tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54235242012-02-16T02:59:15.971-08:00Notes from a chronic exacerbater.NGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10298184467682996614noreply@blogger.comBlogger3641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423524.post-56278356206476228282009-01-30T11:30:00.000-08:002009-01-30T11:30:57.060-08:00

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom: Scientific American: "“The more homosexuality, the more peaceful the species”"I could have told you that.

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And I couldn't agree more.Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Patriotism, Conservative and Liberal: "My allegiance is not to a nation and much less to a flag, but to a set of principles. When my country supports those principles, I support my country; when it fails to do so, I do not support it. America can only be great if America is good, if our actions are in line with the ideals we so loudly

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It's a tiny mention, but a huge step.Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - Yahoo! News: "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers."Nod to Ezra Klein.

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Tom Flynn at Free Thinking writes about that problematic word that I despise, spirtual."(T)hese seasoned nurse managers were talking about patients whom the nurses believed they must not touch, or comfort, or support in any human way – out of respect for the worldviews of patients who disdain ordinary human contact because they’re not spiritual."A Spirited Misunderstanding | Center for Inquiry

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In Defense of Dignity - Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: "The proper response to religious opposition to choice or love or death can be reduced to a series of bumper stickers: Don't approve of abortion? Don't have one. Don't approve of gay marriage? Don't have one. Don't approve of physician-assisted suicide? For Christ's sake, don't have one. But don't tell me I can't have

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Once again, the wonderful and irrepressible PZ Myers: "...prayer...(is) the equivalent of masturbation, only it provides an even lesser sense of accomplishment."

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After reading this quote. Figuratively that is; I'm not switching sides or anything.pandagon.net: "Touchy religious nuts can completely fuck off."

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We are used to thinking that poverty is a "social problem" and wealth is only something to celebrate, but extreme wealth is also a social problem, and the superrich have become a burden on everyone else.This Land Is Their Land: How the Rich Confiscate Natural Beauty from the Public | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet

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Atheist Ethicist: The Pledge Project: What to Do?: "‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance has never been about allowing God in the public square. It has always been about excluding non-religious people from public office and all aspects of civic life."Nod to vjack.

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What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food | Health and Wellness | AlterNet: "...bourgeois circle jerk of olive oil and red wine enthusiasts..."

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Pharyngula: Can we please just establish this one principle?: "a less severely dangerous example of deluded fool"

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Pharyngula: Bloggers, you have a job to doExpelledExpelledExpelled

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It's Charles Darwin's 199th birthday.CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN February 12, 1809 to April 19, 1882Happy Darwin Day!

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Sara at Orcinus spells more reasons why I am now and always will be a PROUD liberal.Orcinus: "When conservatives tell us that we need constant surveillance to make us secure, what they're telling us is that they themselves are prone to criminal behavior if they think nobody else is watching. The fear of exposure is the only force keeping them on the right side of the law -- and that's why it's

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Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Sandefur on Azar Nafisi: "The problem with such cultural relativism is that by denying the universality of human rights, one no longer has a principled defense of their own freedom. If we excuse such deprivations of liberty as justifiable because that culture does not hold the same values we do, how then can we take a stand against our own culture's deprivations

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Eschaton: "Much of the time it seems that atheists are the only people who understand that importance of religious freedom, and for that we get accused of being hostile to it."

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Yet another reason why I am a liberal.The Meritocracy Myth

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Alan Dershowitz is an atheist. He has contributed to Free Inquiry. Sadly though, since 9-11 he has become a frightened child and pathetic apologist for torture and neoconservative foreign policy. He's also a secular Jew who now finds himself writing, "There are some who claim that torture is a nonissue because it never works–it only produces false information. This is simply not true, as

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Vjack has a good post about why secular humanism is important and should be more important to atheists to add moral guidance to atheism. If an atheist rejects secular humanism, you have to ask why. What do they find objectionable to the secular humanist philosophy?Atheist Revolution: "The inescapable conclusion is that some nonbelievers are white supremacists and that white supremacists are at

