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| + | <vote poll=blog312>The comic strip ''Sinfest'' sums up Creationists' objections to evolution in 4 panels, with the help of a singing dinosaur.</vote> |
| <vote poll=blog311>Is the [[Westboro Baptist Church]] [http://gossip-boy.com/End_for_WBC.html planning] to "go [[Jonestown]]"? </vote> | | <vote poll=blog311>Is the [[Westboro Baptist Church]] [http://gossip-boy.com/End_for_WBC.html planning] to "go [[Jonestown]]"? </vote> |
| <vote poll=blog310>''A twofer'': John McCain's daughter claims that [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-07/the-gop-is-clueless-about-sex/ Republicans are clueless about sex], while fellow blogger Gail Sheehy claims that they are better than Democrats at [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-07/why-republicans-are-better-at-affairs/ hiding their adultery] and that she knows why.</vote> | | <vote poll=blog310>''A twofer'': John McCain's daughter claims that [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-07/the-gop-is-clueless-about-sex/ Republicans are clueless about sex], while fellow blogger Gail Sheehy claims that they are better than Democrats at [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-07/why-republicans-are-better-at-affairs/ hiding their adultery] and that she knows why.</vote> |
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| 3 | The comic strip Sinfest sums up Creationists' objections to evolution in 4 panels, with the help of a singing dinosaur. |
| 3 | Commentary on that (not so) new Christian value of torture. The last three sentences should be repeated to every bible-thumper who has wet dreams for "extreme interrogation." |
| 1 | Memo to President Obama: Behind the scenes, the justices of the Supreme Court may be more catty and image conscious than most people realize. So, when you nominate a replacement for Justice Souter, you need to follow certain guidelines. Guideline Number One - No fat chicks! |
| 1 | 10 year aniversary of the Columbine shootings, how can we spit on the memory? I know, how about I use Columbine to rant about getting rid of school sports |
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| 1 | Regarding the Sunday school teacher accused of raping and murdering a young girl, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark asks, "Do women rape?" although the title is a little misleading. She's referring the uninformed idiots ordinary citizens who refuse to believe that a frail, motherly female could do such a thing |
| 3 | If you make a "mockumentary" about assassinating Dubya, you should be held responsible if it really happens. But if you whip gun nuts into a frenzy about an impending Obama-led gun grab, and those gun nuts go on shooting sprees, then only the shooters should be held responsible. So sayeth Hannity, Beck and other righties. |
| 4 | Before 2001, the Office of Legal Council was known as the "brains" of the Justice Department. Then Bush appointed John Yoo, and the OLC became the place to rationalize torture. Obama's choice to head the OLC -- a former ACLU and NARAL lawyer -- wants to release Bush era torture memos. Naturally, the fundies are out for her blood. |
| 2 | A 19-year-old -- the secular son of liberal, non-fundy Christians -- transfers from Brown University to attend Jerry Falwell's Liberty Univeristy for one semester. Why? So he can write an expose that Publisher's Weekly has dubbed "religious gonzo journalism." |
| 0 | Religion-based analgesia. Liveblog of talk 4 in "God in the Lab", a day organized by CFI UK at Conway Hall, London on March 21, 2009 |
| -2 | Divine Madness?. Liveblog of talk 2 in "God in the Lab", a day organized by CFI UK at Conway Hall, London on March 21, 2009 |
| 6 | Ted Haggard and his ironically named wife Gayle will appear on the TV series Divorce Court to discuss how divorce is not the answer to marital problems. (Problems like -- oh, I don't know -- your husband is a meth-smoking patron of gay prostitutes.) As if this couldn't get any funnier, the episode is scheduled to air on April Fool's Day. |
| 3 | Irony meter alert: Marjorie Cohn, writing for AlterNet, waxes offended at recently-released memos speculating how Bush might have set himself up as a dictator. Then, in the same breath, she has the gall to call for the prosecution of the memos' authors for advocating violations of the U.S. Constitution. (It is, of course, perfectly constitutional to prosecute someone for writing a memo.) |
