Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
I was an assistant metropolitan editor at the Los Angeles Times when the Rodney King riots erupted in April, 1992 and the Northridge earthquake struck...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
SFGate.com Phil Bronstein was about 10 when he wrote the letter. "It was my own Rodney King moment," he admits. "A little wimpy, even for a kid, and, fortunately, Ronald Reagan wasn't disposed to such begging later on." He jokes: "I'm quite sure that Khrushchev considered my case and it had a profound effect on him, probably leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years later."...
Later On (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
You have read about the SWAT raid on a mayor’s home that included shooting his two Labrador retrievers. And you say the video of the policeman knocking the guy off his bike. The Rodney King video is famous. And now this summary of additional events, which includes another video. Is it that many policeman have become [...]
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Bay of Pigs is to someone born in the early sixties. During Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill and the Rodney King trial, they were toddlers.Imagine what it will be like for people growing up with Barack, Michelle, Sasha, and Malia on their televisions and laptops 24/7 for the next eight years. How likely will they be to maintain the notion that America is a racist country? We learn the...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... rally/electric slide montage, Bad Brains. No, Spike Lee directs. Terrence Howard as Obama, Regina King as Michelle. Spike intercuts between Obama cumming and the Rodney King beating. With Samuel L. Jackson as Reverend Jeremiah Wright. No, Robert Zemeckis directs. Obama is a computer generated exact replica voiced by Will Smith, All other characters are portrayed by real people...
Posse on Broadway (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Word To Rodney King...
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted. 2001 Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban jailed eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly preaching Christianity. 2002 The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic....
Anti-Strib (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
It's just a random thought. We all remember what happened after the first Rodney King trial (of the cops, not Rodney the asshole). The cops were found not guilty, and large sections of L.A. burned. The Feds came in and saved the day through double jeopardy and a "civil rights" conviction. For a jerk who led a high-speed chase through a residential district. O.J. Simpson gets away...
A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
... Bernard Parks said.For those who forget, this is the same area that was hardest hit by the Rodney King riots, and where more than a billion dollars in property damage was done. Now, the City Council is suggesting curbing economic opportunities in this area. Fast food chains don't go where they don't think that money can be made. They obviously think that South Central Los Angeles...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
It’s funny; while Bush was hosting his faux-press conference, live-footage was appearing on other media of fully-armed LA policemen being dispatched to the various Indymac locations. Their task was to remind the gathering of elderly “blue-hair” women and middle-aged white guys in Tommy Bahama T-shirts that any public display of outrage would be swiftly met with Rodney King-style justice....
