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Dear White People

Someone who has been a victim of injustice is legitimately angry and they may or may not express anger in ways we like. Criticizing the way people express their anger deflects attention and action away from the injustice that was

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Dear White People

Someone who has been a victim of injustice is legitimately angry and they may or may not express anger in ways we like. Criticizing the way people express their anger deflects attention and action away from the injustice that was

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Little Podcast On the Prairie

Uh, yeah, I think you can tell what this is about. My brother and I started a podcast series. We have very different interests which often converge into some glorious multifaceted conversations (see: arguments). Below is our first podcast, in

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Little Podcast On the Prairie

Uh, yeah, I think you can tell what this is about. My brother and I started a podcast series. We have very different interests which often converge into some glorious multifaceted conversations (see: arguments). Below is our first podcast, in

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Proust

I began to discover the cause by comparing those varying happy impressions which had the common quality of being felt simultaneously at the actual moment and at a distance in time, because of which common quality the noise of the

MarcelProust_B&W

Proust

I began to discover the cause by comparing those varying happy impressions which had the common quality of being felt simultaneously at the actual moment and at a distance in time, because of which common quality the noise of the

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International Relations Summarized

I’m not interested in crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. Desmond Tutu

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International Relations Summarized

I’m not interested in crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. Desmond Tutu

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OMG! SXSW?!

Wsup folks. So, myself and some amazing people (see: May Alhassen, Andrew Dalack, Laith Ulaby and Ted Swedenburg) will be presenting a panel at the SXSW 2012 music festival. holy crap, I just realized it’s almost 2012, meaning 3 years

ALLAHSnameillustration

OMG! SXSW?!

Wsup folks. So, myself and some amazing people (see: May Alhassen, Andrew Dalack, Laith Ulaby and Ted Swedenburg) will be presenting a panel at the SXSW 2012 music festival. holy crap, I just realized it’s almost 2012, meaning 3 years

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Talal Asad on Human Rights Discourse

Why, I asked, was there such a disparity between the record of third-world countries and those of Euro-American democracies? My answer to that question is equally banal: people in the latter are neither more hypocritical nor more virtuous than in

human-rights-for-the-child-pam-fox

Talal Asad on Human Rights Discourse

Why, I asked, was there such a disparity between the record of third-world countries and those of Euro-American democracies? My answer to that question is equally banal: people in the latter are neither more hypocritical nor more virtuous than in

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All American Muslim and WTF Expectations

So, yesterday, All American Muslim premiered and the world exploded. The TLC show explores the lives of five American Muslim families in Michigan. I’m not going to get into the premise and plot because Google is now a verb.* Now,

all-american-muslim

All American Muslim and WTF Expectations

So, yesterday, All American Muslim premiered and the world exploded. The TLC show explores the lives of five American Muslim families in Michigan. I’m not going to get into the premise and plot because Google is now a verb.* Now,

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Oh Right. Aftermath. Yes.

The difficulty is the amount of weapons unleashed into the desert by the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi and of his supporters. Those weapons are simply flooding into the region, falling into wrong hands. Some of them are certain going to

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Oh Right. Aftermath. Yes.

The difficulty is the amount of weapons unleashed into the desert by the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi and of his supporters. Those weapons are simply flooding into the region, falling into wrong hands. Some of them are certain going to

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Celebrating the Deaths of Bad Arab Men

This morning I was awoken by a text from a friend which read “Gaddafi.” I stopped for a minute, to think, responded and went back to bed. I didn’t want to deal with the Twitteratti or the Facebook status updates

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Celebrating the Deaths of Bad Arab Men

This morning I was awoken by a text from a friend which read “Gaddafi.” I stopped for a minute, to think, responded and went back to bed. I didn’t want to deal with the Twitteratti or the Facebook status updates

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#OccupyMiddleOfNoWhereAlberta

A post is way overdue. But here’s a teaser of what life has been like in ..well ..nowhere Alberta.

occupymiddleofnowhere

#OccupyMiddleOfNoWhereAlberta

A post is way overdue. But here’s a teaser of what life has been like in ..well ..nowhere Alberta.