Really bad, right? Tell the State Department you think so.
April 2013
American history + stunning typography? YES PLEASE.
This isn’t one of Paisley’s best songs—he’s known for his wit and his hooks, but even before LL Cool J’s arrival, “Accidental Racist” is rather prosaic and inert, like a carefully hedged position paper set to music. But it’s also a more interesting artifact than some of its detractors admit—an awkward but earnest song about being “caught between Southern pride and Southern blame,” sung in the voice of a white man who suggests there are good reasons for both.
Having eradicated the teaching of evolution from school classrooms, Kansas now has its sights on another scourge: sustainable development. The following paragraph is NOT from the Onion:
[Kansas’] Committee on Energy and Environment is proposing a law that would ban all state and municipal funds for anything related to sustainable development, which it defines as: “development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come.”
Kansas’s Self-Destruct Button: A Bill to Outlaw Sustainability – Bloomberg via Next Draft