Susan Faludi in the NYT

America’s guardian myths.  A liberal arts degree can to apply to the real world!

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underpants.

Here’s what’s interesting about these criminal bans on pants worn low enough to show one’s underwear: the pants in question are all on boys and there is no mention in the article that the proponents of these ordinances are concerned by the visible thong.
This is why I’m skeptical it has much at all to do [...]

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What about E. Pluribus Unum?

Hullaballoo ensues after Episcopal priest offers Hindu prayer (in Sanskrit and English) to opening of California senate session.
Reaction from Christian right largely predictable: Blah blah, polytheism, blah blah, I do not understand Hinduism, ipso facto it is un-understandable, blah blah Constitution based in Christianity, blah blah, the sentate is just like the Israelites of the [...]

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Mother Theresa was an atheist!?

Say what?
Suddenly she is so much more interesting– to have made her life living in Calcutta watching homeless people die and taking care of down-syndrome street babies that will never walk, without even the conviction of the will of God behind her.
Which does, in a way, make her seem more saintlike. Her charities are [...]

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Ugh.

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@!$@-.-#

I should not watch CNN in the morning. It is too early an hour to want to maim my parents expensive plasma mini-TV.
First a show called “This American Morning:”
“Well that was the morning “Moment of Zen” from the Daily Show.”
“That wasn’t funny. Why was that funny?”

And then on to Lindsay Lohan’s [...]

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No class today. Reading news. Bored.

In Praise of Skinned Knees and Grubby Faces –the general backlash argument that moden society wussifies boys and favors girls because playgrounds don’t have mulch anymore and there are too many class discussions in school. What ever happened to good, old-fashioned school boy hazing? The world was so perfect back then, why did [...]

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Fodder for thought?

Many observers have noted that in 1960, at the peak of the independence era, the better-off African countries – places like Ghana, to name one – were as wealthy as East Asian counterparts like South Korea.
International Herald Tribune
An interesting fact.  Also interesting: the almost-thesis implied in the above quoted article: Africa is behind because there [...]

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This is why I still occassionally read The Times of India

Driver takes wrong turn, ends up stranded with a trailer containing a 65 foot airplane fuselage on a dead-end road.  Flees angered Indian shopkeepers.

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morning paper

Sometimes just the headline can make your day.
Man Describes Alleged Attack By 7 Lesbians In N.J.

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I hate Miles and Soledad O’Who-gives-a-shit

I submit that CNN programming could compete with the likes of Friends and Fear Factor for most vapid programming on television. I'm just doing dishes and making my coffee and feel that it shouldn't be too much to ask, what with that little flat screen TV hanging from the bottom of the kitchen cabinets [...]

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