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		<title>Landlocked, King-Making Drama Queen: the World on Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2545</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She is a contender for "Most Infuriating American on the Planet". After George W. Bush's departure, the world needed a figurehead on which to direct frustrations with the ignorant American.  The beauty of the gift that arrived was that not only was she innocent of any real background in world affairs, gun-loving and prone to delightfully unfortunate colloquialisms in her adorable Alaskan accent, she was also incestuously aligned with pro-life evangelicals, the worst of studied, American scientific know-nothings and small town, hell-raising future Tea Partiers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Yes We Can (Bash Obama): UK Anger Over Obama&#8217;s Assault on BP</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2502</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While American memory of the blunders of his predecessor may be fading, international scars are still keenly felt and there's still much hope in the new president.  Cracks are appearing though.  Take recent daggers thrown in the UK over the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.  Conservative UK commentator, Norman Tebbit, recently called Obama's approach to the BP disaster a "crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan political presidential petulance." ]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer: Push-up Bra for the Cleavage in America&#8217;s Culture Wars?</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2479</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk to enough of the American cultural elite about the upcoming World Cup and you're bound to hear about those ignorant xenophobes in the fly-over states and their backwards claims that soccer is un-American and a gateway to socialism.  Unlike the demographics of soccer in the rest of the world where it is the game of the masses, the bulk of soccer in the United States is confined to women's leagues, recent immigrant enclaves or upper middle class suburban communities where births are particularly awkward as one has to accommodate the silver spoon protruding from each babe's rear.]]></description>
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		<title>Bombshell Beauty: The International Bangover Following an Arab-American Miss USA</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2394</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comparative Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Schlussel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was one of those victories that nobody could make any real sense of.  Twenty-four year-old  Rima Fakih from Dearborn, MI won the 2010 Miss USA Pageant on May 16 in Vegas and suddenly the blogosphere erupted with the combined firepower of ideologues on various sides of the US culture wars spouting pronouncements and journalists in the Middle East suddenly interested in an event that ordinarily would have been ignored as trivial, carnal and Western.  Why the fuss?  Fakih comes from an immigrant Shiite family with roots in Lebanon, specifically, the southern village of Srifa, near the port-city of Tyre.]]></description>
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		<title>Save a Buck, Bust a Brown Person: the Idiocy in Racial Profiling</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2377</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 10:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the left side of the shouting match about racial profiling you far too often hear someone rattle off all the white terrorists they have ever heard of in an attempt to make a case that there aren't any ethnic trends in terrorism.  The guy arguing for racial profiling will then start a list of as many brown bad guys as he can conjure up and "From there the conversation will devolve into a contest to see who can name more terrorists, until at some point the segment runs out of time." ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Red, &#8220;Family Values&#8221; States Lead the US in Divorces</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2349</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 11:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comparative Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crux of the thinking is this: Conservative cultural and religious crusaders on the right link sex, marriage and procreation in one troublesome lump.  As soon as you emerge from childhood your mentors start making suggestions regarding (obviously) opposite-sex partners which you are encouraged to court for an appropriately short time before tying the knot, banging like goats and producing spawn that, fed the right steak, potatoes and corn bred, will hopefully repeat the cycle.]]></description>
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		<title>Christian, Not Crazy:  Some Almost-Organized Thoughts on Faith</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2327</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 02:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I struggled with this post.  It&#8217;s different from most in that I&#8217;m not writing directly about American politics and I am not trying to write on top of the news.  This post is about context.  Specifically, a context rooted in faith.  My faith.  Intellectual suicide?  I don&#8217;t think so.  Let me explain. One of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Pull off a Total Dubya Makeover</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2273</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bush Restoration Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Inherent in Shapiro's approach is a realization that Bush's reputation is in tatters and needs immediate mouth-to-mouth.  With the enthusiasm of a fanboy at an early nerd special premier, Shapiro wants to manipulate the public faster than time and presidential libraries can:"]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Those Pants Make You Look Illegal&#8221; &#8211; A Win for Intolerance in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2277</link>
		<comments>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2277#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross-Cultural Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Billbray]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sure knows how to dial back the pace of progress.  Today, Brewer signed into law a bill that will allow police to demand legal status papers from anyone they think gives off an illegal immigrant vibe.  Challenged by Chris Matthews on Hardball last night to provide one non-ethnic clue that law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Courtesy Farts: Obama Effect Gives US Diplomatic Face-lift</title>
		<link>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2236</link>
		<comments>http://culturemutt.com/archives/2236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bjorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are of course going to be the isolationist, deadbeat, know-nothing boobs who shrug at this and claim that world opinion and active diplomacy does not matter.  To a chump of this breed, "us and them" thinking dominates and the outside world is willed away.  Whether they are attention whores waving their home-made signs of xenophobic desperation at anti-immigration rallies or whether they indulge in Rush/Beck/Hannity bulimia - force feeding themselves with ultra-right propaganda and then projectile vomiting, booty grazing style, across their sturdy white picket fences - the viability of their shortsighted thinking is quickly fading.]]></description>
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