December 14, 2007 – 10:27 am
to all of those who voted for that Christmorgasmic resolution in Congress - on the penultimate night of Chanukkah! Maybe they’ll celebrate the wonders of that holiday on the 12th Day of Christmas.
Please take time to thank the 9 who had the guts to vote against this unconstitutional travesty (and monumental waste of time):
Rep. [...]
December 13, 2007 – 11:43 am
Sometimes to find hope for the future we have to look to the past. In the excellent book Jewish Travellers, you can read the travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela in Navarre, the most famous of Jewish travellers in the late Middle Ages. He finished the travels he describes in 1173:
[The [...]
December 11, 2007 – 4:08 pm
Thom Hartmann argued for that premise on his national radio program this morning, saying that atheism is a system of belief that often inspires its adherents to spread the word evangelically. Hartmann also tried to say that the only true atheists were agnostics, because agnostics “don’t know” and therefore rarely proselytize, whereas atheists proselytize and [...]
December 10, 2007 – 10:48 am
As an atheist, I find it telling when religious believers, monotheistic or otherwise, tie themselves in knots trying to find loopholes or excuses for behavior which runs counter to their faith’s own teaching. So, they believe in a higher power, they just believe that their god(s) either got it wrong, have been interpreted wrongly [...]
December 3, 2007 – 10:35 am
From the ever on-point Mr. Fish:
Mr. Fish’s doppelgänger, Dwayne Booth, has an unusual interview with Dennis Kucinich here.
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November 30, 2007 – 3:53 pm
When you allow your courts to charge 12-year-olds as adults, it’s hard to deny an 8th grader the right to passive suicide:
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion that might have helped him, the [...]
November 13, 2007 – 12:07 pm
Or for an end to global warming?
Georgia’s drought has prompted religious leaders to ask churches across the state Sunday to pray for rain.
You could say it all started back in June when Governor Sonny Perdue spoke to the Georgia Farm Bureau.
PERDUE: I Believe in the God that can make it rain and we need to [...]
November 1, 2007 – 12:12 pm
Over at American Prospect, republished by Common Dreams, I could not help but notice this article, it being a fact that major media control of our country is a major concern to me. Paul Waldman talks about the sound bites that pretend to be Democratic Presidential debates and Russert’s question to the candidates [...]
October 30, 2007 – 7:24 am
Some sinisterly attired Russian Orthodox Church members hold a rally and burn Harry Potter books. One of them looks like Santa Claus in Laibach drag.
Found at English Russia
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September 19, 2007 – 11:31 am
From a transcript of a roundtable yesterday between pro-war bloggers and Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, Commander, U.S. detention facilities in Iraq (where there are now at least 25,000 detainees):
STONE: We are now almost full-bore into all of our new programs … to understand who we’ve got and what their orientation towards religion, their [...]
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