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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Gutter Politics
Palin says Obama is ‘palling around’ with Bill Ayers.
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Pope Complains of Indifference to Religion
Worried about future of gold robes and chalices perhaps.
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Interview with Parvaneh Osanloo
Her husband, union leader Mansoor Osanloo, has been in prison for 18 months for organizing bus drivers.
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The O’Reilly Proof of the Existence of God
Bold, fresh guy; working class; sells millions of books; therefore God exists.
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Saudi Woman Crashes Car, Clerics Overjoyed
See? See? Woman drives, woman crashes, therefore ban fully justified. Men never crash cars.
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Saudi Cleric Wants One-eye Niqab
Women can use two eyes to look seductive, says lunatic.
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Andrew Sullivan on Palin’s Creativity With Facts
Said she called for divestment in Sudan. In fact she blocked divestment bill, which failed.
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NY Times on The Reckoning
Banks wanted exemption from debt limitation; they got it, amid ‘nervous laughter.’
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Jonathan Raban on Sarah Palin
‘Palin never thinks. Instead, she relies on a limited stock of facts, bright generalities and pokerwork maxims.’
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Philosophers Need to Get Off Their…Chairs
An armchair in flames has become the informal symbol of the experimental-philosophy movement.
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Adam Gopnik on Richard Reeves on Mill
Aristides the Just was banished from Athens because people were fed up with hearing him called Aristides the Just.
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Repression Worsens in Burma
‘While a handful of political activists have been released, more are being arrested and thousands remain in prison.’
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US Opposing ‘Defamation of Religion’ Resolution
Promoters of the coalition want to avoid being branded as part of a neocon effort to attack Muslims.
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Catholics Worry About ‘Doctors’ Rights’
Patients’ rights not so important, at least when it comes to abortion.
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Religious Killings Bad for India’s Reputation
Attempts to restore peace to Kandhamal district, the epicentre of the religious riots, have had little effect.
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Left’s ‘Creeping Racialist Antipathy’ to Muslims
‘Muslims are denied the right to take offence when their most holy emblems are deliberately pilloried.’
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S. Fleischacker on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Biblical claim to the land should be retired permanently from debates over this issue.
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Michael Walzer on Greed and the Financial Crisis
The right people to blame are the market ideologues and the politicians they seduced.
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Blinded by Divine Light
Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world.