| 1 | Rush is being pushed to the top of the GOP dungheap by... the Democrats? |
| 2 | The anti-vaccine crowd gets pwned. |
| 1 | "God and Ponzi." Among the customers of Ponzi schemer "Sir" Allen Stanford was a fundy Christian YouTube knockoff called "God Tube." (This article has lots of links to God Tube videos, including one of a crazy prayer that "rebukes" every sex act and thought.) |
| 0 | Galaxy Quest - social computing goes intergalactic(self promotion warning) |
| 5 | Could Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream be any more awesome? To this the ice creams gurus say, "Yes, Pecan!" |
| 2 | Henry Morris' latest argument for teaching creationism broken down line-by-line.(plugging for Ames warning) |
| 1 | Where does morality come from; knowledge and understanding or bronze age story books? Thunderf00t on the Mirror of Mankind |
| 1 | It's time to resurrect a word from the 'thirties: bankster. |
| 3 | Caught on video (and posted to the Middle East equivalent of Digg.com) -- an Iranian cleric having "some Nasnas" with a female follower who is not his wife. (And you thought it was only Christian holy men who did that.) |
| 2 | Joe the Plumber, whose Warhol fame clock seems to be stuck at 14:59.999..., tells the press that they have no business being in a war zone if they aren't going to file rah-rah, gung ho reports for armed aggression and zealotry their side. Then, in his latest bid for the Upperclass Twit Ugly American of the Year award, he is surprised that an Israeli reporter files favorable reports about Israel. |
| 4 | Exploding the myth about gay reindeer. |
| 2 | Somehow, a PUMA blog made it to the finals of "best liberal blog on the internet." VOTE AGAINST IT, starting January 5th. |
| 1 | Rick Warren's a young earth creationist, whose "faith" stems from a misunderstanding of Genesis. At least Obama's real science advisers are good guys.(self promotion warning) |
| 4 | A demolition of Gerald Warner's article on the "gay terrorist threat" to Christianity |
| 2 | Obama doesn't need to abrogate the conscience regulation: he can just refuse to enforce it, and repeal it before he leaves office.(self promotion warning) |
| 4 | Rick Warren, fundamentalist meatbag, will be at Obama's inauguration. ANGER.(self promotion warning) |
| 2 | Who's the one asshole big enough to make John Ashcroft look like a hero? Dick Cheney.(self promotion warning) |
| 2 | One lib'rul defends warrantless wiretapping... to an extent.(self promotion warning) |
| 4 | Westboro Baptist Church Gatecrash the "War on Christmas"! |
| 6 | Jon Stewart flays Huckabee on the gay marriage issue, by proving the emptiness of appeals to tradition, especially when tradition is equivocal. |
| 3 | Don't let Andy Schlafly fool you. The Supreme Court/Obama citizenship case is dead. |
| 2 | Why national science standards, geared at promoting evolution, might not work. |
| 3 | ScienceBlogs no longer has a monopoly on battling denialists: post Obama's election, there's a new breed of denialists in town, crazy neocons challenging Obama's eligibility to be President! Two reasons why they're wrong. |
| 3 | Emma Tom compares Intelligent Designers (not the creationists, God the actual designers) with bored goths. |
| 11 | Roger Ebert finally reviews Expelled. Two evolved opposable thumbs down. |
| 1 | One of longer versions of the YouTube video "Did You Know?" ("Shift happens." Not that Dubya and his ilk care.) |
| 3 | What's to blame for the GOP's horrific defeat in the recent election? According to Phyllis Schlafly, kids with self-esteem and women who don't want to return to their abusive husbands. |
| 5 | Did talk radio kill conservatism? Nate Silver reflects on an interview with a conservative pundit and considers how, somewhere along the line, conservatism became more about shouting your opponent down than convincing him. Points to ponder on Conservapedia day. |
| 1 | Two takes on the question of why the Democrats won (or, why the Republicans lost): in laying the blame on the economy, Bill Kristol misses the point, while Obama, in moving to the center, gets it. |
| 2 | Ahhhh PUMAs - the Conservapedia of the center-right. Listen to PUMAs defend their narrative of how Obama stole the primary from Hillary, in one of the most hilarious hours of radio... ever. |
| 1 | Sarah Palin: she's a uniter, not a divider. Or at least she thinks so. |
