Apparently Richard Dawkins Is a Jerk and Miscarrying Is a Crime: Editors’ Picks, July 3-July 9
July 9, 2011 by Annie Shields · 4 Comments
World-renowned evolutionary biologist/atheist/smarty-pants Richard Dawkins showed his true colors this week (which, one assumes, are the colors of the official flag of privilege) when he instigated a comment war with feminists after leaving a particularly clueless and vile sarcastic response to a post on activist Rebecca Watson’s blog. The Atlantic Wire has the play-by-play. A [...]
NEWSFLASH: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has NOT been freed.
December 9, 2010 by Kyle Bachan · Leave a Comment
UPDATE: FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 2010. Earlier this morning, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has not been freed and that any reports that were making the rounds in the international media yesterday were false. Iran has also confirmed that Ashtiani has not been released. Speculation of Ashtiani’s release was triggered when photographs [...]
Gays on TV, Women in The Men’s Room and Bad Behavior at Goldman Sachs: Editors’ Picks, 9/12-9/18
September 17, 2010 by Annie Shields · 1 Comment
CNN is the most trusted name in news. So it’s no surprise that they devoted an entire segment to covering the big debate going on in America over whether or not gay characters on TV shows are “bad for society”. Now if only they would address the question of whether or not Jesus votes Republican. [...]
No Separation of Sex and State in Czech Republic
September 3, 2010 by Laura Gottesdiener · 5 Comments
As of last May’s elections, women now hold a record 44 of the 200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament. And if their presence in parliament isn’t enough, the Public Affairs party is now selling a calendar featuring six of its youngest and most beautiful women members posed [...]
