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The health and education editor of the student newspaper at one of Canada’s most prestigious universities has advised the world that Movember — the month-long pledge by men to grow hair above the upper lip to support men’s health awareness — is “sexist, racist, transphobic, and misinformed.” In his 1,120-word essay in The McGill Daily, Ralph Haddad calls “the idea of suggesting that men show solidarity with each other by growing moustaches” to raise awareness about prostate cancer and other issues “completely absurd.” “Moustache” is the over-lettered Canadian spelling of the word mustache, by the way. And McGill is generally...

The pathological lying, plagiarist, drug addict, jailbird and mentally unbalanced America-hating Jason Leopold continues to defy reality from a new soap box.It is hilariously entitled Eat Crow Dot Org:   The Gruel is Hot - Grab a SpoonLeopold Scoops the Blogosphere and MSM on Rove IndictmentPublished by admin May 17th, 2006 in Jason LeopoldTo all those bloggers, forumists and mainstream media (MSM) pundits who thought you were tearing Jason Leopold a new one by ripping into him on his Rove indictment story - think again.Here’s a fork, a knife and a spoon - the crow has been boiling all week....

Well, that time has come for me. I’m leaving FR. However, I do not consider this an “opus”, as I am NOT going to use it to rehash old slights or arguments, or to give my personal opinion of what “should be done around here”. As has been so often pointed out, this is Jim Robinson’s site, and he runs it as he sees fit. Rather, all I’m going to do here is give a general reason for my departure, and say a hearty-but-sad “GOODBYE!” to all the folks here who have enriched my life in the past four years....

It is hard to find hope in America if you are not one of the privileged majority wrapped tightly in the warm blanket of the new American patriotism. Some of us are shivering in the chill of bigotry, discrimination and hatred. The lines between us include the war in Iraq, which every day is becoming a Vietnam-like battleground, with insurgents doing a very good job of standing up to our high-tech and supposedly superior military. The number of American soldiers who are killed continues to rise, and the attitude among the tightly wrapped is that, well, we lost one, so...