Posts Tagged ‘religion’
Muslims wear things!
Including hot little tennis dresses, cargo vests, cowboy hats, track suits… and, in the case of the founder of Pakistan, a monocole. Oh, and also, by the way, NYPD blues. Khalid Latif will, according to comments on the web site, be on the Colbert Report next week. That just confirms what I’ve always known: Every [...]
On torture, from around the blogosphere
It is a topic of distraction, in part because of the news, and in part because of my most recent piece. Here’s an insightful look at what the bureacratization of language does to experience, from William’s Dispatches The danger of bullshit euphemisms is that they actively obscure meaning. Common usage can’t afford to beat around [...]
Errata
While I was there, at the Atlantic website, I nabbed this little quotelet from Andrew Sullivan’s blog, where he bestowed upon the Times the moniker Correction of the Day: “A headline last Sunday about a Muslim man and an Orthodox Jewish woman who are partners in two Dunkin’ Donuts stores described their religions incorrectly. The [...]
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