POLITICS:
Palling around with terrorists - A fantastic testimony of someone who spent far more time with members of the 60’s radicals The Weathermen than Obama ever did that further illustrates the absurdity of the McCain/Palin accusation.
2007 Godless billboard-Hoboken, NJ
Regarding all that godlessness stuff going on in North Carolina - Many of us were very happy when we heard that Kay Hagan had attended an event that included the Godless Americans PAC and were very angry at the vile bigotry displayed by the Elizabeth Dole campaign because of it. But then of course Hagan’s response to the Dole campaign left us almost as angry, so angry that after donating to the Hagan campaign, Friendly Atheist wrote them a complaint letter. Also found here is the response to that letter from Hagan’s staff.
Refusing to give candy to a baby:
That’ll teach kids not to choose liberal parents!
The votes have been tallied. Find out which creationist won Thunderf00t’s 1st annual Golden Crocoduck Award. It probably won’t come as a big surprise:
STOP JENNY NEWS:
Stop Jenny has received a few more shout-outs from Steve Novella, Kristina Chew of Autism Vox, and Peter Vlasveld.
OTHER QUACK MEDICINE:
New article in Huffington Post shows authors total and complete ignorance of medical science–so what else is new? – Sloane Barnett writes about allergies in children, and to quote PalMD:
She is about as well-informed about health issues as Bill O’Reilly is about anger management.
Yau-Man Chan discusses growing up with Chinese “medicine”
Atheist author Julian Barnes discusses death and atheism – In this interview he makes one point that I found particularly interesting:
America is one grand exception indeed. America manages to combine extreme materialism with extreme religiosity, and it is a bizarre thought that in this presidential cycle, we could have had a woman in the White House, we might have a black man in the White House, but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell, all too literally.
AND NOW FOR A MOMENT OF SCIENCE:
Motor Protein Found That Rewinds DNA – “Two biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered the first of a new class of cellular motor proteins that “rewind” sections of the double-stranded DNA molecule that become unwound, like the tangled ribbons from a cassette tape, in “bubbles” that prevent critical genes from being expressed.”
And even though Halloween is over, how can you resist Stan Lee reciting The Raven?
