Click picture to view a video made by Kelley Bell about her work at the Bromo Seltzer Tower.

If you’re driving through nighttime Baltimore in the next few weeks, don’t forget to look up. Every day, from sunset to sunrise through mid-December, the iconic 100-year old Bromo Seltzer Tower’s four clock faces will be lit up with animations created by Kelley Bell ’06, MFA, who also teaches at UMBC.

From the Baltimore Sun:

“I love the idea of people interacting with my work,” Bell says.

“One of the things that’s very problematic for me with most animation is that it takes place inside a frame. You sit in a chair and look at it. My art is about finding ways to get out of that box. People can immerse themselves in the artwork, share a physical space with it.”

Read the full story in the Baltimore Sun and watch a video about the project here.

Islamophobia justifies Muslim violence and atrocities by equating offensiveness with repression. Only Islamophobes don’t censor and if they end up in the burn ward, it’s because they brought it on themselves. The bloody machine of Muslim grievance grinds on and the bodies coming out the other end include the corpse of Madam Liberty.

The pretense that crying Islamophobia protects Muslims from bigotry is a lie. It’s time to recognize the charge of Islamophobia for what it is– a license for Muslims to kill."

Thanks to FIFA.com

If you watched almost any FIFA soccer game since 2006, you’ll notice all of the bright yellow signs that say things like “My Game is Fair Play” and “Say No to Rascism.”

Such displays have been a policy of the international soccer organization since 2002 when President Joseph S. “Sepp”  Blatter proclaimed:

Racism is a blight that we must eradicate forcefully and resolutely. Football has a unifying power that can and must be used to combat discrimination of all kinds.”

Mr Blatter’s pledge to eradicate racism “forcefully and resolutely” seems, however, not to include actual soccer players.

Recently Liverpool’s Luis Suarez hurled racial abuse on Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.

When asked about racism on the field during a CNN Sport interview, President Blatter gave this eloquent response:

I would deny it. There is no racism, there is maybe one of the players towards another, he has a word or a gesture which is not the correct one, but also the one who is effected by that, HE should say that this is a game. We are in a game, and at the end of the game, we shake hands, and this can happen, because we have worked so hard against racism and discrimination. I think the whole world is aware of the efforts we are making against racism and discrimination. And, on the field of play sometimes you say something that is not very correct, but then at the end of the game, the game is over and you have the next game where you can behave better.”

And that’s how Sepp steps in it.

Hey, at least racism is over!

Some of the USDemoCrazy team went to hear former Bush (W) advisor and current Media pundit Karl Rove, speak at Johns Hopkins University on Monday. It turned out to be exactly the calamity we thought it would be.

About ten minutes into Rove’s speech, (which was mostly a critique of President Obama) protesters began chanting over Rove:
“Mic check? Mic check! Karl Rove? Karl Rove! Is the architect? Is the architect! Architect of Occupy Iraq! Architect of Occupy Iraq! Architect of Occupy Afghanistan!”

As this video shows, the remainder of the evening devolved into a shouting match between Rove and the protesters.

Baltimore Brew has a good rundown of the event, more videos, and some choice quotes from Rove’s speech.