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January 2010

Disney Continues to Oppress

Telegraph: Disney has been praised for breaking down barriers by featuring its first black princess in the film The Princess...

Stand-Up Comedy

I was subjected to stand-up comedy Friday night. I say "subjected to" because I love the form, when done (what...

"Discrimination"

America sleeps as Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, poised between two possible futures, and being shown dreams — well, nightmares,...

Charles Johnson and Dennis Prager

I have an odd fascination with illogic. There's something about watching a human brain, or collection of them, malfunction which...

WaPo & Google Job 1: Spin Left!

Heard, minutes ago, that Coakley had conceded, and that Brown had won in Massachusetts. (Note the lack of a final...

Moral Unseriousness and Torture

I do think there are reasonable arguments which can be made against, say, waterboarding. I just don't see them, often......

Obama, Transgendered Men, and Feminism

No wonder it's been taking Obama so long to appoint people — the man has some fairly selective criteria: To...

"Conveyor Belt of Love"

I am so not-sad that I have mostly stopped watching TV: What a way to kick off the year: A...

"Modern Saints" Figurine Series

Where I grew up, Milwaukee, there was quite a trade in figurines of Catholic saints, medals, etc. A friend of...

Antisemitism and the economic crisis

Via Volokh (1, 2), a months-old but still-appalling study I hadn't seen before: In order to assess explicit prejudice toward...

Jim Wallis's Response to the Financial Crisis

Jim Wallis is the man behind "Sojourners", a Christian-tinted left-leaning political activism group. He typically assails Republicans for almost everything,...

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