Politics
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The NPR Uncontroversial Controversy
For a group of people who likes to claim that liberals are constantly playing the victim, the Tea Party sure screams like a little baby when anyone dares point out their many and varied issues. The latest people to face…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jess Row
“It’s really a liability in contemporary American fiction that many of us are taught to avoid political or intellectual matters in our work. It’s a real weakness in the way that fiction is taught in this country.”
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Sex Toy Presentation At Northwestern
Professor John Michael Bailey at Northwestern conducted an optional sex toy presentation in one of his classes last week. Per the Daily Northwestern, “The … presentation last Monday, attended by about 120 students, featured a naked non-student woman being repeatedly…
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Virginal Super Soldiers
Why aren’t more people talking about Ghaddafi’s elite team of virginal super soldiers? We all knew Ghaddafi was a megalomanaical and evil dictator with a flair for fashion. But who knew he could combine all his interests in one stroke…
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Dan Fucking Sinker
Meet Dan Sinker, the man behind the hilarious @MayorEmanuel Twitter account “who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.” (via @MotherJones)
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“Why Save PBS?”
Chris Bishop (who, full disclosure, is a PBS KIDS Creative Director) makes the case for saving PBS, infograph-style. (via TheMillions)
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Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s War on Labor
The showdown continues in Wisconsin pitting public-sector labor unions against Republican governor Scott Walker, who aims to eviscerate collective bargaining rights. As of this writing the state’s Democratic lawmakers apparently are still MIA. Days of large protests in Madison and…
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On This Presidents’ Day: A Brief History of Presidential Sex
A special holiday history lesson from The Rumpus:
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
More Middle Eastern countries are blocking some or all web access. Facebook has been cut in Libya and Bahrain is restricting Internet use. The creator of China’s so-called “Great Firewall”, which blocks access to hundreds of thousands of foreign sites,…
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Now, Bahrain
The island nation of Bahrain is the latest to see significant protesting, and the government is pushing back hard. Mother Jones has the background you need. More background from Foreign Policy’s Toby C. Jones. As was the case in Egypt,…
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Fatima Bhutto
Was Benazir Bhutto really a feminist? Her own niece Fatima Bhutto, a vocal critic of Benazir and the current Zardari administration, doesn’t think so. Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman recently spoke with Fatima, author of the controversial memoir Songs of Blood…