As you read this, the Trophy Wife™ and I are zooming down I94, on our way to a pleasant weekend together in Madison for the Freedom from Religion Convention. Our hotel does have wi-fi, so have no fear — I won’t be out of touch. And perhaps I’ll have tales of Julia Sweeney and Christopher Hitchens to share with you all.
If you’re in Madison, too, don’t forget: Saturday, 12-2, at Brocach is the IIDB/Pharynguloid meetup.
When they say “Judeo-Christian”, they actually mean “Judeo–Christian,” and they actually hope it means “Jews-for-Jesus-Christian” someday.
It’s all good as long as it translates into more book sales to bigots.
Al Gore and the IPCC have won the 2007 Nobel Peace prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
Now run for president, Al — we need someone with the respect of the international community to repair all that our current chief nitwit has broken.
Now you must donate to my DonorsChoose challenge. For the honor of the godless.
One of those pathetic appeasers has made this an issue of the charity of atheists, has accused us of being “cheap bastards”, and claims that his weak-kneed, wobbly camp of wooly-headed apologists for delusion are more generous than we are, and more interested in promoting science education. We know he’s wrong, of course, but hey, when they let theologians use them for a doormat, it’s understandable that they might be burdened with lots of foolish ideas.
I gave them a 10 day head start. Now this means we have to fire up and give him a good kick in the ass as we pass him by.
Let’s donate now. Every penny sent to these teachers is now a symbol of the moral superiority of freethinkers.
By the way, you can also win prizes, like an iPod and Seed subscriptions for your donations. But we don’t care. We’re going to donate simply because we’re good people.
I was sitting down this evening to write up this nifty new paper from the Carroll lab, when I noticed that Carl Zimmer beat me to it. Dang. There are all these other bloggers around here, and it’s hard to keep on top of all of them, all at once.
Go read it anyway. It’s good stuff, all about the importance of regulatory changes in evolution.
We’ve got a question going around: it’s been a good year for Europe in the Nobel Prizes, so what does it mean for American science? Are we slipping? Is there a European bias?
I must be the last one to hop on this bandwagon — only because I had to give everyone else a chance first, you know, I wouldn’t want to drain all the donors* — but now it’s about time I joined in. Scienceblogs is working to raise money for teachers, and we need you all to chip in and donate to DonorsChoose. Go ahead and donate to any of the projects on the Scienceblogs leaderboard, or you can donate to the
specific projects in the Pharyngula challenge. It’s all a good deal, because Seed will match funds, up to $15000.
So come on, dig into your pockets, and hand over a little cash to the deserving cause of science education.
*Actual reason: because I suck. But you all knew that.
John is right. This is in the running for the dumbest theist argument ever.
Here’s a nice collection of anti-creationism cartoons, all in one place. Very handy!
(via Greg Laden)
