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Althouse - Oct 1, 2008
Pakistani clerics issue a fatwa against President Asif Ali Zardari for complimenting Sarah Palin. (He said: "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.") And the feminists are pissed too. "As a Pakistani …
Also tagged: islam, pakistan, religion, sarah palin, feminism, aesthetics
Althouse - Sep 21, 2008
Christina Reihill writes: While the idea of the modern man as a hairless metrosexual more interested in manicures than motors challenges my notions of a heterosexual man, I'm more interested in the state of play …
Also tagged: grooming, psychology, freud, metaphor, metrosexual, bodily fluids, celibacy, masculinity, strange beliefs
Althouse - Sep 17, 2008
I'll highlight a few, but read the whole thing. 18) (John McCain has chosen a running mate) "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion." -- South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol …
Also tagged: religion, andrew sullivan, abortion, sarah palin, feminism
Althouse - Sep 16, 2008
Byron York says yes, defending this McCain ad (which is probably one of the ads Obama called "sleaziest"). York says: The legislation in question, a bill in the Illinois State Senate that was supported but not …
Also tagged: education, advertising, mccain, obama, byron york
Althouse - Sep 10, 2008
She writes: What in the world possessed the Obama campaign to let their guy wander like a dazed lamb into a snake pit of religious inquisition like Rick Warren's public forum last month at his Saddleback Church in …
Also tagged: religion, sheep, abortion, insanity, obama, snakes, metaphor, rhetoric, paglia, saddleback forum
Althouse - Sep 9, 2008
Gary Kamiya riffs on Sarah Palin, calling her a "dominatrix" and saying things like: For the die-hard Republicans who lusted over Palin at the convention, her whip-wielding persona was a turn-on. You could practically …
Also tagged: japan, movies, sarah palin, insects, kafka, paglia, gary kamiya
Althouse - Sep 7, 2008
"But if we hadn't done it, we would have lost the users, the students." Says Ken Frazier, the University of Wisconsin-Madison director of libraries. He's talking about the College Library, in Helen C. White Hall …
Also tagged: education, relationships, books, seinfeld, coffee, cafe, university of wisconsin
Althouse - Sep 7, 2008
A fascinating photoset, but why do we imagine that if only one is beautiful enough -- or sufficiently more beautiful than the other -- the other won't cheat? I can think of at least 5 reasons why the opposite would be …
Also tagged: relationships, movies, angelina jolie, aesthetics, celebritneys
Althouse - Sep 2, 2008
Says Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina, spinning the news. "These family imperfections make people say, 'That family isn’t so different from my family.'" Blemishes? Warts? Don't you know people get those …
Also tagged: marriage, wisconsin, alaska, pregnancy, abortion, sarah palin, etiquette, aesthetics
Althouse - Sep 1, 2008
CNN reports: Dame Helen, who picked up an Academy Award last year for her portrayal of The Queen, said she was date-raped "a couple of times" when she was young but did not report the attacks because "you couldn't do …
Also tagged: uk, relationships, law, crime, helen mirren, rape