Tomorrow new atheist billboards will go up in neighborhoods that are strongholds of Islam and Judaism, Paterson, NJ and Brooklyn, NY respectively. So Muslims and Jews can now join up with Christians in getting into a lather about atheist billboards, proving once again [Read more…]
The absurd fuss over contraception in the US is a classic example of religions abusing the language of ‘freedom of religion’ to advance their anti-women agenda. It turns out that Israel is also experiencing a similar phenomenon. Orthodox soldiers are apparently objecting to having to hear women sing at military functions.
The army’s insistence on men hearing women sing is such a serious attack on religious freedom, according to one prominent far-right rabbi, that “we’re close to a situation in which we will have to tell soldiers, ‘You have to leave such events even if a firing squad is set up outside, which will fire on and kill you.'”
Some see a more sinister agenda at work than [Read more…]
A lot of people newly entering the work force or trying to find work in a new area after being laid off discover a catch-22, that employers often require them to have some experience but that they can’t get experience until they get employed. Unpaid internships are often touted as a way of breaking that cycle, a means of getting work experience without [Read more…]
Herman Cain is still around, unfortunately, putting out weird ads in the service of, what exactly is not clear. You never know with Cain, a truly original thinker. After all, who else would think that an obnoxious child killing a pet fish in some kind of post-nuclear landscape would be a winner?
Stephen Walt is puzzled:
One of the great puzzles of contemporary national security policy is why the mighty United States gets its knickers in a twist over lots of security issues in lots of unimportant places. After all, it’s the world’s most advanced [Read more…]
Apparently smaller bonuses this year are causing all kinds of angst for the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street.
Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said [Read more…]
To no one’s surprise, women greatly helped provide Romney with the victory in Michigan. While Romney had only a 1% edge among men in that state, he won the women’s vote by 6%. And this is just among Republican women. [Read more…]
Most scientists know how to fight for acceptance of their ideas within the community of scientists. The rules of the game are fairly well understood. But when it comes to politically charged issues, they tend to be at a loss because they work as individuals and hence do not know how to respond to massive organized attacks, of the kind that they have been under from climate change deniers. The attacks have ranged from explicit and [Read more…]
Republican insiders seem to have suddenly woken up to something that others have been noticing for years, that their party has been taken over by open cranks. Hence it is hardly surprising that the Republican party establishment has begun attacking Rick Santorum in earnest. [Read more…]
