Archive for October, 2007
October 31st, 2007 / Bigotry, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
October 31st, 2007 / Atheism, 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, ...
October 31st, 2007 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Psychology, Religion /
[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 ...
October 26th, 2007 / Drug War, Newswire /
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, ...
October 26th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire /
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 ...
October 25th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Science /
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, ...
October 25th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
October 24th, 2007 / Atheism /
[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 ...
October 23rd, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
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, ...
October 22nd, 2007 / Energy Transition, Psychology /
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 ...
October 20th, 2007 / Celebrities, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
October 20th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
October 20th, 2007 / Newswire, Psychology, Television /
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 ...
October 19th, 2007 / Critical Thought, Energy Transition /
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 ...
October 19th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
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 ...
October 18th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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. ...
October 16th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders /
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 ...
October 15th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Science /
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 ...
October 15th, 2007 / Drug War /
Last Friday I met DRCNet Executive Director David Borden at the Los Angeles Sheraton Universal, where he was attending the 2007 NORML conference. ...
October 13th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
October 13th, 2007 / Admin /
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 ...
October 12th, 2007 / Atheist of the Week /
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 ...
October 12th, 2007 / Newswire, Psychology, Religion /
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," ...
October 12th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
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 ...
October 11th, 2007 / Atheism, Critical Thought /
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 ...