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Media Research Center says it’s no fun being a hegemonic majority unless you’re allowed to pretend minorities don’t even exist. Want a glimpse of how America has changed over the past dozen years? Watch the pilot episodes of “Roswell” and “Star-Crossed.” The epistle from Romans to Paul. Reporters are shocked — shocked — to learn that white Main Line preppies can be criminals too. “Satire is parody that has a point.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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