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True Blood Scoop: Meet Sookie’s Sexy New Love Interest Rob Kazinsky
By Natalie Abrams
Sookie Stackhouse has dated vampires and werewolves, and a shifter even harbored a crush on her, but the True Blood heroine will literally meet her match this Sunday when she stumbles across a fellow faerie played by new castmember Rob Kazinsky.
Though Sookie (Anna Paquin) will be put off by the new guy at first, the two may find more common ground than Sookie has experienced with past love interests — which is why Kazinsky begs Team Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Team Bill (Stephen Moyer) fans to give Ben a chance. TVGuide.com caught up with Kazinsky to get the scoop on his new character and find out why True Blood fans should even trust Ben:
Tell us about Ben, your new True Blood character.
Rob Kazinsky: Ben is the male equivalent of Sookie. He is a faerie hybrid, but unlike her, he doesn’t have a family. He’s ostracized from his own people — from fae and humans. He’s never felt like he’s had a home. He’s been a wanderer for a long time; as lost as you can possibly be. He’s as scared, wary and worried about everything as she is. Everywhere he goes, vampires are trying to eat him. It’s the first character that Sookie has met that is traveling in her wake, rather than her traveling in their wake. She’s not a victim this time. She actually understands that he needs her help. That leads to a new side of Sookie, I think.
What kind of pressure did you feel when you learned you’d be playing one of Sookie’s love interests?
Rob Kazinsky: I knew there would be a certain backlash from corners of the audience. The Bill, Eric and Alcide (Joe Manganiello) camps certainly wouldn’t appreciate having another love interest in town. In terms of pressure, though, that’s the whole point. I want to upset those camps. [Laughs] Ben is the first character that has been on this show as a love interest for her that is actually a good guy, that could actually be a life for her. They’re both as lost and lonely as each other. They’re the same species; both faerie hybrids. So they’re more like kin than perhaps she’s found before.
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The Fight for Black Men
By Joshua DuBois
There is an easy way to meet Joe Jones, and a hard way. Let’s start with the easy way. If you and I were at a cocktail party, I’d introduce you to a tall, bald, black man, standing a shoulder above most everybody else. Knowing Joe Jones, he’d probably be wearing a tan suit and muted tie. Joe’s subdued, square-rimmed glasses fit nicely with his veiled intellect—he’s the kind of guy who readily drops six-dollar words without a hint of pretense.
I’d probably ask Joe to tell you about the nonprofit he runs, the Center for Urban Families on Baltimore’s West Side. CFUF is a national model for helping men and women who are confronting addiction, poverty, and despair turn their lives around, and teaching absent fathers how to reconnect with their kids. Joe’s a modest guy, so I’d have to brag on his behalf, about the bigwigs who have dropped by his center, and all the awards the organization has won.
Finally, I’d say in passing: “You know, Joe has a powerful personal story himself. His own father wasn’t around, he struggled in the streets for a while, and then pulled himself up, and made it out.” Nice and neat. Joe would nod and smile. You’d nod and smile. I’d nod and smile. We’d all be smiling—appropriately inspired.
Joe Jones recalls the day his father walked out on his family.
That’s the easy way to meet Joe Jones. But there’s also the hard way. The hard way is to grapple with the fact that Joe’s family didn’t just emerge from some unseen ghetto thousands of miles away. No, his grandfather migrated to Baltimore from North Carolina, and started a business—a waste-management facility, one of the city’s more successful ones. His grandparents were “models of stability,” Joe told me. A few generations before that, Joe’s family were slaves.
It’s hard to figure out what happened to Joe’s dad, and thousands of other black fathers like him. Joe’s dad was training to be a teacher, but one day in the mid-’60s he hopped into the driver side of a Ford Thunderbird, visibly angry, slung his duffel bag on the passenger side, and drove off for good. Joe saw the whole thing from his upstairs window in the Lafayette Court housing projects; he thought his dad was going to the laundromat, and sat waiting for him, for hours.
