February 2012
25 posts
“The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or...”
– Miguel de Unamuno (via artoftheunbeliever)
Today in normative bullshit: "Kids who veer from... →
From the article:
Gender nonconformity tends to diminish as kids get older. And in many cases, kids with these tendencies grow up to be gay or lesbian, experts say.
[citation needed][weasel words]
It’s amazing to me the kind of bullshit that wouldn’t cut it on the Wikipedia is perfectly acceptable in the context of legitimate journalism. I have to give the article some credit in...
What today is
neil-gaiman:
Several hundred questions in. I’m not going to answer them. I am going to go to bed instead. But I did read them.
Anyway. We all know what today is.
Happy Jack Benny’s birthday.
Somewhere out there, he’s 39.
“If you look at all the religious literature written by real scholars you will...”
– Khalil Amani
This guys page is chock full of pro gay rights stuff.
I’m going to friend request him. (via stfuhatemongers)
This is pretty much it. This sums up my beef with fundamentalist Protestantism quite nicely.
January 2012
33 posts
I have realized two things tonight:
1.) White privilege means the worst thing I can be called is a racist. The appropriate response is not ”how dare you” but rather ”how so?”
2.) Phenomenalism and empiricism are not opposed. Rather, they are complementary modalities of knowledge
“How can any of these New Atheists claim that the Dinka religious tradition of...”
– Be Scofield, “Reason and Racism in the New Atheist Movement”
This is precisely why I found it so frustrating to read God Is Not Great. Hitchens kept making the equivocation error that Christianity = religion as a whole. The fact that the New Atheists as a whole cannot meaningfully...
“Palestinians are an invention of the late 1970’s”
– Newt Gingrich (via phredology)
Jesus Christ.
(via thenoobyorker)
Because there’s never been a place called Palestine prior to 1970. This guy is a historian, folks. I guess Republicans have their own history in addition to their own science. Hell, of course they do. One where everything...
Should prison inmates have the right to... →
stfuconservatives:
While you might think of masturbation as a sort of last refuge for the incarcerated—a truly inalienable freedom, given the happy proximity of the sex organs—that is not the case. In fact, a number of state prisons regard jerking off as a rule infraction. American University law professor Brenda Smith, who conducted a 50-state survey of prison masturbation policies in 2006,...
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via autumn-faery)
This is the appropriate formulation to what is commonly called “Pascal’s Wager.” I don’t think that it matters whether or not you believe in or worship god(s). Beliefs are not nearly as important as actions.
Wat is a bay of pigs
stfuconservatives:
mohandasgandhi:
afternoonsnoozebutton:
I’m sorry - did Gingrich just suggest that we aggressively overthrow Cuba with spies?
Yes, he did.
Fuck.
Iran, Cuba, Syria … JESUS. Let’s just overthrow the entire world.
We are one cannon card away from taking over the Asian continent!
-Joe
Too bad we’ll only hold it for a turn.
You know, for a guy with an advanced degree...
STFU Hatemongers: california-mountainsnake:... →
california-mountainsnake:
remember that time that black people enslaved white people for generations remember that time native americans took over europe, brought foreign diseases and slaughtered most of their civilsations and forced them to convert religions or be brutally murdered by the…
“We’re seeing all kinds of problems, shrimp with no eyes and no baby fish. Boats...”
– Dean Blanchard, Grand Isle, LA. Once one of the largest shrimp buyers on the Gulf coast, his business has been decimated by crude contamination that continues to roll in on his beach community that is closest to the BP Horizon well. Read more: A Gulf Chorus Fights BP’s PR War (via nrdc)
I really...
