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• Forfeiting an Audience: Why I’m Against Legalizing the Green Stuff

  

  by Bianca Ozeri This week I read New York magazine’s cover piece about the legalization of pot. I... Read more

  The 08 December 2012 by   Briennewalsh
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• New York Post Features Photo of Man Just Before He is Killed by Subway Train

  

  Newspaper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The New York Post has featured a photo of a man just before he was killed by an oncoming train.  The incident occurred when... Read more

  The 05 December 2012 by   Real Talk
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• Ethnofilm: Lakota Dancers

  

  This is a classic and rare 1894 film clip of Lakota dancers performing the Ghost Dance and Buffalo Dance. It was shot (a mere 4 years after the massacre at... Read more

  The 04 December 2012 by   Cris
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• A Very Bad Version of the Egyptian Constitution and a Very Big Protest

  

  Sit In at Tahrir. Credit: Al Masry Al Youm There is so much going on in Egypt it is next to impossible to keep track of it all. But wait, I have had this feelin... Read more

  The 04 December 2012 by   Warigia
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• Waldorf Spiritualism & Literate Minds

  

  Over at The Atlantic, Emily Chertoff asks whether the Waldorf schools are a “cult.” This kind of question immediately suggests an orthodoxy outside of which... Read more

  The 01 December 2012 by   Cris
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• Egypt: Tahrir Revolts Against Massive Power Grab

  

  Dear readers, I have been watching the unfolding events in the past days with some trepidation, but not that much surprise. Morsi has issued a sweeping decree o... Read more

  The 29 November 2012 by   Warigia
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• Ethnohistoric Plagiarism (Wrong)

  

  In a recent post I commented on the classic ethnohistory by George Bird Grinnell, The Cheyenne Indians: History and Society (Vol. 1, 1923) and The Cheyenne... Read more

  The 27 November 2012 by   Cris
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• My Bloody Palestine - Ceasefire Or Invasion?

  this situation is close to tipping point, i) a ceasefire will be announced and everything will be well or ii) Israel will crank up its air/land/sea offensive an... Read more

  The 21 November 2012 by   Freeplanet
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• Greatly Mystified Rubio

  

  During an interview with the future of the GOP, Senator Marco Rubio (who is already pandering campaigning in Iowa), GQ dropped this bomb question: “How old do... Read more

  The 20 November 2012 by   Cris
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• Attitudes to Abortion in Korea

  

  In August this year South Korea's constitutional court upheld a 59 year long ban on having abortions. South Korea banned abortion in 1953 with exceptions for... Read more

  The 17 November 2012 by   Smudger
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