Televangelist Pat Robertson says that people on the left pretend to be liberal but they “want death” because they are trying to “kill off old people” and “want to do away with unborn children.” Following a Tuesday CBN report about how the federal government was…
New Ron English Exhibition At Opera Gallery Brings ‘Crucial Fiction’ To New York (PHOTOS)
Ron English broke into the art scene as a student in the 1980s, hi-jacking billboards and replacing them with his own work. His irreverent pop culture mashups combine vandalism, advertising and classical art technique on the jam-packed canvas. The Pop Surrealist has been dubbed the “the father of street art,” and we’re not going to question this status.English’s current exhibition “Crucial Fiction,” now at Opera Gallery in New York, is a collaboration between the established artist and his former self. The gallery asks, “What might happen if a 50-year-old man at the height of his powers as fine artist and painter could finally animate the elaborate visions constructed by his 8-year-old self, that boy who dug holes to China in the backyard while imagining every blade of grass as a green army soldier laid low by the advancing plastic hordes of cowboys, Indians and assorted disposable heroes?” This hopeful premise doesn’t only sound ripe for a great exhibition, but possibly also a Disney movie starring — dare we say it — Bruce Willis.Read More…
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Growing up in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Fatima Qortoum was just 9 years old when she saw the brains of her brother, 7-year-old Ahmed, fall out of his head. He was struck with shrapnel after an Israeli airstrike. That was 2008.Last week, another one of Fatima’s brothers, 6-year-old Mahmoud, was critically injured when an Israeli attack knocked him to the ground, leaving a nearly three-inch-long gash in his torso and damaging his lungs.And so it comes as little surprise that Fatima, now 13, like thousands of other children in the Gaza Strip, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”She was cursing at people, or we would find her in the street or the police would bring her back home,” her father, Osama Mohamed Qortoum, said. “Fatima was old enough to recognize what happened [to her brother]. She was in the house and saw him die from the balcony.”Continue Reading… … Read More
50 reasons to boycott the Catholic Church
Last month in Ireland, Savita Halappanavar died, and she shouldn’t have. Savita was a 31-year-old married woman, four months pregnant, who went to the hospital with a miscarriage in progress that developed into a blood infection. She could easily have been saved if the already doomed fetus was aborted. Instead, her doctors did nothing, explaining that “this is a Catholic country,” and left her to suffer in agony for days, only intervening once it was too late.Savita’s death is just the latest in a long line of tragedies directly attributable to the doctrines and beliefs of the Roman Catholic church. I acknowledge that there are many good, progressive Catholics, but the problem is that the church isn’t a democracy, and those progressives have no voice or vote in its governance. The church is a petrified oligarchy, a dictatorship like the medieval monarchies it once existed alongside, and it’s run by a small circle of conservative, rigidly ideological old men who make all the decisions and choose their own successors.Continue Reading… … Read More
50 reasons to boycott the Church
Last month in Ireland, Savita Halappanavar died, and she shouldn’t have. Savita was a 31-year-old married woman, four months pregnant, who went to the hospital with a miscarriage in progress that developed into a blood infection. She could easily have been saved if the already doomed fetus was aborted. Instead, her doctors did nothing, explaining that “this is a Catholic country,” and left her to suffer in agony for days, only intervening once it was too late.Savita’s death is just the latest in a long line of tragedies directly attributable to the doctrines and beliefs of the Roman Catholic church. I acknowledge that there are many good, progressive Catholics, but the problem is that the church isn’t a democracy, and those progressives have no voice or vote in its governance. The church is a petrified oligarchy, a dictatorship like the medieval monarchies it once existed alongside, and it’s run by a small circle of conservative, rigidly ideological old men who make all the decisions and choose their own successors.Continue Reading… … Read More
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AT&T iPad Hacker’s Real Crime Was Embarrassing the Wrong People
Disclosing a flaw in a widely used system without making someone at least a little angry requires a delicate touch. But Andrew Auernheimer, a.k.a. ?Weev,? a 26-year-old finder of security vulnerabilities, is anything but delicate. Because computer science has yet … … Read More
