Butterflies and Wheels

A guest post by Athyco in a comment on A new way to stir up trouble. It has been a knotted mass of stupid from the beginning, and each one contributes their little bit to the mess. I looked over the comments to Karla’s It’s Personal blog post dismissing this WBC contact, then clicked on …

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Sigh. Really? The Huffington Post on Disney’s makeover of Merida, the heroine of Brave. She wasn’t hot enough for nine-year-old girls? Nine-year-old girls want hotties for their hero-characters? Sure. Now let’s put a G-string on Mary Lennox. Let’s give Laura Ingalls Wilder silicone injections. How about a pair of stilettos for Harriet the Spy?

Wahay – Bill Donohue (who likes to call himself “The Catholic League”) says there’s no sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic church! Whew, we can all pack up and go home. Bill Donohue comments on the 2012 Annual Report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the subject of sexual abuse: The survey, …

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I saw The Invisible War on Independent Lens last night, and was duly and thoroughly horrified. It’s about sexual assault in the US military. There’s a lot of it, and it goes almost completely unpunished. 20% of women are raped during their service, and 1% of men are. Because there are a lot more men …

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Melvyn Bragg doesn’t like the way A C Grayling and Richard Dawkins talk about religion. He said: ‘The intellectual slackness and terrorism of these atheists, people who I otherwise respected – Richard Dawkins as an explainer of zoology is peerless, and AC Grayling is a great explainer of philosophy. ‘But when they start discussing religion, …

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I watched quite a good show on the Discovery Channel last night, about grizzly bears. A crew got (we were told) closer than anyone ever before had gotten for an extended period to a bunch of grizzlies at a bay in Alaska where more grizzlies gather than anywhere else. They gather for the salmon. I …

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The Minnesota Senate approved the same-sex marriage bill which the governor has already said he will sign. 12! Twelve and counting.