Nine Things American Women Take for Granted
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22356/94994 I don’t take these things for granted, pretty sure most women don’t. Equal income and equal opportunity for employment? Hah. What a joke.
Texas Freedom Network Petition
http://www.tfn.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2682&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS Politicians, stop dragging our children’s schools into the “culture wars”
Walmart fires Michigan man for using medical marijuana
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=119421&catid=14 Are state medical marijuana laws a trap?
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
The dumbing down of America, folks. From the page: AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican
Tattooing One Dot for Every Casualty during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Tattooing One Dot for Every Casualty From the page: “Artist Wafaa Bilal will soon be getting a tattoo that contains 1 dot for every casualty associated with Operation Iraqi Freedom. The full-back tattoo will be applied during a 24 hour performance on March 8th in conjunction with a fundraiser aimed at collecting $1 per death towards scholarships for Americans and
AC Grayling: Religion in its death throes
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Utah Bill Criminalizes Miscarriage
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/02/19/utah-passes-bill-that-charges-women-for-illegal-abortion-or-miscarriage
Atheist billboards vandalized in Sacramento… again
http://www.examiner.com/x-8947-LA-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m3d1-Atheist-billboards-vandalized-in-Sacramento-again “Our billboard message reaches out to those who know that people can be good without belief in a supreme being. It doesn’t say that believing in a god makes one bad. So why would the vandals act as if the belief actually had that effect? It’s a sad day when we have to witness such cavalier disregard of property
Hannity falsely claims Obama admin. gives special treatment to atheists
http://mediamatters.org/research/201002270001 From the page: In my experience there a stong positive correlation between the degree of ones religious zeal, and the degree to which they love their own and shun any others.
A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/02/obama_being_forced_to_look_at.html How do you know Obama is “feigning” interest in any of this stuff? It looks like pretty interesting stuff to me. I wish they would have included real commentary that talks about the technology that is seemingly so amazing, the president gets to check it out first hand.
The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psychosociological Conditions
http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP073984414.pdf Gregory Paul’s paper based on his study, which links religion to immoral behavior.
Student’s God is Dead T-shirt prompts yearbook tussle
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100212/NEWS01/702129837&news01ad=1 Freedom of speech for minors and children too please, America?
The Pod Delusion – A Podcast about Interesting Things
http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/ From the page: “The Pod Delusion is a podcast about interesting things. From scepticism to lefty liberal things, it’s commentary from a secular, rationalist, ‘Guardianista’, sort of perspective. A bit like From Our Own Correspondent but with more jokes.”
Thomas Paine, An Unsung Hero
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/articles/thomas-paine-unsung-hero A look into the life and times of the forefather Christians love to hate. Did you know he was the first to use the phrase The United States of America?