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Pres Jonathan orders military to end unrest in Jos
More than 100 people have been killed in Plateau state in the past two weeks in conflict between Muslims and Christians from rival ethnic groups.
Filed: September 12, 2011
Saudis deport radical Islamist to Norway
Wait…what?
Filed: September 12, 2011
Bangladesh enacts new broadcast law
National ideology or characters cannot be criticized. The father of the nation cannot be criticized. Actually pretty much nothing can be criticized.
Filed: September 12, 2011
Pope accused of crimes against humanity
Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have accused the pope, the Vatican secretary of state and two other officials in a formal complaint to the ICC.
Filed: September 13, 2011
Abuse survivors will try to take pope to court
Rape and other forms of sexual violence are specifically included in the definition of crimes against humanity that are under the jurisdiction of the ICC.
Filed: September 13, 2011
Near-death experiences found to have naturalistic causes
Research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features.
Filed: September 13, 2011
Nothing paranormal about near-death experiences
How neuroscience can explain seeing bright lights, meeting the dead, or being convinced you are one of them.
Filed: September 13, 2011
Iran: women’s rights activist badly beaten by cops
Her charges were announced as “Insulting the Supreme Leader”, “Propaganda against the Islamic Republic regime”, and “Acting against national security”.
Filed: September 13, 2011
Globe and Mail editorial: make right to die legal
“Many people, once they know that if all else fails, this is an option, they won’t make that call. The stress is gone,” says Udo Schuklenk.
Filed: September 13, 2011
Globe and Mail talks to Udo Schuklenk
"Often when people talk about end-of-life decision making, the assumption is it’s about pain. But it’s not. The concern is more about losing control over their lives, the quality of their lives."
Filed: September 13, 2011
Bachmann’s breathtaking ignorance about HPV vaccine
“To have innocent little 12-year old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out wrong,” she proclaimed Monday.
Filed: September 14, 2011
Sexism alive and well in TV land
Only 15% of the writers of broadcast network, prime-time programs were women in 2010-2011 season, less than half the number in 2006-2007.
Filed: September 14, 2011
Why is US TV losing women writers?
Women who hear that the television industry is not welcoming to them may be less likely to become part of it in the first place.
Filed: September 14, 2011
Jacques Berlinerblau says how to do secularism
Do it his way.
Filed: September 14, 2011
Israel: cadets protest women singing at ceremony
Four of the nine religious cadets who walked out of a military event as a female soldier began singing solo will be dismissed from their officers’ course.
Filed: September 14, 2011
Couple on trial for letting their baby die
The Oregon medical examiner’s office estimates that in the past 30 years, more than 20 children of church members have died of preventable or curable conditions.
Filed: September 14, 2011
“Its programs actively block men’s discourse and perpetuate the men-bad, women-good dialogue.”
Filed: September 14, 2011
Johann Hari offers a personal apology
Admits editing Wikipedia entries "of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious."
Filed: September 15, 2011
Jonathan Dean defends LSE’s Gender Institute
If a gender studies scholar were to put forward a crude "women good, men bad" analysis, it would never stand up to peer scrutiny.
Filed: September 15, 2011
Tom Martin replies: men are too so the victims
"In a world which verbalises four times more sexism against men than it does against women, it’s high time gender studies set a better example."
Filed: September 15, 2011
The normalisation of misogyny is commonplace
The objectification and dehumanisation of women is such an inescapable part of popular culture that it necessarily plays a part in the daily interactions of men and women.
Filed: September 15, 2011
Women hardest hit by poverty but it’s a secret
Neither The New York Times nor The Wall Street Journal even mentioned women in their front-page stories about the rise in the poverty rate.
Filed: September 15, 2011
USA Today on atheism and sexism
Watson, elevator, Dawkins, Jacoby, Gaylor, CFI "Women in Secularism" conference, Hensley, Myers, things getting better.
Filed: September 15, 2011
“Smile!” he said
These hyper-concerned male citizens aren’t exactly smiling when they offer up their unsolicited advice.
Filed: September 16, 2011
Chocolate ‘as good for you as exercise’
Says headline. Article replaces ‘you’ with ‘mice’ and says it would be a leap of faith to say the same effects would be seen in humans.
Filed: September 16, 2011
Daughter of the Patriarchy works her way free
Philosophy at Community College; wanting to be authentic; long "Biblical" skirt v jeans; a horde of Message women; apostasy.
Filed: September 16, 2011
The F-word on Tom Martin’s campaign to sue LSE
His antics stink of a publicity stunt designed to paint him as the innocent, caring, liberal-minded bloke taken hostage by a feminised, man-hating world.
Filed: September 17, 2011
Tom Martin, LSE, and the Missing Minister
He has been busy.
Filed: September 17, 2011
Ben Goldacre on detecting dodgy stats
Forensic statisticians have ways of spotting suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, thus estimating the chances that figures from a set of accounts have been fiddled.
Filed: September 17, 2011
Lawyer gets rich off “persecuted Christian” suits
The crusade against secularism pays well.
Filed: September 18, 2011
The New Yorker offers God’s blog commenters
A month old but funny.
Filed: September 18, 2011
Dexter Filkins on the murder of Saleem Shahzad
Only a few other journalists had written as aggressively about Islamist extremism in the military, and not all of them had survived.
Filed: September 18, 2011
Steven Pinker argues humans are becoming less violent
Pinker shows that, with notable exceptions, the long-term trend for murder and violence has been going down since humans developed agriculture 10,000 years ago.
Filed: September 18, 2011
New in "Notes and Comment Blog"
- Bangladesh ties up some loose ends
Filed: September 12, 2011 - Picky picky
Filed: September 12, 2011 - Forgive but prosecute
Filed: September 12, 2011 - Do the right thing, Tunisia
Filed: September 13, 2011 - When they are in PR mode
Filed: September 13, 2011 - Mark your calendar
Filed: September 13, 2011 - Canada thinks about assisted suicide
Filed: September 13, 2011 - Training dominion-oriented daughters
Filed: September 13, 2011 - HPV vax will make your daughter a SLUT
Filed: September 14, 2011 - Anointing the sick with oil
Filed: September 14, 2011 - You could tell the story in your sleep
Filed: September 14, 2011 - Men are being silenced
Filed: September 14, 2011 - Attack of the male-blaming biases
Filed: September 15, 2011 - Even more dialogue with William Hamby
Filed: September 15, 2011 - Record numbers of women are living in poverty
Filed: September 15, 2011 - God damn it, smile!
Filed: September 16, 2011 - Just ask them
Filed: September 16, 2011 - The borders of my world seemed to explode
Filed: September 16, 2011 - The minister for the menz
Filed: September 17, 2011 - We wanted to do a bruised-up Barbie shoot
Filed: September 18, 2011 - Dramatic interlude
Filed: September 18, 2011 - Good girls don’t
Filed: September 18, 2011 - Which twin has the Toni?
Filed: September 18, 2011 - New ex-Muslims tell their stories
Filed: September 18, 2011
There you go! Catch you next week -
OB
