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Weekend Edition: 5-10

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Now That Books Mean Nothing (“As much as I may want (or have wanted) it to be so, books haven’t been a sufficient comfort or diversion as I prepared to lose my boobs, then lost them, and began trying to adjust to their absence from my body.”)

What […]

Justice Clarence Thomas still pushing state theocracy

This week’s Supreme Court decision on prayer before municipal meetings wasn’t really that surprising. Particularly given the make-up of the Court, it’s a fairly narrow decision that is based in large part on its particular facts. Yet while it got plenty of attention, one thing that went largely unmentioned is something I blogged about in […]

Weekend Edition: 5-3

Bulletin Board

Happy birthday to my wife!

Today is also Free Comic Book Day

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Preparing for War in Indianapolis: Inside the NRA Plot to Terrify America (“As long as Sig Sauer and Remington and Winchester are profiting, there can be no gun too lethal, no weapon too powerful, […]

Weekend Edition: 4-26

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

What Michael Did (“Imagine emerging from a psychotic breakdown and realizing you’ve killed your mother, or your child, or your spouse.”)

All The Fucks I Give (“The fact that I swear indicates nothing about how I was born or raised or educated. It speaks instead of the fact […]

America’s credulousness

This weekend again left me bewildered about how, in the 21st Century, American belief systems remain so knowingly blind to science and the exercise of reason. It’s almost as if the scientific revolution and the Age of Reason never really took hold.

The main impetus here comes from the results on science-related issues in a […]