To adapt a line of Kingsley Amis’s, God is a soppy fool with a fase like a pigs bum.… Read the rest
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To adapt a line of Kingsley Amis’s, God is a soppy fool with a fase like a pigs bum.… Read the rest
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Have a little fuck the muthafucka courtesy of Tim Minchin.
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Florida’s a scary place. If you ever have the bad luck to be taken hostage there by a guy armed with a gun and a knife, you might find yourself being prosecuted if you survive.
A Florida woman is being accused of not defending her two children as their father stabbed them in the midst of a SWAT team standoff at an RV park.
On Monday, Deanna DeJesus pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter and child neglect in the attack that left her 9-year-old son dead, NBC Miami reports. The 7-year-old, along with the defendant herself, were both severely wounded.
Her husband flipped out, see. He forced the woman and their two kids into the car and drove them … Read the rest
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The father stabbed every member of his family before killing himself with the knife.… Read the rest
In re-reading Maryam’s talk and the comments on it I saw a link to a post by someone who attended the NSS Conference.
Nick was good, he says.
Nick was a fantastically eloquent and inspiring speaker – talking about self-censorship and imploring us to always be free to criticise “divinely inspired bigotry and facism”. His passion for free speech and how we should never be deterred from our right to it even in the face of threats of violence was fabulous, and evocative of Hitch in his refusal to back down to fascist terror threats in his robust rebuttals to religious lunatics. There is no greater compliment I can grant him than that.
But then there was Maryam…
… Read the restMaryam’s
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As I mentioned, in my horrid sarcastic mocking horrid way, I’m getting called Islamophobic a good bit these days. I’m getting called it here and even on the chat threads at Pharyngula, The Lounge and Thunderdome. (On the other hand it’s by the same people, so it doesn’t add up to more, it just adds up to repetition.)
I think this is frankly stupid. It’s as if the people who call me that had never heard of Maryam Namazie. Surely it can’t be the case that they’ve never heard of Maryam, can it? They don’t go round to her place and call her Islamophobic do they? Or do they.
Here’s Maryam at the National Secular Society conference in London last … Read the rest
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Orthodox Christians complained, so that was that.… Read the rest
You know how Islamists say that jokes are unIslamic? Apparently one result of that is that Islamists don’t get practice in knowing when a joke is present. That means that sometimes they think a joke is actually a serious news item.
… Read the restFars News Agency, a semi-official mouth piece of the Iranian regime, earnestly published a word-for-word duplicate of an article from the Onion, a spoof news organisation based in Chicago.
The satirical article cited a fake Gallup poll which found that 77 per cent of white, rural voters would rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Mr Ahmadinejad than with the US president.
It went on to cite a made-up West Virginian named Dale Swiderski,
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Fars News Agency, a semi-official mouth piece of the Iranian regime, earnestly published a word-for-word duplicate of an article from the Onion.… Read the rest
One doubts that a formulation like “Infidelophobia” will gain traction anytime soon.… Read the rest
Check it out: a stirring promo for the American Atheists 50th birthday bash next March, at which I will be there.
The first voice is Anthony Grayling. The second one you probably recognize. The third of course is Dave.
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A blogger stopped wearing the hijab, and she wrote a blog post about it.
This wasn’t an easy decision. I had been struggling with it on a daily basis for the last five years. During the final years of my undergraduate degree, I was constantly reminded of how much my personal beliefs clashed with those of the Islamic orthodoxy. It’s hard to reconcile my mix of libertarian, socialist and humanist values with the conservative ideals of the orthodox Muslim community that I inadvertently become a part of as a Hijabi.
Hmm. “Inadvertently” seems an odd word to use. Did she think putting on the hijab was a libertarian, socialist, humanist thing to do, as opposed to an orthodox Muslim … Read the rest
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More on “Elder Pastitsios” and blasphemy laws in Greece. The links are to sites in Greek.
… Read the restFour days before the arrest on September 17, MP Christos Pappas from the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party had brought the page to the attention of the justice minister and submitted an official inquiry into why the Facebook page was not being addressed by the Eletronic Crimes Unit. According to site NewsIt*, the police claim they had already concluded their investigation two days before the question was raised in parliament. Following the publication of the arrest, Greece’s leftist primary opposition party SYRIZA strongly denounced* the arrest as did its offshoot and now ruling coalition junior partner Democratic Left as well as the
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Four days before the arrest, MP Christos Pappas from the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party had brought the page to the attention of the justice minister.… Read the rest
They have a funny idea of what “evidence” means.… Read the rest
Sometimes an organization doesn’t speak for its members when it speaks. Sometimes an organization (or someone at the top of it) says something that’s abhorrent to many or most or almost all of its members. That can happen.
There’s SlutWalk London for instance. Sarah Ditum asks what it’s doing lining up behind Julian Assange.
… Read the restOh dear, SlutWalk London. On Saturday you’re marshalling crowds of women in fishnets and bras to chant “my dress is not a yes” and promoting petitions insisting that the Home Office should prosecute rapists. Come Tuesday, you’re taking to Twitter to issue statements objecting to the extradition of Julian Assange to face rape charges in Sweden. Rapists should be prosecuted, but according to SlutWalk London,
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Slime Season is here, all festive with mildew and rot and weevils.
After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer and a tyrant, its shrillest voices have been reduced to the most primal insult of all. They are calling Obama’s mother a whore.
There’s this pseudo-documentary, Michelle Goldberg explains, that’s being mailed to voters.
… Read the restThe movie claims that Obama’s actual father was the poet and left-wing activist Frank Marshall Davis, who Dunham met through her father, who was a CIA agent merely posing as a furniture salesman. “My election was not a sudden political phenomenon,” says the narrator, speaking as if
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SlutWalk London has inadvertently lined itself (and its unwitting supporters) up with an unappealing gaggle of rape apologists and victim blamers.… Read the rest
A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham is being mailed to swing-state voters, while D’Souza’s book essentially calls her a fat slut.… Read the rest