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NSA surveillance may be legal — but it’s unconstitutional
By Laura K. Donohue
The National Security Agency’s recently revealed surveillance programs undermine the purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was established to prevent this kind of overreach. They violate the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. And they underscore the dangers of growing executive power.
The intelligence community has a history of overreaching in the name of national security. In the mid-1970s, it came to light that, since the 1940s, the NSA had been collecting international telegraphic traffic from companies, in the process obtaining millions of Americans’ telegrams that were unrelated to foreign targets. From 1940 to 1973, the CIA and the FBI engaged in covert mail-opening programs that violated laws prohibiting the interception or opening of mail. The agencies also conducted warrantless “surreptitious entries,” breaking into targets’ offices and homes to photocopy or steal business records and personal documents. The Army Security Agency intercepted domestic radio communications. And the Army’s CONUS program placed more than 100,000 people under surveillance, including lawmakers and civil rights leaders.
After an extensive investigation of the agencies’ actions, Congress passed the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to limit sweeping collection of intelligence and create rigorous oversight. But 35 years later, the NSA is using this law and its subsequent amendments as legal grounds to run even more invasive programs than those that gave rise to the statute.
Read More NSA surveillance may be legal — but it’s unconstitutional – The Washington Post.
Why AT&T And Verizon May Start Charging You More Fees
By Timothy Stenovec
Don’t be surprised if you start seeing more and more fees on your wireless bill.
That’s one of the takeaways from a new report of the U.S. mobile market, according to Tero Kuittinen, a mobile analyst and vice president at Alekstra, a firm that works to reduce companies’ phone bills.
Because fewer new customers are signing up for wireless plans, giants like AT&T and Verizon are looking everywhere they can for additional revenue, which means charging their existing subscribers more, Kuittinen wrote on BGR.
Only 1.1 million new wireless accounts were created the first three months of 2013, according to the report from Chetan Sharma Consulting, a firm that specializes in mobile trends and strategy. This represents a whopping 60 percent decline over the number of new connections in the same quarter of 2012.
That’s a huge problem for the wireless industry, which thrived in previous years as new customers signed up for mobile subscriptions.
In the year 2000, wireless companies derived more than 20 percent of their revenues from new subscribers, according to a slide in Sharma Consulting’s presentation. Now, that share is hovering around 2 percent.
Read More Why AT&T And Verizon May Start Charging You More Fees.
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George Zimmerman’s jury of peers
By Kathleen Parker
The headlines were immediate: All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial.
What is the likelihood that you, a man, would face a jury of all women?
What are the chances that one-third of the jurors judging you on a charge of second-degree murder identify their hobby as saving animals?
Finally, what’s your bet that the victim in the case, an unarmed African American teenager, will receive justice from a panel that is five-sixths white?
We depend on reassuring answers to such questions, but our headlines belie our skepticism. Do we really trust our peers?
To briefly recount, Zimmerman, 29, is charged with the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, a volunteer watchman, saw Martin walking through his neighborhood and thought he looked suspicious, and the rest is familiar to anyone reading this.
What makes the six-member jury interesting, other than the head-snapping reporting of its composition, is that it forces to the fore all the implications we try to avoid: Do gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation and so on matter when it comes to judging one another? We like to think not. Yet, admit it: The reason the all-women jury made headlines is because it raises those very questions.
Read More Kathleen Parker: George Zimmerman’s jury of peers – The Washington Post.
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The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA
By Thom Hartmann
Just when we thought the big banks couldn’t hit a new low, they did.
Six former employees of Bank of America have come forward, alleging that the big bank intentionally denied eligible homeowners mortgage loan modifications, and lied to those homeowners about the status of their mortgage payments and documents.
Bank of America allegedly used these dirty tactics to lead homeowners into foreclosures and in-house loan modifications, both of which helped reap massive profits for BOA’s bottom-line.
The employees who have come forward have also said that the big bank rewarded customer service representatives with hefty cash bonuses and gift cards to popular stores when they foreclosed on homes.
According to a lawsuit filed in federal court, a Bank of America employee who placed ten or more mortgage accounts into foreclosure a month could get up to a $500 bonus.
Read More The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA | Alternet.
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