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How Barack Obama’s Muslim Connections Could Harm or Help Him

November 29th, 2007 · by John · 6 Comments

Today’s Washington Post has the following article: Foes Use Obama’s Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him. Email messages insinuate that Barack Obama could be a Muslim plant, trained by a grand conspiracy when he lived as a grade school boy in Indonesia. I’m not sure how newsworthy the fact that people are using the [...]

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Tags: Islam · Politics

Thoughts on Modesty

November 29th, 2007 · by xJane · 4 Comments

Two links: On Feministing, a moderate flamewar between two bloggers caused the following: Dawn took down this picture of me from her post after a commenter complained that I was “immodestly dressed.” Shoulders, apparently, are the new cooter. My response was that I, too, had been told off for baring my cooter shoulders. Frequent readers [...]

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Tags: Ethics · Feminism · Gender