Finals are coming up, so it's time for another link roundup rather than detailed posts.
Conservatives Scared By Sex
- Jennifer Kabbany is outraged that college newspapers are publishing columns about sex. So outraged that she gathered a nice collection of excerpts for us to read.
- Oliver Darcy is concerned about Harvard recognizing a Munch club, which is a group of students that gathers to talk about BDSM. The horror.
- Jennifer Kabbany (yep, again!) conducted an "extensive" "scientific" survey of religion classes at some (non-randomly selected) colleges. Her conclusion? Universities hate Jesus. The tone of the entire piece can be gleaned from the following bold claim: "Jesus Christ is – without question – the most influential figure to ever walk the Earth."
- Judge Mike Norman of Oklahoma told a defendant that he had to go to church as a part of his probation. How did someone who clearly as never read the US Constitution become a judge?
- Atheist groups have been fighting the endorsement of religion provided by nativity and other scenes on public property by demanding the right to put up their own secularist displays also. Good on them.
- "Jerry Haber" mocks several arguments that are leveled against critics of Israel, by reframing them as attacking anti-Communists. An example: "The morality of communism could be debated beforethe October Revolution, but once the Soviet Union has been established, and thepeople have made their choice, the subject is closed."
- For those who missed it, Israel's response to the increased international recognition of Palestine was to approve more illegal settlements. That sounds approximately like the response of a child throwing a temper tantrum after things don't go his way. The Benjamin Netanyahu government, everyone.
- "S", a public defender who writes "Preaching to the Choir" bemoans the fact that state governments have committed 41 premeditated homicides against their citizens this year. Oh wait, make that 42.
- At least one of those 42 may well have been innocent. There's evidence that the police lied to the jury about a statement by the victim. The state refused to test the DNA in the case. Because, you know, testing the DNA might actually give us an idea about what happened. But nothing, not even the truth, can stand in the way of the Texas death machine. If you have any doubt that Texas victimized even more people with this execution, here's what Texas's victim's mother said after her son died of lethal injection:
"Oh God, why? I haven't touched my child in 23 years."
- Fordham University caved to pressure to keep Ann Coulter off the campus. Coulter is a ridiculous human being, but those who pressured the university to exclude her, as well as the administration, should be ashamed.
- Egypt has sentenced several people involved in "The Innocence of Muslims" to death. This is troubling news for a country that seemed to be moving in the direction of democracy, and of course a horrendous human rights violation in its own right.
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