70-year-old woman busted for failing to water lawn. Next up: felony conviction for not combing hair.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Irshad Manji on What Drives Suicide Bombers
Why airbrush the role that religion plays in the violence carried out under its banner?
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Joan Smith on What Political Islam Hates
Free women and homosexuals, mostly.
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It Was Like Being Buried Alive
‘I literally dreamed many times of being free and always woke up back in that room.’
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Johnston on Epistemology in Gaza
‘They weren’t interested in any kind of truth, they were interested in their world view being put over.’
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Bishops Reveal Their Opinion of the Deity
It kills random people in floods to punish someone for allowing gay marriage.
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Believers in a Vindictive God
The bish and the bomber both follow a god who kills people at random to make a point.
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This Just In: Alan Johnston is Free
‘Out of the blue’ an hour ago. I’m listening to him talk live on the World Service now.
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The Guardian on Alan Johnston
Mr Johnston, the only western correspondent working full-time in Gaza, went missing on March 12.
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NY Times on Alan Johnston
He was been the focus of a worldwide campaign by colleagues — Palestinian, Israeli and foreign.
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It Was ‘Ladies Night’ at tigertiger, Hitchens Notes
The murderers did not just want body parts in general but female body parts in particular.
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Kurdish Officials Support Campaign to Ban FGM
‘Honour violence,’ like genital mutilation, is a common but silenced problem of the region.
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Abu-Ghanem Women Speak to the AP
‘Police and social services aren’t willing to take on this battle, and the first victims are women.’
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Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift
In the past few years every element of the modern synthesis has been attacked.
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Ed Husain Tries to Reason With Ken [audio]
Livingstone refuses to distinguish Muslims from Islamists. [10 minutes in]
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Hassan Butt Knows What the Bombs are About
It’s not Iraq, it’s the dream of a revolutionary state that will ‘bring Islamic justice to the world.’
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Just In: Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence
‘Disgraceful,’ said Senator Harry Reid.
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Hrant Dink Murder Trial Begins in Turkey
‘We are all Hrant Dink. We are all Armenians,’ the demonstrators chanted.
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Dawkins Reviews Behe’s Sad Second Book
Generations of mathematical geneticists have shown that evolutionary rates are not limited by mutation.
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Blair Disses Islamists at Last
‘It’s not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn’t justified.’