weekly tangents

weekly tangents: Thomas Sowell!

by andrewkooman on October 24, 2009

My thoughts are provoked.  Read Sowell’s articles: To Sue or Not about libel and slander in the media. The Suicide of the West? about political correctness gone AWOL.

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1. The model’s head is bigger than her pelvis, but Ralph Lauren still wants to sue –  great article re: the rights and responsibilities of fashion and her critics 2. Did you know the Oscar winning film Babe, the touching story of a pig who herds sheep was once banned in Malaysia for not being ‘halal’?  (scroll [...]

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1. The 13 yr-old Style Rookie Tavi Gevinson who’s turned some heads in the fashion world 2. I new Stephen Harper had it in him – plays a Beatles tune with Yo Yo Ma. 3. All hail Moses as a secular icon, I guess.

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expect the unexpected.  of the universe.  people.  circumstance.  that’s what this week’s tangents taught me: a spectacular photograph of a dying star from the Hubble’s refurbished elescope’s Billy Graham’s daughter talks about how religion can create a barrier between people and God, how she admires and identifies with Abraham, and how she had to risk [...]

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a few rabbit trails i thought worth following this week: crying wolf: the public tantrum best-selling author naomi wolf threw in response to an intelligent critique by phyllis chesler of an article wolf wrote about how “Behind the veil lives a thriving Muslim sexuality” devastated russian hydro dam: a tragic accident causes one of russias [...]

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Sarah Palin on The Hour

by ak on January 3, 2009

George Stroumboulopoulos interviews Sarah Palin Dec. 31, 2009

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Grill 'Em, Barbara!

by ak on October 28, 2008

Did you hear the one about the Emmy award winning news anchor who asked Joe Biden some hardball questions?  It’s no joke, actually. I thought it was refreshing to see the Dem candidate given a bit of a test in an interview, something mostly unheard of in the last 2 years of campaigning. (Remember Biden’s [...]

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