Mentioning old friend Jeffrey Dahmer is a sure way to get out of jury duty [via The Cleveland Plain Dealer] Cleveland resident John Backderf knows a great way to get out of jury duty, but it probably won’t work for most people: tell the judge you were close personal friends with Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer, who [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Islam’
Morning Briefing: 9 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Big Bang, Islam, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jury Duty, Large Hadron Collider, Oklahoma, Sharia on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Psychology of the Juan Williams Controversy
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, tagged Fox News, Islam, Juan Williams, NPR, Psychology on October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week NPR news analyst Juan Williams was fired for remarks he made on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor” regarding Muslims. Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality. I mean look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement [...]
Morning Briefing: 17 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Cartoons, Islam, Jaws, Kiss Cam, Sharks on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gays and lesbians want kiss cam parity [via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch] Members of Pride St. Louis, an LGBT rights group, are requesting that the St. Louis Cardinals include gay couples in “kiss cam” shots, in which a live feed of actual audience members is displayed on a jumbotron and prompted to kiss. The move [...]
The French Burqa Ban and America
Posted in Law, Politics, tagged Burqas, Constitutionality, France, Islam on September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
France’s senate yesterday approved by 246-1 (with 100 abstentions) a ban on burqas, a traditional Muslim garment for women that completely obscures the face. The ban comes with some severe penalties: women caught wearing burqas or other obscuring veils in public face a €150 fine and a “citizenship course”; men who force women to wear [...]
Morning Briefing: 15 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Chimpanzees, Doctorates, France, Islam on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Report: More women than men in U.S. earned doctorates last year for first time [via The Washington Post] Women have been increasingly present in academia, but just recently they passed a new benchmark: for the first time ever, more women that men earned doctorates last year, the Council of Graduate Schools reported. In 2008-09, 28,962 [...]
Opposition to Islam and the Paradox of ‘Hallowed Ground’
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged Hallowed Ground, Islam, Park51 on September 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Much of the debate over New York’s Part51 project seems to have taken place outside of New York, where it has become a mainstay campaign issue in races across the country. However, a New York Times poll out today shows that a majority of New Yorkers, 67 percent, believe the Islamic center — which has [...]
Morning Briefing: 3 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Austria, Biology, Exercise, Islam, The Great Gatsby, Vodka on September 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pharmaceutical Drugs Can Be Used to Alter Activity Levels in Humans [via Science Daily] UC-Riverside biologists have discovered that voluntary activities such as exercise are genetic traits inheritable through generations. The researchers used selective breeding on mice to create high-running generations, and their findings have important implications for humans. “Down the road people could be [...]
Morning Briefing: 31 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Art, Islam, Jersey Shore, Oxford English Dictionary on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ could go off air over lawsuit claiming assault, racketeering [via New York Daily News] Say it ain’t so! A woman is suing MTV’s popular reality program “Jersey Shore” after an incident last summer in which the casts’ body guards allegedly threw her to the ground after an argument. That’s the assault; the [...]
Morning Briefing: 27 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Chick Lit, Deep Fried, Islam, Tigers on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jihadi Forums Silent on Cordoba Controversy [via the Atlantic] Acquaintance of the blog Max Fisher, writing in the Atlantic, points out that the Cordoba House debate, which is gripping U.S. and Arab media outlets, has garnered almost no attention on jihadi message boards, an essential communication tool for terrorists. Although the current upset could be [...]
Morning Briefing: 26 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Islam, Russia, Stem Cells, Vladimir Putin, Washington Post on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Man is charged with a hate crime after stabbing a Muslim New York City cab driver [via the Examiner] A man allegedly attacked a cab driver in Manhattan Tuesday night after the cab driver identified himself as Muslim. According to police reports, the man, 21-year-old film student Michael Enright told the cabbie to “consider this [...]
