Bring-your-own-pot cafe opens in Montreal today! I was working, so couldn't be at the opening. I'll tell you guys all about as soon as I get a change to go. Until then, read about here.
Posted by Anthony,
4:27 PM
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JFK and the KGB This Washington Post op-ed lays out evidence that the KGB was the source of rumors that right-wingers assinated JFK. (via Oxblog) And hmm.... the article was written by a contributing editor at The Nation magazine.
Posted by Timothy,
1:17 AM
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Decipher the meaning of this cartoon! This blog has a picture of a B.C. comic by Johnny Hart that supposedly has subtle messages in it. Go look at the comic first and see if you get the joke. Then read The Washington Post article and A New Criterion post by Mr. Beck. I really can't make sense of the point of the cartoon without the anti-Islamic meaning... but then again, a lot of Sunday comics have really pointless jokes...
Posted by Timothy,
12:50 AM
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Thursday, November 27, 2003 The things I do as a T.A.
I'm the one in the Rumsfeld mask on the right. The professor for Columbia's introduction to international relations (which I T.A. for) thought it would a 'fun' idea to run a 'simulation' in which the students picked a grand strategy for the U.S.
Posted by Timothy,
7:33 PM
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 Hmmm...
Sexually Stunted Hiding in plain sight in the June 2001 issue of Philadelphia magazine is Ben Wallace's essay "The Prodigy and the Playmate." In it Sandy Bentley, the Playboy cover girl and former Hefner girlfriend (along with her twin sister Mandy), describes Hefner's current sexual practices in just enough detail to give you a good long pause:
"The heterosexual icon [Hugh Hefner] … had trouble finding satisfaction through intercourse; instead, he liked the girls to pleasure each other while he masturbated and watched gay porn."
This statement may seem either shocking or trivial. But it points to that which Hefner's detractors have been saying for years: Pornography stifles the development of genuine human relationships. Pornography is a manifestation of arrested development. Pornography reduces spiritual desire to Newtonian mechanics. Pornography, indulged long enough, hollows out sex to the point where even the horniest old goat is unable to physically enjoy the bodies of nubile young females.
Ultimately, Hugh Hefner is an old joke: a solitary master baiter. Armed with two-thirds of the truth and a well-lubricated marketing machine, he has played a large role in manipulating society into accepting his adolescent fantasy of false desire and technological gratification—a legacy that amounts to our generation's toxic dump. And, now in his late 70s, it's unlikely that Hefner will ever grow out of his self-serving, adolescent phase. You and I will have to wipe up his mess. (link)
Posted by Timothy,
7:22 PM
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Black eye for the Democrats
Frist pummels GOP lapdog Max Baucus into submission, passes crappy Medicare bill. The official line is that Baucus "tripped and fell." Indeed.
Posted by Brad Plumer,
2:55 PM
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Monday, November 24, 2003
If you haven't already, everyone should read this letter to the editor in the D today about the campus rape dialogue. I think it's completely outrageous that people think it's ok for the discussion to focus on the victim the way this type of article tries to do it.