| 2 | British faith healer dies after refusing medical attention, and being prescribed honey for gangrene by a homeopathist. |
| 2 | The Lay Scientist is offering slots for occasional guest bloggers. (self promotion warning) |
| 1 | We haz teh stupid an' we cain't intelecshooly figer stuff out no more. |
| 3 | They say that a neat desk and an uncluttered house are signs of a disordered mind. Here's proof. |
| 2 | U.S. News and World Report senior writer Michael Barone tells a room full of academics that the "liberal media" was against Sarah Palin because she didn't abort her daughter's Down syndrome child. He's lucky they didn't pass out baskets full of rotten produce before his speech. |
| 3 | What's conservative talk radio look like during an Obama presidency? Does all that bluster about unlimited executive power translate to the new administration? Hint: no. |
| 4 | The New Yorker examined the issue of unwed teenaged fundies who get pregnant. Abstinence-only education -- which has an interesting "30 percent" side effect -- is only part of a broader, problematic mindset. |
| 8 | "Sarah Palin's War on Science: The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning." By Christopher Hitchens (Slate: October 27, 2008) |
| 6 | How can American Christians call the US a Christian nation when 40 percent can't recite more than four of the Ten Commandments; 12 percent believe that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife; and 75 percent believe that "God helps those who help themselves" is a Bible verse, not an anti-Christian quote by Benjamin Franklin? |
| 3 | American politicians depend on several tried-and-true image patterns to secure some form of resonance with the American ideal and, consequentially, voters. McCain is doin it wrong. But it probably doesn't matter, anyways. |
| 7 | Expelled is the Number One Documentary in America! Huh? UPDATE: According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, Religulous topped the $9 million mark during the week ending 19 October, beating the $7,690,545 box office take of Expelled. |
| 1 | "Lowering business taxes increases employment." Right-wingers love this sort of simplistic thinking. This essay explains why complex issues like this require a deeper, more counter-intuitive level of thinking. |
| 5 | John McCain plans to bring up Obama's William Ayers "connection" at tonight's debate. If he does, he'll lose the debate, squander his legacy, and lose the election, all in one fell swoop. |
| 7 | A fairly good explantation for why some Republicans went apewire about Bill Clinton and are now screaming that Barack Obama is a terrorist/communist/the Antichrist: Fear and Loathing |
| 5 | During the 2000 and 2004 elections, 7-Eleven offered "7-Election" coffee cups -- red for Bush, blue for Gore and Kerry. After the 2000 election, the percentage of red versus blue cups bought was within one percentage point of the final election tally. In 2004, the percentages of coffee cups bought matched the final election tally. This year, 7-Eleven offers a website where you can check the ongoing results state by state. (And it looks pretty encouraging.) |
| 1 | Hey, all ya Joe Sixpacks out dere. Dontcha ever wonder what life would be like if Mom hadn't gone namin' ya "Cletus" or "Sally Sue" or some other borin' name? Try the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator and unleash the closet Trig or Bristol in ya! |
| 5 | According to John McCain, long-time conservative columnist Kathleen Parker is No True Scotsman... and gets death threats for her doubts on Sarah Palin. |
| 3 | The McCain camp continues its race to the bottom, adding quote mining to its list of deceptions.] (self promotion warning) |
| 1 | Did McCain ever intend to actually cancel the debate? Signs point to no. |
| 2 | The Discovery Institute has released a new textbook to supplant Of Pandas and People, which was embarrassingly exposed as being a creationist screed edited only with shoddy find-and-replace. PZ Myers disapproves. |
| 1 | Blast from the past: as the regulation comment period draws to a close, be sure to send in your comment for the "Provider Conscience Regulation." Feel free to steal and use this response. |
| 1 | Can female politicians be expected to be pro-choice? And what's up with gay Republicans? More on minority political identity. |
