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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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How the Churchill Uproar Got Going
Susan Rosenberg, Little Green Footballs, Bill O’Reilly…
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Wittgenstein’s Other Book
‘The improvement of spelling was astonishing. The orthographic conscience had been awakened.’
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Prostitution Behind the Veil
CBC documentary by Iranian exile on the misery of women in Iran.
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Exorcism on Channel 4
Canon with PhD in deliverance bemoans large number of metaphysical assumptions, urges fewer.
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Andrew Delbanco on US Higher Education
It seems that Stover is back at Yale. Boo.
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Everyone Tried to Write Like Hunter S Thompson
Para 9 wrong: Thompson said it about Nixon, not vice versa. (As if Nixon had the vocabulary!)
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Thompson Not Respectful of Politicians
Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ken Is One Sorry Mayor
In the name of anti-racism, Livingstone perpetuates stereotype of Muslim as woman-hating queer-basher.
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Outrage Responds to Livingstone’s Dodgy Dossier
Outrage refutes Livingstone’s defense of his relations with reactionary cleric.
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Uncle Duke Does a Hemingway
Hunter S Thompson has killed himself with a shotgun to the head.
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Gonzo Journalist Kept Us All Honest, Friend Says
‘Hunter was not only a national treasure, but the conscience of this little village.’
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BBC Apologises for Apocryphal Story
No evidence of Israeli Muslim conscript jailed for not shooting children.
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Stupid Design, Inefficient Design, Cruel Design
Maybe mysterious designer not ‘God’ but some mischievous or clumsy clever-clogs.
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Malraux et la Gloire
Writer, action hero, politician, world-class fantasist.
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Another Church, Another Sex Scandal
What do you expect from people accountable only to a supernatural being?
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What Summers Said
Don’t you wish you’d been there?
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Bloggers: Truth-tellers or Vigilantes?
Mainstream media clueless? Bloggers a pseudo-journalist lynch mob?
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Women in Science Feel Underencouraged
Many scientists consider encouragement a major factor in seeking promotion.
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History Can Get Buried and Forgotten
The Tulsa riot almost did.