According to an article in tomorrow’s New York Times, documents that the United States and British governments under the Bush, Blair, Obama and Brown administrations have gone to court to prevent from being released support the allegations of Binyam Mohamed, who has been held for seven years i...

Yesterday I tested Catholic priest and radio personality John Corapi’s prediction that… If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the United States, we shall run the course of all those that prove by their actions that they are enemies of God—total collapse, economic, social, ...

Over the past six months the interest groups taking sides in the Israeli-Gaza conflict have ratcheted up their dueling e-mail campaigns. Irregular Times now gets at least five e-mail blasts a day from groups asking us to do something or other like “Make This a Weekend for Gaza” and at le...

At the beginning of the fighting, Rowan wrote of the equal stupidity of the Israelis and Palestinians in the current conflict between the two parties. He’s got a good point - both Israel and Hamas have proven a boggling ability to repeat bloody mistakes over and over. However, the damage in th...

When some Muslims in some nations staged riots during the 2005-2006 debacle surrounding the publication of images of Mohammed, right-wing politicians used the riots to decry the emergence of “islamofascism” in widely cut-and-pasted opinion pieces around the internet and in print newspape...

Yesterday, the parliament in Norway fully legalized same-sex marriage. If we are to believe the likes of fundamentalist Christian leaders John Hagee and Pat Robertson, God sends weather in judgment of peoples and nations, particularly in judgment of their marital and sexual practices. Yesterday in N...

I’m sorry. I couldn’t resist. Note to porn hunters: I’m talking about birds, and not the Benny Hill kind of “birds”. The bird is actually named the great tit, and it’s common in England, where a new study gives some reassurance that some animals with short generat...

Eternally Cool relates an event last fall in Rome in which Graziano Cecchini poured thousands of brightly colored balls down the Spanish Steps and into a square below. The intent was at least nominally one of protest, although I don’t get how bouncing colored balls “documents through art...

I’ve written before about the serious threats to shark survival. 810,000 tons of sharks are pulled out of the Earth’s oceans every year. About 73 million of those sharks are killed just for their fins, to satisfy the taste for shark fin soup and other shark fin products, mostly in Asia. ...

In Southwestern India, the Virgin Mary was doing her standard miracle routine, with honey and scented oils dripping all over statues of her owned by an innkeeper. People came. People worshipped the sacred oozings. Then things got ugly. The Virgin Mary started burning the eyeballs of her worshippers....