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And explains why we all have good reason to be angry.Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and AngerNod to PZ Myers

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Pandagon :: Depends on the goal :: October :: 2007: "If “America” is defined as a dictatorship, an occupier that has no respect for democracy, then fair enough, I’m no patriot. I wouldn’t be a patriot to Stalinist Russia, or Nazi Germany, or Pinochet’s definition of Chile. And I’m no loyalist to our current madman who has no respect for democracy that sits in office now. But when it comes to the

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Kathy Griffin Wins Emmy, Gets Censored for Jesus Remark -- Towleroad for modern gay men,: "'A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus...Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God now.'"Nod to Brent Rasmussen.

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The Panda's Thumb: So Sue Me: Dr. Stuart Pivar, NYC businessman and art collector, is a classic crackpot.Sue me, fucker!

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YouTube - The Atheist Delusion

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Atheist Revolution: "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." --Bertrand Russell

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As someone who always has to come out of the closet twice, this appeals to me greatly.The OUT CampaignNod to PZ Myers. And, of course, Richard Dawkins.

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The Primate DiariesFundamentalists: believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns."Moderate" believers: live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5."Moderate" atheists: know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say

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Nod to The Great Realization

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I scored as DemocratDemocrat92% Green83% Anarchism83% Communism67% Socialist67% Republican0% Fascism0% Nazi0% What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?created with QuizFarm.com

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Rajan Zed, director of public affairs of Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada and a Hindu chaplain was invited by Nevada Senator / Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give the first Hindu invocation before the Senate. Now, if I had my druthers, there would be NO chaplains or invocations at all, but this is a step in the right direction in that it further breaks the Judeo-Christian monopoly. However,

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What Vjack said:Atheist Revolution

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George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! George W. Bush is destroying this country!!! Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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Good stuff from Chris Mooney.The Intersection: Hollywood's Offensive and Deeply Unoriginal "Skeptic Conversion" Narrative

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Religion in this country has fought very hard to reach this point. It has now become a rotting vile poisonous putrid mass. All you "people of faith" must feel so proud right now.Pharyngula: It's not quite “We are the world”http://view.break.com/278059 - Watch more free videos

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List of songs about masturbation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Deep down, even religious believers know that the whole concept of faith is bogus.Letters from a broad...: It takes a lot of faith to believe that!!! redux!!!

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Mark Twain's "The War "Prayer"Hat tip to The Washington Monthly

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Eschaton: "'Oh, it has nothing to do with the fact that this whole thing is shady,' (Mary Tillman) said sarcastically, 'But it is because we are not Christians.'"Original story here.

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Austin Cline of About: Agnosticism/Atheism has written an excellent, as always, post about the hysteria Americans suffer over sex-offenders. His feelings are pretty much the same as mine.Jesus' General: Arresting People Who Have Committed No Crimes

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Pharyngula: The Wall: A Sunday morning story

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Orcinus: "(I am) almost certainly...the first pro-gay pro-choice howling-at-the-moon San Francisco Pagan Unitarian heathen student in (Pat Robertson's) Regent (University) history."

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Blog Against TheocracySponsored by First Freedom First.

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Christian Family Values vs. Dutch Family Values: "If a secular state with a secular society can produce so many improvements in the lives of families, all of the Christian Right's rhetoric about how conservative, evangelical Christianity is necessary for strong families is proven to be false. However important religion might be to individuals, it's not necessary to have a strong, happy,

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I'm not sure what to make of the following tidbit found at the end of this Crooked Timber post, but it is fascinating. Could it be a very early sign of the eventual collapse of religious conservatism in America? It seems to much to hope for.Crooked Timber » » Eumerica: "According to the Pew study, members of Gen Y (18-30) are about as likely to be atheists/agnostics (19 per cent) as Republicans (

