Jun 24 2012
What the Gobshites Are Saying: Fast & Spurious Edition By Charles P. Pierce, June 20 2012 at 1:35PM [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESI19h4wDo[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESI19h4wDo Well, we seem to have a real rage-gasm on our hands now. The president has gone and said the conjuring words, “executive privilege,” thereby presuming to do something once that the previous president did …
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Jun 22 2012
By Monsieur d’Nalgar, June 22, 2012 CE “Ludicrous” — an online dictionary defines it as something laughable, ridiculous, idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny. Examples abound… +++ Ludicrous is men telling women what they can and cannot do or say, especially when it comes to their own bodies, that most intimate of …
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Jun 22 2012
Gitta Sereny led us through our own darkness By Giles Fraser, Tuesday 19 June 2012 10.57 EDT “‘My conscience is clear about what I did myself,’ he said, in the same stiffly spoken words he has used countless times at his trial, and in the past weeks, when we had always come back to …
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Jun 22 2012
‘Silence is a lovely idea’ – so why have churches become so noisy? By Mark Vernon, Friday 22 June 2012 06.03 EDT Silence is like forgiveness. Many would say it’s a lovely idea, until they have to do it (to borrow a line from CS Lewis). Or more provocatively, could there be a cultural …
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Jun 21 2012
Oh, look at that: National Review publishes racist nut By Alex Pareene, Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 03:18 PM CDT Remember how we were all so proud of the National Review for eventually firing or cutting ties with most of the outright white supremacists who occasionally or regularly wrote for that fine publication? Well, there …
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Jun 17 2012
David Barton’s Jefferson By Martin E. Marty, April 30, 2012 Our premier historian of late colonial and early republican America, Gordon Wood, while reviewing a book on Roger Williams warms up readers with references to Thomas Jefferson. “It’s easy to believe in the separation of church and state when one has nothing but scorn …
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Jun 16 2012
Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s moving reflections on the occupation’s 45th birthday By Henry Norr, June 15, 2012 … Nurit Peled-Elhanan, daughter of a prominent Israeli general and mother of a suicide bombing victim, and her brother Miko Peled have long been among the most courageous Israeli critics of their nation’s treatment of the Palestinians, but this year they’re …
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