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With all due respect to Jeff Chang and Wayne Marshall, their argument about the impure motives of Ben Scheffer, the journalist-cum-attorney who wrote that Slate piece exposing the Roxanne Shanté  thing as a sham, is kind of a reach. But what of her education? Sheffner makes a big point of alleging Shante did not receive Read More

A few days ago, I lamented that South African runner Caster Semenya was forced to perform gender to allay the public’s suspicions that she was a man. I still lament that fact. But right now, having read unofficial reports that Semenya is intersex, I feel very sad for the 18-year-old, who is discovering something life-changing Read More

I can’t remember the first person who linked to this blog or shouted out one of our posts. The feeling is a jolt, that fizzy, writerly mixture of pride for being acknowledged and neuroses about whether you just said something really dumb or really poorly. It still feels that way, maybe more so as the Read More

I suppose this was inevitable. Caster Semenya, South African runner we’ve talked about here and here, got her nails painted and donned a sequined tunic in SA glossy You magazine. According to Tracy at Salon: Instead of her yellow-and-green tracksuit, she dons a sleek black dress that covers up her washboard abs; gold jewelry, not Read More

(cross-posted at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen and U.S. of J.) Generally, I’m loath to give the Bush administration credit for much of anything, but if there is one thing they got right, it’s in their approach to passing legislation.  President Bush and his advisers realized, correctly, that the partisan make-up of any given vote Read More

At the risk of sounding like an absolutist on this “coonery” stuff — I guess I probably am — I think rikyrah’s calling out of Michael Steele (“…Is a Slave-Catching Coon“) is pretty instructive as to why we shouldn’t be hurling that bomb. I doubt any regular readers of this blog are fans of Michael Steele.* He’s Read More
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