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EvolutionBlog : A Note on Spirituality: "“Do you consider yourself a spiritual person.”“No,” I replied.He seemed a bit taken back of the bluntness of, and lack of hesitation in, my answer.“Really,” he said, sounding surprised. “Why not?”I said, “Well, I've never seen any evidence that would lead me to believe that there is anything beyond the material world we see around us. I don't see any

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The Scientific Activist: This Is Me Banging My Head Against the Wall: "Any party that is anti-science is one that I will actively work against, regardless of name. "

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I love Dan Savage.Savage Love Dan Savage The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: "Well, I should say that He designed straight men and straight women to be sexually incompatible. Lesbian couples, with their bags of Doritos, and gay couples, with our mutually insatiable sexual appetites, seem pretty intelligently designed. Thank you, Jesus!"P.S. Here's some great advice Savage once gave to a gay

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I guess this is a historical first, at least in the last 30 years or so. Hurray for Pete!Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cal.): first openly nontheistic member of Congress

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Pharyngula: Call me when the angels come down and do something; until then, give the credit to people: "I think all religion is good for is moral thievery—stealing the credit for the good that human beings do and passing it along to their priests and fictitious gods."

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Pharyngula: It's the arrogance, stupid: "It isn't the scientists who are the arrogant ones in th(e creation/evolution) debate, it's people who come out of 6th grade sunday school utterly convinced that they have all the answers."

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Ed Brayton has it right on this one.Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Defamation of Religion Laws: "Given the sheer insanity of this position, 'no' is hardly a strong enough answer. Try hell no. Try fuck no. Try 'over my dead body.' Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. "

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Sam Harris: This marriage of modern technology and preliterate superstition is a bad one, for reasons that I should not have to specify, much less argue for—and yet, arguing for them has taken up most of my time since September 11th, 2001, the day that nineteen pious men showed our pious nation just how beneficial religious certainty can be.

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TBogg gives more reason showing that conservatisim is destroying this country:It has become increasingly difficult to remember a more shameful period in American history than what has happened over the past six years, best exemplified by a private contractor profiting from locking up children at Christmas-time with a nod and a wink and a check from the government.

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I deny the existence of the holy spirit. I've been denying it for decades now if fact.Take the Blasphemy Challenge

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Your Language Arts Grade: 100% Way to go! You know not to trust the MS Grammar Check and you know "no" from "know." Now, go forth and spread the good word (or at least, the proper use of apostrophes).Are You Gooder at Grammar?Make a Quiz

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You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!Do you deserve your high school diploma?Create a QuizAlthough I have a big problem with this question, "According to Catholicism, does the Immaculate Conception refer to the conception of Jesus or Mary?". I new the answer (Catholic high

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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The WestYour accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.North CentralThe MidlandBostonThe SouthThe Inland

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PZ Myers, smart."There is no paradise. There is no perfection. There's just a world where we have to struggle and compromise, and in the end we all die."Deepak Chopra, idiot.

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Amy Sullivan is such a frigging tool!From Austin Cline at About: Agnosticism/Atheism: Amy Sullivan: Calling Out Religious Bigotry is Secular, Liberal Intolerance

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The Washington MonthlyFrom Kevin Drum: The Bush administration is now in the business of encouraging adults to stop having sex? Seriously? And they accuse liberals of using government power in the service of utopian social engineering?This bit from a commenter is great:Ah, blessed are the single atheists, for we have all the guilt-free sex we want.Amen to that!

