9/11
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Religion
Four Myths About 9/11 & Muslims I’m Tired of Hearing
Palestinians didn’t celebrate 9-11; that was footage from 1991. This one is trotted out often by sympathetic, well-meaning folks who want to believe that no one could celebrate a tragedy like 9/11. They’re wrong: there is no evidence to support the claim that CNN was conspiring to make Palestinians look bad by airing old footage and plenty to support the claim…
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Religion
Never Forget: Reflections on a Dozen Years
[Content Notice: terrorism-related violence, anti-Muslim bigotry, anti-Semitism] Before my second day of high school, the reactions to me were more along the lines of confusion and pity than hostility. Lots of “you don’t have to wear that here, honey”s and “Are you fresh out of Iraq?”s and mistaking me for a pediatric cancer patient. The morning of my second day…
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An Inside Job?
From today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
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9/11 Edition of the Skeptics Circle
The esteemed Bob Carroll is hosting the Nostradamus-themed 95th edition of the Skeptics Circle on the SkepDic site. Go check it out!
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Breaking News: Actress is Misinformed, Possibly Stupid
In a shocking turn of events, a person who is given millions of dollars and lavish praise to look pretty while reading lines and emoting has said something remarkably ignorant, causing many gasps of horror and sending monocles dropping into champagne glasses around the civilized world. Marion Cotillard, the chick who won the Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in La…
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Don’t let your babies grow up to be conspiracy theorists.
Oh, Willie. Willie, Willie, Willie. Why? Willie Nelson just told a radio station that the World Trade Center was imploded by the US government on 9/11, instead of coming to the much more obviously correct conclusion that the towers fell due to the massive airplanes we all plainly saw crash into them. Here’s the audio of Willie ranting. I saw…
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Don't let your babies grow up to be conspiracy theorists.
Oh, Willie. Willie, Willie, Willie. Why? Willie Nelson just told a radio station that the World Trade Center was imploded by the US government on 9/11, instead of coming to the much more obviously correct conclusion that the towers fell due to the massive airplanes we all plainly saw crash into them. Here’s the audio of Willie ranting. I saw…
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