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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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Holy FAIL

Posted by Undead Molly on Sat, Jun 12, 2010

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So, this image has been pointed out on numerous national blogs at this point, including the Huffington Post and Gawker. The reason it’s funny is not the “naughty” humor aspect, it’s the invincibly clueless attitude of the church. It’s not so much “tee hee” funny as “oh wow, do these people have an invisible force [...]

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Slayer Goes to Church

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, May 24, 2010

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This video has been making the rounds. Kudos to everyone who saw it and linked it before I did.

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Linkdump: Things Are Not As They Seem

Posted by Norton on Mon, Apr 19, 2010

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The Council On Spiritual Practices offers information on psychoactive sacramentals in their Enthogen Project. While the New York Times reports on emerging studies with psychoactives. This is much along the lines of Aldous Huxley’s beautiful deathbed experience. Troublesome Creek could be the name of your next band/novel/screenplay. Maybe this is where the term “blue blood” originated, though I [...]

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