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Weird Science
Modern medicine never ceases to amaze The Buzz. The latest shocker? A recent kidney transplant, detailed by William Saletan in Slate’s “Human Nature” blog, in which a 48-year-old woman had the organ removed through her vagina. Yes, you read correctly! Vagina. And if BBC News reported the story, then you know that it’s more than the setup for a…
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Blago’s Blues
A few weeks ago I received a phone call from two semi-drunken friends who were at a bar on the East Coast. They demanded I write about the idiot formerly known as Gov. Rod Blagojevich. I promised to do so, but deep down I probably wanted the whole shameful situation to go away. As an…
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Merry Agnostic Christmas
Is it right to celebrate a holiday for a religion you don’t believe in? I’m not a Muslim, so I’ve never fasted for Ramadan. And because I’m not a Jew, Rosh Hashanah has been little more to me than the annoying nickname my 1st-grade classmates derived from a song in our music class. I’ve also…
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Meet Obama
It has become a near mantra for the president-elect: “We have only one president at a time.” But as the last days of the Bush administration dwindle away, it looks more and more like that one president is Barack Obama. Over the weekend, while Bush was flipping a coin at the Army/Navy game, Obama was…
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Not in My Neighborhood
Barack Obama’s success, as Congressman John Lewis put it recently, is another step on the long road toward laying down the “burden of race.” But the growing use of the phrase “post-racial America” should worry us all. Consider the results of one major social science study, published in Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on…
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Rockin' 'Science'
It’s encouraging that the multiracial rock band TV on the Radio has stormed the New York rock scene without anybody making much of the group’s demographic novelty. Their latest recording, Dear Science, (Interscope) is so engrossing and powerful that the band members could be from Mars, Venus and Saturn and that little detail might escape…
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Dispatches
Richmond, Va.: Virginia simply wasn’t ready. Voting rights watchdogs have been warning since the primaries that the state was going to have problems if it didn’t boost the resources available—and distribute them properly. The polls hadn’t even opened when that warning came crashing into reality: at least two precincts couldn’t even get the voting started…
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Obama's Mixology
Mix’ology: noun. The art and science of mixings In these final days of this presidential campaign, John McCain and his supporters have been trying desperately to raise doubts about Barack Obama’s identity. They have called him a terrorist sympathizer, a socialist, an unrepentant liberal. For weeks, their tagline has been “Who is Barack Obama?” The…
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Ugly To The End
After the last presidential debate both Karl Rove and Slate’s “Poll Tracker” electoral maps projected that Sen. Obama would win the presidency with 313 electoral votes if the election was held that day. This would be a massive Electoral College victory for Sen. Obama. On that same day, the Associated Press reported that perhaps as…
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'Mad Men' of the GOP
Obama supporters are fond of threatening to move to Canada if their candidate loses. Republicans looking for a similar retreat, if things don’t go their way, can find a fitting escape in Mad Men. The brilliant AMC cable series, whose season finale airs Sunday, portrays a fantasy world, a Leave it to Beaver, Norman Rockwell-inspired…