Recent Blog Posts
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Slut walk conversation at The Agitator
While Radley Balko’s on vacation, various people are guest blogging at his site. Dave Krueger wrote an entry on the Slut Walk topic, which resulted in a really interesting discussion. In reply to a commenter’s question “But how can you tell the difference between blaming the victim and acknowledging that women do have some responsibility for…
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Man-in-a-banana na na
From Crookedbrains: Japanese artist Keisuke Yamada transforms regular bananas into 3D sculptures. This 23-year-old electrician takes about half an hour using just a toothpick and spoon to create these amazing banana sculptures. My guesses: 1) toothless Dick Cheney with an afro 2) Cthulhu, or maybe Davy Jones 3) Bruce Campbell
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Un-toasted terrorist
Hemant Mehta looks at the revenge party after Osama bin Laden’s killing in which t-shirts, political cartoons, and newspapers exult and proclaim that bin Laden is burning in Hell, which a CNN poll says a majority of Americans actually believe, and says simply: Osama bin Laden is not in hell. Because hell doesn’t exist. Damn, it feels…
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Sluts of the world, unite and take over
Remember the Slut Walk in Toronto? When during a talk on how to be safe from sexual attack, a police officer informed a bunch of students to “avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized,” and that got them kind of angry, so they took to the streets waving signs? It continues and…
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The dangers of superstition coupled with despair
Best to skip this one if you don’t want to be depressed. Reuters reports: Hundreds of girls raped, murdered in Tanzania for black magic AIDS ‘cure’Hundreds of albinos are thought to have been killed for black magic purposes in Tanzania and albino girls are being raped because of a belief they offer a cure for…