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A Ticket to Barcelona’s Show

Culinary wizardry, architectural marvels and more await in the Catalan city by the sea.

Racism: A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism'(via @Jezebel)

There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not preoccupied you are with your black…

I can’t help it, I just love this.

good:

President Obama puts on a little show at a fundraising event. He is the leader of the free world and a talented singer …

(via associated press)

nprmusic:

R.I.P Etta James.

The NPR Remembrance.

Just gorgeous.

(via npr)

Soup: Jon Stewart takes over Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC

Thank God for these two otherwise the Republican Primaries would be sooooo boring!

soupsoup:

Dear Super PAC Super Members,

Hi there. I’m Jon. It looks like I’m running this thing now. All the details are in the press release below. Quick question: does anybody know where the key to the Super PAC bathroom is?

Thanks,

Jon Stewart
President Pro Tem
Americans For A Better…

latimes: In Alabama, a church sees its Latino brethren vanish: Since the state passed its tough immigration law, many are moving elsewhere. At one Southern Baptist church, white members struggle to reconcile their support for the measure with compassion for their fellow Christians. In an hour, the sanctuary would fill with the church’s white members, nearly all of them conservatives and most supporters of Republican Gov. Robert J. Bentley, the Southern Baptist deacon who championed the law as the nation’s toughest after signing it in September. For more than a decade, however, the white Southern Baptists in this small country church have opened their doors, wallets and hearts to a group of Latino strangers who appeared among them suddenly one Sunday, desperate for a place to pray. They hired a bilingual pastor, launched a countywide “Hispanic mission,” and let their children play side by side with the newcomers’ kids on field trips and in summer camps. They knew or suspected that many of them were here illegally. This is fascinating. Photo: Pastor Randy Billingsley sits with children for a short story as part of the English service at Riverside Heights Baptist Church in Tallassee, Ala. Latino families attend a Spanish-language service in another room. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times

latimes:

In Alabama, a church sees its Latino brethren vanish: Since the state passed its tough immigration law, many are moving elsewhere. At one Southern Baptist church, white members struggle to reconcile their support for the measure with compassion for their fellow Christians.

In an hour, the sanctuary would fill with the church’s white members, nearly all of them conservatives and most supporters of Republican Gov. Robert J. Bentley, the Southern Baptist deacon who championed the law as the nation’s toughest after signing it in September.

For more than a decade, however, the white Southern Baptists in this small country church have opened their doors, wallets and hearts to a group of Latino strangers who appeared among them suddenly one Sunday, desperate for a place to pray.

They hired a bilingual pastor, launched a countywide “Hispanic mission,” and let their children play side by side with the newcomers’ kids on field trips and in summer camps. They knew or suspected that many of them were here illegally.

This is fascinating.

Photo: Pastor Randy Billingsley sits with children for a short story as part of the English service at Riverside Heights Baptist Church in Tallassee, Ala. Latino families attend a Spanish-language service in another room. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times

(Source: Los Angeles Times, via npr)

Something I’ll try when I go back to the Philippines to capture new and old stories. laughingsquid: Shoebox, An iPhone App For Digitizing Old Photos

Something I’ll try when I go back to the Philippines to capture new and old stories.

laughingsquid:

Shoebox, An iPhone App For Digitizing Old Photos

Capiz Christmas ornaments from the Philippines

Capiz Christmas ornaments from the Philippines

8 Facing Charges in Wake of Death of a Fellow G.I.

The American military said it had charged eight soldiers in Private Danny Chen’s battalion in connection with his death in Afghanistan.

My last hurrah, the fight against HB56 in Alabama.

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