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Geekery Today: posts from March 2001
DC cops’ dirty laundry revealed in e-mail audit (posted 28 March 2001)
More for the In a Stunning Development
file: an internal audit commissioned by Chief Charles Ramsey, it has been found that 10% of the officers on the D.C. police force have sent e-mail containing hate slurs, including ethnic and racial slurs, sexually inappropriate content and offensive comments about homosexuals.
Some of the e-mails also included content about illegal drug use by officers, sexual activity on the job, and evidence of racial profiling. Malcolm X once said that white hatemongers had traded in the hoods and sheets — well, some of them have traded in the hoods and sheets — and taken up blue uniforms. The sad thing is how often the news continues to prove him right.
The Horror of Stalingrad and insults against history (posted 28 March 2001)
Salon has an interesting article which does a great job of exposing the horror of Stalingrad, as against the theme-park version of it that occupies most of Enemy at the Gates.
Surgeon General Reports Women’s Smoking is on the Increase (posted 27 March 2001)
In some rather distressing news, a Surgeon General’s report has found that the number of women smokers has increased. There is some excellent work by Jean Kilbourne on how tobacco advertising targets women.
“Crack Baby” epidemics and other convenient fictions (posted 27 March 2001)
In a stunning development, studies have revealed that drug war rhetoric about crack babie
might just be overblown and based more on anti-black sentiment than on reality. What a shocker!
Happy Birthday Shelly! (posted 26 March 2001)
HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY SHELLY!
