The other day Littoral Mermaid blogged about a horrible racist column from a Cornell University student blog.
A few days before that, this anti-fat-people article turned up in the student newspaper at the University of Toronto:

Public health care - why should the rest of us have to pay high taxes for you to eat yourself to […]

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Today’s grand prize winner is Tulsa County district judge Tom Gillert* who dropped a felony charge against a prick who took a picture up the skirt of a 16-year-old girl at the local Target. The honorable reasoning behind his decision? “…[t]he person photographed was not in a place where she had a reasonable […]

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Just for the record, the definitive post on transgenderism and radical feminism was written some time ago, and it is Amananta on Radical feminism and the Transgendered, or, how to write a post that will infuriate everyone.
This one isn’t too bad either.
Why is this my last post on such a contested subject, you might ask? […]

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Sandy is all over the myth that the smell of peanuts can kill.

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At least, not the political kind. I’ll take the actual kind any day.

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I’ve been pondering over the last week or so whether I have anything to throw on the wildfire currently blazing through the blogosphere. Of course, now that it’s starting to die down, it’s time for me to jump in! I have a draft of a post that I started writing when I saw […]

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