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Good run boys, I totally forgive you for last September.

I found these on Chesney’s Flickr. Righteous!

*Gulp gulp* Drink it up! Pinky Action!

Mutual masterbation.

Ice cream!

Ice Cream!

Get ready to up the street wear around here! The shirts I designed for kidrobot last year are finally out and available on their web store.

Yes this is shameless self promotion, but I benefit in no way from you buying them. I get no royalties or anything, but I’m just stoked to see them finally come out. Look out Hypebeast, prepare yourself for the mind explosion!

After all the shit that has gone down in the past 5 years, Skippy C is actually one of the more sane/stable people I know. Fool got a good job with an internet company and goes bowling with Demetri every Sunday. Here he is putting in work. Send him a myspace message telling him to get his shit together and trade those plaid button ups for xxl wutang and rage against the machine shirts. varial flip! muska!

taken from CNN Political Ticker

Is Mccain proposing the largest middle-class tax hike ever?

Is Biden’s claim about McCain’s tax plan accurate?

The statement: At a campaign stop Thursday, September 25, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Sen. Joe Biden said Sen. John McCain is “proposing the largest increase on middle-class taxpayers in American history.” Pointing to McCain’s plan to tax what people pay for employer-provided health plans, Biden said, “It will cost the middle class over the next four years over one trillion dollars in additional taxes.”

Get the facts!

The facts: McCain’s health-care plan does call for ending the tax-free status of employer-provided health plans. But it also offers a tax credit of $2,500 per individual and $5,000 per family. The McCain campaign says the plan could help give people more choices.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which the Obama campaign has cited at times to back up some of its assertions about taxes, has analyzed both McCain and Obama’s health-care plans. The center says the McCain tax credits are “initially very generous compared with current law.” So, as CNNMoney reported earlier this month, “initially it may be a break for many.”

But the Tax Policy Center says that over time, the tax credits may not grow as quickly as health-care costs, so the advantage for some taxpayers may be eroded. Still, in charts analyzing how the McCain health plan may affect taxpayers, the center predicts the plan would be a net tax cut for all Americans through 2013, and a net tax cut for the middle class through 2018, though people at higher income levels would be paying more in taxes by then. (The analysis does not go beyond 2018.)

The McCain campaign has said McCain’s health plan would cost about $3.6 trillion over 10 years, and be paid for by eliminating the tax breaks for employer-provided health plans. The Obama campaign argues that that roughly translates to a trillion dollars that workers would be paying in new taxes within four years. But those figures do not include what the McCain plan would hand back out through tax credits. And the trillion dollar figure that the Obama camp points to would apply to all Americans, not just the “middle class.”

In information sent to CNN, the Obama campaign also argues that the plan the Tax Policy Center studied differs from the one McCain describes on the stump. The Obama campaign says that McCain contends his plan’s costs would be covered, while the center says it would add $1.3 trillion to the deficit. Here’s what the center says about long-term costs: “Under our assumptions, if the (health) plans took effect in 2009, the McCain plan would cost about $1.3 trillion over 10 years and the Obama plan would cost about $1.6 trillion.”

Ben Harris with the Tax Policy Center told CNN he sees no basis for Biden’s assertions that McCain’s health plan amounts to the “largest increase” ever on U.S. middle-class taxpayers or that it would cost the middle class over a trillion dollars in taxes over the next four years.

Emo kids are now emo parents and this is what they watch with their kids.

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you’ll “kick their fuckin’ ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re “untested.”


White privilege is being able to say that you support the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance because “if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me,” and not be immediately disqualified from holding office–since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the “under God” part wasn’t added until the 1950s–while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.


White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.


White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.


White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do–like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor–and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college–you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.


White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a “second look.”


White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.


White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.


White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a “trick question,” while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.


White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a “light” burden.


And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole “change” thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain…


White privilege is, in short, the problem.