The Green Apple
by Tironius, created Saturday, May 24, 2008, with permalink
Original source: Sustainable is Good, “Apple iTunes Ingeo Gift Card
Apple uses a plant-based plastic for a new iTunes gift card available in stores such as Best Buy, a sustainable packaging trade website is reporting.
Labels: Apple
In the ghetto, better a carjacker than a chemist
by Tironius, created Wednesday, May 07, 2008, with permalink
“Hip Hop” celebrates perversion; better to be a thug than a doctor in certain circles. Cynthia Tucker of Yahoo! News:
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“Thug culture celebrates the worst possible examples—Yahoo! News” If black men like Thiam enthusiastically abandon a passable reputation for the notoriety of a prison record, then black America is in serious trouble. If it is better to be an outlaw than to be a teacher or a chemist or accountant, then young black men will continue to go to prison in record numbers. If it is more acceptable to be violent and reckless than to be a responsible father and husband, then marriage will continue to decline in black communities
Labels: Crime, Race