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Monthly Archive: June 2012
Jun 26 2012
Bravo, Germany!
I think this is an excellent decision. In a decision that has caused outrage among Jewish and Muslim groups, the court said that a child’s right to physical integrity trumps religious and parental rights. The case involved a doctor who carried out a circumcision on a four year-old that led to medical complications. Thousands of …
Jun 26 2012
Episode CCCXLII: Nice flying machine you got there
I think I would like one just like this. (Episode CCCXXXXI: The backwater gospel.)
Jun 26 2012
Mark your calendars
Melody Hensley of CFI has just announced a tentative date of 17-19 May 2013 for Women In Secularism 2. I guess the first one was a big success!
Jun 26 2012
The American Atheists’ Code of Conduct
The right way to do it: I was just in a conference call with American Atheists, in which they announced a specific policy on harassment that they will be implementing at all of their future conferences, starting with the Minnesota regional conference in August. Here’s the template: every conference should be using something like this. …
Jun 26 2012
How could it be possible? It is miraculous!
Harun Yahya has a youtube channel, and it is surreal. He sponsors these panels of attractive young women with grossly overdone makeup — is he catering to his interpretation of how Western women are supposed to look? I don’t know, it’s just weird — and they talk about science in stilted, broken English for an …
Jun 26 2012
The Skepticism of Russell Blackford
A clamor has arisen to elevate a comment by psanity to the top. What is it with this poetry stuff that resonates in our brains? The Skepticism of Russell Blackford In situations safe or septic, It’s always best to be a skeptic. Confronted by a mugger’s gun, I query, “Is that loaded, son?” I note, …
Jun 26 2012
Why I am an atheist – Siobhan Duffey
I wasn’t going to write one of these. Pontificating is a joy and all, but honestly, the answer’s pretty simple. I gave the matter some thought on and off over the years until I shed religion like a snake sloughing off an old skin. No revolution required. Then I got dragged to the Veteran’s Day …
Jun 26 2012
Thunderf00t replies
I’ll confine myself to addressing just two points in his rebuttal. He accuses me of strawmanning his argument by claiming that he’s taking a black and white view of anti-harassment policies — that they should be either do-nothing or full-weight-of-the-law. He now explains that that’s not the case, he endorses using all kinds of intermediate …
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