Archive for the 'Religion/Politics' Category
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
I rarely post about books I’ve read or am reading (which is why I don’t have a “books” category), but occasionally a good point or passage inspires a blog. In this case, I have just finished and would like to actually recommend a book.
Carl Sagan’s The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the [...]
JESUS SMAAAAAASH!!!
A deceivingly civil debate with a surprise ending. This killed me.
Funny how many times I’ve been threatened with violence for, say, wearing a Bad Religion shirt. Once, several years ago, a group of gung-ho Christian cowboys even threatened to beat up my girlfriend because I was wearing a sweater with Bad Religion’s logo on it. [...]
Read More..>>Ben Stein: Expelled
Not everybody is a fan of Richard Dawkins’ borderline militant brand of atheism, but with over 1.5 million copies of The God Delusion sold, you can’t deny the influence he’s had on the debate. And the creationists have taken notice; they needed a high-profile bulldog of their own, and they came up with fucking Ben [...]
Read More..>>Anonymous vs Scientology: Portland
I’m not sure how long I’ve been following Anonymous’ war on Scientology, but it’s been nearly since its inception; I picked up on rumblings online within the first couple days. Sure, DDoSing Scientology websites and bombing their faxes is funny, but I really didn’t expect much else. Forgive my incredulity, then, when I first heard [...]
Read More..>>Stupid Me
Coffee Shop Girl: So who are you rooting for today?
Me: ??? You mean on Tuesday?
Coffee Shop Girl: …the Superbowl.
Me: Ohhhhh… I forgot that was coming up.
Haha, honestly wasn’t trying to be smug; I seriously thought she was talking about the primaries, not football. How un-American of me.
Anybody that knows me though knows I’m a Chicago [...]
Best Part of the State of the Union Address
This slayed me:
Bush: America opposes genocide in Sudan.
*Standing ovation*
Hahaha, what? That’s not a given? Way to draw the line on the mother of all wedge issues, genocide; good to know where we stand. I imagine that got a standing ovation because everybody was afraid that if they didn’t stand, it would look like they support [...]
Endangering Your Children: A How-to
Man, it just doesn’t get any better than Truth for Youth! Not only do they have great comic books to help you indoctrinate your kids, here’s some cool attire you can send them to school in!
Good going, mom and dad! You may as well send them off in this:
Read More..>>Truth for Youth!
Chick comics are still my favorite Christian fundamentalist propaganda, but these have to come in a close second for sure. Be sure to check out the site’s flash introduction animation, which blames…um, all of human suffering, apparently, on removing prayer from public schools. Remember when prayer was still allowed in school and teenagers didn’t drink, [...]
Read More..>>Dangerous Words Pt. II
You may remember a while back I picked up Dangerous Words: Talking About God in an Age of Fundamentalism, a book that sounded interesting, despite being authored by a religious moderate. Since the speech he gave during his book signing got me really fired up, I was determined to read the book as quickly as [...]
Read More..>>Scientists Push Presidential Candidates for Positions on Science: Does Spiderman Have Access to Kryptonite?
Interesting article from Wired here about a push to get presidential candidates to explain what role science will play in their potential administrations. The Republican candidates have better things to worry about, though.
Since real news is a little dry, I’ve summed up the point here:
Republican Candidates Duke it Out Over the Important Issues
Huckabee: Mr. Romney, [...]
