2006-09-29
The US is now officially a totalitarian state.
I'm ashamed to be an American now.
A Tiny Revolution: Time To Make Your Reservations On The Shuttle To Mars: "This is precisely, exactly, 100% the kind of the law that authoritarian governments have had on their books throughout history as they merrily tortured and killed their own citizens. Now it's coming to the U.S. It's no joke.This is precisely, exactly, 100% the kind of the law that authoritarian governments have had on their books throughout history as they merrily tortured and killed their own citizens. Now it's coming to the U.S. It's no joke."
A Tiny Revolution: Time To Make Your Reservations On The Shuttle To Mars: "This is precisely, exactly, 100% the kind of the law that authoritarian governments have had on their books throughout history as they merrily tortured and killed their own citizens. Now it's coming to the U.S. It's no joke.This is precisely, exactly, 100% the kind of the law that authoritarian governments have had on their books throughout history as they merrily tortured and killed their own citizens. Now it's coming to the U.S. It's no joke."
2006-09-19
Atheist pride
The Blog David Horton: Atheist pride The Huffington Post: "(We) (n)eed some politicians to stand up to the force of religion in society. To say, no I don't go to church, no I don't read the bible, and yes, I do have my own values based on liberal humanism. And most of all we need to standup and say 'Yes, I am an atheist, and proud of it'."
2006-09-08
EvolutionBlog : The Trouble With Moderation
Another reason why I'm an atheist without apology.
EvolutionBlog : The Trouble With Moderation: "So the choices are clear. The Bible describes a scenario that is pretty much what you would expect if the world were created for man by God. Everything we've learned from science tells us that view is wrong. You can either reject the uncomfortable bits of science and cling to the Bible, as the fundamentalists do, or you can accept what the evidence seems to be saying, as atheists do. The third option is moderation, where you twist the Bible out of all recognition to reconcile it with modern science (and then deny vigorously that that is what you are doing), and graft a groundless, “But God started it all!” onto a body of scientific knowledge that has no need of that hypothesis."
EvolutionBlog : The Trouble With Moderation: "So the choices are clear. The Bible describes a scenario that is pretty much what you would expect if the world were created for man by God. Everything we've learned from science tells us that view is wrong. You can either reject the uncomfortable bits of science and cling to the Bible, as the fundamentalists do, or you can accept what the evidence seems to be saying, as atheists do. The third option is moderation, where you twist the Bible out of all recognition to reconcile it with modern science (and then deny vigorously that that is what you are doing), and graft a groundless, “But God started it all!” onto a body of scientific knowledge that has no need of that hypothesis."
2006-09-07
Democrats ARE better than Republicans.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Sullum on Internet Gambling Arrests: "I'm thinking seriously about voting Democratic this fall and in 2008, regardless of who is actually running, simply because the constituent groups that the Democrats have to please are less frightening to me than the constituent groups the Republicans have to please. "
