Jesse Galef has heard from Baylor students who said they felt threatened with expulsion because of their lack of faith.… 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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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
A former follower of Michael Pearl on the death of Hana Williams 
Nov 4th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rule 8: Be joyful about chastising your baby all day. Praise God while you slap a three-month-old’s hand with a ruler and think about how godly he’ll turn out.… Read the rest
Michael Bérubé on Libya and the left
Nov 4th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“When a group of people who are about to be massacred ask for help, what do you do?”… Read the rest
If you want to talk about “slut shaming”…
Nov 3rd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nathan Salo Tumberg addresses some.… Read the rest
High ranking chaplain leaves out ‘so help me god’
Nov 3rd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The military’s climate of hostility towards atheists is beginning to change. Foxhole atheists like Justin Griffith are slamming the ‘atheist closet’ door shut behind them.… Read the rest
Immunization rate of 23% at Waldorf school in Los Altos
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
23%!!… Read the rest
NZ man convicted of “procuring and inciting attempted suicide”
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The saga has re-ignited the euthanasia debate in New Zealand and may prompt
further political action.… Read the rest
Major measles outbreak in Quebec
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There are now more than 750 reported cases. Heath officials are now preparing to launch a massive vaccination campaign in schools.… Read the rest
US Congress reaffirms official status of “God”
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No it’s not optional.… Read the rest
French Muslims don’t feel accepted
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
So a few of them bomb Charlie Hebdo office. Quite understandable. Underground tensions in society, see?… Read the rest
No Motoons for you
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The firebombing comes a day after Charlie Hebdo named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s edition.… Read the rest
Firebomb attack destroys Charlie Hebdo office
Nov 2nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They published the Motoons, and were about to publish more Motoons. Can’t allow that. Boom.… Read the rest
If you disagree with a woman, talk about raping her
Nov 1st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Especially if she’s an atheist woman.… Read the rest
Simon Singh offers “psychic” a chance to test her psychic powers
Oct 31st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If Sally Armstrong is a genuine psychic, then the result can only be positive, inasmuch as it would push forward our understanding of the universe.… Read the rest
On being asked “how can we do the impossible?”
Oct 30th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The state legislature can demand that faculty alter time and space, suspend gravity, and invent perpetual motion machines — but we cannot meet demands for what is simply impossible.… Read the rest
The media think consumerism is feminism
Oct 29th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Celebrity’s contribution to feminism is: if you are hot enough you will be heard, but hurry up, because you won’t be hot for long.… Read the rest
Seumas Milne calls Tunisia’s Islamist party “progressive”
Oct 29th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Others are not so naïve.… Read the rest
Ghannouchi vows to protect rights of God, prophet
Oct 29th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Promises “a Tunisia that is free, independent, developing and prosperous in which the rights of God, the Prophet, women, men, the religious and the non-religious are assured.”… Read the rest
Texas Freedom Network on a Board of Ed member
Oct 29th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In discussing the state board’s revision of social studies curriculum standards last year, he smears educators and scholars as “America bashers and America haters.”… Read the rest
Libby Anne on marrying before thinking
Oct 28th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Quiverfull daughters have no chance to grow up or mature. Then they marry. Then what happens?… Read the rest
