Featured Articles and Essays
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These are a few pieces I have collected that I find to be especially inspirational, insightful, funny or emotional.
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MORALITY |
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| Evidence of Things Not Seen | This persuasive, emotional attack on war is actually a review of a book called Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam. |
| Smear the Queer | We were too frightened by the possibility of Bush's reelection to recognize that Kerry frets his way around the language of values, handling it in his speeches the way macho men hold their wives' purses for them. |
| The Abomination of Homosexuality | The bible says being gay is an abomination. It also says you can own Mexicans and kill neighbours if you catch them working on a Sunday. A funny letter to send to evangelical homophobes. |
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POLITICS |
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| The Man Behind Stephen Harper | Yes, Canada also has a scary, right-wing party. Read about the wingnut behind the Conservatives. |
| Bushspeak | The simian movements and cowboy diction of Bush by Philip Gourivitch in The New Yorker. |
| Without a Doubt | The NYT's Ron Suskind on faith overriding facts in the Bush presidency. A must read. |
| The Unpolitical Animal | How colours and weather are more important to American electoral results than platforms. Really fascinating - and depressing - stuff. |
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RANDOM |
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| Debunking the Paradise Myth | A look at the darker side of tourism in Thailand. |
| The Ticking Bomb: An Anthropologist's View on Terrorism | The Western ideal of comfort and wealth holds a hollow promise for the rest of the world and provides fodder for extremists. It could be threatening our survival |
| Riders on the Storm | The Doors' Densmore on trying not to sell out. Not everybody has a price. |
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