The British Humanist Association, with the support of Richard Dawkins, has raised nearly £30,000 to place atheist posters on the side of buses – I have to agree with Skepchick tkingdoll and say it’s a great idea but a poor slogan: “There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life.”
Further proof that Brigham Young University is a crappy school - BYU has yanked the diploma of a man who created a calendar featuring shirtless Mormon missionaries and was later excommunicated from the church.
Mocking Noah’s Ark – Answers in Genesis isn’t laughing, but the rest of us are.
AMERICAN BIGOTRY:
Keith Olbermann goes off on crazy Minnesota congressman
But wait! There’s more! - A good Christian homeschooling mom who sees the notion of a “gay-friendly” school being blown up by radical terrorists as justice:
A friend recently sent me this article about a “gay-friendly” high school. If we were living in a biblical society, homosexuality would be punishable by death so such a school would be unnecessary. Although I’m against the special accommodations, perhaps this new trend of segregation will protect straight kids from these predators. With any luck, some radical will blow up the gay school. No, I’m not condoning vigilantism–I’m merely saying that it would be poetic justice.
Yet another reason why if heaven exists, I wouldn’t like the company.
And a bulletproof case for Obama being a Socialist Muslim.
Abortion divides Catholic voters – Some won’t vote for a candidate who is pro-choose and others have at least some measure of priorities. And here is another story related to the Catholic vote.
But at least Obama has the much coveted celebrity vote:
Revenge of the clones – “What happens when a group of streptococci stick to cells in your throat and start to make toxins? Your body fights back by making clones.”
Researchers have made a new material that promises to greatly increase the efficiency of solar cells. It works by collecting photons over a wider spectrum of wavelengths and by using both fluorescence and phosphorescence to create an electron flow, allowing it to both collect more energy per unit area and facilitating the production of current.
MacGyvering a medical centrifuge – ” Harvard University chemists have built a centrifuge with some plastic tubing, tape, and an egg beater. It can separate plasma from blood cells, and could help doctors in remote villages perform simple lab tests.”
ANTI-VACCINE NEWS:
Should Every Child By Two try to get on Oprah’s show? - I was initially in favor of it but Orac has made some good points, so I’m currently undecided on the issue.
Antivaccinationist wacko Kim Stagliano to join fellow cohorts David Kirby, RFK, Jr., and Deirdre Imus at the Huffington Post – I believe the Huffington Post’s slogan I believe is: “All the bullshit we can legally print.”
Antivaccinationist Gary Null demanding that vaccines be 100% safe! – What a freakin’ jackass! That is a False Continuum and very the height of denialism: well it isn’t 100% safe, so it’s like it’s 0% safe and I don’t want it. Seriously, this guy sounds so over the top you’d almost swear this were satire.
Phil Plait goes off on Jenny McCarthy – Wow! Phil rarely covers the antivaccine movement in his blogs but that’s 2 days in a row. Awesome!
CareerBuilder.com promoting astrology
Puncturing the Acupuncture Myth
October 23, 2008 at 12:49 pm |
The Atheist bus add was really rather amusing, I myself have just started a blog about being an Atheist in the 21st Century (rather predictably titled 21st Century Atheist :p) and was just farming around for some stories and things to add to my blogroll!
I know those posters will be such a scandal but at the same time I have been grossly offended by some of the posters I’ve seen on billboards on such.
I once saw a “Watch where you’re going” advert with a man about to step on a banana skin advertising the Family church, the difference being I know they need to recruit because their faith is failing in Britain where as this poster is obviously just supposed to be tongue in cheek.
October 23, 2008 at 1:29 pm |
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