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From Dara Lind: Here’s a requirement from the eighth-grade curriculum, under “Citizenship”: The student is expected to…analyze reasons for and the impact of selected examples of civil disobedience in U.S. history such as the Boston Tea Party and Henry David Thoreau’s refusal to pay a tax. Yes, it’s hilarious that the curriculum glosses over the fact [...]
Archive for May, 2010
The Texas State Board Of Education On Activism
May 23rd, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Are Noble Lies “Blasphemous”?
May 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Renegade Roman Catholic Andrew Sullivan is harsh with his condemnation of those who think we should “insincerely support religious faith because it is good for others or for society is”, calling this a “profound blasphemy” and cynical, and saying he respects us atheists and agnostics who outright reject faith more than both those noble lie [...]
Biblical Scientific Inaccuracy
May 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Some of these biblical scientific inaccuracies are really eye opening, not merely things which can be chalked up to “metaphors” but portions of the text which plainly mean to be taken literally which are absurdly wrong. Oh, and the opening is hilarious: Thanks to Victoria for the great find! Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Bible, Biology, Creationism, Religion, Religion and Science, Religulous 
Tags: Biblical Literalism, Deuteronomy 14:6-7, Genesis 30:37-43, Genesis 3:14, I Chronicles 16:30, I Samuel 2:5, Job 37:18, Job 9:6, Job 9:7, Leviticus 11:13, Leviticus 11:19, Leviticus 11:20-23, Leviticus 14:33-57, Psalms 18:7 
No Comments »Teachers Accused Of Bullying Atheist Colleague
May 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke South Florida News reports: The district is looking into whether the women at Ely High School tried to bully the counterpart into becoming a believer. “The students whom I interviewed said that’s absolutely untrue,” said Fort Lauderdale attorney Johnny McCray, who represents both teachers, Leslie Rainer and Djuna Robinson. He says the two didn’t have [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Civil Liberties, Featured, Free Speech, Law, Law & Politics, News, News Discussion, Religion, Religious Rights, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Videos Tags: Atheist Persecution, Broward County, Bullying, Djuna Robinson, Leslie Rainer, Pompano Beach High School, Victim Card No Comments »Derren Brown Investigates Bronnikov’s Claims To Make The Blind See
May 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Even if you do not have time or much interest in watching the entire 5 part exposure of the shameless fraud profiled in this video, at least do yourself a favor and watch part 5 in which he is forced to answer direct face-to-face challenges from Derren Brown. It is a true treat to watch [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Bill Maher On Alabama Gubernatorial Candidates’ Competition Over Who’s More Proudly Ignorant
May 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Great stuff: Y0ur Thoughts?
Imagining The Closet
May 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke A Daily Dish reader writes in to Andrew: A few years ago, I went on a little weekend trip with my Dad, his wife and my husband. My dad’s wife had arranged for us to get lavish accommodation at a beautiful luxury resort, because she is a conference organiser. The only caveat was that for the [...]
Ignoring Terrorism
May 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Matthew Yglesias: Apparently there was a terrorist attack on American soil earlier this week. What’s more, though fortunately nobody was killed in the attack, unlike in the much-hyped Underpants Bomber or Times Square plots, the perpetrator actually managed to build a working bomb. But somehow this attack, despite its greater technical sophistication, hasn’t obtained nearly the [...]
Daily Hilarity: Grading Rubric
May 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke This is really, really what it’s like to grade: Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Sir Ian Finds The Poetry In Television Themes
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke His name is Hunter Davis. (via)
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, TV, Videos Tags: Charles in Charge, Ducktales, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Popeye, Sir Ian McKellen No Comments »Christopher Hitchens On “Crucibles: Past and Present”
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke A couple of weeks ago, Christopher Hitchens delivered “The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture” and then was interviewed by Salman Rushdie. During the speech he quoted this superb poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Conscientious Objector I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him [...]
“The Closet Game!”
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke ZJ responds to Steve King’s oblivious and cruel suggestion to the effect that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act would not be necessary if only gays, lesbians and the transgendered would stay in the closet: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Videos Tags: anti-gay conservatives, bigotry, bisexual, businesses, closeted, Discrimination, employees, employers, employment, enda, Family Research Council, firing, frc, gender identity, glbt, glbtq, heterosexual, hiring, Homophobia, homosexual, homosexuality, in the closet, iowa congressman, Law, lesbian, LGBT, lgbtq, non-discrimination act, openly gay, promotion decisions, queer, representative, sexual orientation, Sexuality, Steve King, straight, Transgender, zinnia jones, zj, ZJemptv No Comments »Kagan Called A Pro-Separation Of Church And State Opinion Dumb
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Secular Coalition for America writes: In a 1987 dissent in the case of Bowen v. Kendrick, Justice Stevens, along with three other highly respected justices, addressed significant problems with a statute which gave government funds to religious organizations which in turn “educated” teens about sex and pregnancy. The justices understood that such a statute would [...]
Nigerian Witch-Hunter Tries To Silence Critics
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Below is the just the first two parts of the British documentary “Saving Africa’s Witch Children”, which exposes the horrendous child abuse carried out in Africa under the pretense of exorcism, followed by today’s New York Times article relaying the denials and excuses offered by Helen Ukpabio, a dangerous promoter of these heinous practices: [Helen] Ukpabio’s critics [...]
