The Wonderful World of Magical Thinking XIII

The week in fundie:

• Jim Crow in Jerusalem: on Israel's "modesty buses"--public buses which service Orthodox Jewish neigbourhoods--men sit up the front while women passengers are forced to sit in the back. (via Pharyngula)
• Rosa Parks in Jerusalem: a woman who dared to challenge the bus policy last November was beaten up by the local Israeli chapter of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. (via Pharyngula)
• Utah Republican: "Immigration is a Satanic plot!" (Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
• Illinois student arrested for handing in a "violent" writing assignment to his teacher. (Just like Cho Seng-Hui!!!) He's Asian. (Just like Cho Seng-Hui!!!) (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
• Another own-goal for the Right in the debate over the VT shootings: Judith Reisman blames the massacre on the killer's "erototoxins." (Erototoxins, as Ed Brayton explains, "are hypothetical chemicals released in the brain when one views dirty pictures that, Reisman claims, actually 'change the structure' of the brain. They're the biochemical equivalent of Mr. Snuffleupogus on Sesame Street; only Judith Reisman can see them.") (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
• Dutch creationist "re"-builds Noah's Ark. (via Pharyngula)
• Arkansas man sues public library after he claims his sons saw a book about lesbian sex there. (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)