Obama created it as payback for racism.… Read the rest
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.
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Mano Singham on the origins of religion 
Jul 9th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It is not just humans that base their behavior on imputing meaning to meaningless correlations.… Read the rest
Iran does pay attention to global outrage
Jul 9th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It is not entirely proud of stoning.… Read the rest
Survey finds women are unsafe in Delhi
Jul 9th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“Women in the national capital feel unsafe in many public spaces, and at all times of the day and night.”… Read the rest
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be stoned
Jul 9th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But she could still be executed.… Read the rest
Belgium: police question cardinal for ten hours
Jul 8th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lawyers for the cardinal argue that the raid last month “compromises the inviolability of the Vatican.” The what?… Read the rest
Theocracy is not progressive
Jul 8th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Yet there’s a large part of the Left that fails to understand that.… Read the rest
Oh sharia is not that bad
Jul 8th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Guy worries that the campaign against sharia could make Muslims feel even more marginalised by mainstream society.… Read the rest
Jerry Coyne on Southern Baptist accommodationism
Jul 8th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s worth remembering that many believers and theologians don’t agree that science and religion are compatible.… Read the rest
Chris Mooney apologizes, again
Jul 8th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Just kidding. Again.… Read the rest
EU urges Iran to halt executions
Jul 7th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton urged Iran to stop the execution of three people including Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani.… Read the rest
Salil Tripathi on V S Naipaul
Jul 7th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Waiving the rules only for the Lord and Lady from Wiltshire will reinforce the feudal India that Naipaul apparently despises.… Read the rest
Dumbing ourselves down
Jul 7th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
CNN said Obama’s speech wasn’t one of his best, because it wasn’t pitched low enough.… Read the rest
PZ on the sock puppet and the other sock puppet
Jul 7th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And Chris Mooney, and what he owes a lot of people.… Read the rest
Maryam Namazie: what isn’t wrong with sharia?
Jul 6th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rights, justice, inclusion, equality and respect are for people, not for beliefs and parallel legal systems.… Read the rest
The problem of warning coloration
Jul 6th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How does it evolve, when the first mutant individual that was toxic but had a new, bright color would call attention to itself?… Read the rest
More BioLogos science
Jul 6th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Just as we can maintain the created order is God’s good creation warped by the fall, so we can maintain that Scripture is both beautiful and broken.… Read the rest
Oregon “faith healing” parents must surrender child
Jul 6th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
This case is unusual, as the court has intervened before the death of the child due to neglect.… Read the rest
Hitchens baffles the godly – again
Jul 6th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Naturally it isn’t easy for Christians to come straight out and say “serves you right,” but they do their best.… Read the rest
