Glossary

sCAM - so-called Complementary and Alternative Medicine

(please see The Quack-Files for more on this highly apt acronym).

CE -  Abbreviation for "Common Era," which coincides with the Christian era or AD

BCE - Abbreviation for "Before Common Era" which coincides with BC

CLOOB - Complete Load of Old Bollocks (copyright Tony Youens)

Honor Killing - Familial murder

Female Circumcision - Female genital mutilation

Dog Ma -  bitch

Montel Williams - Unprincipled jerk

Religion - Organized superstition

Spiritual Leader - theocratic dictator (coined, I think by Ophelia Benson)

Weasonableness - There is reasonableness then there is its slimy evasive counterpart, weasonableness. A Fuddism.