For us science wonks thermodynamics is the study of heat and work and those properties of substance related to heat and work. But for creationists, it’s the basis for a prized whopper endlessly passed off as fact in the fundamentalist jihad against natural history. A recent editorial offers up the classic zombie lie: [Read more…]
Where does Mitt Romney stand? Slate.com put together this video of the incredibly talented Mr. Romney. And after watching him speak in his own words … you will have absolutely no idea where Mitt Romney stands on a woman’s right to choose or anything else.
Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has passed away after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. She was only 61 years-old. [Read more…]
I suppose, in a roundabout way, pretty much any human behavior could be due to evolution for one reason or another. Can’t fire guns without hands and fingers for example. But when Tom DeLay tried to blame the Columbine shooting on teaching evolution he was roundly ridiculed. It’s not clear what was going through Pastor Rick Warren’s mind when he posted a similar sounding tweet, but the coverup that followed suggests he might have something to hide: [Read more…]
A new conference just concluded where the NCAA announced harsh sanctions against the Penn State football program including fines, bans, and retroactively removing years of winning seasons from the official stats in the wake of the child abuse cases swirling around Jerry Sandusky: [Read more…]
BTW, I’m back on a regular schedule, so we’ll be back to science and atheism and all that fun stuff tomorrow. I was off for a few days and made the most of it. Before that I tried to set up some timed posts, but that turned out to exceed my capabilities or something … . I’m glad I missed most of the news coverage. This U2 song kept flitting through my mind whenever I’d catch an update, even though it doesn’t really fit.
So now we’ll hear about how normal he was, wouldn’t hurt a fly, just your average kid who liked science and video games — and collected asault ammo by the bucketful: [Read more…]
I took two days off, had a great relaxing time, no internet or TV, which was awesome. The moment I got back and turned on cable I see some nutcase wearing a Kevlar vest and a gas mask walked into a Batman premiere and opened fire, killing a dozen people and injuring dozens more: [Read more…]
Patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel. Battered by revelations of offshore accounts, ducking taxes, and outsourcing US jobs, Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu decides to go all Samuel Johnson and says Obama is not American enough, nod nod wink wink: [Read more…]
It’s an old joke, punchline, politics. If those politics included things like social justice, income and marriage equality, beefing up programs for the poor and unemployed, stuff even a non believer like myself knows Jesus spoke about almost exclusively, the religious right might not take such a credibility hit. But instead it’s almost solely composed of causes that are either outright silly, or worse, restrict liberty and damage the economy, in the purported name of the Lord-eh. South Carolina’s GOP actually thinks their narrow conservative platform was inspired by God herself: [Read more…]