intolerance

The rapper Nas (of whom I know nothing about ) has decided that the way he's going to try to take the intensity out of what we now call the "N" word is to title his new CD that. And he's not going the "a" version, but the "er" version (at the end of the word).

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Earlier today I was reading a news story about the guy who drew the picture of Mohammad as a dog for the Swedish newspaper, and how his life has been changed forever, though he refuses to live in fear. As we all remember, when the picture showed up in the Swedish newspaper, it created a firestorm around the world by all Muslims because they supposedly have this thing which says that there can be no images drawn of their icon. Their way of handling it was to not only protest, but to put a death sentence on the head of this man.

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