Word: scum
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Officers are wary with reason. "They're scum," says a man clad in Celtic gear at a St. Patrick's Day parade. But opinions are shifting. Sinn Fein removed the last major obstacle to collaborative policing in January when it voted to support the PSNI. People still see cops as cops, of course. Draped in the Republic of Ireland's tricolor just after the parade, a young couple gripes about officers clearing out bars right at closing time. "But," says the man, "we wouldn't have known anyone in the police in the old days. Now we have friends...
...presidential election campaigns. Take the case, for example, of conservative presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy: the former Interior Minister, Sarkozy faces a major problem with the children of immigrants, many of whom will be voting for the first time in this year's race, after denouncing immigrant rioters as "scum" during nationwide disturbances in 2005. So, his party, the UMP, sought to repair some of the damage by chosing as its song "Mon pays France" (France, my country), a hip-hop track laid down by a young party activist. Unfortunately for Sarko, the kids were not amused. "Unbearable," writes blogger...
...after people realized there were a few problems to be solved.” Second Wave feminism gave the term many of its current negative associations. The image of the FemiNazi can be traced back to events like the publication of Valerie Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. Accusations would be leveled later against the overwhelmingly white, middle-class makeup of the Second Wave. Third Wave feminism arose in the mid 1980s and 90s, adding emphasis to queer theory and racial challenges. Part of this movement involved the cultural development of Girl Power, originally exemplified...
...kept asking him. “It’s going to be the best summer ever.” We made brochures. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: To the person who stole my Indonesian ritual bat kite from Cabot storage: You are scum. Give it back. Favorite childhood toy: This outrageously large and unwieldy Nerf gun called the Razorbeast. It fired 15 suction-cup darts in two seconds. Sexiest physical trait: Fabulous muscles. Favorite part about Harvard: Chocolate milk at every meal. Describe yourself in three words: World’s deadliest snake...
Dance-punk guru James Murphy is at it again with LCD Soundsystem’s new over-the-top single, “North American Scum,” and its deliciously scummy space-themed music video. If you’re looking for a carefree journey to the moon, complete with a space battle, mechanical failure, and a hypnotic voyage to an autumnal parallel universe, this is the video for you. “North American Scum” begins with a vainglorious earth-bound photo shoot, followed by frontman Murphy’s opening of a door labeled...