Tag: professionally indignant
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This post may require counseling
Fresh Loaf’s Gwynedd Stuart expresses some sympathy for Luis Rivera, the obviously contrite Gwinnett County math teacher forced to resign for crafting some rather ignorant word problems. Rivera’s 20-question homework assignment used slave beatings and picking cotton to link lessons about ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass to math computation. One of the problems read: “If…
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Chick-fil-A may not like me, but I like Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A is the best fast food chain in America. Period. They’re efficient, courteous and consistent. I could care less about their CEO’s politics. The Atlanta-based company has come under fire from gay rights groups for supplying food to an event sponsored by the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which has worked to defeat same-sex marriage initiatives. (I…
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black and white in black and white
The roles have been cast. Representing the left: angry black man with a chip on his shoulder. On the right: racist rogue cop. No deviating from the script, please. But suppose — just suppose — less broad caricatures were at play in Professor Gates’ arrest. Anyone ever met a scholar with a self-righteous streak? Yeah,…
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humorless gay “celebs” voice concern over bruno
Does anyone give a fuck what one of the contestants from “Project Runway” thinks (about anything)? And as if they’re not annoying enough, these D-Listers were interviewed outside an event honoring Dustin Lance Black. Can’t wait for his take:
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pick your poison; re: “the war” on christmas
What’s more annoying: American Christians who claim to be persecuted, or the professionally aggrieved who are offended by Christmas trees? Tough call, though it bugs me whenever a whiny minority gets their way. In this case, six UNC Chapel Hill employees complained about a display of Christmas trees at the school’s library. The university removed…
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when the professionally indignant attack
They smell blood. For me, the more worrisome moment of the debate came when McCain told a young, black questioner, “You’ve probably never heard of Fannie Mae.” We were doing play-by-play of the debate on our website and I shouted out, “Why not? Why wouldn’t he have heard of Fannie Mae?” Would McCain really have…
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