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GRITtv: Jay Smooth: The Giant Word: Got-No-Sensitive
"Your real friends are the ones who respect you enough to tell you when you're not thinking straight," says Jay Smooth, videoblogger, DJ and commentator. In his latest blog, a collaboration with GIANT magazine, Jay defines the term "got-no-sensitive" for us and traces its history back to Joseph McCarthy.
Email this pageGRITtv: Hari Kondabulu: Health Care and the Lost Art of Compromise
Comedian Hari Kondabolu has some thoughts about what kind of starting place progressives should've chosen for health care negotiations. Here's a hint: it involves the phrase "Scalpel-wielding Robin Hoods of the night."
GRITtv: Jay Smooth: Lyricism and Capitalism
The always lyrical Jay Smooth weighs in on what rappers think is profitable these days, and how not being lyrical is "the subprime mortgage of hip-hop."
GRITtv: What We Forget When We Talk About John Mayer
Even though, Jay Smooth notes, John Mayer's "White privilege is a wonderland," he swears he's not going to talk about Mayer's offensive comments in a recent interview. Why? Because the issues about race that matter aren't one pop star's big mouth: they're structural, systemic, and institutional.
GRITtv: Jay Smooth: The Hyde Amendment
Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights and several of our favorite bloggers and activists to bring you this video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Think about it: if they don't want their tax dollars spent on abortion, what don't YOU want your tax dollars spent on?
