Archive for June, 2007
June 30th, 2007 / Admin, Atheism, Books /
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 ...
June 29th, 2007 / Religion /
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 ...
June 28th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire /
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 ...
June 28th, 2007 / Critical Thought, Newswire, Society /
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 ...
June 28th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
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.
June 28th, 2007 / Admin /
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 ...
June 27th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
"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 ...
June 26th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
June 26th, 2007 / Religion, Science /
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 ...
June 25th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
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 ...
June 24th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Lahore, June 22: Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi has said that he will kill controversial writer Salman Rushdie if he comes across him. ...
June 24th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
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 ...
June 24th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire /
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 ...
June 22nd, 2007 / Humor, Newswire /
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 ...
June 21st, 2007 / Energy Transition /
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 ...
June 20th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
June 20th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire, Science /
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
June 20th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
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 ...
June 20th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
June 19th, 2007 / Newswire, Psychology, Religion /
"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 ...
June 19th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire, Science /
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 ...
June 19th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
June 18th, 2007 / Admin /
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 ...
June 17th, 2007 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Religion /
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, ...
June 16th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion /
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 ...