Archive for June, 2007
The Black Sun Humanist-Atheist Bookshelf
The book list is finally posted. I've been intending to update this since the BSJ 3.0 launch on February 12, 2007. But like many of ...
Do Stem Cells Grown From Unfertilized Eggs Have Souls?
The question, then, resolves around the meaning of life, of Pacholczyk's "human being." The blastocyst -- the scientific term for the group of cells descended from a fertilized egg ...
Unrest grows amid gas rationing in Iran
TEHRAN: Unrest spread in Tehran on Thursday, the second day of gasoline rationing in oil-rich Iran, with drivers lining up for miles, gas stations being set on fire and state-run ...
US juries get verdict wrong in one of six cases
US juries get verdict wrong in one of six cases
So much for US justice: juries get the verdict wrong in one out of six criminal cases and judges ...
Russia lays claim to North Pole resources
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
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Eight random things about me...
OK, this "8 random things" meme is out of control. The only reason I'm doing this is for my buds olly ...
Possible 'Honor Killing' Foiled
"The victim advised me that his fiancée's family was trying to kill him, drag him into a car and take him somewhere, where he believed he was going to be ...
Chavez: "Malignant Narcissism"
Chavez: "Malignant Narcissism"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Insecurity, "malignant narcissism" and the need for adulation are driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's confrontation with the United States, according to a new ...
The Battle for the Human Soul
Graphic from IHT.
The International Herald Tribune ran a fantastic article today, which illustrates the increasing futility of religions maintaining their doctrines of mind/body and spirit/matter ...
'Blasphemy Laws' - They still don't get it
The blasphemy laws of this country do not include Hinduism which is the third largest religion in the world, with over one billion practitioners. All attacks on our temples have ...
I will kill Rushdie: Pak Punjab Assembly Speaker
Lahore, June 22: Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi has said that he will kill controversial writer Salman Rushdie if he comes across him. ...
Who Loves Designer Vaginas?
What are you gonna do about the fact that Mother Nature once again appears to be thwarting and mocking and then grinning like a wicked divine trickster at every cute ...
San Francisco says no to bottled water
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Is city water better than bottled water? Mayor Gavin Newsom thinks so. Newsom has issued an executive order banning city departments from ...
Cult Leader Pretty Cool, Actually
SANTA MONICA, CA—Despite accusations that Joshua Wyden is the dangerous and manipulative leader of a cult known as The Watchful Eye, a recent interview with the charismatic guru revealed that ...
$6 per gallon? Get ready.
Jim Wooten is howling because energy legislation being debated right now might move the US toward a more sensible and sustainable energy policy which could result in rising prices. What ...
Washington Blade calls for Travolta Boycott
Bill O'Reilly interviews Kevin Naff who calls for a boycott of John Travolta's latest film. This is because of Scientology's claim to "cure" gays. Best line: "You cannot compare ...
Global Cooling: More FUD from Drudge
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
Brownback the Brown Nose, and his accomplices
Where does the attitude that compromise is the way to go come from, anyway? Which group was it that cut the legs out from under the American pro-life effort at ...
Moving away from religion toward Christianity
To think of Christianity in such terms is to drift toward the relativism that Pope Benedict has so famously decried. Hence Benedict XVI has insisted that personal spiritual experiences can ...
Vatican's Ten Commandments for Motorists
"Cars tend to bring out the 'primitive' side of human beings, thereby producing rather unpleasant results," the document said. It appealed to what it called the "noble ...
Worse than we thought--again
Instead of sea levels rising by about 40 centimetres, as the IPCC predicts in one of its computer forecasts, the true rise might be as great as several metres by ...
Knowing The Enemy and How We Must Fight
Neo-atheism goes much farther than the mere denial of God’s existence. It actually calls for the eradication of all forms of Christianity. One prominent Neo-atheist has gone so ...
Black Sun Newswire Integration
My webmaster Bruno has been working hard to integrate the Newswire feed into the main feed. It seems to be working with the minor exception of ...
Hate Video: The 'Gay Atheist'
The above still is taken from a hate video, posted on YouTube, (which has since been removed for copyright violation). The original photo of my mother, ...
Freedom includes being free not to believe
I see no need to attempt to rob other individuals of their beliefs, so long as their beliefs do not rob me of my freedom. We will not soon understand ...