Pray away

Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle

By , Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant…  [more]

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Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley

Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903)

Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three.…  [more]

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Organising panda fights

Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim

By Mark Steel, Wednesday 09 July 2008 The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of…  [more]

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Much is at stake

The streets of 2012

By Naomi Wolf, 03 Jan 2012 14:59 New York, NY – What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began…  [more]

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Its own time and place

What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean?

By , 01/ 2/12 01:25 AM ET This is the first installment of a three-part series. We’ve survived Harold Camping. We survived Y2K, albeit with less distress than our…  [more]

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Death via live broadcast

On third anniversary of Gaza war, we will remember

By Amira Hass, 03:53 02.01.12 On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father,…  [more]

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…RESIST. …CREATE.

Monsieur d’Nalgar’s note: The title of this post is taken from the last line of Stéphane Hessel’s Indignez vous! TO CREATE IS TO RESIST; TO RESIST IS TO CREATE.

The little red book that swept France

By John Lichfield, Monday…  [more]

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