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By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMeritocracies are brutal. You should know, since you yourself practiced a kind of meritocracy. As a child, you were bigger than the bug. Splat! Too bad for you, bug. How dare you exist. In the adult world, however, distinguishing between a true meritocracy and a prejudicial pattern of hiring is not so clear cut. In the last couple of weeks the Internet has been rippling with controversy over "The Daily Show's" lack of women -- "The Daily Show's Woman Problem," by Irin Carmon on jezebel.com, "Outrage World: How Feminist Blogs Like Jezebel Gin Up Page Views by Exploiting Women's Worst ...
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By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyLast weekend a Lebanese-American from Michigan was crowned Miss USA. With all the uproar that followed you'd think al-Qaeda just dropped a bomb on Las Vegas. Instead of wringing our hands, we should be popping champagne corks and queuing up to toast the soldiers who just might not have to march off to battle someday. Isn't this what we all wanted? Hearts and minds, assimilation, Muslim moderates drowning out the extremists? To quote Wikipedia: Rima Fakih's "family is Muslim, but they celebrate elements of both the Muslim and Christian faiths." Is this perfect, or what? Her story reads like ...
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