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Mikey Weinstein’s Battle Against Christian Supremacism In The U.S. Military
July 18, 2010 – 1:49 pmTruth Out has a long, must-read profile of Mikey Weinstein, a Jewish veteran who runs the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. After a disturbing account of the blatant anti-semitic harassment both he and his son experienced, the article discusses some of the details of the nature of the military’s Christian fundamentalism and how it came to [...]
The Steady Disappearance Of Tenure
July 6, 2010 – 12:00 pmA dispiriting report: Over just three decades, the proportion of college instructors who are tenured or on the tenure track plummeted: from 57 percent in 1975 to 31 percent in 2007. The new report is expected to show that that proportion fell even further in 2009, dropping below one-third. If you add graduate teaching assistants [...]
Two American Heroes Weigh In On Gay Marriage
July 4, 2010 – 9:38 amRepost from October 24, 2009. This World War II veteran is extremely inspiring: (via the ever-increasingly-awesome blog, SendaiAnonymous) Of course, he’s not the only hero with an opinion on this topic, so it is important to re-air her side too (which we’ve previously featured in full-length presentation): There you have it, two courageous American heroes [...]
Fraud And Schadenfreude: The You’re Not Helping Archives And Post-Mortems
June 29, 2010 – 9:28 pmQuiche Moraine has a humorous poem up telling the tragedy of the You’re Not Helping blog and then a nice piece on Sock Puppets and a link to the archive where you can now relive the entire saga, up to the last post in which the big confession was made, which is not there in the [...]
You’re Not Helping Blog Confesses To Deception
June 28, 2010 – 12:19 am“William”, the 23 year old male blogger behind You’re Not Helping had claimed to be several people, including an older woman (whose alleged presence he tried to use as a license to treat Ophelia Benson in a sexist manner). Earlier tonight he confessed to being just one blogger and to writing comments under pseudonyms to [...]
Noah’s Ark: God, Giraffes, & Genocide
June 20, 2010 – 2:10 pmThanks to Gordon for the video. Your Thoughts?
Ibrahim Al-Buleihi, Former Saudi Shura Council Member, Defends Learning From The West
June 18, 2010 – 6:18 pmIbrahim Al-Buleihi on Al-Aabiya TV on February 26, 2010: And here he argues that terrorism is the product of a flaw in Arab and Muslim culture: This is the product of our culture. They are the product of a culture that believes the other does not deserve to live, and is an absolute enemy with [...]
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A START
June 14, 2010 – 11:43 pmHere’s a meme that came my way through Facebook (thanks Tiffany!): Go to Newsweek and press the following arrow keys in succession Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right and then the letters B A and ENTER” (you know, like it’s still 1991 and you’re playing CONTRA on Nintendo and you want to be [...]
Atheist Bullies
June 12, 2010 – 12:09 pmpeople had taken PZs post to the extreme of trying to invade this 18-year-old high school student’s personal life with focused harrassment and vituperation on not only an internet comment board, but in person via his personal phone number and *again very, very disturbing* actual physical home/family, as well.
Wafa Sultan
June 10, 2010 – 1:06 pmThe TV appearance that made Wafa Sultan, author of A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam, famous and then criticism of her from the Muslim world, and an interview:
The Burqa Doesn't Stop Sexual Harassment
June 3, 2010 – 8:00 amAustin Cline highlights an article about the ineffectiveness of unrevealing clothing in preventing harassment and assault of women in Egypt. (You may remember that Egypt is also the nation with the recently released ad campaign aimed at getting women to cover up precisely as a remedy to such problems, which bewarethelizards42 perfectly skewered.) Cline quotes from [...]
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Spin Backfire?
June 2, 2010 – 9:50 amLiberalViewer worries that “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” risked losing control of the message and having the event spun in ways counter-productive to its important aims and in the long run harmful to the cause. In other words, it might backfire. He cites FOX News coverage to show an example of precisely this happening: It is inevitable [...]
What Is Science? A New PhD Scientist Explains
June 2, 2010 – 12:30 amEric Schulze’s USC Commencement Speech as he receives his doctoral degree from the Keck School of Medicine: via Bad Astronomy Your Thoughts?
Nigeria Choking To Death On Perennial Oil Spills
May 30, 2010 – 10:43 amHorrifying irresponsibility and callousness: “Oil companies do not value our life; they want us to all die. In the past two years, we have experienced 10 oil spills and fishermen can no longer sustain their families. It is not tolerable.” With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40% of all the crude the United States [...]
God's Apparent Fondness For Blood Drinking and Cannibalism
May 27, 2010 – 11:34 amIt’s just about lunch time and if I know God I know what he wants to eat and have you eat…human flesh! Steve Wells (creator of the indispensable Skeptics Annotated Bible) the other day compiled handy list of God’s commands for blood drinking and cannibalism. Read the whole post. Here are just a few, um, “tastes”: [...]
The Epistemological Bias Of “Anchoring”
May 27, 2010 – 10:31 amJonah Lehrer (author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist) explains: One of my favorite demonstrations of anchoring was done by a group of MIT economists led by Dan Ariely, as they conducted an auction with their business graduate students. (The study was later repeated with executives at the MIT Executive Education Program [...]
Debunking S.E. Cupp’s Claims About Media Atheist Bias
May 24, 2010 – 1:04 pmThis interesting video treats just a couple of S.E. Cupp’s claims in Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity(which has just a 2-star rating out of its first 28 reviews on Amazon): Your Thoughts?
Imagining The Closet
May 22, 2010 – 9:34 amA Daily Dish reader writes in to Andrew: A few years ago, I went on a little weekend trip with my Dad, his wife and my husband. My dad’s wife had arranged for us to get lavish accommodation at a beautiful luxury resort, because she is a conference organiser. The only caveat was that for the [...]
Kagan Called A Pro-Separation Of Church And State Opinion Dumb
May 21, 2010 – 3:56 pmSecular Coalition for America writes: In a 1987 dissent in the case of Bowen v. Kendrick, Justice Stevens, along with three other highly respected justices, addressed significant problems with a statute which gave government funds to religious organizations which in turn “educated” teens about sex and pregnancy. The justices understood that such a statute would [...]
Dan Barker on FOX News Defends Ruling Against National Day of Prayer
May 8, 2010 – 3:02 pmAnd he nails the case beautifully, replying to the question whether prayer might not benefit some people: And those people can’t pray unless the government holds their hand? Those people are not free to pray unless the President gets up and proclaims a day of prayer? This is a country of freedom. The country is [...]
BBC’s The Big Questions: “Does The Law Undervalue Christian Beliefs?”
May 1, 2010 – 1:00 pmThe video’s poster on YouTube also includes some interesting links for related reading: Foster couple challenges homosexuality laws Christian relationship counsellor sacked after refusing to give sex advice to gay couples Gay couple turned away from B&B by Christian owners Tory MP suggests B&Bs should be able to bar gay guests Your Thoughts?
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