Amidst all these indignant Christians in Indiana and elsewhere insisting that it is their right to be uncharitable snots to people who don’t obey their orders about who to love, there are some good stories, too. The Oakland A’s baseball team is having an LGBT Night.
That’s not the good part, although it is mighty decent of them.
A bunch of Oakland A’s fair-weather fans are upset about that, and are trying to sell off their tickets for that night.
That’s definitely not the good part, either.
All my Canadian friends are chattering about James Lunney right now, a member of parliament who resigned from his party because people were making fun of his deeply held and cherished beliefs…like his views on evolution.
The SPLC has identified eight active Hate Groups in Minnesota. This is so un-Minnesotan: we’re only supposed to have Passive Aggressive Groups here. In case you want to know who to avoid on your trip to the Mall of America or the Spam Museum, here’s the abbreviated list:
It’s an interesting discussion, focusing on the famous The Spandrels Of San Marco paper, but also talking generally about SJ Gould’s ego (it was big and ambitious), and how to properly do an evolutionary research program.
Good. I am tired of it, and I studiously avoided all the nonsense on the web yesterday. With one exception. I thought this one bit of humor was nice. I’ll allow it.
This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly.
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One of Kent Hovind’s buddies has recorded a long phone call with the guy in jail. It’s exactly what would wind him up: he was asked to critique the Hovind wikipedia page, so it was an excuse to talk about himself for an hour. Here’s the whooooole thing.
Jon Ronson has written a book about public shaming (confession: I have not read it yet, but I have read Ronson’s other books and enjoyed them greatly), So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
This video explaining why so many Americans are circumcised is funny…but it’s also accurate.
