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Entries from November 2009

Your girth is now everyone’s business

November 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to today’s Daily Beast for alerting me to yet another incursion into personal rights: a university that may not graduate students it deems too fat.
A Different Kind of Test
November 20, 2009
More than two dozen seniors at Lincoln University, in Oxford, Pa., are in danger of not being able to graduate this spring — [...]

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Tags: Higher Education

By their religion ye shall know them?

November 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that the Fort Hood shooter was immediately identified as a Muslim but the religion of the Florida shooter has yet to be identified? Recall assorted other outbursts of violence recently and try to remember when the religion of the presumed guilty has been a prominent part [...]

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Tags: Ideas