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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 03:39 PM

    as an aside

    this is the best broadsheet blog i've ever read (and i haven't read loads, but i get around). i appreciate ms. traister's ability to probe many sides of a complicated issue. this is helpful and inspiring to all of us who have differing opinions. trumpeting more "standard" rhetoric one can often find here ... name it as you might ... becomes boring, at least for me. well done, and thank you!

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