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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
My snark-o-meter is set off only when the person committing the gaffe is hateful (outing homophobes is a time-tested favorite). I don't have much use for beauty pageants, but raking a kid over the coals for having a brain freeze while speaking in public seems pretty pointless. Her subsequent high placement in the rankings however does give me a measure of cynical joy; we've known all along that beauty pageants are about physical appearance and nothing more.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
