Politics
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America’s Most Challenged Books
The American Library Association’s 2010 List of Most Challenged Books has been officially released. This year’s scandalous subject matter includes penguin adoption, vampire love and topics in Aldous Huxley’s classic novel, Brave New World.
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On Friday, April 8th
On April 8th, Egyptians came to Tahrir Square, as they have every Friday since Hosni Mubarek’s February 11th resignation. These gatherings have become commonplace since the revolution.
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Save The Eagle
The Eagle Tavern, a decades-old San Francisco gay bar, may be shutdown on April 29th due to a dispute with its landlord. Local residents aren’t going to give up their favorite “alt, leather, punk, working class” gay bar without a…
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Feminism Is The New Saltpeter?
“Gender equality inhibits arousal.” Yikes. I’m not going to link directly, but Psychology Today, in an article called “Why Feminism Is The Anti-Viagra,” goes even further to prove it will say anything to sell magazines and get clicks. Really I…
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On The Novels Of Politicians
Roll Call has a list of novels written by members of Congress, and the excerpts they present are, as one might expect, not amazing. Here’s an excerpt from Hawaii Governor and former Congressman Neal Abercrombie’s The Blood of Patriots (via):…
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Dear Sex Worker Hater
Hello Sex Worker Hater, So, we meet again. You’re a shape shifter and I feel like I see you everywhere I go. I’ve spotted you on police forms for recovered bodies which had two categories: human and non-human.
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Online Politics
“So what happens here is that we have a normative understanding that we should treat [the web] like public space—that you should have rights to speak, that no one should constrain your rights—but then you discover that, basically, you’re holding…
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Cairo: Scenes from a Revolution
“All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people. They should begin with a psychological chapter, one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Multi-billion dollar valuations of facebook, Groupon and others have led some to ask: Are we in the middle of another, potentially destructive tech bubble? Some foreign political activists have recently run afoul of social networking sites’ rules while documenting struggles…
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“Home In The World”
“I’m weirdly at home in my world, my new home under this big sky with my beautiful, dying child.” Emily Rapp has a beautiful personal essay up at The Santa Fe Reporter about her experiences with her infant son, who…