On the second day of March, 1955, two women were asked to give up their seats on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. They were black, and it was the policy at the time that, if any white people were standing on any crowded bus, black people should move back and, if there was no room, to stand.
But Mrs. Hamilton was pregnant and tired, and she didn’t want to get up. And the young lady sitting next to her refused as well.
The bus driver called the police (more…)
In the days since the election, rumor and hysteria and raw unfounded panic have swept the Internet. The number of subjects is immense, and not all of them are horribly far-fetched.
“What is Donald Trump going to do to us?” This is the question on everyone’s lips, and the amount of terror that it causes is pretty amazing. It’s almost as though people lack faith in their own government for some reason. (more…)
“Y’see, they say journalism is the art of controlling your environment, but that’s all wrong. I can’t control anything with this typewriter. All this is, is a gun… It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.”
Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street (more…)
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