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When ‘not in my name’ is all you have in the face of a massacre

A name is more human, more familiar and more expansive than any label can ever be. It is something that everyone in the world has in common. It is therefore in that name that I refuse to step in line behind a massacre masquerading as an existential and moral crusade. “Dyke, go live in Gaza.”…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland August 13, 2014

President Barack Obama signs a condolence book in memory of Chris Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya, after addressing State Department employees at the State Department in Washington, D.C., Sept. 12, 2012 (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Christopher Stevens was neither killed by a film, nor by U.S. policy

The U.S. Ambassador to Libya was killed by Islamic anti-American fanaticism. By now there’s no need to point out the right-wing, anti-Muslim bad guys in the story surrounding Tuesday’s attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Mitt Romney is one of those heavies, and the Egyptian Copt and American hardass…

By Larry Derfner September 14, 2012

moon thumb (Photo: HeNRyKus (Own work) [GPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons)

Thoughts about a suicide, life and Yom Kippur

André died the day before Rosh Hashana. He wasn’t Jewish, but an American of Hispanic descent, born Catholic; although he delighted in displaying insider knowledge of the tribe. I found out about his death on Facebook. It was a terrible déjà vu. About two years ago a childhood friend who had reconnected with me on…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 7, 2011

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