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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Japan's government is promoting measures to reverse the low birth rate and population crisis, including increasing child support and encouraging more men to take paternity leave. However, despite the goal of raising the percentage of male workers taking paternity leave, many new fathers are sceptical.
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At least 39 people have died and dozens been injured after a fire ripped through an immigration detention centre in a Mexican city near the United States border. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the fire began during a protest by the migrants inside the facility.
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
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Prof Suspended for Post Saying It’s ‘Admirable to Kill a Racist, Homophobic, or Transphobic Speaker’ | National Review

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Archiving parts of his site now, don't have time to post a thread.
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William Tyndale said:
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Here's a classic banger:
My comment in the previous post on how voting for McCain is evil drew a lot of negative respnse, both in the comments here and in those on Jodi’s blog. This led to Jodi’s own explicit comments on evil in politics, to which, I think, I need to add my own. Like Jodi, though perhaps for different reasons, I am not in general prone to use moral categories to address political issues. I think that the leap from the political to the moral register often leads to the effacement of contextual complexities, through the simplistic imposition of absolute, transcendent modes of judgment. In Deleuze’s terms, the appeal to moral categories is a way of evading the difficult work of developing immanent perspectives and immanent criteria, by simply imposing judgment from outside. It’s a policing action, short-circuiting both political economy and aesthetics.

Nonetheless, there are times when such a judgment seems necessary. At the risk of being excessively pedantic, I want to point out that my use of the term “evil” in the previous posting was quite precise in its reference to Kant — rather than just generally using it as a means of rhetorical posturing.
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In fact, there is nothing more banal than the spectacle of a right-wing politician who turns out to have a passion for teenage boys, or the minister of a fundamentalist megachurch who is discovered to be hiring rent boys on the side. (I cite only the two most recent of the incessant pseudo-scandals that make headlines in the American media). It’s no longer possible to understand these pathetic closet cases in terms of Freudian repression, or the Lacanian Symbolic, or any of the old categories of depth psychology. Rather, their logic is a commodity logic: fetishism in the Marxist sense, instead of the Freudian one. All our affects and passions are perfectly interchangeable, subject to the law of universal equivalence. That is to say, all of them are commodities, detached from the subjective circumstances of their affective production, and offered up for sale in the marketplace. Today our fantasies and desires — indeed, “our bodies, ourselves” — seem to be outside us, apart from us, beyond our power. And this is a very different situation from that of their being repressed, and buried deep within us. Commodities have a magical attraction — we find them irresistable and addictive — because they concretize and embody the “definite social relations” (as Marx puts it) that we cannot discover among ourselves. In the fetishism of commodities, Marx says, these social relations take on “the fantastic form of a relation between things.” The secret sex life of the right-wing politician or preacher is thus a sort of desperate leap, an attempt to seek out those social relations that are only available in the marketplace, only expressible as “revealed preferences” in the endless negotiations of supply and demand. In short, such a secret life is nothing more (or less) than a way of getting relief by going shopping — which is something that we all do. This realization dampens down whatever Schadenfreude such incidents might otherwise afford me.
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Australia has–the first time this has happened anywhere in the world, as far as I know–officially recognized a person as being intersexed. (Via Eszter’s Blog). Alex McFarlane has XXY chromosomes (rather than the male XY or the female XX), and e refuses to consider emself as either male or female (to use the Spivak pronouns, for the first time since my MOOing days).Good for Alex! And good for all of us to remember that our bodies are–our biology is–much more multifarious and flexible than we usually realize. It’s not that, as fatuous conservatives love to say, our culture has to recognize and come to terms with the limits imposed on us by nature; but rather the opposite–that all too often it’s cultural constraints and presuppositions and prejudices that limit and blight our bodily potentialities. (See Anne Fausto-Sterling, whom I already mentioned the other day, for more on intergender issues). Or as Spinoza said, in a line that Gilles Deleuze loved to quote: “We do not yet know what our bodies can do.”
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Little Rock tornado footage:

A tornado sucked a man and woman out of the building they were watching it from. Fucking WILD. Everyone survived.


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/khNB7 (allows for playback)

Dude rides out the tornado ON HIS FRONT PORCH.


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Wddz4 (allows for playback)

“Holy shit” x 4


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hqjqT (allows for playback)

Before/after


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/R0Lyg (allows for playback)

^— this one is particularly spectacular

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9J9j2 (allows for playback)
 
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William Tyndale said:
Little Rock tornado footage:

A tornado sucked a man and woman out of the building they were watching it from. Fucking WILD. Everyone survived.


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/khNB7 (allows for playback)

Dude rides out the tornado ON HIS FRONT PORCH.


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Wddz4 (allows for playback)

“Holy shit” x 4


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hqjqT (allows for playback)

Before/after


https://ghostarchive.org/archive/R0Lyg (allows for playback)

^— this one is particularly spectacular

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9J9j2 (allows for playback)
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This looks crazy enough to deserve its own thread.
 
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Did they seriously try challenging a tornado in a battle of strength trying to keep the GLASS door shut in the first video? I guess I can sort of respect the effort to capture Kino video of storms, but I think this one might be retarded.
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She said in a follow up tweet that she was essentially a mega tard and learned her lesson the hard way.

Glad she learned one and didn’t blame it on the tornado.
 
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