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Category Archive: Current Events
May 09 2013
Victim of Murder-for-Hire Plot a “bitch,” “cunt,” “slut,” who “probably deserved it”
You can’t make this stuff up. And you wouldn’t want to. Via Public Shaming, which I found via FreakOutNation: Tim Lambesis, the lead singer and co-founder of the Christian heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to murder his estranged wife. Many of his …
Apr 15 2013
Scattered Thoughts on the Boston Marathon Explosions
I don’t know what to say or do about the Boston Marathon thing. But I’m feeling a pointless urge to say or do something. Here are a few scattered thoughts. Boston Red Cross is reporting that they have enough blood for now. If you’re not in the Boston area, donate blood anyway. It helps the …
Feb 26 2013
Comedy Does Not Win a Free Pass: Seth MacFarlane at the Oscars
I am sick to death of the idea that “it’s just comedy” somehow gives you a free pass when you’re saying things that are racist and sexist. And I am sick to death of the idea that any transgression of social norms — no matter what those norms are, or why they exist — automatically …
Feb 05 2013
Gay Bishop Comes Up With the Worst Argument to Support Same-Sex Marriage
An atheist says Bishop Gene Robinson’s new book, “God Believes in Love,” has some major flaws. How do we convince religious believers to accept same-sex marriage? The opposition to LGBT rights in general, and to same-sex marriage in particular, overwhelmingly comes from conservative religion, founded in the religious belief that gay sex makes baby Jesus …
Jan 31 2013
My Letter to the Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America are soliciting public opinion on their policy of discriminating against gay people. Ideally they shouldn’t have to do this — they should just be able to figure out that this is wrong — but the reality is that we do often calibrate our moral compasses, at least partly, based on …
Jan 27 2013
Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Increasingly Desperate and Stupid
Wow. They’re really getting desperate. Headline and subhead from the Los Angeles Times: Gay marriage opponents take unusual tack with Supreme Court Lawyers defending the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Prop. 8 argue that marriage should be limited to opposite-sex unions because they alone can ‘produce unplanned and unintended offspring.’ Quote: “It is plainly …
Dec 29 2012
“Had the girl simply surrendered…”
Via Butterflies and Wheels, regarding the Delhi rape victim who just died: “Had the girl simply surrendered (and not resisted) when surrounded by six men, she would not have lost her intestine. Why was she out with her boyfriend at 10 pm?” These comments made by an agricultural scientist [Dr Anita Shukla] at a seminar …
Dec 20 2012
6 Outrageous Incidents of Discrimination Against Nonbelievers
Atheists are often seen as crying wolf when they speak about bigotry. But discrimination against atheists around the world is real. “Oh, you atheists are always whining about how put-upon you are. You don’t experience real discrimination: not like African Americans, or gays, or women, or immigrants. So knock it off with the pity party.” …
Dec 14 2012
The Newtown Shootings: It Is Not Too Soon to Start Talking
I have very little to say right now about the Newtown shootings. Except maybe this: It is fucking well not too soon to start talking about gun control. When abortion clinics are bombed, we start talking right away. When Hurricane Katrina happened and the levees broke, we started talking right away. When terrible tragedies happen, …
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