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Brought to You by the Letter M: Mosque, Manhattan and Media Manipulation

Posted by Carrie Stanziola on Mon, Aug 30, 2010

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The year is 2015. Stylish New Yorkers have been forced to switch from Valentino and Dolce and Gabbana to shapeless abayas and face veils. Playgrounds have been gender-segregated, and the little girls don’t seem to be having much fun, forced as they are into miniature versions of what their moms and nannies are wearing. Bars [...]

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Glenn Beck and the War on Honor

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Aug 29, 2010

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I have failed you, dear readers. I promised to journey into the heart of Glennbeckistan for “Restoring Honor,” or “Whitestock,” or “The Greatest Affront to American Ideals in History,” or whatever you wanna call it. Instead, I ended up watching it on C-SPAN and monitoring real-time reactions on Twitter. The following was repurposed from my various [...]

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The Tea Party Can Haz Dream?

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sat, Aug 21, 2010

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If you live in America and currently draw breath, you know the country is in some serious straits. We’re out of work, facing dim prospects for economic growth and our towns and cities are literally falling apart. Then there’s the escalation of the culture wars, now starring an emboldened coalition of bigoted Christians, bigoted free [...]

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The Banality of Evil: Eden Abergi and Lynndie England

Posted by Carrie Stanziola on Thu, Aug 19, 2010

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You may have already seen the photos: a young IDF female soldier posed in front of blindfolded Gazan men. Her name is Eden Abergil, and she insists “There’s nothing wrong with the pictures I uploaded to Facebook…” One of Abergil’s friends wrote, regarding one of the shots, “That looks really sexy for you,” with [...]

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The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Aug 16, 2010

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From a just-published article in The New Republic called “The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama: A Counter-history,” by John B. Judis. “Obama …. has a strange aversion to confrontational politics. … During his campaign and his first year in office, he held to a blind faith in bipartisanship, even as the Republicans voted as a bloc [...]

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