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UGANDA - TEENAGE CIRCUMCISION THROUGH THE YEARS

Before we went in and totally blew the lid off the Mamasaba people's mass-circumcision rite/drunken village rampage, the most authoritative document of the practice was a documentary shot in 1968 by Richard Hawkins for the Royal Anthropological Society called Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda. Except for a few taped copies floating around university libraries, the film is almost impossible to dig up, so as a little late-mid-week present to you the reader, we're making available

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A more humble, more contrite group of auto executives comes to the Capitol

              Detroit’s Big Three automakers presented themselves to skeptical senators Thursday as humble, contrite and badly in need of $34 billion in federal help quickly.             “We made decisions that were right for the times,” recalled Rick Wagoner, General Motors chairman and chief executive officer, in testimony prepared for Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing. “But we made mistakes as well.”             Among them: “Failing to build sufficient flexibility into our opera

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Breeze It, Buzz It, Easy Does It

I’ve been trying to write something about WEST SIDE STORY over the past few days but it’s proved difficult, partly because I’ve had my mind on other things and partly because I’m dealing with annoying computer issues. But mostly it’s because what am I really supposed to say about WEST SIDE STORY anyway? Is there really any possibility that after just one viewing I’m going to shed any new light on this film that people have been watching and loving for over forty five years? It’s a tall order, to

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H-Net Review: Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica.

H-Net Review Publication: ‘Violent Lessons’ Laura Matthew, Michel R. Oudijk, eds. Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica. Norman University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xiv + 349 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-3854-1. Reviewed by Raphael Folsom Published on H-AmIndian (November, 2008) Commissioned by Patrick G. Bottiger Violent Lessons “War is a savage schoolmaster”(Thucydides, _The Peloponnesian War,_ 3.82.2) Consider the predicament of the Tlaxcalan conqui

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Bloomberg: America Responsible for Somali Pirates.....

Bloomberg News has been giving al-Reuters a run for its money as of late. I'd put this article up against any Reuters or AP piece..... Somali Pirates Thrive After U.S. Helped Oust Their Islamic Foes- Bloomberg Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- International patrols at sea have done little to stop pirates from menacing ships off the coast of Somalia. Even less is being done to thwart them on land -- and for that the brigands may want to thank an unintended consequence of the U.S.’s war on terror. In

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New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008

The finale of the rollout of the New York Times year-end best books lists arrived today with their 10 Best Books of 2008 list. (Last week they announced their 100 Notable Books of the year, as well as Critics' Picks from their daily reviewers and separate lists for children's, coffee table, and art and architecture books.) Here's the top 10, which is split evenly between fiction and nonfiction, although I don't think they always do that: Fiction: Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser A Mercy

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Earth First! Court Case:Defense experts testify power plant will harm environment

By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL, Palm Beach Post WEST PALM BEACH — A leader of a local environmental action group testified Wednesday that he resorted to civil disobedience - blocking the entranceway to a huge power plant’s construction site - after other efforts to stop the project failed. Peter Tsolkas, 27, and six others are on trial, charged with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest without violence and and trespassing after their arrest Feb. 18 while protesting Florida Power & Light’s West County En

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Greatest Christmas hits of the last 2000 years: No. 21

Jump to Comments Little Town - Cliff Richard DON’T worry - this is Cliff’s only appearance in my special festive advent countdown. So no “Mistletoe and Wine” or “Saviour’s Day”, both of which make me want to pull my eyes from my sockets and pour molten lead in my ears just to make the noise go away. Which isn’t very Christmassy. But this is great - apart from the castrato singing the part that was clearly meant for a choirboy. But then, that’s why it’s number 21 and not higher. 0 Comments Fil

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BARACK OBAMA: HOUSE NEGRO OR FIELD NEGRO; WHO IS HIS MASTER?

"You’ve got field Negroes in America today. I’m a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes.”By: Fahim A. Knight-ELPresident-Elect Barack Obama has been left with a decaying corpse and a petrified carcass better known as the United States Government, which has declined and reached an unbearable political, economic and social stench and is in dire need of fumigation because postmortem has left our government with some intolerable fumes. President-Elect Obama will be assuming one of the worst

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NBC’s Mitchell Lauds Obama’s ‘Effortless’ Creation of PC Cabinet

When it comes to building a quota Cabinet that fulfills liberal demands for “diversity,” Barack Obama is far smoother than the “artless” and “calculating” Clintons were back in 1992, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell argued Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC. In contrast to the Clintons, Obama’s approach is “effortless. They’re creating a mosaic, but they’re not doing it by self-consciously creating that mosaic,” Mitchell enthused. Talking about the naming of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as the new Secre

