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Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

…rs. In 2015, the magazine named newly out trans woman and Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner to its list, prompting backlash from across the ideological spectrum. This year, Glamour apparently decided to avoid that particular brand of controversy—by excluding trans women entirely from the list, but making room for the publication’s very first “Man of the Year.” U2 lead singer Bono takes home the honor, primarily for his work to bring life-saving…

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Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

…there is the promise of Heaven. In Dentistry there is only Hell.” 7.) BOOKLIST’S TOP TEN RELIGION BOOKS FOR YOUTH Booklist, a magazine published by the American Library Association, has posted their top picks in a category that includes a book by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, God’s Dream—and one that sounds particularly good to our inner teenager, by RD contributor Donna Freitas, called The Possibilities of Sainthood. (“Antonia wants to be kissed,” th…

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Federal Court Orders Political “False Statement” Case to Proceed Against Susan B. Anthony List

…ederal funding of abortion, in a proposed billboard ad, was false. The SBA List sought to put a halt to the state proceeding — which would in all likelihood investigate whether SBA List and other allies knew that the final health care law did not, in fact, expand federal funding for abortion — by claiming that the Ohio law chilled its free speech. In an order denying the group’s request for a temporary restraining order, federal district judge Tim…

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Anti-Choice Groups Target Anti-Choice Democrats With Health Care Lies

…eek, the Commission ruled there was probable cause that billboards the SBA List planned to put up in Driehaus’s district violated the law, triggering a full hearing in front of the Commission. After the Commission’s ruling, the SBA List’s president Marjorie Dannenfelser defended her organization on the grounds that that National Right to Life, Americans United for Life, Focus on the Family, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops all…

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Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

…the religion.” England: Retired bishops slam recent church report for not listening to gay Christians BBC reported that 14 retired Church of England bishops have signed an open letter, dated February 10, accusing church leaders of not listening to gay Christians. The letter comes ahead of a debate at the general synod on Wednesday, which includes the issue of gay marriage. The Church published an official report on sexuality last month after thre…

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Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

…reate a whole culture around it, as with the Godzilla cult that grew up in Japan in the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We see something like that today in the activities of radical environmentalists who don’t actually organize for change but prefer to wallow instead in the pornography of planetary decline and death.  A Proposal: Try Working Under the Rainbow Sign For everyone purveying apocalyptic scenarios—for the biblicists as well as for the d…

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Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society

…nxious wait, we fell into small talk, and I mentioned the project I was in Japan to research at that time (tentatively titled “Ghosts and Resurrections: Shifting Boundaries between the Living and the Dead in Modern Japan”). In return, people shared anecdotes with me about various protective talismans and ghostly premonitions. After a number of the patrons had shared such anecdotes, one Japanese man asked me, curiously, if these sorts of things did…

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The Biblical Money Code!

…we find an investment advisor named Sean Hyman pushing “The Biblical Money Code,” which claims that advice “woven” into Scripture has helped him go from earning $15,000 to giving away up to $50,000 a year. Unlike Hovind, Hyman is giving away his system for free. All you have to do is sit through an hour-long video, during which Hyman explains how “to unlock vast amounts of wealth safely and ethically.” Fancy explanations are provided, but it’s act…

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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

…ke 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 Cylons differently depending on what mix of code and law they believe governs their behavior. And of course, those of you who study reli…

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