Imam Shahid Mehdi"interpreter of Islamic law, respected Muslim scholar, and former lingerie salesman"is a Denmark-based mufti who managed to outrage both the left-wing Unity List Party and the right-wing Danish People's Party in his host country by stating in a televised interview that ...
When a fashion magazine recently sponsored former NBA star Dennis Rodman's visit to North Korea there were howls of outrage about the morally dubious spectacle of Rodman boasting in a series of Tweets about the "epic feast" and bacchanalian orgy of drunkenness that he and his entourage ...
The Twittersphere got itself into a lather this week after the venerable American parody newspaper The Onion ran an unusually nasty Tweet mocking the Oscars:Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quevenzhané Wallis is kind of a cunt, right? The Internet"never a place that’s ...
A recent study from the University of Michigan finds that the ever-popular youth expression "that's so gay" is actually harmful to gay, lesbian, and bisexual students. According to CBS News: Data suggests gay, lesbian and bisexual college students who heard "that's so gay" more ...
Here are my experiences with airport security at various spots around the world during the past several years. CHICAGO It is a hot day in early September, and I"m standing at O"Hare in a line of approximately one hundred tired and exhausted passengers after a nine-hour flight from Europe. ...
Does being an early childhood educator turn you into a meddlesome nitwit, or are meddlesome nitwits instinctively drawn to careers in early childhood education? It's a tough call. One recent example of the WE KNOW WHAT's BEST FOR YOUR CHILDREN brigade overexerting itself involves a report on UK ...
In late January of this year, an event occurred which may have dramatic implications for our conception of human dignity, our understanding of the individual's place in society, and perhaps even for the eternal dream of achieving the brotherhood of man on Earth. Or to phrase it less portentously: ...
It is sometimes said that death comes in threes, and the weekend before Christmas 2011 saw a striking trio of public figures meet their ends. Either due to a strange cosmic alignment or our creator’s bravado display of quirky humor, the past weekend’s three deaths present a baffling mix of ...
As the world struggles to make sense of Anders Breivik’s ugly, senseless slaughter and largely incoherent online manifesto, you might have thought that the Islamist fringe would have enjoyed having the heat taken off them while the world’s attention shifted to extreme Christian-based ...
Hitler is all over the news again. These past few months, you can’t throw a rock without it careening off the head of a public figure who put his/her foot in it by saying something about Der Führer—often something surprisingly complimentary, which only increases the Ick Factor for much of the ...
