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The 5 Greatest Books With Psychotic Fan Bases | Cracked.com (tags: books culture book history) The 6 Worst Parts of Being Chinese (Not In The Stereotypes) | Cracked.com (tags: comedy race culture)

Glee vs copyright: do as I say, not as I do The absence of any mention of copyright law in Glee illustrates a painful tension in American culture. While copyright holders assert that copyright violators are "stealing" their "property," people everywhere are remixing and recreating artistic works for the very same reasons the Glee kids […]

Are the Ten Commandments really the basis for our laws? Clearly, this very First Right of all Americans is in direct contradiction to the very first Commandment sent down by God. So people saying our laws are based on the Ten Commandments must never have even gotten to the first one of the ten. I […]

The Gobi Manchurian Candidate Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban. “We’re at war over there,” Knotts said. Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean […]

Bletchley Park texts to go online (tags: history technology)

Dark Roasted Blend: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites (tags: images sustainability technology history) Hidden histories: Afghanistan We all know about Afghanistan – a poor and predominantly Muslim nation that's never really made it out of the Middle Ages, right? Well, it turns out that's simply not the case: retconning Afghanistan as a […]

Hirsi Ali, Berman, and Ramadan on Islam : The New Yorker Hirsi Ali is convinced that “lingering between the two value systems,” as her half sister does, “stunts the process of becoming one’s own person.” But those privileged enough to find refuge in the West rarely find it easy or desirable to abandon their ancestral […]

Glenn Greenwald: Those irrational, misled, conspiratorial Muslims There's little doubt that many Pakistanis believe all sorts of things that are false and that some extremist sectors peddle paranoid conspiracies. Propaganda is a standard tactic used by political and religious leaders of all types to manipulate their followers, as is casting blame on external enemies for […]

Is Rand Paul Just Another Neocon Republicrat Masquerading As A Libertarian Rebel? – By Kelley B. Vlahos – The eXiled “Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections of our Constitution,” Paul said in a Nov. 19 release. “These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil. I will always fight to […]