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Archive for May, 2006
Anatomy of a Troll
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Most people understand that you don't go in to someone else's forum or blog and start posting vast quantities of tripe. ...
The Top Four Logical Fallacies
In nearly 5 years of blogging experience, I've run across the same fallacious arguments over and over again. These have been reproduced elsewhere, as lengthy lists of logical fallacies. ...
Malaysian Textbooks Teach Murder
Via Jihad Watch, a letter in Malaysiakini showing how religious texts are still being used in schools to teach children to murder apostates.For example, under the heading ‘Ways ...
The Rabbi Is Confused
Every now and then I come across an article about atheism from a theistic perspective that really gets the point makes me want to puke. Written by some smug theist ...
Hillary Gives Brilliant Energy Speech
Hillary Clinton gave a brilliant speech today on the energy transition at the National Press Club.
Her positions EXACTLY mirror what I and many other rational voices have been saying ...
Church Upset by Madonna Tour
Madonna gets kudos from me for her courage to stand up against hypocrisy in religion and politics. But then she turns around ...
Vox Populi 12
Vox Populi Episode 12: Download ep12.mp3 Length: 30 min.
1. Are we born good, evil or a mixture of both? Without religion or state, would society fall into ...
Elizabeth Clare Prophet Open Thread
Tired of navigating through tons of comments on the last post? Post new stories and thoughts here.
Questioning Science - The Believer’s Dodge
One of the primary tools in the arsenal of the relativist is to question scientific integrity. Since the physical universe is stubbornly resistant to subjective modification, relativists and irrational believers ...
Lawyer Murders Judge For Allah
When the secular west decides to fight religious extremism, it protests with protective laws, cartoons, or peaceful demonstrations. When followers of radical Islam don't like secular laws, they respond ...
McKellen Blasts Bible as Fiction
Sir Ian McKellen has guaranteed himself the eternal wrath of christians worldwide. On the "Today" show with Matt Lauer, he participated in this exchange:"There have been calls from some ...
Believers Risk Volcanic Death
Scientists and Indonesian government officials have warned residents on the slopes of Mount Merapi to leave. The volcano has been spewing rocks, ash, and pyroclastic flows--superheated gases that incinerate ...
Rock on, Sam!
Check out Sam Harris' latest interview, posted on alternet, beliefnet, and elsewhere. Some snips:In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not ...
Death to NIMBYism
It's happening again. Environmentalists are opposing a renewable energy project. CNN chose to report the story this way: "Massive Wind Farm May Endanger Birds" What are they smoking? Let's ...
Why Jury Trials Don’t Work
The jury voted 11 to 1 on at least one of the three terrorism charges against Moussaoui. As they repeatedly took votes by secret ballot, the holdout not only refused ...
Dean Panders to Religious Right
Democratic party chair and professional loose cannon Howard Dean has shown himself once again to be a chameleon. On Pat Robertson's extremist TV network, he stated the following:"The truth is, ...
Fighting New Fiction with Old
The Greek Orthodox Church has joined the chorus of voices condemning the Da Vinci Code in recent weeks. A leaflet passed ...
Hackers and Spammers to Jail
[UPDATE - 5.9.06: Hacker sentenced to 57 months! Good riddance, you f-ing criminal!]A 21-year-old computer whiz was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for taking control of ...
Indignation Drives the Doomer Religion
Here's another in my series debunking the doomers of 'peak oil.' This particular comment, posted over at Peak Oil Debunked post #299, was in response to an anonymous poster ...
Slamming Atheist ‘Whackjobs’
An editorial over at The Raw Story has been attracting a lot of attention. Its author Melinda Barton pulls out the same old tired claims about atheism being ...