| 1 | President Bush has wholly abdicated the President's constitutional responsibility of guarding the meaning and integrity of the Constitution. Not that that's a surprise. |
| 7 | "Anyone who contributes to Conservapedia is guilty of willfully eroding the collective intellect, to the detriment of all" skeptoid |
| 3 | Casey Luskin understands neither law nor science: the words "separation of powers" actually mean something, and they aren't just a way of shouting down opinions you don't like. |
| 1 | A proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution will define conception as the beginning of life: this is just the most recent in Colorado's long, shameful history of unconstitutional constitutions. |
| 1 | The ever insightful, Beliefnet blogger Michele 'All Democrats Suck' McGinty ("Reformed Chicks Blabbing") channels her inner Schlafly with a post:"Palin Derangement Syndrome" |
| 5 | From the 22 September 2008 issue of Newsweek: "Put Palin on the Supreme Court". (This seems to be very subtle satire like the recent New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama. Let's hope Newsweek is just trolling.) 16 September 2008 |
| 1 | McCain waffles on stem cells in his ScienceDebate2008 answers, leaving open the question of whether he's following his principles or his unprincipled running mate.(self promotion warning) *15 September 2008 |
| 4 | McCain resorts to the dirty tactics that lost him the primary in 2000: push-polling and voter suppression with phony ballots. 12 September 2008 |
| 6 | McCain continues his winning campaign tactic - lying - by claiming that Obama wants to teach the nasty to kindergarteners. The truth is much more boring. 10 September 2008 |
| 3 | Substantive questions at McCain campaign pep rallies are unwelcome. 8 September 2008 |
| 2 | America isn't one big small town, and we sure as hell don't need another culture war.(self promotion warning) 8 September 2008 |
| 3 | Sarah Palin utterly failed to address teen pregnancy. Bristol proves the point. While we should respect her privacy, it's fair to point out how Bristol's life is a microcosm of her mother's denialist policies. 6 September 2008 (self promotion warning) |
| 3 | While Sarah Palin threatens to usher in the culture wars again, her running mate talks moderate, showing a distinct split in the Republican party that leaves room to wonder who's really in charge. 5 September, 2008 |
| 2 | Holy God I hate Phyllis Schlafly. Why do Republicans love her!? And, more importantly, what does that tell us about them? (self promotion warning) |
| 2 | Will Sarah Palin pull out or back down? Kos says, just you wait. |
| 3 | Sarah Palin waffles on the issue of creationism in the schools - does it matter? Debate away! (self promotion warning) |
| 2 | Sarah Palin quote about "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance: "If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance." Minor quibble: the Pledge was written a hundred years after the "founding fathers" lived. |
| 1 | Three reasons to be deeply worried about the Health & Human Services department's attempt to make abortions less accessible, and what to do about it. (self promotion warning) (1 September 2008) |
| 3 | The first anti-Palin attack ad, made by a RationalWiki vet & his girlfriend :) click here. (self promotion warning) (30 August 2008) |
| 3 | Sarah Palin: the younger, hotter Phyllis Schlafly. (self promotion warning) (29 August 2008) |
| 2 | The last takedown - for now - of Discovery Institute legal idiocy, and a tangent on the real meaning of falsifiability. (self promotion warning) (29 August 2008) |
| 2 | PZ Myers highlights a disturbing trend towards religious fundamentalism in the Democratic party as well as potential police misconduct against protesters. |
| 2 | After a million negative ads and a thousand flip-flops, does anyone know what John McCain actually stands for? (self promotion warning) (24 August 2008) |
| 3 | The Dep't of Health of Human Services will promulgate a regulation telling doctors that they're justified in refusing to perform abortions, and can't be fired for the same: doctors, apparently, are now supposed to be moral coaches. (self promotion warning) (21 August 2008) |
| 0 | Second in a series of two, against the Discovery Institute's attempts at legal reasoning. This one's embarrassing; damn kid doesn't even read the law before trying to talk about it.(self promotion warning) (21 August 2008) |
