The French government announced on Friday that, from now on, public prayer would be illegal. The move, which comes on the heels of legislation prohibiting French students from wearing headscarves and French women from wearing the face-covering niqab in public, is said to be in response to the fact that French Muslims, unable to find […]
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France and the perceived failure of multiculturalism
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics | Also tagged A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population, assimilation, France, honor killings, laïcité, Marine Le Pen, Marseille, McGuillicuddy, MetaFilter, mosques, multiculturalism, Muslim, National Front, Nazi analogies, Nazi occupation, Nicolas Sarkozy, niqab, Paris, prayer, public prayer, public streets, secularism, separation of church and state, UMP | 33 Comments
The assault against collective bargaining
Metafilter has a good thread this evening on the current assault against collective bargaining in America, which is being led by state governments beset by debt. Here’s the post that kicked off the conversation. I’d encourage you, though, to check out the original, posted by a fellow calling himself Saul Goodman, which is chock full […]
Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Ann Coulter, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, collective bargaining, deregulation, deregulation porn, John Galt, journalism, labor history, labor negotiations, MetaFilter, National Guard, open for business, public employee unions, regulation, Saul Goodman, Scott Walker, state employees, Steev Taylor, tea party, threats to journalists, union busting, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin is open for business | 17 Comments
The brilliant tilt-shift video work of Keith Loutit
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. There’s tons of stuff that I should probably be writing about tonight, but it’s feeling more like a Lay My Ass Down in Front of the TV Night. So, here, because I don’t want to leave you with nothing to think about, is an absolutely beautiful piece of […]
Posted in Art and Culture, OCD | Also tagged camera tricks, insanely beautiful, Keith Loutit, photography, tilt-shift, video | 10 Comments