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After The Awl blasted Human Rights Campaign over its failure to take action on Target and Best Buy support for Tom Emmer, ther HRC is finally making it right:

 ”We’ve drafted an open letter calling on Target and Best Buy to make it right by donating an equal amount to support fair-minded candidates who will fight for equality. We’re publishing it in a full-page ad in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.”

Update: Target’s statement admits regret: “We are committed to doing better and regret that we have let down our team members and guests. We are evaluating ways to make sure they know the high value we place on our relationships with them.”

The Awl has been in many ways leading the coverage on this story. To read all pieces on Emmer, Target/Best Buy and the HRC:

A Profile of Tom Emmer and his claims

A look at Target’s $150,000 for MN Forward

A look at Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel’s Hypocrisy

A look at the HRC’s flawed CEI rankings

Of course, the question is, what if Target does not act? Will the HRC back down or will it dock Target points from its CEI rating?

Wisconsin is allowing a lawsuit to go forward that argues a woman has a legal duty to a fetus. (more…)

“ A Wisconsin teenager was arrested for stealing a motorized shopping cart after deciding he was too drunk to ride his bike home.” You bet your ass there’s video.

Cheesecake Factory is “trending?”   America, we need to talk.

Anything Old Spice related is so hot right now. So how doe you wring every last possible page-view from the phenomenon? Gawker Media, a master of the craft, shows you how. He said, She said!

Jesus, one would think Village Voice‘s Foster Kamer would have gotten better answers from Old Spice ad agency W+K after he did their PR person the favor of removing the post about that embarrassing W+K Bros Icing Bros memo.

Doesn’t W+K owe him an explanation of the pants thing?

And here is the Apple product placement in the upcoming Tron: Legacy. An old Mac.

Looks like Flynn upgraded. After the jump, its predacessor, the original Tron Apple Mac.

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Never was a city’s thoroughfare more appropriately named.

A talk with Taylor Carick, proprietor of the great Minnesota blog Crazyinternetbeatz.com.

“What does diversity really mean anyway? Diversity means a whole bunch
of things that are neither one extreme or another. So, it means
“average.” Now, you tell me, who wants to be average? Not North Dakotan
children. The book has a section on film, painting by numbers, beat
sugar manufacturing and the filthy, depraved art of square dancing.”

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