| 0 | Discrimination is not "free speech." At least California understands that. (self promotion warning) (20 August 2008) |
| 1 | The Discovery Institute has decided to start defending its legal position again, and, in a sign of how much they still care about the issue, they've sent their legal intern to the rescue! Unsurprisingly, the guy gets it mostly wrong. Part one of a three-part series. (self promotion warning) (19 August 2008) |
| 1 | Civil religion, its influence on politics, and why McCain's opinion of both is bad news. (self promotion warning) (18 August 2008) |
| 4 | McCain cheated at Saddleback (PLEASE DIGG THIS STORY) (18 August 2008) |
| 1 | Rumors of Obama's "defeat" at the Saddleback forum have been greatly exaggerated. (self promotion) (18 August 2008) |
| 1 | Saddleback was a set up. (18 August 2008) |
| 2 | McCain's economic policy and seeming inability to understand the problems that afflict modern Americans make him - not Barack Obama - the real "elitist." (Update: Now with link!!!) (self promotion warning) (16 August 2008) |
| 2 | Did you ever want to know what human flesh tastes like? (self promotion warning) |
| 0 | A little late, but a review of the law behind California's decision to refuse college credit to "Christian education" classes. (self promotion warning) (15 August 2008) |
| -1 | How state-sponsored informed consent laws amount to lying to vulnerable women. Oh, on abortion. (14 August 2008) |
| 2 | How Hillary's PUMAs threaten to wreck the Supreme Court. (self promotion, albeit in a new venue, warning!) -- For the uninitiated, "PUMA" stands for "Party Unity My Ass". (12 August 2008) |
| 8 | In depth review of the Schlafly debating fiasco by the one who lived it. Warning: don't click on the links in the post, if you're participating in the boycott. (self promotion) (12 August 2008) |
| 0 | Those zany creationists are at it again, trying to prove that radioactive decay rates have varied over time. Sadly, they massively fail. (11 August 2008) |
| 0 | A tribute to DNA and science. (10 August 2008) |
| 0 | Purveyors of scientific/medical woo often chalk their failures up to persecution, and claim kinship with Galileo. Not convincing. (10 August 2008) |
| 0 | Texas has a new mandatory elective: kids, pick up your Bibles and turn to... (self promotion warning) (10 August 2008) |
| 0 | The Discovery Institute has firmly given up trying to appear non-religious. Win. (self promotion) (10 August 2008) |
| 0 | McCain fails the Ohio economy, endangering his chances in a swing state. (self promotion warning) (9 August 2008) |
| 1 | The Disgrace of the Olympics:...when Ni tried to protect her home, she was hit on head with a brick and dragged to the ground by one of the demolition workers. |
| 2 | Why campaigns go negative, and why Barack Obama can't afford to. Update: McCain continues the race to the bottom. Urge to kill... RISING. (self promotion warning) (8 August 2008) |
| 2 | Get a hyper-conservative chain letter lately? Send them this. (self promotion warning) (5 August 2008) |
| 4 | Guantanamo Bay sucks. (self promotion warning) (5 August 2008) |
| 3 | Probing the limits of the establishment clause: is a memorial in the style of a Latin cross ever not a religious endorsement? Yes, says one court. (self promotion warning) (4 August 2008) |
| 1 | Schlafly's Letter - blogging round 2 of the Lenski Affair (self-promotion warning) (4 August 2008) |
| 3 | JJ MacNab provides a nice summary of the recent sentencing of two men convicted in helping arm and defend convicted tax protesters who promised to start the next Waco or Ruby Ridge. The truly amazing story of insulting a judge right before he determines how long you are going to spend in prison highlights just how far gone the minds of cranks can degrade. |
| 2 | Promises to avoid negative campaigning be damned! Pessimism sells. At least that's what John McCain's hoping for. How dare you have hope!!! (self promotion warning) (1 August 2008) |
July 2008
| 3 | Islamophobia in the media's intepretation of a poll of British Muslim students. (self-promotion warning). (31 July 2008) |
| 4 | Is there a positive platonic ideal of Christianity? If so, commercialism has killed it. (self-promotion warning). (31 July 2008) |
| 6 | Somebody out there likes us. (self promotion warning) (29 July 2008) |
| 1 | A new study shows how better educated parents responded more to the MMR controversy. (25 July 2008) |
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