Touré, co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle, spoke out in support of the Associated Press’ recent decision to cease using the term “illegal immigrant” to describe a person. He said that the phrase was loaded and contained inflammatory connotations that should be discarded in the way that saying “negro” to describe an African-American is no longer… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Horse
Scientists create terrifying prancing robot horse that hurls cinder blocks
Earlier today on Wonktalk, Sarah Kliff and I were discussing whether robots were going to take all our jobs, improve our health care system, or obliterate humanity. Apparently there was a fourth option we’d missed — and it’s the most terrifying of all: Engineers at Boston Dynamics, with funding from the Army Research Laboratory, have… Read more »
OH-NO! Taco Bell Finds Horse Meat in Products
Gross. (ASPCA) Taco Bell is finding horse meat in their products. The BBC reported: Four beef products sold by Bird’s Eye, Taco Bell and catering supplier Brakes have been found to contain horse DNA, the Food Standards Agency says. This is the third wave of test results received by the FSA, which has now received… Read more »
Jon Stewart: U.S. May Be ‘F**ked,’ But At Least We Don’t Have Meteors And Horse Meat In Our Burgers
Jon Stewart reassured Americans concerned with the state of the country by putting our woes into perspective: the economy may be in a rut and the president may have unclear jurisdiction to target Americans with drones, but at least we don’t have meteors exploding in the sky over us or eating burgers with horse meat…. Read more »