Grope Women, Win Prizes?

I love playing video games, but the gaming industry really needs to stop this mess. What on Earth makes anyone decide that advocating sexual harassment of your women employees for prizes is a good idea? EA, you fail. It really is time for the gaming industry and men gamers to cut all this sexist bullshit that so pervades all-things-gaming. You’re making me never want to play Left 4 Dead or most video games ever again.

Oh, and while I’m at it, y’all kinda have a problem with racist stereotypes, too.

[Props to Melissa for the links]

Villager’s Black Blog Rankings for June

Each month, Villager, over at his Electronic Village, takes the time to go over the Technorati rankings of 1,704 (and counting) Black-operated blogs and releases his Black Blog Rankings for the month. It’s a great service he provides, and I encourage everyone to head over and check out this month’s rankings, give Villager some love for all his hard work, and check out some new blogs. You should also be sure to give a little love to Renee, at Womanist Musings, who broke into the top ten this month. Yay Renee!

Link Love: Elle Is My Hero

I haven’t given out any link love in some time. Shame on me. I can’t think of a better way to get back into spreading some love than to link to this post, by Elle, which masterfully, and with an eloquence and intellectual force that makes me shudder with glee, takes down this paternalistic drivel on how black folks would all flock to the Republican party if we’d just listen to them.

It really is that good.

What You Should Be Reading – The Justice for Oscar Grant Edition

MattBastard: Under Siege: On Oscar Grant and Other Victims

Color of Change: Demand justice in the killing of Oscar Grant

Sign the pledge to demand justice for Oscar Grant.

Electronic Village: Justice for Oscar Grant: The Fight Continues

Jose L. Vilson: Before You Become President (Dear Barack Obama)

Keep It Trill: The New Open Season on Black Men: Is It Obama Related?

Womanist Musings: Oscar Grant, Police Violence, and the War on Black Men

Angry Black Bitch: Pondering Justice for Oscar Grant

Ding: We are All Oscar Grant (and Dymond Milburn, Michael Cho, Adolph Grimes…)

Changeseeker: Is Open Season Ever Going To Close?

Link Love for 2008-12-31

What you should be reading:

Jon Swift rounds up the best blog posts of 2008 as chosen by the bloggers.
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I’m Not Blogging, but Here’s Something Else to Read

So, between the twin evils of working retail during the holidays and trying to move to a new apartment, posting has been light. Add the emotional train wreck that tends to accompany a breakup and well…

When I can get in front of the computer, the best I can muster is mindless surfing through StumbleUpon and the occasional Twitter chat with my peeps. Emailed me lately and expecting a response? Sorry, it might be a while. There are literally about 30,000 posts sitting in my feed reader waiting to be read right now. Soon, however, all will be settled, and I’ll be back to posting and communicating on the regular once again.

In the meantime, there is much bloggedy goodness to be had over at Jon Swift’s pad. Every year, he asks bloggers to submit to him their “best blog post” of the year and he then does a massive round-up. Be warned, though; it’s the type of round-up that might make you decide to call out from work and spend the day reading blogs–a prospect that seems mighty attractive to me at the moment. So, get your butt over their and start reading (I wouldn’t advise taking the day off from work, though. Times are rough right now)! This year, despite the odds, I managed to not space out and actually submitted a post of my own.

Massive props to Jon Swift for putting this together!

A Lil’ Saturday Link Love

Here’s what I’ve been reading lately, when I have time away from work, which is just about never these days. You should be reading these too!

African American Political Pundit has been watching closely the shaping of Obama’s administration. He’s none to happy with the lack of color he’s seeing.

AAPP and Renee are talking about Katrina’s hidden race war.

Jose thinks about education and heartlessness.