While awaiting real obituaries.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Gossip, Gossip, Everywhere
Rather dykey, probably a spy, greasy kitchen, filthy loo – Wilson does Murdoch.
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Newton Rules
Relativity, quantum mechanics, chaos theory have not made Newton passé.
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Michael Ruse on Creationism
‘Scientifically Creationism is worthless, philosophically it is confused, and theologically it is blinkered beyond repair.’
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Rupert Murdoch, Post-Modernist
Fox News loves to tease the left: ‘fair and balanced, hahahaha!’
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Eagleton on Hobsbawm
‘…the autobiography is a covertly anti-intellectual genre.’
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Death Threat for US College Professor
Muqtedar Khan of Adrian College in Michigan criticises bin Laden, Christian fundamentalists and hawkish U.S. government officials.
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Donald Davidson
The philsopher died in Berkeley yesterday.
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Biography Can Be Tricky
Are people who knew the subject the best witnesses, or disabled by bias?
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That’s ‘Game and Simulation Arts’ to You
Imagine, teachers who think video games are trivial!
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Good Thing the Mad Despot Doesn’t Exist
‘…religion is not just incongruent with morality but in essential ways incompatible with it.’
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Echoes of Hate Week?
Brown University’s Third World Transition Program sounds like good intentions run amok.
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Fair, Balanced, Honest, Reasonable, Polite
Fox News makes complete fool of itself by suing a comededian, thus catapulting his book to best-seller list.
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Modern History Not Popular
Oxford college for mature students drops course for lack of demand.
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Anti-Israel or Anti-Semitic?
Is Lawrence Summers right, or is Judith Butler?
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Mars
Ready for its closeup.
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Stereotype Shmereotype
Come on, they’re funnier cleverer and prettier than the straight guys they improve, how bad can it be?
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Hunger is Missing
Cool, sexy, charming and famous? Or brilliant, curious and disturbing – you choose.
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Forget Substance, Just Give Me Style
Is being cool the president’s job?
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Hispanic, Latina, Hispanic-Latina
The absurd knots people tie themselves in when they obsess over what ‘race’ they are…