we think this word does not mean what it, er, means.

I had not previously heard of US v Bhagat Singh Thind, where the US court system found that, in fact, a guy from Punjab who is pretty clearly an *actual* fucking Aryan, wasn't Aryan and that the racial classification of "aryan" as in "white" had nothing to do with, you know, actual Aryans. Folks from the Indian subcontinent were then labeled as officially "Asian", so that they were prohibited from becoming citizens (because OMG YELLOW PERIL WE CANNOT LET THEM BE CITIZENS EVAR).

And then they stripped citizenship from some naturalized American citizens.

rerun season again?

1. Reminiscent of this post about an awesome Tony Jaa single-take, I present the opening of JCVD, the Jean Claude Van Damme movie. (Seriously, it was on the IFC list of best movie openings ever.)

2. I'm not boozing while cruising the internet for pics of wiring closets, but I am drinking booze and reading about information theory. IT'S BY FREEMAN DYSON! THAT TOTALLY MAKES IT LEGIT.