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This is a great quote and it's so very true.The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.-John Kenneth GalbraithFound here: This Modern World » Blog Archive » A Tolerable Form of “Murder”

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Related links:http://www.asktheatheist.com/http://www.afterfaith.com/http://www.atheistnetwork.com/

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Couldn't agree more!Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Walcott on D'Souza's New Book

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Sign the Amnesty International Pledge HERE:The America I Believe In doesn't torture people or use cruel, inhumane treatment. . . doesn't hold people without charge, without fair trials, without hope, and without end. . .doesn't kidnap people off the street and ship them to nations known for their brutality. . .doesn't condone prisoner abuse and excuse high-ranking government officials from

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The AtheistThe results are in! You scored 1%! You generally do not believe in the existence of a higher power. Actually, you are pretty damn sure that there is no such thing. Religion has no place in your life, and you want it to stay this way ! My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:You scored higher than 0% on freaknutsLink: The Religious Nut Test

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Orcinus: Let's be frank about what is involved in a majority of these high-school shootings: a psychotic reaction to a high-school culture that permits intensive and incessant bullying and social intimidation. The latter is decidedly a product of an authoritarian mindset; returning to a system of school-sanctioned fundamentalist religious beliefs -- with all their authoritarianism intact -- would

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Religion is terrifying am i patriotic?

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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

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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'."

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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

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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. "

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EvolutionBlog : Democrats and Religion:Democrats instinctively see religion as a private matter. It seems obvious to them that there should be a solid wall of separation between church and state. Religious Democrats like Paul Begala and Jimmy Carter represent a reflective, intellectual sort of relligion. They don't mindlessly rail against science or cite Bible verses in public policy debates.

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This is depressing. America is pathetic.Pacific Views: Charles Darwin really needs a posse in the US.: "A comparison of peoples' views in 34 countries finds that the United States ranks near the bottom when it comes to public acceptance of evolution. Only Turkey ranked lower.Among the factors contributing to America's low score are poor understanding of biology, especially genetics, the

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Orcinus: "Christianism is a theocratic form of Christianity which is anti-pluralistic, designed to impose conservative Christian beliefs on American society (and eventually the world) through the use of the political system (or sometimes outright force). Christianism is a domestic crusade designed to change the country from the inside into one in which (nominally) Christian beliefs are the

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To all of you who voted Republican in the last three elections: Thanks for the dictatorship. Fuck you!Salon.com - Daou ReportAlso Glenn Greenwald:"We now learn that when Americans call their Aunt Millie, or their girlfriend, or their psychiatrist, or their drug counselor, or their priest or rabbi, or their lawyer, or anyone and everyone else, the Government is very interested. In fact, they are

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Truthdig - Dig Blog - Response to Reader Comments and Criticsm: "According the United Nations’ Human Development Report (2005), the most atheistic societies--countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom—are actually the healthiest, as indicated by measures of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita

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Hullabaloo:But I Said I Was Sorry: "Get ready to hear a lot of this whining now that the Republicans may be at the end of their looting spree. They made their money, got their judges, their tax cuts and their wars. Now it's time to put the past behind us and make nice nice. We're supposed to end to all this nastiness and forgive and forget. For the good of the country, of course.I have written

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President Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Turkey: "...our enemy in the war against terror is without conscience or faith."Fuck you George!More from Rob Sherman.

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George Walker Bush is the WORST president this nation has ever had. This country will be paying the price for his appalling presidency for generations to come and you are an idiot for voting for him in the first place and nothing short of an asshole if you continue to support him. Please never speak to me again for I have no regard for your intelligence or your judgment.

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Greg Saunders of The Talent Show has a couple of great posts up at This Modern World that have the goods on the real problem with immigration and what should be done about it.This Modern World » George Bush’s Contempt For American WorkersImmigrants are being exploited, American workers are getting screwed, and the whole debate is happenening as if these two groups of victims are on opposite sides

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Adherents.com: Atheist Statistics AgnosticNod to Jim Lippard at the Secular Outpost.

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Atheism is a legacy worth fighting for - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune: "This argument couldn't have been more wrong: The lesson of today's terrorism is that if God exists, then everything, including blowing up thousands of innocent bystanders, is permitted - at least to those who claim to act directly on behalf of God, since, clearly, a direct link to God justifies the

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Hellbound Alleee: A Civil DiscussionNod to PZ Myers.

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They hate us. What else is new. Bigotry prevails as usual.Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study : News Releases: UMNnews: U of M.

