JAKARTA, Indonesia June 19, 2011, 08:12 am ET AP from NPR A new club in Indonesia that encourages women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied has generated an outcry from some activists. The Indonesian branch of the Obedient Wives Club, launched early [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Americanism’
April 4th, 2016 - 10:25 am § in The Ave Scene
A Bernie Supporter goes shrill
POSTED TO UW LISTSERV in response to my comments about Bernie and science. Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. Professor, UW American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Program on the Environment Stephen and colleagues: Why post dated misinformation from the Clinton campaign disguised as a neutral observer’[...]
March 12th, 2016 - 1:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Right Wing Lies: Did Hitler Confiscate Guns?
NOPE: He actually liberalized them for all bit the Jews! from SLATE: University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Why Bertrand Russell was wrong about atheism
I wish folks like Bertrand Russell would stop blaming all religion for the bad things about Christianity and Islam. Religions are a lot more divers than Americans seem to understand and, I suspect, no better and no worse than any of the other aspects of organized human behavior. What is bad is evang[...]
January 31st, 2016 - 3:38 am § in Jews
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Debating Foreskins
When his pregnant wife first challenged circumcising their son, Mike Wallach had a gut reaction: “That’s what we do, we’re Jews!” But doubts about whether the surgery was medically necessary and concern over his wife’s opposition forced Wa[...]
Athletes giving money
Does anyone else notice the large amounts of money that Black athletes are donating to their alma maters? New York Mets outfielder, Curtis Granderson donated $5 million to the University of Illinois-Chicago , Draymond Green, combo forward for the Golden State Warriors gave Michigan State University [...]
Anthony Washington: I thought Metro Drivers treated me horribly because I was Black.
A white man, with long dirty blonde hair, unshaved, and rocking a fresh shiner on his left eye, was stopped on a metro bus, route 11, headed towards downtown Seattle via Madison avenue, around 7 o’ clock, on a Saturday evening. He was stopped by a middle aged, African American Female Metro bus dri[...]
More than just football players
The NCAA must do more to help prepare current and former student athletes for life after sports. A start would be allowing kids to actually major in subjects they are interested in. In 2002, I received an athletic scholarship, for basketball, from the University of Washington. I attended the schoo[...]