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Here's your answer: Question: which of these foreign heads of state just visited America?
a) Gordon Brown
b) The pope
c) Lee Myung-bak
( Answer. )
Frankly, this is why Americans fail so miserably when it comes to international relations, and why we ended up with 4,000 war dead and a horrible president, but one that most of us deserve thanks to our willful ignorance.
( 'But the pope spoke out about human rights!' say the naysayers. )
That will be all.
a) Gordon Brown
b) The pope
c) Lee Myung-bak
( Answer. )
Frankly, this is why Americans fail so miserably when it comes to international relations, and why we ended up with 4,000 war dead and a horrible president, but one that most of us deserve thanks to our willful ignorance.
( 'But the pope spoke out about human rights!' say the naysayers. )
That will be all.
So, St. Louis University, a Catholic school, banned the performance of the Vagina Monologues on its campus last year. Quoting ( an email on feministing: )
Gee, I hope the university stuck to that "no redundancy" policy by banning all on-campus celebrations of Ash Wednesday last week, observances of Lent, and any and all future observances of Easter, Christmas, and any other annual feast days. Cause personally, I sure can't think of anything more redundant than holiday productions that have been occurring more or less continously for the last 2,000 years.
Just saying.
That will be all.
Gee, I hope the university stuck to that "no redundancy" policy by banning all on-campus celebrations of Ash Wednesday last week, observances of Lent, and any and all future observances of Easter, Christmas, and any other annual feast days. Cause personally, I sure can't think of anything more redundant than holiday productions that have been occurring more or less continously for the last 2,000 years.
Just saying.
That will be all.