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Five Dysfunctional Office Syndrome That Costs Businesses Millions

Five Dysfunctional Office Syndrome That Costs Businesses Millions By Andrew Baud | December 3, 2008 by Andrew Baud Organisations urged to look out for five potentially “toxic” personality types Serious personality clashes in the workplace is costing organisations millions of pounds in lost productivity, low morale and poor staff retention, Talent Q has claimed. The people assessment company has coined the term “dysfunctional office syndrome” to describe situations where a blend of corros

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Rejection

December 3, 2008 in history and current events | by davenoon So a while back, my blogging colleague Rob Farley reviewed David Horowitz’ latest masterwork, Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9-11 (though, not, we surmise, on 9-11). For this, he earned $1000 — a deal that D’Ho had been offering to antiwar blogger/journalists for a few months — and subsequently provided the rest of us with an hilarious account of the review-writing p

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Paulose’s tab comes due

Remember Rachel Paulose? The Rovian U.S. Attorney who couldn’t manage her way out of a wet paper bag? We just got the bill for her rank incompetence and while the Strib doesn’t say how much, the whistleblower in question is getting all his back pay and a lump sum settlement, not to mention getting his personnel file expunged of all the bullshit lies the Paulose inserted. [As a recovering career advisor I'd like to see a law passed that would apply criminal libel penalties to false information in

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Small Churches - This One’s For You…

Posted by Reid Greven on December 3, 2008 We recently started doing a Spanish Service at 12:45 (our 3rd service time). It’s called “North Point En Espanol”, and the Service Programming Director is actually my sister-in-law, Kelly Moreton . She’s also going to be doing a Sunday recap for the NP en Espanol on her blog. Check out the first one HERE. Here’s why I think it’s going to be a great resource for smaller churches… The Spanish service is currently running just over 100 people (it’s still n

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Technological Inheritance

Back in 1994, I came across an article by Gar Alperovitz titled “Distributing Our Technological Inheritance” in the October issue of Technology Review that I found very useful as a rebuttal of the kind of libertarianism that was thriving in Silicon Valley. Here are the opening paragraphs: “Many times a day,” wrote Albert Einstein, “I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow-men, both living and dead.” The genius of an earlier era saw clearly how contemporary

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Turmoil in Mumbai and Bangkok: A Setback to Liberalism

By Priscilla Tacujan Special thanks to Barun Mitra (Liberty Institute), Nonoy Oplas (Minimal Government) and Jyoti Sachavirawong (FNF-Asia), who provided information for this post. Our friends in Asia are abuzz about the latest events in India and Thailand, writing and blogging about their perspectives and assessments of how things unfolded on the ground, while lending us their Asian lens on what brought about such violent crises to otherwise lively and energetic Mumbai and Bangkok. All this

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San Jose State announces 10 Signees for 2010

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE San Jose, Calif. - San Jose State University head baseball coach Sam Piraro has announced the signing of 10 players to a National Letter of Intent for the 2010 season during the early period. Five of the 10 signings are currently in their senior year at Northern California high schools, with one a two-sport prep star out of San Luis Obispo, Calif. The other four are locals at junior colleges, including a pair of San Jose natives. Two of those transfers are from the Ohlone

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Good Job Mr. President-Elect! Windfall tax disappears.

“President-elect Barack Obama has quietly shelved a proposal to slap oil and natural gas companies with a new windfall profits tax. An aide for the transition team acknowledged the policy shift Tuesday, after a small-business group discovered the proposal — touted throughout much of the campaign — had been dropped from the incoming administration’s Web site. “President-elect Obama announced the policy during the campaign because oil prices were above $80 per barrel,” the aide said. “They a

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Why is welfare policy in the papers but not the Queen’s speech?

Today’s papers were full of reports about new welfare policies to stop the evil unemployed from stealing our taxes. But although nationwide lie detector tests and ‘one strike and you’re out‘ sanctions have been heavily trailed, I have yet to find reference to them in any Ministerial comments (please let me know if you have). The policy references that we do have are from the Gregg review (heavily spun as a scrouger crackdown) and the Welfare Reform Green Paper - which has attracted heavy critic

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The 2009 Independent Spirit Awards Nominate A Bunch Of Movies You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

It’s hard enough keeping track of all the important, semi-important, and completely pointless award ceremonies this time of year without the Independent Spirit Awards nominating a full slate of movies the majority of the movie-going population has never even heard of. Still, the nominees for the self-proclaimed “Anti-Oscars” do provide a decent barometer for which smaller films are a good bet to translate over to mainstream award contention. Which means movies like Rachel Getting Married, The

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