Rich Goulding

WATCH: Beirut, Lebanon following the massive Israeli attack.

Wrong. This woman killed New Atheism. If you're not familiar with Rebecca Watson, she's a tenth-tier atheist blogger who kicked up a stink back in 2011 when she went to an atheist conference in Dublin and some dude hit on her in the elevator. She ranted endlessly about how "creepy" he was and how "unsafe" being asked out on a date made her feel and the incident was dubbed "Elevatorgate." Richard Dawkins waded into the fracas and suggested that being hit on in an elevator wasn't the end of the world. He asked you out, Becky, you weren't interested, end of. This caused everyone to FREAK OUT at Dawkins' "misogyny" and about the supposed problem with "misogyny" in atheism in general, leading large numbers of prominent atheists such as PZ Myers and Jen McCreight to split off into Atheism Plus. Atheism Plus was atheism with a rape whistle, its adherents more focused on fighting da patriarchy then with stuff that...actually has to do with atheism. That's why atheism collapsed in on itself as a sociopolitical force. The left, per usual, ate themselves alive.

First trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series. Releasing this Christmas on HBO.

A lot of the problems in the world right now can be explained by this video. For one thing, it’s a big reason why the US government is so unaccountable to public opinion. These are *college students.* A significant amount of the country is totally checked out and comfortable enough not to think it matters.

The ease with which Gulf countries and cities are described as fake, temporary, transient, devoid of civilization and history, or “built on sand” is remarkable. I do not think there is any other region in the world where you could find respectable outlets willing to publish this many pieces describing them in such terms. I am not entirely surr, but I suspect that the Saudi novelist Abdulrahman Munif, through his Cities of Salt, played a key role in establishing this trope about the Gulf. The problem with this framework is not only that it is exceptionalist, orientalist, and civilizational, but also that it contradicts empirical reality and distorts attention away from the real, tangible trends shaping the Gulf today.

Always fascinated how people in the middle ages for hundreds of years just lived amongst the ever decrepitating Roman ruins. It was just a part of daily life for them.

just remembered this. the most cringe artifact of peak woke? certainly up there