Recent Blog Posts
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Oh look, another reason not to patronize Chick-fil-A
They’re suing a t-shirt artist for having the nerve to market shirts that say “Eat more kale”: A folk artist expanding his home business built around the words “eat more kale” says he’s ready to fight root-to-feather to protect his phrase from what he sees as an assault by Chick-fil-A, which holds the trademark to…
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#heblowsalot update: the fallout
Both the principal, Karl Krawitz, and Emma Sullivan are receiving all kinds of negative attention as result of the Brownback apology affair. Krawitz has apparently received some death threats from different parts of the country, while Sullivan is being bullied by peers who call her an attention whore, or just a whore, and demand that…
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Quote of the day
From Dr. X, discussing whether using “crazy” as a pejorative should be considered offensive to people with mental illnesses and therefore be stricken from the lexicon of a considerate person: Political correctness most certainly is about passing tests of radicals who are more interested in group identity signifiers than substance and true decency. P.C is…
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“Muscular Christianity” and the Penn State scandal
Cross-posted from State of Formation. University of Nebraska Assistant Coach Ron Brown prayed on behalf of his football team and that of Penn State prior to their game on November 12th, in the wake of the latter university’s scandal regarding former head coach Joe Paterno. Which you already know about if you haven’t been living under a…
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“Masculine Christianity” and the Penn State scandal
. This is University of Nebraska Assistant Coach Ron Brown praying on behalf of his football team and that of Penn State prior to their game on November 12th, in the wake of the latter university’s…