Archive for April 8th, 2007
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
The Veil in History
Because it is Easter, and because I live in Washington, which has a large Ethiopian population, I was reminded that Ethiopian Christian women, such as those I ran into in Starbucks yesterday, also wear (at least on religious holidays) a version of the headscarf and robe combo that Nancy Pelosi donned in Syria.
Headscarves are […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Oh, Snap.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee takes on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s claim to have been a lifelong hunter:
“I think it was a major mistake,” said Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor. “It would be like me saying I’ve been a lifelong golfer because I played putt-putt when I was 9 years old and I rode […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Easter Greetings
While regional station WHUT is broadcasting something that my local Comcast programmer has labelled “Mass for Shut-Ins,” I thought I’d post these pictures from Alexandria, Egypt, where I was last Easter season. The red eggs are the Coptic Christian variant on the multi-colored eggs used to mark the season in Europe and America, while the […]
