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What's Arabic For Trailer Trash?

Posted in Techno Thoughts on Mar 27th, 2008

So, in America we have a term: "Trailer Trash"
It basically means persons of low birth, ignorant, not well-educated, stupid, superstitious, easily fleeced, and so poor they cannot afford to rent or buy a home, but live on a small plot of land in a mobile home. The trailer parks they live in are a [...]

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Valentine's Day In Saudi Arabia

Posted in Politics & Religion on Feb 11th, 2008

I recently read a story about how Saudi police are cracking down on red rose sales in advance of Valentine's Day.

What got me was how the story got into how the Saudi version of Sunni Islam prevented unrelated men and women from mixing and how the crackdown was intended to put the kibosh on romantic [...]

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