The Best Of Shepard Smith: Taking On BP, Torture, Anti-Vaxers, Glenn Beck, Joe The Plumber, & More
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke FOX News’s one passionately sane and moral voice last week went after BP executive Tony Hayward for his flippant attitude towards the ecological disaster his company has recently wrought. The man is an oasis amidst his network’s cynical demagoguery and sincere lunacy. And, of course, there is his passionate denunciation of torture from over a [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Civil Liberties, Law, Law & Politics, News, News Discussion, Politics, Videos Tags: AIG bonuses, Anti-Vaccination, Birthers, BP, BP Oil Spill, Brian Kilmeade, CDC, Chris Wallace, FOX News, Gretchen Carlson, H1N1 Vaccinations, Israel, Jane Skinner, Joe The Plumber, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Katrina, Media Bias, Naomi Wolf, Ralph Nader, Sam Wurzelbacher, Shepard Smith, Steve Doocy, Sue Field, Tony Hayward, Torture, Torture As Part Of Interrogation, Torture Memos No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Incredibly Easy Moral Dilemmas
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Do theists even believe themselves when they say that atheists would not be able to know right from wrong without religion? Do they really think we’d reply like the guy in green in that cartoon? (Cartoon courtesy of Chaos Pet, of course.) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Comedy, Comic Strips, Hilarious Tags: Chaos Pet, Moral Dilemmas No Comments »“Official” Muslim Response To “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day”
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Do you like boring propaganda idolizing a self-aggrandizer who was keen on declaring the superiority of his own personal moral righteousness and presuming to speak for “God”? Do you like being yelled at by preachers who substitute volume for intellectual substance to try to stir emotion in you (and then follow up with whispered prayers [...]
Posted in Islam, Koran Tags: "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day", Mohammed, Muhammad, MuslimYTEmirate No Comments »Women’s Ordination: Another Route To Automatic Excommunication
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Not only does approving an abortion necessary to save a woman’s life in a case where her fetus would die in either case get you automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, but so does seeking ordination while being female. Lifelong Catholic Janine Denomme this week was denied a Roman Catholic burial for having the [...]
Muhammad Returns With Updated Laws
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Praise Allah! He has sent his Prophet back to us with an updated set of moral rules. Finally the conflict between Islamic and Western values has been peaceably resolved as Allah now is demanding a modernization of values in the Islamic world! Your praises for Allah and pledges of allegiance to Muhammad’s new Sha’ria?
Posted in Islam, Religion, Religious Satire Tags: "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day", Mohammed, Muhammad, ZOMGitsCriss No Comments »Miserable Pastors
May 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Via Pharyngula comes a bleak picture of what is going on in the lives, hearts, and minds of Evangelical pastors: Another article reveals even more telling statistics based on a survey of 1,050 evangelical Pastors (note these are evangelical pastors not liberal pastors): 89% considered leaving the ministry at one time. 57% said they would leave [...]
Daily Hilarity: “Any Type Of Hug Is A Gateway Hug”
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke As we already learned previously, young Evangelical Christians are just mad crazy about the side hug: (Thanks to Chris!) More stuff evangelicals like. (Hint, premarital kissing is not one of them.) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Music Videos, Religious Satire, Religulous, Videos Tags: Rap Parodies, Side Hugs, Stuff Christian Culture Likes No Comments »Pakistan Blocks Access To Facebook Over “Draw Mohammed Day”
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Out of solidarity with the recently threatened South Park creators, tomorrow will be “Draw Mohammed Day”, an international day of defiance and protest by secularists against religious extremists’ attempts to silence free expression through death threats. A Facebook group was created advertising this event. Pakistan considers Facebook‘s willingness to allow such free speech so inappropriate [...]
Posted in Cultural Secularism, Islam, News, News Discussion, Political Secularism, Religious Extremism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats, World Affairs Tags: Depictions of Mohammed, Draw Mohammed Day, Facebook, Khoram Ali Mehran, Mohammed, Muhammad, Pakistan, South Park No Comments »Huge, Growing, Income Gap Between Whites And Blacks In America
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Must be all that reverse racism we suffer from after 40 years of political correctness and affirmative action to blame. If only we had been listening to the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks and FOX News’s of the world all these years, we whites might have ten times the assets of our black counterparts instead [...]
Saudi Girls Pepper Spray Religious Enforcers
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke On the heals of the story we highlighted the other day in which a Saudi Woman attacked a member of the Saudi Commision for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for harassing her over her clothing, Ashaq Al-Awsat reports another heartening incident along the same lines: Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat- Members of Khobar’s Commission [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Law, News, Religious Extremism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Asharq Al-Awsat, Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Dr. Mohamed bin Marshood al-Marshood, Khobar, Saudi Arabia No Comments »RapeAway!™
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Pharyngula profiled this Egyptian ad last week, which advised women to veil themselves using an illustration: In response, BewareTheLizards42 has unveiled a new product: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Feminism, Islam, Videos, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: BewareTheLizards42, Egypt, Pharyngula No Comments »
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