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New for 2015: How to help Syrian (and other) refugees

Updated 9/2/15: The refugee crisis in Europe has many asking how they can direct their funds and attention to Syrian and other refugees here. There are many different initiatives, but here are a few good ones I’ve found: Refugees Welcome – The site is mainly in German, but you can donate here or sponsor the monthly rent for […]

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Bea Arthur’s tits: a treatise on censorship

Bea Arthur had glorious tits*. Rather, Bea Arthur as imagined by John Currin—who painted this version of the actress in 1991—had exquisite tits. Educational, really. And yet Facebook, unsurprisingly, disagrees:   Yesterday, after spending several hours researching a talk I’m giving on Friday, I decided that I’d test Facebook’s standards out for myself. After studying […]

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(A quick rumination) on the First Amendment

I’m sure this has been said many times before, but not by me, so here goes nothing: There is a terrifying trend in the United States to equate the First Amendment (which prevents state censorship) with the right to be listened to. I have been “called out” on social media countless times as a “social […]