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True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular

By Joseph Laycock

…ru Blood went up in some cities and vending machines were even modified to sell the mysterious substance (strangely, the machines were always sold out.) There are even sightings (or rumors of sightings) of Tru Blood delivery trucks. With the success of the first season, HBO has ratcheted up the viral marketing. BloodCopy, a blog created last summer, has been expanded. The blog now features ads by real companies promoting fictional products. Much l…

Bishop John Shelby Spong Declares Victory: Is it Premature?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…llect her Social Security, and inheritance taxes will probably force me to sell our house and other property just to pay the government when she’s gone. Yes, I do believe these things will be rectified in time, but I often wonder if it will be in my lifetime. I wish I could be as confident as Spong. I do, however, agree that the gay and lesbian community should stop wasting its time debating those who say we’re sick or sinful. Much biblical schola…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…Saturday fixed-gear bikes, the preferred mode of transportation, easily outnumber cars. South of the bridge, however, Bedford passes through Williamsburg’s bustling, Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidic community, largely descended from Eastern European Holocaust survivors. The men wear long, black jackets and big, black hats—even bigger ones on the Sabbath. Married women cover their heads with wigs. Children, sidecurls running down their faces, pour o…

Judging Pat Robertson’s Influence

By Sarah Posner

…all? Judging a public figure’s influence is a tricky business. Sure, best-selling books, sell-out crowds and the like tell you something. You could look at the 700 Club’s Nielsen ratings, or do a public opinion survey on someone’s favorability ratings, or ask other other evangelicals to name their most “influential” brethren. Or you could perform the Washington journalist’s task of eliciting gossip (“asshole” is how one conservative operative onc…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…f treating “Muhammad as punk rocker?” BU: What an ignorant question. Anglophone world? Punk is ten times bigger in Kuala Lampur than it ever will be in the UK, France, or Germany. Or America. No, the reason for forming the Dead Bhuttos, and the rush to put a single online was to show, at least cosmetically, that Pakistan was as capable of putting out punk rock as Turkey, Malaysia, Japan, and Lebanon. The USA is good to sell obscure Malaysian and…

Don’t Feed the Trolls

By Daniel Schultz

…r reason than to hurt people. The rest of them do it to raise money and/or sell books. The remarkable thing about all of this is not that they do it, since it works. It’s that they keep throwing the chum in the water, and we keep snapping it up. Which makes them, yes, master baiters. The rest of us are just chumps. Don’t take the bait, please. Ignore Glenn Beck and don’t buy crappy products from his crappy sponsors. Eventually he’ll change his tun…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…not mean that the bishops should hush up criminal activity, will be tough sells in US courts of law. Institutional Catholicism in this country has never been so fragile. In many European countries, most notably Ireland, the long run of Catholicism as a cultural given is coming to an end. The Roman Catholic Church of Germany is on the skids. Revelations of abuses in Catholic institutions are coming thick and fast. Ironically, one of the actors who…

How A Cat Saved My Life

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…night was because I bought all the lies Mohler and his cohorts continue to sell. I bought the lie that I was a sinner who deserved death—why else would I want to die? I bought the lie that I was the one who was messed up while the rest of the world—that mean, bullying, hateful world—was normal. I bought the lie that God could not love me unless I changed and became one of those mean, bullying, hateful “normal” bigots. I did what most gay kids who…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…k purchaser of textbooks in the country. But how far publishers will go to sell books in such a lucrative market is a matter of debate. Some writers have argued that the board has gone too far, and no reputable publishing house will present history in the context that the new standards demand. But in an interview this week, McLeroy indicated that the battle over textbooks is only one part of the conservative agenda. The ‘Supplementary’ Strategy M…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…the claim that in March of 1975 the “Israeli defense officials offered to sell South Africa some of the nuclear-capable Jericho missiles in its arsenal.” That specific deal never went through, but it “was only the beginning of Israeli-South African Cooperation on nuclear missile technology…” When Polakow-Suransky published an article on this subject in The Guardian, the Israeli government heatedly denied the allegations. In the light of the shar…