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ShortFormBlog: Three protesters charged with terror plot to target Obama reelection headquarters →
- 3 anti-NATO protesters charged with terrorism, targeting Obama H.Q. source
» Molotov cocktails, or home brew supplies? That’s at question in the case of three activists arrested on terrorism charges, days prior to the NATO summit in Chicago. They’re charged with constructing explosive…
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Robert Wright on Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, and Andrew Sullivan
I was at the New Republic in 1989 when Andrew Sullivan published his pathbreaking cover story “The Case for Gay Marriage.” There are two things about the experience that may be hard to convey to people younger than 25, maybe even 30:
1) What a radical idea this seemed like at the time. I’m not sure I’d ever heard anyone mention gay marriage, and I’d certainly never seen a written defense of it.
2) How important a single magazine could be in pre-internet days. Mike Kinsley, who for my money is the most amazing editor of his generation, had during the 1980s made the New Republic the magazine in Washington.
The combination of these two things was potent. When you take an off-the-charts idea and unveil it on the most prominent stage in Washington, it gets people talking. Yesterday, when President Obama embraced gay marriage, this was a kind of culmination of the conversation that Andrew, more than any other person, started.
Read more. [Image: The New Republic]
Worth keeping in mind that the guy who wrote this cover story also wrote this one.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3t8t56kQf1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Robert Wright on Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, and Andrew Sullivan
I was at the New Republic in 1989 when Andrew Sullivan published his pathbreaking cover story “The Case for Gay Marriage.” There are two things about the experience that may be hard to convey to people younger than 25, maybe even 30:
1) What a radical idea this seemed like at the time. I’m not sure I’d ever heard anyone mention gay marriage, and I’d certainly never seen a written defense of it.
2) How important a single magazine could be in pre-internet days. Mike Kinsley, who for my money is the most amazing editor of his generation, had during the 1980s made the New Republic the magazine in Washington.
The combination of these two things was potent. When you take an off-the-charts idea and unveil it on the most prominent stage in Washington, it gets people talking. Yesterday, when President Obama embraced gay marriage, this was a kind of culmination of the conversation that Andrew, more than any other person, started.
Read more. [Image: The New Republic]
Worth keeping in mind that the guy who wrote this cover story also wrote this one.
Source: The Atlantic
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The Daily: Coquette: On refusing to be manipulated →
Dear Coquette,
First off, I love your blog, you’ve saved me from myself more times than you’ll know. The only thing is, I have a problem that I don’t know how to solve, and can’t ask anyone but you about it.
I’ve been going out with this guy for three months, and he’s pretty spectacular….
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Chorus girls at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, photographed in 1936 by Lucien Aigner. Aigner, who photographed everyone from Hitler and Mussolini to Gandhi and Haile Selassie, was originally from Hungary. He emigrated to the United States to avoid Nazi persecution. Technically an “enemy alien,” he was prohibited from photographing war-related subjects. He noted that he “photographed black people when it was not good manners.” He was also the brother of designer Etienne Aigner.
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I promise you, the president has a big stick.
Joe Biden, on attacking Mitt Romney’s foreign policy plans. (via theatlantic)
That’s what he said.
(via inothernews)
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San Franapocalypse.
Lightning hitting the Bay Bridge last night
Looks ‘shopped. Probably isn’t.
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A dozen colorful little structures on the cliff scramble for my attention and, as the tide starts to rise, I wade my way to the shore to attempt to climb the rugged but gentle slopes of the cliff. The structures, I soon realize, are shrines that house the remnants of the Portuguese occupation. The waves crash sharply on the rocks at the edge of the cliff and the sun turns a bright red, the original color of these shrines. I keep them company until the sun makes its quiet exit.
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Nate Dogg to make comeback at Coachella … but wait, isn’t he dead?
TMZ has learned that Nate Dogg will perform via hologram at this year’s Coachella, appearing alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre during their previously-scheduled set. Dre, who already announced that Warren G, Kurupt, and Daz Dillinger would be in attendance, didn’t want to leave out his long-time, though deceased, friend. So he decided to utilize the same technology Mariah Carey recently used to perform five simultaneous concerts across Europe. (If he and Warren G perform “Regulate” together somehow, we’ll be super-impressed.) The question now is, which rapper(s) do you think we’ll be seeing next? Our money is on Fat Joe performing “Twinz” with Big Pun at Summer Jam 2013. (Photo via UpperPlayground; ht 2dopeboyz) source
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The Ideal Woman Through the Ages
When the face of a movie star appearing “puffy” can spark a media frenzy, the focus on female beauty seems to have reached an all-time high. A recent piece by actress Ashley Judd in the Daily Beast calls out the media for their concentration on women’s bodies and looks. After widespread speculation that the actress had plastic surgery she calls the conversation about beauty “nasty, gendered, and misogynistic and embodies what all girls and women…endure every day.
Here, we look at what that conversation has looked like through the years - from Nefertiti to Michelle Obama.
images: Nefertiti, Betty Page, Christie Brinkley, Michelle Obama
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