Lying to make religion look good: The addiction of ThinkProgress and The New...
Lots of curious things happen every time Islamist terrorists decide to murder a bunch of innocent people. Academics and comedians rush to say we have bigger things to worry about. People are asked to...
View ArticleExploiting Sexual Assault
On New Years Eve a number of women in Cologne reported being sexually assaulted. A number of reports claimed that many of the assailants were immigrants or not German nationals, a claim that at this...
View ArticleCuddles after Curfew
Meghan Murphy has been a subject of this blog for quite some time. Murphy is a committed radical feminist -- whether or not Murphy uses the term or not (it may be problematic this week) it does...
View ArticleThe Title IX toolkit for high school
For those worried that Title IX might be too effective at colleges, Title IX advocates have now published a helpful guide for high school students:It doesn’t just happen in college. Check out our brand...
View ArticleThe Belgian Apartheid
A BBC article has asked, "Has Belgium created 'a system of apartheid'?:They discussed why so many Belgian youngsters go to fight in Syria - a higher proportion, relative to the population, than from...
View ArticleThe Three Horsebros: A Defense of Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris
One of the upsides of arguing with strangers on Twitter is one is occasionally invited to challenge articles.In a post titled "Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins just don’t get it: The real reason(s)...
View ArticleRebecca's Richard Rage
A wonderfully funny thing has happened in the world of secular/skeptic drama - Richard Dawkins' foundation has been merged into the Center for Inquiry.This event gave Rebecca Watson a reason to point...
View ArticleDisgraceful Exploitation and Lies
PZ Myers thinks people are out to get him again.In a post titled "Disgraceful exploitation", PZ Myers writes:A woman says she was raped by Neil deGrasse Tyson in grad school. She contacted me and asked...
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Fact Checking Sally Kohn
One cannot be faulted for not knowing who Sally Kohn is. For those that need an update, Sally Kohn is basically an off-brand Rachel Maddow. Kohn makes up for her lack of charm by being edgy and...
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Fixing the New York Times' stupid chart
For quite some time the New York Times has been a fan of a specific visualization that it hopes explain the threat Islamists pose to Americans.The visual:The big absurdity in this is that the...
View ArticleLiterally Every Muslim Country
In an impassioned takedown of Sally Kohn's rhetoric, the following statement was made in a previous post:"Literally every muslim country on the planet is embroiled in conflict, and the problem is so...
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The Toddler Taliban: Silly Comparisons from Zak Cheney-Rice and Linda Sarsour
Recently, Linda Sarsour shared a seemingly illuminating article written by Zak Cheney Rice:The article is amazingly and shamelessly titled, "In 2016, Toddlers Have Shot More People in the US Than...
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Where was the white dude radicalized? Absurdity from Al Jazeera and CAIR
Oftentimes apologia in favor of Islam tends to distance Islamist radicals from Islam - that is, the radicals are not following a "true" Islam. The violence inspired by a distorted view of religion that...
View ArticleMehdi Hasan's Multiculturalism
Mehdi Hasan is by many measures a great journalist working at Al Jazeera - or at least a decent interviewer, as witnessed in the pinned tweet of his interview with a Saudi ambassador. It's challenging,...
View ArticleThe Latest in Penis Science
NYTimes has run a piece in its health blog, titled : "Should You Circumcise Your Baby Boy?" and oft subtitled as "Why Science Can’t Help You Much in Deciding on Circumcision"It's the usual mix of...
View ArticleTell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Activist Lies
There's a problem with a number of sources of "journalism" today, and it isn't the usual suspects in the right wing politicized echochamber that seems to desire nothing but the election of their...
View ArticleSix Months of "Islamophobia" at Huffington Post
Now August, it's a good time to check in how Huffington Post's running tally of "Islamophobia" in 2016 is going.If we split the year up January to June, let's go over how it went, and then continue...
View ArticleIslam's Fake Feminism
Occasionally there is a defense of an "Islamic" version of feminism in which a brave soul tries valiantly to defend against "Islamophobic" sentiments shared in the "biased" media. It's a laugh.The...
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Why Van Jones is an asshole
Here is something tweeted by Van Jones earlier this year:why is @VanJones68 tweeting #fakenews? #TheMessyTruth#LoveArmypic.twitter.com/5CwTi9cvri— uberfeminist (@uberfeminist) December 7, 2016 There is...
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Why Nobody Trusts Muslims
In the past weeks after the new President's (sigh) changes or attempted changes to immigration policy, there have been quite a few takes on what this means for security. Perhaps this is due to the fact...
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