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DragonCon Boycott Over Alleged Child Molester
Last week, a friend sent me the news that one of the founders of DragonCon, the large sci-fi/fantasy convention in Atlanta, GA, was arrested for child molestation. Ed Kramer was first arrested back in 2000 on charges that he sexually abused three teens but he was found to be physically incapable of standing trial. He was placed under house arrest…
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Glee: Baby Got Back. And then got Raped.
Last night, a bunch of never before seen extras on Fox’s show Glee performed an unaccredited cover of Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Sir Mix A Lot’s Baby Got Back. When confronted with the outrage of a million angry geeks on Twitter, Glee was all “yeah, but it’s a cover of a cover. BFD. Besides, EXPOSURE AND SHIT, YO. Coulton should…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: October 28 – November 3 on the Skepchick Network
Look, I know it was Halloween last week. But that’s no excuse to let your skeptical blog-reading slide. Ah, shucks. I can’t stay mad at you. Here’s what you missed last week while you were putting the finishing touches on your Einstein costume. Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 20: Here’s Your Sine After all this time, Mindy is still…
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Feminism
Rape is not an “adaptation”
Ugh. I got an email a week ago from the Michigan Chapter of CFI (Center for Inquiry): Friday, April 8, 2011, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Join members of Evolution for Everyone (“E4E”) to hear a lecture on “Sexual Coercion and Forced In-Pair Copulation as Sperm Competition Tactics in Humans” by Todd Shackelford, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Psychology at…
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Touched by a Stranger
So, I’m going to be flying several times over the next couple of months. And, as I’m sure you’ve heard, the TSA has now implemented a variety of different new screening techniques. From that article: “If a full-body scanning machine shows something strange or a passenger declines to go through the machine… an officer will perform a more personal search. …
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Kitty Genovese: March 13, 1964
Today, 45 years ago, a beautiful young woman was sexually assaulted and stabbed in New York. The assault lasted half an hour, and occurred outside of an apartment building where 38 witnesses either heard or saw the attack and did nothing to stop it. They did nothing. It was not reported at the time, but Kitty was also a lesbian,…
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