Via Pharyngula. Best summation of the American political environment EVAR.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Should math be taught in schools?
Recently all Miss USA candidates were asked if evolution should be taught in schools.
The actual answers. Watch at your own peril.
The answers were varied, and most overwhelmingly indicated that they did not personally believe evolution. That’s an appalling statement on American education and the iron grip the religious right holds over our country. While there were a couple of definite “yes” answers, many “yes” answers were of the variety “well we should teach both sides”. It’s such an appalling state that so many believe there’s “two sides”. If we teach whatever anybody believes, we must also include creation stories from Hinduism, Daosim, Pastafarianism, Raelianism, and so on. It’s not just evolution and the Abrahamic faiths. Evolution differs from all of the creation stories in one important respect: It has evidence. It’s science. It’s not faith based. We should not teach religion in schools, but we should teach science. Creationism in all it’s varied forms (including Intelligent Design) is RELIGION. Period.
Consider this from another angle: what if the question was “Should we teach Math in schools?”
I think we should teach both sides: Math and … um, not-math.
Yep, this about sums it all up
Why Michelle Bachman as a presidential candidate may not be as absurd as you would think.
http://motherjones.com/media/2011/06/zina-saunders-michele-bachmann-hymn
Carl Sagan was a Mormon?!?
In some random internet surfing I ran across this: http://famousdeadmormons.com/index.php?id=208
The Mormons have a habit of posthumously baptizing famous people into the Mormon religion. Some of them are really amusing. This site has listed some of the more interesting names, including:
Carl Sagan,
Groucho Marx,
Alexander the Great,
George Carlin,
Frank Zappa,
George Orwell,
Eazy-E,
Jack Ruby,
Bing Crosby,
Joey Ramone,
Betty Page,
Buddy Ebsen,
Fred Rogers,
Shemp Howard,
Steve McQueen,
Lee Harvey Oswald,
Karen Carpenter,
Earnest Hemingway,
Babe Ruth,
Wolfman Jack,
John F. Kennedy,
Joan of Arc,
Imhotep,
Timothy Leary,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
Oral Roberts,
John Candy,
Nostrodamus,
Pope John Paul II,
King Arthur,
Pocahontas,
Hunter S. Thompson,
Karl Marx,
Sam Kinison,
Andre the Giant,
Malcolm X,
James Dean,
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz,
Jimmy Hoffa,
Johnny Cash,
Vlad the Impaler (better known as Count Dracula),
Attila the Hun,
Sid Vicous and Nancy Spungen,
Candy Barr (famous stripper),
and Anna Nicole Smith
just to name some of the more amusing ones.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
God is not good
If you're a follower of any Abrahamic religions, it's hard to argue with the Bible's own evidence about who God is.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Where the hell is my giant robot, Dawkins?
This is actually quite funny, with just a hint of supercreepy. The very thought of anyone organizing atheists into an army bent on world conquest is completely laughable. Sorry, we just don't work that way. Not to mention that most of us, Dawkins included, are ardent pacifists as well.
But then they warn the Christians to get their sword and fight off the evil atheists. Um, what? Is this more of that Bush era "strike first" kind of thing? It's more than a little creepy that there are Christians out there who might take this video seriously.
Let me make one thing clear: I'm not fighting a war for Richard Dawkins or anybody until I get my own giant fucking killer robot.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
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