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In Taiwan, there are 1.09 male births for every female born. The worldwide ratio is 1.06. (For what it's worth, the gap is worse in China and India, despite it being illegal to reveal the sex of the fetus). And the Taiwanese government wants to do something about it. More »
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Here is one possibility: I'm just too dumb to know what writer Joe Klein's real point is in this week's Time cover story about Hillary Clinton. Here is another possibility: He's not so sure himself. Could go either way. More »
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In the Philippines, many women are facing a grim reality: with poverty levels rising along with the population, some can't afford to keep supporting their growing families. The problem? Birth control is hard to find, and abortion is illegal. More »
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Since when is working toward peaceful solutions a "radical" foreign policy? Liz Cheney argues Obama's tactics are "making the nation weaker." She's also pushing the "waterboarding isn't torture" lie, when we know it is. Give up, Cheney. [Politico, Vanity Fair] More »
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You might be forgiven if, upon watching this video of Sarah Palin meeting with and talking to heads of state, you think to yourself, "But, Sarah Palin has never address the United Nations!" Because we did. The video mashes up some actual audio of Palin discussing foreign policy and the religious case for "Drill, Baby, Drill" with footage of "Palin" discussing those things with heads of state, as she might be called to do as VP (or, God forbid, President). It might be the scariest thing you see all Halloween. Click on the picture at left to watch. [AdGabber] More »
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Remember this guy? It's the Northern Illinois school shooter, the one who was such a nice bighearted hardworking humanist before he killed five students before turning the gun on his own throat last Valentine's Day. Steve Kazmierczak is the name. I would say it's a shame more school shooters don't have easier names, or else we might remember the lessons they're so desperately trying to teach, but it occurred to me while reading the gazillion-word epic in Esquire on Kazmierczak that you're really not allowed to learn "lessons" from school shooters, because they are evil and/or crazy and also, Michael Moore sort of tried that already, but at the end of the day those Columbine kids totally undermined his powerful socialist message by being such total assholes. Not so with Steve, who was actually a tutor himself in college! And his case, if anyone was capable of reading 12,000-word stories anymore, could teach us a few things. Things we already knew from Bowling For Columbine, but who retains information anymore? More »
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Alberto Gonzales "resigned" after forcing "resignations" out of a bunch of US attorneys who weren't as pathologically loyal to Bush as he was and then suffering a lot of amnesia about how that all came about. What's most remarkable about this is that without being a spooky hatemongering Bible-thumping ideologue, this guy seemed to have surpassed Ashcroftian levels of antipathy. Rovian levels, even! He sort of seems to be the latest in a string of fallen Bushstars reviled far more for the crime of "loyalty" than for innate batshit conservatism. Which is actually, come to think of it, a pretty gratifying trend. Blind, unarticulated loyalty is probably far more pernicious than the act of going around wearing a crucifix on one's neck and deep-seated distrust of minorities on one's sleeve, right? More »
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