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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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For-profit colleges target people who can’t pay
Many students drop out before graduating or can’t find jobs that will allow them to repay their loans, leaving them with staggering debt.
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Pornography found in bin Laden compound
Surprise surprise.
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Uganda: anti-gay bill shelved by parliament
The bill, first introduced in 2009, could still be brought up when the new parliament meets later this year.
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“Cosmetic” FGM
News from the fifth annual Congress on Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery, held late last year in a luxury resort outside Tucson.
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Michelle Goldberg on Uganda Anti-Gay Bill’s US roots
The political scapegoating of gays and lesbians is a relatively recent phenomenon, one deliberately exported by the American right.
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Ugandan anti-gay bill is far from dead
The bill does not now appear on the order paper for the day but it could be carried forward into the next session of parliament.
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Sign the petition
Calling on the government of Uganda to to withdraw the Anti-Homosexual Bill.
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Archbish accused of hypocrisy over Uganda’s bill
Secretary of Pink Triangle Trust asks: Why is Rowan Williams ignoring, or refusing to condemn, the damaging role played by a branch of his own Anglican Church?
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PZ on Lindsay/Mooney and the long term
What happens in the mind of a believer five minutes or a day after we make an argument is not the only issue. Change is a slow process.
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The truth about Moazzem Begg
Begg and Cageprisoners have a longstanding relationship with al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki.
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Support Sojourners? I decline
Sojourners “decline” to stand up to the bigots and homophobes in their own community who might take offense at such an anodyne ad.
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Ron Lindsay interviews Chris Mooney for PoI
About accommodationism, new atheism, whether science and religion are really perfectly compatible, the Templeton Foundation.
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Yale in Singapore: lost in translation
The Yale-NUS venture raises troubling questions about the translation of academic values and freedoms into a repressive environment.
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Solving Darwin’s medical mystery
Darwin’s is the latest in a series of medical mysteries to be re-examined at an annual conference held by the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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Jesus and Mo think about othering
It’s tricky.
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Ireland: rise in abuse complaints to church watchdog
A significant increase in the number of allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children reported to the Catholic Church child protection watchdog.
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Der Zeitung apologizes for erasing Sec of State
Hasidic paper erased Clinton and Tomason because of “religious beliefs,” not because “religious Jews denigrate women.” Got that?
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US will talk to the three bin Laden “widows”
That is, to the three women bin Laden bought and held in slavery in his compound.
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Texas senate: guns ok on state college campuses
All Texas students will be above average, or else.