07 Jul 06 Net Crap (7/7)

• Howard Zinn: Put away the flags
  “OThe killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
  (tags: food4thought politics)
• Shakespeare’s Sister: “I’m just an ordinary person who served.”
  “I’m a young black man from the ghetto, but this was culture shock. This is not what I fought for, what I almost died for. This is not what I was supposed to come home to.”
  (tags: shameful tragic sad horrifying government awful powerful military)
• Some of the more powerful romantic lyrics I’ve ever heard …
  (tags: enjoyable powerful)
• Sony’s racially charged PSP ad
  “The latest in a long line of questionable marketing decisions by Sony, this ad — gracing the streets of Amsterdam and the Dutch PSP site — promotes the upcoming white PSP with the racially charged image of a white woman grabbing a black woman’s face.”
  (tags: fascinating weird games)