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Pharyngula’s PZ Myers has a penchant for certain sorts of creatures. It would be really fun to hand him one of these full of hot cocoa:
Archive for February, 2012
Republicans Have Driven Out One Of The Few That Are Still Human: Snowe To Retire
February 28th, 2012 
Greg Laden Olympia Snow, of Maine, one of the few Republicans that is not an embarrassment to the rest of humanity, will retire. She’s had enough of the political climate her compatriots have created: …she said she was swayed by the increasing polarization in Washington. “Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in [...]
Good Financial News, and Romney on Burning Hair
February 28th, 2012 Greg Laden For the first time since George Bush ruined the economy, the Down Jones Industrial Average has closed above 13,000 points. Republicans have declared this a bad thing and blamed it on Obama. Details at 11. In related news, unemployment is down, and consumer confidence is up, and many regional housing markets are starting to show [...]
The Virginia Senate has Approved Revenge Rape Bill
February 28th, 2012 Greg Laden Women who exercise their legal and constitutional right to make their own reproductive and medical decisions in Virginia will henceforth be subjected to what amounts to being raped by a robotic device that looks inside their uterus in the hopes that something in there looks like a person, which can be photographed and show to [...]
Keith Ellison on the Burning of the Koran
February 28th, 2012 Greg Laden From an interview on WCCO: “When a Koran gets old and worn out and the spine is breaking on it because it’s just old and people have used it a lot … the way you retire the book is that you burn it, and you bury the ashes,” he told WCCO Radio.
Grappling with Diversity in the process of Selection
February 27th, 2012 Greg Laden The issue of diversity is being discussed, from several different angles, among the Freethoughtblogs community and others. This is a list of posts you might want to have a look at. This is especially important in relation to maintaining or enhancing diversity when you are engaged in some sort of selection process: Hiring, making a [...]
School Shooting Chardon, Ohio, And Other Tragedy
February 27th, 2012 Greg Laden Did you hear about the death of the high school student? The young man was a friend of my daughter’s; they knew each other since Kindergarten. I use the term “friend” loosely because they did not hang out together a lot over the years, but when someone is a neighbor and a school mate for [...]
One Percenter Is Jerk To Waitress
February 27th, 2012 Greg Laden Will Cain is also a jerk, I’m guessing (never heard of him before).
Can your earliest memory be as a newly fertilized egg?
February 27th, 2012 Greg Laden People argue over how early a real memory can be. There are essentially two (valid) camps: Some suggest that memory is so closely tied to linguistic processing and symbolic thinking, which is thought to emerge after a year or so of life, that memories of the first few months of life are impossible. Others disagree, [...]
A tale of two polls: Santorum may win Michigan Primary
February 27th, 2012 Greg Laden Two different polls paint very different pictures for Tuesday’s primary in Michigan. The PPP Poll released February 26ths puts Romney ahead of Santorum and makes a very solid argument that Romney is ahead and that it will be difficult for Santorum to move enough voters into his camp to take the lead. The Mitchell Research [...]
Posted in Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum 
Tags: Election 2012, Michigan Primary, Primaries, Romney, Santorum 
5 Comments »The Government of the Netherlands Routinely Kills Netherlanders When They Least Expect it
February 26th, 2012 Greg Laden Therefore, most people in the Netherlands don’t go to hospitals if they are sick. If they are sick they go to another country, because if they walk into one of the hospitals in their own country, they will be killed against their will. I am not making this up. The man who has a better [...]
Help save Budget Travel from certain Blogospheric Destruction
February 26th, 2012 Greg Laden Which is what will have to happen if they actually list the Kentucky Creation Museum as one of the top 15 places kids should see before they are of 15 years age. Budget Travel is running this crowd source internet poll and of course the Fundies are out in force clicking on the Creation Museum, [...]
Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories
February 26th, 2012 Greg Laden Freethought House, a new publishing company, has released its first pre-release of a release regarding the book Atheist Voices of Minnesota. Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories will be a collection of autobiographical writings from 36 atheists living in or from Minnesota, available September 2012. The book will be a unique outreach [...]
Republican Primaries: Let’s reorient
February 26th, 2012 Greg Laden First, I want to remind you that I totally predicted the current situation with Santorum vis-a-vis Romney. Just so you know. And, that situation is that Santorum has become a factor in the primary, and has had a steady position in the race, while Gingrich and Romney have sea sawed. Ron Paul is irrelevant. But [...]
Politics and Death
February 25th, 2012 Greg Laden I’ve had nothing to offer on the blog today because I was off doing political activism: Stuffing envelopes and discussing important policy positions and stuff. Then, Amanda and I went to a play, which was terrible. Well, actually, the play was great, but it was about a terrible topic in which almost everybody dies. Nice [...]
SUBMIT YOUR SHORT FILMS TO THE ATHEIST FILM FESTIVAL!
February 24th, 2012 Greg Laden Want the opportunity to share your cinematic vision with hundreds of other atheists, skeptics, and freethinkers on the big screen, and a chance to win $250? Every year, the Atheist Film Festival in San Francisco features a selection of provocative, engaging, thought-provoking, and/or hilarious short films. Whether you’re an amateur filmmaker, pro, semi-pro, or never [...]
Interesting gun-related facts
February 24th, 2012 Greg Laden There are somewhere between about 200 and 2.5 millino “defensive gun uses” per year, depending on who you ask. The truth is closer to 200 (Estimating Defensive Gun Uses Reasonably) MILF does not mean Mothers Into Legal Firearms (but they’re not really legal) (ATF Busts Real Housewives Buying Guns for Cartels) There is a nationwide [...]
Carroll County Maryland Employees to Take Bible Class?
February 24th, 2012 Greg Laden Yeah, more or less: Carroll County commissioners have asked county employees to attend a seminar on the Maryland Constitution led by a conservative Christian minister, sparking accusations that local officials are overstepping the boundary between church and state. The minister in question is David Whitney, who is one of those guys who thinks he can [...]
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