MEDIA BITES: Johann Hari CARES! Da BNP need da LOVE!

“Yet there is a big difference between the party and its voters. It would be easy to say the BNP vote represents simply the remaining rancid scraps of racism – but it’s not true. I spent last Thursday canvassing the vast concrete estates of East London, where I live, and I spoke to half-a-dozen openly pro-BNP voters.

They were not straightforwardly bigoted: one single mum said she would vote BNP “if my kids weren’t mixed race.” Instead, they were angry and alienated, and the BNP seemed to them to be the sharpest needle to jab into the eye of the political process; as one fifty-something white woman said, “I just want to tell politicians to fuck off.”” -Johann Hari, The Independent Newspaper

WTF STYLE?? Ashley Olsen & Gwyneth Paltrow on worst dressed list!?

Whadda ya tink?

What is wrong with this outfit? I’D wear it?!

LOATHSOME PERSON OF THE WEEK: Reese ‘Miss Type A’ Witherspoon

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

FUCK: Race & Genes revisited!??!

Oh. I thought I’d throw this corker in the cultural conveyor belt wheels today. THE most fragile and complexed subject like ev-ah, gets a another read down by William Slater in Slate Magazine.

POLITICS: LEFT WINGERS- 0 RIGHT WINGERS- 1

“Not since the 19th-century concert of nations, when reactionary conservatives like Metternich, Talleyrand and Wellington stamped hard on liberal and proto-labor politics that challenged kings and emperors, has Europe seen so many right-wing politicians ruling the roost.

But now that Europe’s conservatives have won so much power, what are they going to do with it?”

GWYNETH PALTROW: ‘It worked!’ ‘It worked!’ “IRON MAN opens to $200,000,000 WORLDWIDE”

I played by the rules,
Showed them some nude,
Stayed on with the mood,
Now they’ve stopped calling me rude.