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One in Five Americans Believe Barack Obama is a Muslim

Only 34 percent of Americans were able to correctly identify him as a Christian. Predictably, Republicans are far more likely to believe the president is a Muslim than Democrats are — nearly a third of Republicans think Obama is Muslim. But most surprising is the fact that the number of people who believe Obama is [...]

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The Masquerade: I call myself a feminist, therefore I am a feminist.

There’s this guy at my college who calls himself a feminist and, well, I just wouldn’t feel right calling him anything remotely close to a feminist. I blogged about this student at my place after he attended his first meeting of the feminist organization on my college campus (Students Against Sexism in Society, or SASS), [...]

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Nun -sense

It’s 5 am in Mexico and a pesky mosquito has me up. I’m also planning on watching out for the crow who comes by early am and has managed to eat a couple fish in the little pond outside my bedroom door. But on to more mundane matters. Catholic nuns (actually sisters; nuns are really [...]

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