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Molly Saves the Day: 03/01/2006 - 03/31/2006: "If the government wanted to force you to donate blood monthly, would you be okay with this as legislation?What if the government passed a law mandating that all children who are able to donate blood without dying should donate blood as well as all adults?If someone living is a tissue match for someone else who needs a kidney, should the government be

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Ampersand at ALAS, a blog, has a post which does a good job of summing up why Libertarinism sounds great on the the first gloss, but when you delve deeper, has serious problems for those of us who care about both political AND economic freedom and opportunity.Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Libertarian FolliesThe flaw in Cathy's thinking - and in the thinking of most libertarians - is that she

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The problem of the religious left and atheists/secularists. They usually demand nothing less than absolute toadying from us or whine that we don't respect them.Pharyngula: No respect for Christianity...so stop demanding it: "Explaining that the Right has successfully portrayed the Left as "godless" and then talking about how wrong they are because the Left is full of good religious people and

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alicublog: "Hello, my boy is a big fag and me and Lutiebelle decided to de-fag him but good. First I gotta ask: is your program approved by the American Psychological Association? It hain't? Shoot, Lutiebelle, guess'n we all gots to take dick up the ass! Th' APA has spoken!"Go read all about NARTH, an gussied-up ex-gay organization that's wimpering like a baby because the APA won't give an

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Just one of the many, many things I have in common with George Clooney. ;-)The Blog George Clooney: I Am a Liberal. There, I Said It! The Huffington PostNod to Tom Tommorow.Update 2006-03-22: Clooney claims that he never wrote this column and that it was cobbled together, without his permission, from statements he's made. That's why the link is no good anymore.

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...sexist asshat.More than that, he's an irredeemable and rotting piece of degenerated humanity.Susie Bright's Journal : Bury My Womb At Wounded KneeAlso check out South Dakota's Bill Napoli Clinches "Asshat of the Year" Award at 2% Company.

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Amy Sullivan: Democrats Should Abandon Secularism, Church/State Separation?: "Christianity isn't an oppressed minority; Christianity is an ideology which has been behind every unjust tradition and power structure that this nation has ever experienced. Christianity doesn't need to be pandered to, it needs to be challenged, questioned, stood up to, and even mocked at times. Christians who don't get

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More on HPV. There's a vaccine. The Religous Right doesn't want it because it might hamper their agenda. These people are monsters! Read this poignant story (SteveAudio: Sister Bluebird flying high above) about this man's sister who died from cervical cancer."So I take special interest in hearing that Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council is quoted as saying: 'Giving the HPV vaccine to

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And works in a little humor too.Pharyngula: Black & White: "Developmentally speaking, fertilization is one transition state among many. It's a major bottleneck and an incredibly wasteful process-the overwhelming majority of gametes fail to fuse-but even when fertilization occurs, Nature is quite cavalier about throwing the whole thing out and requiring us to start again. Other major events in

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Atheism with a smile - Los Angeles Times: "(B)y giving atheism a human face, Sweeney confounds the notion that atheists are amoral dupes."Don't forget her blog.

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Enlightenment, Reason and Religion (Book Notes: Fighting Words): "The Enlightenment still matters because liberty and reason matter - and because there are still so many in society who are firmly opposed to both."

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You Passed 8th Grade MathCongratulations, you got 10/10 correct!Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

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International Baccalaureate is Anti-American & Anti-Christian?: "Criticizing the program for being both anti-Christian and anti-American is interesting in this context because it seems to presume that the two go together - as if true American patriotism and true Christian beliefs were in some manner related, if not the same."I have a good friend who is a high school teacher who runs the

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The Washington Monthly: "The damage that George Bush has done to the United States is going to be with us for a very long time."Sigh! Kevin Drum is so depressingly correct here. Our only hope now is that history will eventually recognize George Walker Bush for the horrible, horrible president and human being he really is and some of us have realized all along.

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