Archive for October, 2007
Phelps Slammed With Huge Damage Award
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal jury on Wednesday awarded the father of a fallen Marine $2.9 million in compensatory damages after finding an anti-gay Kansas church and three of its ...
Doug Giles’ Unabashed Anti-Atheist Bigotry
Atheists would love for everyone to believe that their motive for not believing is an intellectual one. Yes, the atheists ardently suppose that they are wise and the Christians, well, ...
The Home Schooling Question
[UPDATE 11.01.07: From some of the comments, it's clear this should have been two separate stories. There are really two separate problems with home schooling. The ...
Stop Funding The Taliban Through the Drug War
Stop Funding The Taliban Through the Drug War
The drug war is in part a human rights issue. With half a million people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses, ...
Climate is too complex for accurate predictions
Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a new study. The ...
Scientist Retracts Paper Cited by Creationists
In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called “Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life” in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi, ...
Editorial Slams Public Schools As ‘State Church’
Dayton, Ohio; and Columbia, S.C. - Americans would revolt if the government forced them to join a state-established church. They guard too fiercely their liberty of conscience, guaranteed by the ...
Of Course You Should Come Out
[Graphic from the OUT Campaign]
Salon's Cary Tennis answered this letter from a 20-year-old atheist with noncommittal gobbledygook. At least Tennis didn't show his full ...
White House Eviscerates CDC Climate Testimony
WASHINGTON - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, ...
Drought, Peak Oil, and Climate Change: the Future is Now
Climate change denialists are crackpots of the worst kind. In this article, I will demonstrate how they are also dangerous. Whether or not they are also ...
J K Rowling is Brilliantly Subversive
NEW YORK (AP) -- Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. Dumbledore, played by Michael Gambon, was in love with ...
Marines Enforce Off-Duty Dress Code
Marines Enforce Off-Duty Dress Code
It's not quite Iran, but the military fashion police are out in force in America, proving that the Middle West is often more like the ...
9/11 Conspiracy Wackos Disrupt Bill Maher
October 19, 2007 was the wildest Bill Maher show ever. Several people screaming about WTC "building 7" and other incomprehensible nonsense disrupted Maher's panel discussion, and had to ...
Al-Kafir Akbar: A Denialist Digs Himself In Deeper
It's on. As a staunch defender of the mainstream scientific consensus on AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), which has recently been reaffirmed by the decisions of the ...
Kansas Rejects Coal Plant: Takes Lead on Warming
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit ...
Not Moral Enough to Kill or Die for Their Country
The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation. ...
Hero
HOGANAS, Sweden (CNN) -- Swedish artist Lars Vilks says all he's doing is taking a stand in the name of artistic expression. But because of that stand, on this afternoon ...
Climate-Change Denial: Aren’t We Past That?
New Planet Atheism blogger Tom Stelene (Al-Kafir Akbar!) seemed promising, but he moved quickly from some initial rational posts into full-bore "wingnut" climate-change ...
David Borden of DRCNet
Last Friday I met DRCNet Executive Director David Borden at the Los Angeles Sheraton Universal, where he was attending the 2007 NORML conference. ...
Sri Chinmoy: Good Riddance to the Creep
October 13, 2007 -- THE gullible bunch at the Daily News appears to have chugged down the Kool-Aid, then licked the bottom of the cup handed them by devotees of ...
A Milestone
Yesterday marked a major milestone for Black Sun Journal. Over 100,000 visits since October 28, 2005, and approaching 250,000 page views! This is thanks in ...
Ayn Rand
Welcome to a special edition of Atheist Of The Week, wherein we shall explore the life and philosophy of the intellectual and literary giant Ayn Rand, in ...
Repressed Shadow’s a Bitch
Utah ranks No. 1 in the nation — and sometimes the world — for using Google to search the Web for such terms as "Jesus," "family history," "Harry Potter," "Mormon," ...
Nobel Warms to Gore’s Global Campaign
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness ...
The Tyranny of Belief: Part 2
Continued from Part 1.
Beliefs fall into four main categories: opinions, predictions, superstitions, and strategies. In the first post of this series, we made the distinction ...