Wasn’t that a thing? A millenary confection in grey felt, glittering with rhinestones, trimmed in black grosgrain. My. Oh my. I’m hearing from white friends who thought it was, well, tacky and overdone. I think they missed the point entirely. Aretha’s hat was a full-on diva crown, in the best African-American Sunday Suit tradition. Hats …
Monthly Archives: January 2009
More Maroons in Federal Way
Orcinus, January 16, 2009 Back in 2007, the school administrators in the working-class Seattle suburb of Federal Way found themselves on the wrong end of Jon Stewart’s wit when they refused to allow An Inconvenient Truth to be shown in their classrooms because the movie was “controversial.” The same maroons are back at it again …
Breaking News: BC’s FLDS Patriarch Arrested for Polygamy
Orcinus, January 9, 2009 Photo of Winston Blackmore by Ian Smith of the Vancouver Sun The Canadian press has erupted in the last hour or so with the news that former Bountiful, BC polygamist Mormon patriarch Winston Blackmore and his second-in-command Fred Oler have been arrested and charged with polygamy. Blackmore ran the Bountiful compound …
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