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Year of the Rat. Year of the Horse. Year of Cupid the Love God? One of these things is definitely not like the other.
That’s what a bunch of bloggers in Singapore thought, too. McDonald’s restaurants in the predominantly ethnic Chinese country promoted a line of small stuffed dolls depicting the Chinese zodiac. But when they got to the Year of the Pig, they replaced the porcine plush with Cupid the God of Love (presumably to run near Valentine’s Day.)
The destruction of the World Trade Center and other attacks of September 11, 2001 have got to be some of the most horrendous acts of senseless violence ever to take place in the United States. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would paint those cowardly acts as honorable or noble. And yet, some high school students in Michigan — identified as Arab-Americans, no less — have been accused of doing just that.
Want to know if the latest incarnation of Barbie has a figure as impossible as her forebears? You’ll have to check under the burqa.
Barbie has been covered head to toe in bright colors with just a bit of white mesh where her face should be as part of an auction meant to help Sotheby’s raise money for Save the Children. Continue reading »
An evangelical Florida church has been linked to a series of kids being sent home from school for wearing shirts that violate the dress code. On the back, the shirts read “Islam is Of the Devil.” Continue reading »
I can’t decide if this a tradition we have to respect for cultural reasons–however much we may be terrified, disturbed, and shocked speechless by it–or whether this is actually child endangerment.
Critics say it is, but participants in the Indian tradition of baby tossing say it has been practiced for 500 years without ever harming a child. Continue reading »
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