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If one question seems to govern my life right now it is, "Why believe something with insufficient evidence?" Every day I tell my students in every subject that they must "Show...not tell!" It is an axiom in fiction writing but also in science. I take it
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Vermont school gets smart
A town in Vermont has placed the Pledge of Allegiance out of classrooms? Watch Michael Newdow work the Faux News anchor on the topic despite the interruptions.Thoughts?.. type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js">...
As if corporations and profiteers weren't deciding when we live and die
I think this guy says it better than I can. Plus...he has video. This fear of socialism - the definition of which these yahoos seem not to understand - is so gargantuously awful. It is engineered by death merchants who parade as angels of freedom. Th...
Historical fictions in Congress: Stop America's Spiritual Heritage Week
The Secular Coalition of America has sent out an alert that Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Virginia), the Founder and Chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, and twenty-four other members of the House of Representatives, have co-sponsored a pleasant piece...
The 800th post has to be about Sarah Palin
Let's hope she actually runs for the Republican ticket in 2012 as the gift that keeps on giving.Besides that, watch this series of videos on creationist laughability... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js">...
Climate change deniers on Capitol Hill
During Bush's and the Republican's reign of error for the last several years, climate change denial was to be expected. We knew that Sen. Inhofe (Republican - Oklahoma) thinks climate change is a bunch of quackery and that Exxon/Mobil and big coal ar...
In Oklahoma, they don't like atheists.
Recently, the Oklahoma House of Representatives has had some anti-Richard Dawkins and anti-evolution legislation proposed to it. Yes. You read that right. Anti-Dawkins legislation. The University of Oklahoma hosted Dawkins as part of their Darwin 200...
Lower Slate Lake, Alaska - Proposed site for ecocide
I just read two stories (here and here) about a gold mine owned by Couer in Alaska that wants to dump all of its "fill" - a.k.a. toxic industrial waste from mining that's been given a conveniently sanitized name just for this purpose - in Lower Slate...
The collusion of church and state
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has responded to the newest press blast (pdf here) by the Bush White House about their lovely faith-based initiatives. In short, they are trash. Bush et al are still trying to spin these things as i...
I knew I wouldn't always get what I want with Obama...
...but the last couple of days have really gotten me a little bit steamed. First Tom Vilsack as the Secretaries of Corn & Agribusiness and Ken Salazar as the Secretary of the Great Wide Open Resource Fields of the West. Now Obama is having Rick W...
What's ailing the Republican Party? G-O-D!
Kathleen Parker at The Washington Post has a great piece, "Giving up on God," on what needs to go in the Republican Party - "the gorilla in the pulpit."To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails th...
We don't talk to only ourselves
Check out this article. It has some interesting, if limited, findings on our atheist movement. Atheists are an increasingly vocal, organized, and frankly well-reasoned group of people. The government must face us. The Christian Right faced by its own...
I stay away from Bill O'Reilly
But sometimes this kind of madness is nutty. I can't believe that O'Reilly is going to say that Palin could be coached into learning basic civics (watch it here). I'm sorry. Or really...I'm not sorry at all. Someone who doesn't know that Africa is a ...
Happy. Eager. Skeptical. Hopeful.
Of course, I am elated that Obama won. I volunteered a bit and canvassed on election day. I watched the returns come in, cheered when the west coast polls closed and all of the networks declared him Obama the president elect. Finally, a remarkable pe...
