After decades of (justifiably) arguing against University speech codes, making fun of academic-sounding sterilized phraseology designed to offend no one at all, and generally and laudably protecting our Constitutional rights to be loud, rude ignoramuses, Republicans in Florida are trying to make it “illegal to hurt a student’s feelings”:http://www.thetalentshow.org/archives/001705.html.
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The school shooting on the Chippewa reservation in Minnesota is very tragic, and it’s a shame it hasn’t had more attention paid to it. I understand that the Red Lake Nation is one of the poorest Indian reservations in Minnesota. If you would like to donate something to help the families of victims of this [...] Read more »

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Here’s my “Friday Random Ten”:http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2005/03/17/friday-random-ten-the-st-paddys-morning-after-feeling-green-edition/, now with more torture-executions! Because all the kool kids are doing it!
# Electric Barbarella - Duran Duran
# Down the Drain - DJ Krush
# Hot Type - Michael Hedges
# In My Place - Coldplay
# Gulf Road - James McMurtry
# Summerfling - KD Lang
# Us and Them (Live) - Pink Floyd
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It is true what they say: 9/11 changed everything. As further evidence of how _much_ we’ve changed, consider this. Since 9/11 we’ve gone from hysterical hand-wringing about “the police brutality heaped upon Elian Gonzales”:http://www.hkpro.com/elian.htm, _completely through_ defense of torture proceedings at Abu Gharib as “the actions of a few bad apples” to having a distinguished [...] Read more »

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Looking at the Washington Post site late this evening I thought the editors had gone nuts. I mean, Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank doesn’t thrill me either, but wailing and gnashing of teeth?
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