2009-01-30
Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom: Scientific American
Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom: Scientific American: "“The more homosexuality, the more peaceful the species”"
I could have told you that.
I could have told you that.
2009-01-26
Ed Brayton knows what Patriotism SHOULD be.
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 proclaim. It is a cliche, but it remains true that actions speak far louder than words."
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 proclaim. It is a cliche, but it remains true that actions speak far louder than words."
2009-01-20
President Barack Obama acknowledges our existence.
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.
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.
2009-01-12
A Spirited Misunderstanding | Center for Inquiry
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
"(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
2008-10-10
Fuck your God!
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 one—each one—because it offends your God.
Fuck your God."
Nod to PZ Myers.
Fuck your God."
Nod to PZ Myers.
2008-08-22
Pharyngula: In which my disgust with the Democratic Party grows
Once again, the wonderful and irrepressible PZ Myers: "...prayer...(is) the equivalent of masturbation, only it provides an even lesser sense of accomplishment."
2008-08-19
I've fallen deeply in love with Amanda Marcotte.
After reading this quote. Figuratively that is; I'm not switching sides or anything.
pandagon.net: "Touchy religious nuts can completely fuck off."
pandagon.net: "Touchy religious nuts can completely fuck off."