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Scocca:
posted by Tom Scocca
on October 20, 2010
Seventy-Seven Percent of Afghan Vote Deemed Non-Fraudulent
How's our nation-building going? The Associated Press has an update on democracy in Afghanistan : Election commission chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi says about 1.3 million votes were disqualified out of 5.6 million. That means about 23 percent of ballots were discarded because of ballot-box Read More
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Weigel:
posted by David Weigel
on October 20, 2010
When Darrell Issa Goes Fishing
Is that it? No: Read More
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The Wrong Stuff:
posted by Kathryn Schulz
on October 20, 2010
From the White House to the Jailhouse to the Pulpit: Chuck Colson on Being Wrong
Oh, yes. One day I did a show with Mike Wallace. This was when Watergate was absolutely at a fever pitch and the trials were going to begin and by this time I'd been indicted. He asked me how I could be a friend of Richard Nixon, given the things Nixon had said on the tapes. And I said, "Well, he's my friend and I don't turn my back on my friend." Read More
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The XX Factor:
posted by Dahlia Lithwick
on October 19, 2010
Wishful Constitutionalism
Lauren, I’ve watched the O’Donnell/Coons debate at Widener University Law School about five times now trying to decide if it’s true that O’Donnell really had no idea that the First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion. I don’t think it is. I think that what she revealed in Read More
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Brow Beat:
posted by June Thomas
on October 18, 2010
Slate Readers Love Cheesy TV Theme Songs, Opening Sequences Featuring Modes of Transportation
If you look at a lot of opening sequences in a short period,
you realize how many feature modes of transportation and moving vehicles. See,
for example, Read More
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Human Nature:
posted by William Saletan
on October 12, 2010
Sodomy and Orgasms: Alternative Theories
Well, shame on me. Not for talking about sodomy—that taboo seems to be fading fast—but for doubting that women love it. These women are now coming forward to affirm that they're into it for their own pleasure, thank you very much. And they aren't alone. Bloggers, blog readers, and Slate Read More
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Procrastinate Better:
posted by Slate Staff
on October 7, 2010
Peep Show: A British Sitcom More Innovative than "The Office"
From time to time, a Slate staffer or critic offers up a favorite cultural pick for Procrastinate Better readers. Today's endorsement is from Slate social media editor Jeremy Stahl.
The most subversive, funniest, darkest, and most innovative sitcom of the past decade came out of Britain, Read More