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  1. Christopher Hitchens

    This evening Christoher Hitchens came to William & Mary to debate with a professor (Professor and former army officer Lawrence Wilkerson) on Middle East policy, that was to be followed by an equal length question-and-answer session, where students could send in questions on any topic. I was excited to see Hitchens, one of the world's most famous atheists, as he is always entertaining -- and this may be my last chance to see him live, because he has terminal cancer. And it was extraordinarily ...

    Updated 09-28-2010 at 04:13 AM by Raistlin

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  2. I know who I would support in 2012

    We need more politicians like this guy. Too bad he doesn't have a chance in hell, but he seems significantly better than Ron Paul as far as libertarian Republicans go. And I'd support most anyone if I thought they'd really fight to legalize marijuana.

    You can tell he has no chance because he appears to be someone who would actually stick to his principles if elected.
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  3. The Great Burqa Debate

    This came up on facebook a while ago, but for whatever reason I decided not to make an EoEO thread about it. I just realized it was worth a blog post, considering I saved it as a text file and just need to copy/paste. Here you go!

    A while ago, an old high school friend of mine made the following Facebook post:

    ”Just found a very good article detailing the pros and cons of banning islamic veils. The religious freedom arguments are strong, and a ban would be hypocritical, ...

    Updated 06-25-2011 at 12:53 AM by Raistlin

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  4. Blogging and Tim Minchin

    Contrary to some oldbies, I am actually mildly interested in this blog feature. I will semi-regularly have thoughts on an issue that I want to type up and open to discussion, but for one reason or another would not be suitable for an EoFF thread. I have off-and-on considered making my own blog for the variety of issues which interest me (religion/atheism/law/criminal justice/science/etc.), but I have been too lazy. But now I have a spot here I can post whatever the hell I want, so I might take advantage ...

    Updated 09-20-2010 at 06:04 AM by Raistlin

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