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Via interactiveleaf: A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school.

The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity. But the school's principal says the request was only to fix shading and had nothing to do with political pressure.

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Via interactiveleaf: SC senator Jake Knotts (R): “We already got one raghead in the White House. We don’t need another in the Governor’s Mansion.”

Metropolis

I'm going to belatedly catch up with the Metropolis restoration at Film Forum this weekend (time/date not yet set); if you'd like to join me, drop a line.

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A rather touching article on looking for Bruce, the mechanical shark from Jaws.

How did school officials hear about this? Facebook...

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Some high school students in the California desert have been chasing each other around, as they are known to do. But this involves a game they call "Beat the Jew," the Palm Springs Desert Sun tells us.

School officials and police say no hate crime was committed in the pursuit, which involves a runner called "a Jew" being chased by "Nazis" in cars.

Students have apologized, said Desert Sands Unified School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee. They weren't disciplined because it happened after school and not on school property.

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In some of his most candid comments since leaving the White House, former President George W. Bush said Wednesday he has no regrets about authorizing the controversial waterboarding technique to interrogate terrorist suspects and wouldn't hesitate to do so again.

"Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the former president said during an appearance at the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to the Grand Rapids Press.

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Inexplicable: I have an odd urge to write fanfic in which the Lone Ranger begins hunting renegade werewolves until he meets a time traveler by the name of Remus Lupin.

brigidsblest, I'm with you

Rather than adding to the photographs of oil-soaked animals which are being posted- quite possibly for valid reasons- by various members of my flist, I'm damn well linking to some snow leopard kittens. Please address complaints to the management.

( Furthermore, here's a photo of a kitten in a bag. My apologies to whoever originally posted this, but I forgot to note the poster's name. If you provide it, I'll gladly give credit. Meanwhile, look into the big blue eyes of DOOOOOOOM. )

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18-year-old Eri Yoshida became the first Japanese woman to play professional baseball in the United States when she pitched against the Tijuana Cimmarones May 29th. (Several American women have played professionally against men. Three black women—Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson—played in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s, while in 1997, Ila Borders became the first woman to play in an integrated professional league.)