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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…e choice to violate the law and face the consequences. You can program the car so that it can not exceed the speed limit and you take away that free will, except for those who have the capacity to hack the code and reprogram the car. We normally think of robots as almost pure code, yet the scene last week when Graystone orders the Zoebot to rip off her arm raises some interesting stakes in this. It seems to me that people may be treating the Cylon…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…onal wealth, and not commodities of one’s ongoing business. For example, a car salesperson that deals in thousands of car sales annually might have no less than 100 cars at any one time, but that is not taxed. They say the rationale here is that Islam encourages investment. It is also about avoiding hoarding. Sorry, Mr. McDuck, you’d have to pay hefty just because you like to sit on your gold. The Qur’an describes those who receive this amount: th…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…e (Rushdie is opposed to it, naturally). If you can be at the edge of your car seat, I was. And it wasn’t the first time. Host of KQED’s Forum, Krasny is, as Dave Eggers once put it, “the alpha brain and conscience of the Bay Area.” I was so eager to get the chance to talk to him about his honest and searching new memoir, Spiritual Envy, that I forgot to be nervous about interviewing one of the great interviewers on radio today. We talked about hi…

Is Sex Outside Marriage Dehumanizing? The Problem with Tim Keller’s ‘Biblical’ Sex Ethic

By Chrissy Stroop

…marriage to driving a car without changing the oil, which will “ruin” the car, because that’s definitely not objectifying and this is clearly how sex works. One of these things is not like the others. After that, Keller adopted a ‘kids these days’ flex, decrying what he sees as an “individualistic, therapeutic understanding of the self,” from which he pivoted to quibbling over definitions again, now with more dismissal of his critics’ supposed em…

Furious, Shaking, and Nauseated

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…citizenship status, and then demanded to know why I, a US citizen, was not carrying my passport. We were forced to open the U-Haul, the officer ostensibly suspecting that we had thirty Guatemalans stashed in the back. When we were finally released I sat in the car furious, shaking, and nauseated. It did not matter that I was a US citizen in that moment or that I had a Ph.D.; all that mattered was that my husband was Guatemalan. I cannot even imagi…

How Obama Made Gun Control A Religious Freedom Issue

By Sarah Posner

…Obama said, and “that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina. And that was denied Jews in Kansas City. And that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights, too.” Hearing that list, again, of people targeted because of their faith, or targeted in a religious setting, was stunning and sobering, all over again, even if you remembered, in the back of your mind, that gruesome map of gun-related dea…

Could Fred Phelps Bring Tolerance To Mississippi Community?

By Lauri Lebo

…a dark road and egg the hell out of that truck. Later, we found him at the car wash. Alone. He had no friends. Not realizing we were the guilty ones, he tearfully recounted the egging incident. As I pretended to be sympathetic, I was forced to see how an outsider would look at me at this moment. As a bully. I can’t tell you how ashamed I felt later that night. It was supposed to be funny, right? But at the car wash, I saw the consequences of my ac…

Should I Scream and Shout, Should I Speak of Love?: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 2

By Mark Dery

…motion a face could ever squeeze itself into. And they squeezed him into a car that was battered, and clawed at. And that car squeezed its way to safety. And Mr. Bowie was back in England. And on Platform One, in a dirty wet huddle, lay two plumpish girlies, crying, and holding each other, and just crying. Everyone had gone, except them. Their tights all ripped, their knickers showing. And they just lay there crying. —Roy Hollingworth, “Cha…cha…ch…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…rivilege for granted. Daschle said Monday that he just didn’t see that the car and driver he enjoyed might represent taxable income, rather than “a gift from a good friend.” Hello? And did Obama seriously think that because Daschle wasn’t registered as a lobbyist, he wasn’t effectively lobbying for the private-sector clients that dumped $5 million on him to advance their interests? What is “strategic advice,” after all? I guess it finally dawned o…

Egyptians vs. The Police

By H.A. Hellyer

…to our neighborhood. Foolishly, I did not take his national identification card and his car registration — I just asked him to open the trunk of his car. He opened it with pleasure, and was about to drive off, when Muhammad, one of my neighbors, recognized him. “Oh, hello. Wait a minute — aren’t you the police officer we saw here yesterday?” Bashfully, he replied, “Um, yes.” Muhammad responded, with all the righteousness evident in his voice, “So,…