What’s Killing European Women?
Cancer? AIDS? Traffic accidents? Heart disease? Take a guess. Answer below the fold.
...read moreBecause You’re Not Sick Enough of Hearing About Those Cartoons
Well, looky. Seems the whole situation with the Danish cartoons isn’t as simple as it appears. Salon has an interesting piece from Jytte Klausen, a Dane, on the whole debacle.
...read moreHow To Top A Mohammed Cartoon
Run a Holocaust cartoon. Way to take a stand for your dearly-held national free speech values, Iran! We knew you had it in ya.* I’m sure that the right-wing blogosphere will immediately denounce anyone who questions the good taste of these cartoons as an anti-free-speech advocate. And to further their love of free speech, I’m [...]
...read moreTranslating Arabic Into Injustice
Take this scenario: NYU grad student works as a translator. He is hired by a local attorney, and translates numerous conversations between her and her client. While doing so, he does research for his graduate dissertation. She breaks a court order, and releases a statement from her client to the public; the translator was never [...]
...read moreUK Stands Up For Women’s Lives
Maybe I’ll move to London. The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding. Nearly 70,000 women and girls died last year because they went to back-street abortionists. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered [...]
...read moreMore on religion, free speech, and those cartoons
I touched on this issue a few days ago, focusing mostly on the stupidity of criticizing Muslims’ boycott of Danish products as an assault on free speech. But given the fact that this situation is much broader than just that, I should probably clarify what I actually think. 1. Running the cartoon was racist, bigoted, [...]
...read moreDemocracy Is Great, Until We Don’t Get What We Want
Here’s the problem with democratic elections in the Middle East: The most America-friendly, liberal, secular-minded politician isn’t always going to get elected. So we can support free elections, even if we recognize that we will sometimes be troubled by their outcomes, or we can install dictators and prop up corrupt but America-lovin’ regimes. What do [...]
...read more“America is addicted to oil”
Put this one in the “No shit, Sherlock” file. Bush tells the country during his SOTU that we need to cut dependence on foreign oil. Well, Middle Eastern oil, anyway:
...read moreHamas Continues Its Hard Line
Well this will ruin your morning. The exiled political head of the radical Islamic group Hamas said Saturday in Damascus that the group would adopt “a very realistic approach” toward governing the Palestinian Authority and would work with the Fatah president, Mahmoud Abbas, on an acceptable political program. But the leader, Khaled Meshal, also said [...]
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