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Via Racism Review, the very welcome news that Obam...

Via Womanist Musings: Men’s rights advocate Glenn Sacks has gotten some press for protesting these ads, which were created by The Family Place and were displayed on buses in Dallas through November...

Julie the Girl Detective has a thoughtful post right below this one about the American Thanksgiving mythos, the enduring myth that Sarah Josepha Hale1 created in the pages of Godey’s Ladies Book.
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I know this is ridiculously late, but I was visiting relatives in the Bay Area this weekend, and didn’t have much time to blog. Plus, traffic was so bad that each trip took over 9 hours. (Usually i...

I understand why Americans respond with a certain level of skepticism to folks (politicians and outspoken pundits) whose philosophy seems to include pacifism-at-all-costs.
I mean, the problem with ...

The blogger at A Book Without a Cover blogs:
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Madhat gives us links to photos and blog posts from India on the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

So it’s Black Friday! How are you celebrating? In Long Island, they’re celebrating by killing Wal-Mart workers:
A Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers short...

Joe Clark argues that the only way we’re going to get good captioning of online videos is if government steps in and regulates. Agree or disagree, it’s an interesting essay about a problem that — f...