Archive for May, 2007
Salon, “Your Journey to the Dark Side is Complete”
Letter posted at Salon in response to this story:
Salon, your journey to the dark side is complete. The dark side of religious cultural relativism ...
Top NASA bureaucrat contradicts own scientists on warming
"To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever ...
Unsustainabilty catches up with Naples
For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns like this one have periodically choked on refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into real crisis, as much political as ...
Clerics, misinformation defeat condoms in Algeria
They face an uphill task. Many Algerians in television interviews claimed AIDS can be transmitted simply by being in contact with someone who had it. Others, swayed by hard-line clerics, ...
If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural
The results were showing that when the volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in ...
Automakers Launch PR Blitz to Halt Standards
Via Green Car Congress:
Beginning this Memorial Day weekend, members of the auto industry are rolling out a comprehensive campaign to convince Americans to oppose proposed ...
No link between religion, terrorism: seminar participants
New Delhi : Speakers from across the socio-political spectrum participating in a conference on "Islam and Terrorism" Saturday opined that terrorism cannot be linked to any religion and many of ...
Protests against sexual education
May 25 - Indian students join a protest against government proposals to begin sex education in the largely conservative society. The proposal has triggered heated debate between ...
Local zoning stymies U.S. wind power
MELISSA, Texas — An orange flag marks where Gary Lisle planned to put up a 33-foot windmill behind his house. But that's about as far as his green idea got ...
Georgians praying for rain
ATLANTA (AP) - Neighbors are turning in neighbors for violating water restrictions, farmers are jittery about crops and churchgoers are praying for rain as Georgia suffers through one of its ...
Clark Adams: 1969-2007
The Humanist community mourns the death of Clark Davis Adams, a greatly influential freethought leader and activist, and a person of integrity and personal honesty who expressed his Humanism through ...
Charles targets religion in Borat follow-up
At least five Hollywood studios are believed to be circling director Larry Charles' follow-up to his global smash comedy Borat. The Untitled Larry Charles Project is a ...
Wife blames military gambling for husband’s suicide
BANGOR, Maine (CNN) -- Carrie Walsh's husband was a decorated Apache helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army. But years ago, Aaron Walsh started playing slot machines on military bases. He ...
Rapturous Indignation
Mark Morford, at SFGate.com posted this brilliant opinion piece on the death of Falwell and the Hummer H2:
...it is time for much rejoicing. It is time for an upraising ...
Man conned by fraudsters claiming religious morality
Founders of a defunct Provo credit services company defrauded a California man out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by persuading him to take out a home loan, promising a ...
Poll: 1 in 4 U.S. Muslims approve suicide attacks!
WASHINGTON - One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances,
Danny Glover accepts $18m from Chavez
Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic ...
Conspiracists on the Rampage
With fully 33% of Americans believing 9/11 conspiracy theories, it's no surprise when a rational debunking draws ire. A recent commenter from Australia responded indignantly to ...
Mermaid Statue Draped in Muslim Dress
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - The Little Mermaid statue in Denmark's capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning. Police removed the clothing after a telephone ...
Venezuelans protest opposition TV channel closure
CARACAS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday denounced President Hugo Chavez's plans to close an opposition television channel, accusing their leader of maiming Venezuelan democracy as he ...
Lone juror spares killer of 7 from death row
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Twelve jurors who convicted a man of killing seven people at a suburban restaurant 14 years ago narrowly recommended he spend the rest of his life ...
Oceans failing to absorb more carbon
The oceans are losing the capacity to soak up rising man-made carbon emissions, which is increasing the rate of global warming by up to 30 per cent, scientists said yesterday. ...
Islamophobia Worst Form of Terrorism
The gravest terrorist threat in the world today is Islamophobia, foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference said this week. “It is something that has ...
‘We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay’
Battling against a deeply patriarchal society, Arab Israeli and Palestinian lesbians are uniting to break the taboo of homosexuality and politicise the right to be female and gay. ...
Theocratic Rogue Jerry Falwell Bites the Dust
Someone should hold a public gay wedding and orgy worthy of the emperor Caligula in front of a combination abortion clinic and embryonic stem-cell research center ...