There’s Evolution for Dummies and Windows for Dummies, so why shouldn’t there be an Atheism for Dummies? I can think of quite a few smart folks and, umm, more than a few dummies, that could use that book. Dale McGowan is the author of Parenting Beyond Belief and executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, he’s finishing up a book by that very name, and he takes a crack at addressing why its just now being written: [Read more…]
If Curiosity survives its harrowing descent early next month in one functional piece, it will bring an alien world into focus like no other probe has done before. [Read more…]
This chart explains it all. The very, very top sliver, we’re talking maybe one person in ten thousand, gets an enormous haul every time the tax rate is lowered a single tenth of one percent. Look at those numbers: People have raped and killed and laid waste to entire nations for less.
Texas governor Rick Perry has a brilliant plan to reverse his state’s dismal insurance ranking: refuse to implement the Affordable Care Act: [Read more…]
Chalk one up for religious intolerance. Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize winner, Abdus Salam, who pioneered theoretical work leading to the God-damn particle, worships the wrong God, or the wrong prophet, or something. So Pakistan’s government, being the nuclear armed medieval embarrassment they are, has stricken his name from textbooks. [Read more…]
Now live streaming (Remarks concluded). President Obama is scheduled for a presser within the hour. Topic: tax cuts for the middle class vs the rich. The chart above revisits the source of the deficit Republicans like to howl about — whenever democrats are in the WH: the Bush tax cuts, the Bush wars, and the Bush recession. Prepared remarks below the fold.
A video has surfaced of resurgent Taliban chieftains executing a women for the horrific crime of … adultery. She was tortured and shot for allegedly cheating on her husband, summarily killed while dozens of male onlookers cheered: [Read more…]
Ernest Borgnine has passed away. The iconic actor was best known — at least to me — for his role as Lucifer in Devil’s Rain, a movie so panned by critics it ended the film career of director Robert Fuest. Borgnine was 95 years-old.
Democrats are homing in on Mitt Romney’s offshore holdings and presumed penchant for avoiding US taxes: [Read more…]
Most of the time the discussion between creationists and everyone else centers on science. Creationists feel they can discredit the science and weaken acceptance of evo, we knock down the zombie lies hoping they will come to their sense. But theologically, they can’t do that, ever, and still be consistent: [Read more…]