Refugee group of Iranian marchers refused permission to speak from platform.… Read the rest
Dictionary of National Oops
Mar 19th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNew DNB has many mistakes, some quite basic.… Read the rest
Michael Holroyd Wins Biography Prize
Mar 18th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWrote biography of some geezer starring Emma Thompson.… Read the rest
Pinter Makes Bad Career Decision
Mar 18th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonInexplicable winning of Wilfred Owen award for poetry not a good reason to give up day job.… Read the rest
Four Men in Pakistani Rape Case Re-arrested
Mar 18th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTo be held until Supreme Court decides final appeal. … Read the rest
Effort to Force Schiavo to Stay Alive Rejected
Mar 18th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPresumption in favour of a degrading life as an empty shell?… Read the rest
Some Snickers and One Flinch
Mar 17th, 2005 8:26 pm | By Ophelia BensonOkay, I know I’m being bad. But some nonsense is just so nonsensical it just cries out for it. ‘And if the children cry out for rebuke shall we walk on the other side?’ I bet you don’t know what part of the Bible that’s from. Neither do I.
Anyway. They’re schlepping around with their tongues hanging out, begging us to laugh at them. So let’s laugh at them. First let’s laugh at Jesus-sniffing.
… Read the restYou can find candles with just about every fragrance imaginable, from blueberry to ocean mist to hot apple pie. Now there’s a candle that lets you experience the scent of Jesus, and they’ve been selling out by the case…”You can’t see him and you can’t touch
What Would Jesus Smell Like?
Mar 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonYou can’t see him or touch him, but light a candle and you can smell him.… Read the rest
Cardinal Plans to Defend Historical Truth
Mar 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJesus did not have a baby with that woman! He did walk on water and rise from the dead though.… Read the rest
Is Altruism a Maladaptation?
Mar 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTooby, Trivers think yes, Gintis, Boyd, think no.… Read the rest
French Catholic Church Wins Injunction Against Ad
Mar 17th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOffend, sensitivity, intrusion, innermost beliefs, sacred things. … Read the rest
Women Must Take Their Own Decisions
Mar 16th, 2005 8:43 pm | By Ophelia BensonWell. There’s not much to say. I’ll just quote a little. From International Spiegel Online.
Hatin’s crime, it appears, was the desire to lead a normal life in her family’s adopted land. The vivacious 23-year-old beauty, who was raised in Berlin, divorced the Turkish cousin she was forced to marry at age 16. She also discarded her Islamic head scarf, enrolled in a technical school where she was training to become an electrician and began dating German men. For her family, such behavior represented the ultimate shame — the embrace of “corrupt” Western ways.
And because ‘her family’ own her, it’s not enough just to dislike or disapprove of her behavior – they have to turn her into nothing. … Read the rest
It’s Not Easy to Invent Nationalism
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhat is it to be English? And is group identity a good thing anyway?… Read the rest
Outrage at Murder of Hatun Surucu
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘This tragedy has shaken us awake,’ says Eren Unsal from Association of Secular Turks. … Read the rest
Turkey Campaigns to Educate Women
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen not beating them up in demonstrations, that is.… Read the rest
‘Honour’ Killings Shock Berlin
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOzcan Mutlu, Berlin city councillor, complained German authorities ignore the practice.… Read the rest
‘The Whore Lived Like a German’
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSix ‘honour’ killings of women in Berlin in four months.… Read the rest
Faculty ‘Regrets’ Summers’ Tactless Remarks
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSaying women can’t count is simply the final straw.… Read the rest
Repeated Apologies Fail to Calm Harvard Tempers
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe said women are stupid, he’s got to go.… Read the rest
Harvard Faculty Vote No Confidence in Summers
Mar 16th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCite management style and that terrible thing he said about women.… Read the rest