These plans, discussed in Facebook posts, entail posing as recall supporters and gathering signatures, only to later destroy the petitions.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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James Kirchick on Bruce Crumley on Charlie Hebdo
What made Crumley’s entry into the genre singularly poisonous is that it was written by a working journalist, not an academic, politician, or anti-“Islamophobia” activist.
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PSU protesters blindly ignore real victims
Petulant chants of “One more game” and “We want JoePa” united the crowd in a bond of youthful stupidity and shortsightedness
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How is college football like the Catholic church?
The football program at Penn State was so sacrosanct as to be almost untouchable.
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Spiked sneers at humane animal slaughter law
Portrays it as a “sign of religious intolerance.” What the animals might think is not mentioned.
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Separation of church and state essential for civil liberties
“When we are dragging religion into politics, then we are not searching for truth, but we do it to support our agenda in order to preserve our position.”
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Kurt Metzger totally pwns Rebecca Watson
Then Tim Minchin says go all fucking Gandhi. Even if you hate them. Little glasses, sandals, chilling out and drinking chai. Trying not to have sex with your great niece. Lovely.
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Colbert defends the religious right to bully
“That’s not me, that’s God, the all-knowing all-loving creator who made all things and hates some of them.”
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“Reformed” atheist turned rabbi says religion is good
This is all a real search for something transcendent because that transcendence exists in the world.
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Ethan Clow on CFI, skepticism, and women
It’s been reported that CFI Vancouver, and presumably CFI Canada, have decided not to sponsor feminist-skeptical meet ups.
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More personhood for zygotes
64 Republicans are pushing a bill that would extend personhood to all zygotes in America.
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs asks damn fool questions
“Often, I’ve inquired of non-believers if it at all vexes them that nothing that they have ever done or will ever do will make the slightest difference to anyone on any level?”
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Suzanne Moore on internet misogynists
This is a conversation we needed to have a long time ago. Let’s talk.
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Rick Perry wants to close all the things
Only he can’t remember what they are.
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EU withdraws its own film on Afghan women prisoners
Half of Afghanistan’s women prisoners are there for being victims of rape or forced marriage or violence or all three.
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Photographing domestic violence
The work of Donna Ferrato.
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Jesus and Mo speak up for global blasphemy law
Barmaid’s response is redacted.
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Mississippi “personhood” measure failed resoundingly
Personhood Florida views the fight for the rights of zygotes as a historically significant civil rights struggle on par with the fight against slavery.
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Monks should not run school with history of sex abuse
In 2009 Father David Pearce, the former head of St Benedict’s School in Ealing, was jailed for eight years for abusing five students.
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In France, solidarity with Charlie Hebdo
Politicos from every quarter of the French establishment are rushing to defend Charlie, including some who have threatened the magazine with defamation suits.