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An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.
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Castaway cast and the ethics of reality tv
A few years ago I knew a psychologist who worked a little with Ming-The-Merciless lookalike Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo at the time was expressing an interest in reality tv shows and my psychologist acquaintance became an advisor on at least one of them. Psychologists seemed disappointed that ethics committees had largely put paid to the possibility of such spectacular investigations as the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo himself) and the Milgram Experiment. On the other hand, there were no ethics committees judging reality tv show propositions. Taking a look, though, at the BBC’s cast of characters in the new version of Castaway, one does wonder about the advisibility of using such peculiar people for entertainment’s sake. Here they are:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Birth of Ghana, from London Is The Place For Me, a very fine album
- Arses on Flickr:
I read a lot of theory. There are many photographers I admire.
Currently, and always, Larry Clark for “Tulsa”.
Because light and dark co-exist, and the only way to truly know your own mind is to blow your own brains out.
Its only then that you earn the right to take the photo, that you’re entitled to comment…..Got nothing to say? Best keep your mouth shut.
Film speed ISO 800, I love youThe ever-so-precious bsick
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I left the world of faith, of genital cutting and forced marriage for the world of reason and sexual emancipation. After making this voyage I know that one of these two worlds is simply better than the other. Not for its gaudy gadgetry, but for its fundamental values
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, quoted by Hitch
- Xeni Jardin, rape is funny if you’re male, or Republican, or not her
Augean Stables
Tony Blair’s aide Ruth Turner expressed concern that Lord Levy had put to her a version of events over cash-for-honours which she believed to be untrue.
Chris Lightfoot
Chris Lightfoot is dead. Chris put his imagination and tech skills to a such good purpose in a range of projects, often in cahoots with the MySociety crowd.
Cherokees
- The BBC is featuring atheism as a religion:
BBC, Featured Religions. If atheism is a religion then not collecting stamps is a hobby
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Members of the Cherokee Nation of native Americans have voted to revoke tribal citizenship for descendants of black slaves the Cherokees once owned.
A total of 76.6% voted to amend the tribal constitution to limit citizenship to “blood” tribe members.
Members can obtain government benefits and tribal services including housing and medical support.
Slaves were held by a number of native American tribes and were freed after the Civil War in 1866.
Jews in Nice
Jews in Nice who want to buy an apartment have to pay an added fee of €900-€7,000 to skirt an outdated Vichy government law still on the books … The Nice Municipality confirmed that the law still exists…The law states that for someone to own a building, they have to make the following declaration: “[They] are French citizens”, “[They] are not Jews” and “[They] are not the spouse of a Jew
Jerusalem Post, Vichy-era law still forces Jews to pay extra for property
Thoughtcrime
A Cambridge College’s student newspaper has caused a bit of fuss recently. One of the troubling suggestions to emerge is that publishing the statement, ‘I hate Islam‘ might be a criminal offence in the UK…