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Nov.19.2012
Photo: Todd Akin's official 109th Congress photo, from his Wikipedia page.
[This entry is the second half of the most recent one, below, posted a few days ago.]
So, a few things:
According to his Wikipedia page, Akin graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
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Nov.12.2012
Photo: Todd Akin's official 109th Congress photo, from his Wikipedia page.
And so this begins a long series of blog entries chronicling the recent election. There's a lot I want to go over here, including, in no order, why Obama won, why Romney didn't, the election results, the nine...
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Nov.11.2012
You know that scene in A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson says, "You can't handle the truth!"?
I know he turned out to be a maniacal nut bag, but that line sticks with me.
Most of the time I disagree with Jack. Our government is too complicated and what are we really building in...
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Nov.08.2012
Barack Obama has not won. He just defeated the traditionally bad guy, like burning the symbolic Old Man year after year to herald a new beginning that would arrive anyway.
We had been saturated with analyses in the run-up, and the ones after the elections are not much different, except perhaps...
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Oct.25.2012
If 19.6 % Americans believe in “nothing in particular”, it in fact draws attention to US politics within the piety framework.
Forget about separation of religion and state. Can religion survive without a state? Would it be orphaned without patriotic fervour?
I come from a country that is...
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Oct.08.2012
Have a story I want to tell you. It's about a family who live in a large and beautiful house.
They have a large number of servants, an incredible number. The servants are supposed to do a great many things for the family. "We'll work for you as long as you pay us," the...
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Oct.03.2012
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is about the North American border wars of the 1830s. The Book of War is about the Southern African border wars of the 1850s.
Sir Harry Smith, known in The Book of War as 'the General', the man who was unable to defeat the great Xhosa strategist, Maqoma, was also...
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Sep.09.2012
Osama bin Laden was a huge industry when alive. He continues to be one in death, shrouded in mystery. No surprise, then, that ‘No Easy Day’ by a former Navy SEAL has topped the charts. Matt Bissonnette used the pen name "Mark Owen".
Had I read the book, and the contradictory version the...
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Aug.30.2012
If you walk into a New York restaurant and hear some people talking in Urdu, they could be terrorists. That is what NYPD wants you to believe.
It boggles the mind that after years of US occupation of Afghanistan, the city police have not figured out that the Taliban – assuming they are the...
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Aug.08.2012
White supremacy and neo-Nazism have different histories. Tanking up on the latter absolves internalised racism
“Nobody's angry here. We're just confused. Was this a random act? Was this directed at us because of the way we look?”
The questions were raised by an onlooker at...
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