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Turkish-German Actress Poses In Playboy As “Act of Liberation”
April 25, 2011 – 10:53 amSila Sahin’s appearance in the German version of Playboy has symbolic connotations: the 25-year-old Sahin, who plays Ayala in the RTL German soap opera Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten (Good Times, Bad Times), managed to link her public exposure to the debate over a central sociopolitical issue: that young Muslim — in this case, Turkish — women [...]
Trans Woman Assaulted At Baltimore McDonald’s
April 23, 2011 – 3:27 pmJoe.My.God explains: Baltimore police have made two arrests in the brutal attack on a transgender woman at a McDonald’s, where staffers filmed the assault with their cell phones, then urged the assailants to flee before police arrived. The only person that appears to come to the victim’s aid is an elderly female customer, although the restaurant’s [...]
Norway’s State Philosopher
March 20, 2011 – 11:48 amBelow is some of Michael Moore’s documentary footage which he cut from Sicko. He explores Norway’s exceedingly high standard of living and the values which produce it. Along the way he talks to Hynrik Syse, the philosopher who the government hired to manage the nation’s oil profits so that they would be used in the wisest [...]
Rachel Maddow Explains The Nuclear Threat In Japan
March 17, 2011 – 12:19 amThis account of how nuclear power works and what the current danger was remarkably clarifying for me: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Dr. Maddow would truly make a superb physics professor (you know, if she actually had as good a grasp of all physics as she has of [...]
On God And The Japanese Earthquake
March 16, 2011 – 11:45 pmEdward Tarte says everything that shouldn’t need to be said on the topic, but sadly does: The word poison is a bit unnecessarily strong, but the rest is spot on. Your Thoughts?
Meet Jesy Littlejohn, Founder of “Rainbow Bridge”, Grove City College’s Unrecognized LGBTQ Awareness Group
March 14, 2011 – 11:16 amGrove City College, my alma mater from which I graduated with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Religion in 2000, is an Evangelical Christian college which ranks among America’s most religiously and politically conservative colleges. Princeton Review ranks Grove City among the “Best Northeastern Colleges” and among the 373 best colleges in the [...]
Bigoted Americans
March 5, 2011 – 10:23 amThis is some powerfully hateful hypocritical harassment and stupidity right here. It creeps me out to see the American flag, which I love in a deep way, look like a fascist symbol in these nativistic, jingoistic, authoritarian, theocratically Christian Americans’ hands: The YouTube description sums up the context of the above: (ANAHEIM, CA, 3/2/11) — [...]
About Those Germans Trying To Get The Pope Charged With Crimes Against Humanity…
February 27, 2011 – 8:47 amSendai Anonymous has the scoop on how the enemy of our enemy may not be our friend. Your Thoughts?
Vatican Confirms Widespread Rape Of Nuns By Priests In 23 Countries
February 26, 2011 – 3:12 pmSickening: The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. Most of the abuse [...]
The Religious Conservative’s False Choice: “Big Brother” Or “Heavenly Father”
February 23, 2011 – 10:00 amIn an e-mail to me, Caroline proposes thought provoking reasons for non-believers to encourage (or at least to not actively discourage) religious beliefs: It would also be nice if people would carry out actions in good conscience of just being decent human beings rather than in fear of reprisal in the afterlife, but as there [...]
Dispelling Misconceptions About China
February 22, 2011 – 7:35 amAn illuminating video: Your Thoughts?
How Would Apostates, Adulterers, And Thieves Fare In A Democratic Egypt?
February 18, 2011 – 10:04 pmRazib Kahn has a most disturbing chart: Kahn explains the above: On the x-axis you see the proportion who accept that adulterers should be stoned. On the y-axis you see the responses to amputation and apostasy. The red points are the proportion who agree with the death penalty for apostates, and the navy points those [...]
“To The Victims Of This Tragedy We Send Our Thoughts And Prayers” By Roy Zimmerman
February 17, 2011 – 12:24 pmA satirization of Sarah Palin and what she represents: Of course, as it turned out there were no direct connections between Sarah Palin and Jared Lee Loughner. Nonetheless this is entirely valid criticism of the completely reckless conflation of guns with politics, self-righteous apocalyptic theocratic jingoistic religion, loose talk about revolution, and hyperbolic associations of [...]
Birther Madness In The Republican Party
February 16, 2011 – 10:00 amAnderson Cooper interviews Montana State Representative Bob Wagner who refuses to admit that he knows either that President Obama was born in America or even that being born in America makes someone a citizen: Stupefyingly, Representative Wagner is representative of more than 50% of likely Republican primary voters: Birthers make a majority among those voters [...]
Innocent Woman Tased
February 14, 2011 – 9:07 pmIs it always excessive force to taser someone who is not posing a serious physical risk to others? Your Thoughts?
Fear Of Middle Eastern Democracy
February 13, 2011 – 4:00 pmWatching this video, I’m starting to fear those who have seemingly no belief in either the intrinsic value or potential effectiveness of democracy as much as I fear Islamism: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
“Today, There Is Joy.”
February 11, 2011 – 10:30 pmWill Wilkinson gives an eloquent defense of the joy in Egypt today: I admit that I am more than a little tempted to rain on the parade and note that Mr Mubarak’s departure guarantees nothing and that it is not unreasonable to fear a turn for the worse. There’s a tiny, stability-loving Burke on my [...]
Muslim Mob Burns Churches, Demands Death Penalty Over Christian Man’s Leaflets “Insulting” Islam
February 9, 2011 – 1:17 pmThe usual outrageous outrage: A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said. Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two [...]
Vigilante Elderly Woman Foils Robbery
February 8, 2011 – 10:29 pmAmazing, heartwarming, confirmed footage of bravery: via Feminist Philosophers. David Slutsky, from Feminist Philosophers’ comments section, has a valid gripe with the sound re-edit noticeable in the version of the video of the incident above: This is great. What really bothers me, however, is the seemingly belittling/sensationalistic/cartoonish manner of the accompanying music and narrative/voice-over with which many [...]
Footage Of Attack On Anderson Cooper in Cairo
February 3, 2011 – 1:34 amThis really gives you the sense of the brutal, scary situation on the ground: Your Thoughts?
A Plain-Clothes Mubarak Crackdown?
February 2, 2011 – 1:39 pmAn upsetting and infuriating inference from Nicholas Kristof: Today President Mubarak seems to have decided to crack down on the democracy movement, using not police or army troops but rather mobs of hoodlums and thugs. I’ve been spending hours on Tahrir today, and it is absurd to think of this as simply “clashes” between two [...]
Real vs. Fake Democratic Revolutions: A Pictorial Representation
February 2, 2011 – 12:45 pmvia The Daily Dish (whose Egypt coverage all-day, everyday is must read) and whatstherumpus.) Your Thoughts?
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