Archive for January, 2007
Hindu Doctrinal Abuse of Women
Interpretations of religious texts have always been from a male point of view because throughout religious history they have been in power--similar to the notion that the winners write the ...
Rational Response Squad on Nightline
Congratulations to the RRS for raising national awareness of atheism. I will be taking the blasphemy challenge as soon as I have time to record for posterity my denial of ...
Islamic Men Wonder Why We Think They’re Freaks
Male doctors, particularly in maternity wards, say they are increasingly subject to insults, even blows, most often by men opposed to nudity or physical contact with their wives and daughters.
Food vs. Fuel — It’s Started
Demand for ethanol has finally caught up with the corn subsidies and government price controls. It will hit poorer nations first, then everyone.
All the more reason non-food ethanol feedstocks ...
Religious Reaction to Film is Revealing
The religious outcry about the screening of the film Hounddog at Sundance is only the latest wrinkle in religious hypocrisy. It reveals some severely misplaced priorities. In Hounddog, child actor ...
SOTU Energy Promises
Will you offend Bob Lutz and your oil friends with substantial CAFE standard increases? Will you have the guts to get Yucca Mountain open? Will you push for consumer taxes ...
New Dawkins Interview
You can read it here.
Cruise = Christ = Enough Already
Humans clearly have the need for mythology, ritual, and the like. But maybe we could stop looking outside ourselves for leaders and role models. No one has the answers. Better ...
The Shadow of Islamic Sexual Repression
From the Jerusalem Post, with hat-tip to Aidan Maconachy, comes this story about the dark sexual shadow of Islamism as practiced in Iran. This in a country where ...
The Politics of Victimhood
By this neat shell game, we get to conveniently ignore the shadow of our own consumption, our own self-interested acts of taking advantage of others we do by proxy every ...
Religious Freedom Day
It's religious freedom day! Since theists are so fond of telling atheists ours is a "belief system," let's take advantage of the day to proclaim those 'beliefs.' While many ...
“H” is for Hypocrisy
If you drive a vehicle, no matter how good the mileage may be (I include myself and other Prius drivers, we simply use less, but we are still dependent) you ...