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Somali rape victim stoned for "adultery"

In this week's clip for Current TV, I return to a story about a stoning in Somalia that was eclipsed earlier this week by election madness. Speaking of madness, a warning: This story might make you feel like you're spiraling into a psychotic state and have lost all touch with reality, because it's hard to think of this as anything but a sick hallucination.

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Class war: Palin vs. Kennedy
The Alaska governor suggests the media is going easy on the Senate hopeful because of class.
"The Real World" offers Transgenderism 101
MTV's reality dinosaur (finally!) gets a trans cast member. How painful is this going to be?
Anorexia as art
A photographer captures impossibly thin models, after discovering pro-ana sites.
Lay off those not-so-glamorous teen moms
The teen birthrate may be up, but you can't pin it on Juno, Jamie Lynn and Bristol -- yet.

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"The Real World" offers Transgenderism 101
MTV's reality dinosaur (finally!) gets a trans cast member. How painful is this going to be?
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A photographer captures impossibly thin models, after discovering pro-ana sites.
Lay off those not-so-glamorous teen moms
The teen birthrate may be up, but you can't pin it on Juno, Jamie Lynn and Bristol -- yet.

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