Recent Blog Posts
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Pouncing on privilege, smack talking in/on sports
A commenter at Dispatches From the Culture Wars remarks, in response to conversation about Kobe Bryant’s recent $100,000 fine for calling a referee a “fucking faggot”: Most people who fight for ‘equal rights’ do it because they, or people close to them, are members of the group being discriminated against. They fight – and this…
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What color is the skin in your world?
I realize that I could dedicate this entire blog to making fun of stupid things on Fox and Friends and have more than enough material every day. I don’t want to do that, because a) there are other things to talk about, and b) doing so would require actually watching more Fox and Friends. So I’m going to…
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Three Hindus in Switzerland acquitted of destroying holy texts
…but only because they didn’t actually go through with it: Three men who announced their intention to burn copies of the Koran and the Bible on Bern’s Parliament Square last November have been acquitted by a Swiss court. The book burnings never took place but the three, two Indians and a Swiss, were charged with violating…
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I say toenails; you say battleground of cultural warfare. Potato, potahto.
Another example of why we must never be without Jon Stewart: The Daily Show – Toemageddon 2011 – This Little Piggy Went to HellTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Sigh. I would just leave it there, but there are a few elements to this that managed to slip…
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Glenn Beck vs. lady parts
When a man and a woman love each other very much, her happy pink ghost has grapes. Pretty sure this is how many right-wingers understand reproduction By the way…I’m a hooker who is planning on having 400 abortions. There, I’ve outed myself. Whew! It feels good to get that off my chest. Or out of my…
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Can I choose d) Jainism? How about e) pantheism?
Are you by chance a directionless hipster? Someone who is into the body mods, but doesn’t much care what he/she gets or what ideology lies behind it? Then this might just be the product for you: a random religion-choosing tattoo machine. The strongest indication of a person’s religion is geography. You are born into your religion. That…