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 Saturday, June 18, 2005 
		                     
		                     
		                    
		                    The Paternal States 
		                    
		                    What a bunch of simpering ninnies the British are where guns are concerned. 
		                    posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 9:01 PM ·
                                    
		                    
  
		                  
		                    
		                      
 Monday, June 06, 2005 
		                     
		                     
		                    
		                    Flying Over the Afflicted and Afflicting the Conversation 
		                    
		                    Glenn links to what to my mind is an incredible essay by Jay Rosen on the clergy of journalism and Watergate. I admit to a smallish amount of glee in one intereting bit:Meanwhile, "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" is handed down not as a slogan too clever by half, but as a public service philosophy. Find 100 journalists who know the slogan, perhaps five can tell you the origin. And they don't know that the author (Finley Peter Dunne) was being sarcastic, either. Is this education? Jay sends us on to the backstory. 
		                    posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 1:14 AM ·
                                    
		                    
  
		                  
		                     
		                     
		                    
		                    Rape (and not the metaphorical, post-modern, eco-feminist kind - the real deal) 
		                    
		                    Nicholas Kristof reminds all of the horrific nature of what is going in the Sudan (registration required - although I use login: tester, password: tester or some such).
  Seriously, where is the outrage? Is it really that this stuff is being perpetrated by Muslims which allows it to go whitewashed in the name of multiculturalism? 
		                    posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 12:47 AM ·
                                    
		                    
  
		                  
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