Apr 16 2013
Boston explosions: ‘Please don’t be Arabs or Muslims’ By Khaled A Beydoun, 16 Apr 2013 09:25 I texted my friend at 7:47am EST, extending well wishes for a “successful and prosperous race”. Like the 23,181 runners who left Hopkinton dreaming about breaking the ribbon 26.2 miles away, my friend signed up for the 117th …
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Apr 14 2013
The Facebook Sonnet By Sherman Alexie, May 2011 Welcome to the endless high-school Reunion. Welcome to past friends And lovers, however kind or cruel. Let’s undervalue and unmend The present. Why can’t we pretend Every stage of life is the same? Let’s exhume, resume, and extend Childhood. Let’s play all the games That occupy the …
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Apr 13 2013
A tall tale, by Monsieur d’Nalgar, inspired by reading this rubbish: https://levantium.com/2013/04/10/admonitions-of-sol-alinsky/ Everyone agreed afterwards that it was likely the strangest prayer meeting what ever done was. It happened during one cold winter evening at the First Tally-ho Taliban Church of Self-righteous Regurgitants, not long after they had locked and bolted the big pine doors, …
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Apr 10 2013
Prayer for progressives Dear editor: A compliment to Judy Gallagher for her letter to the editor recently. Judy punctured the thin gruel of character assassination practiced by our coterie of progressive writers, with grace and elegant style. Evidently there is a dearth of critical thinking about the problems of society among the ranks of those …
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Apr 05 2013
True costs of Iraq War whitewashed by fuzzy maths By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Apr 5, 2013 ‘So many’, wrote TS Eliot, reflecting on the waste land left by the First World War. “I had not thought death had undone so many.” This notion is unlikely to cross the minds of those surveying the devastation …
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Mar 31 2013
Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia By Nathan Lean, Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:00 PM CDT Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow. The British scientist and former Oxford University professor has expended …
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Mar 29 2013
What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? By Shane Claiborne, November 18, 2009, 9:05 AM To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say …
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