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Project Runway, Exhibit A:Yes, it's a question of distance between you and ordinary mortals. Can someone explain how Nancy Pelosi has the nerve to tell a group of veterans that her desire to avoid having her plane stop to refuel is all about security?Project Runway, Exhibit...

Remember the Maine

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On February 15, 2007
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One hundred and nine years ago today, the pretext for an imperial war was laid as the USS Maine was obliterated by five tons of its own gunpowder. Two days later, Josph Pulitzer's New York World reported on the following "confidential" insight from the captain of...

Chivalry: The Thin Mask For Sexism

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On February 15, 2007
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Ann Friedman has an article about the "chivalrous" backlash to V-Day, which seems premised on the idea that nothing gets in the way of romancing women like the fact that they have independent sexual desires (or, worse, vaginas):Hanneken is part of a counter-campaign, run by the...

How To Be A Hack

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On February 14, 2007
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Glenn Reynolds, 2/11/07 (i.e. 3 days after this was released to the public): "I think it's legitimate, and partly because it was in the week when she was coming out and making a very big deal on global warming. The plane that she originally had requested...
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