Apropos these trend lines illustrating the increasing acceptance of legal equality for gay people, this uppity ibex is now my hero: What can we learn from a sass-talking ibex?
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Speak Up, You Sassy Ibex
Presently, I am still without a placement on a Hood to Coast team for 2010, and I honestly don’t think it’s a good idea to hold the event without me. In fact, I think it’s a terrible idea. You know that teammate of yours who keeps asking dumb questions, insisting he’ll do all the driving, complaining about miscellaneous aches and pains, growing increasingly distraught over how and when you’ll decorate the rental van?
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Hood to Coast 2010 – So Empty Without Me
Atheism has become a religion of its own, with its main goal to prevent anyone from displaying any belief in God in public. I don’t know if it is a sin for Muslims to hear a prayer to God, but if it is, they are in the wrong country.
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Beverly Marrocco: Atheists Should "Tolerate" Christian Privilege
In 2004, Alister McGrath published a book entitled The Twilight of Atheism : The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. Although the book did not suggest that atheism was dead, its publication may have been a bit premature
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Atheism Remix: Confronting the New Atheism by Keith Mathison …
Commenting on the Gizmodo post where this seminal image first appeared, a self-labeled “radical libertarian” has outlined why Net Neutrality is actually, beneath its freedom-promoting veneer, an affront to the rights, sacred honor, and quiet dignity of all the world’s freedom-loving peoples. Mind you, to see this, one must don libertarian goggles, which are to idiotic arguments what beer goggles are to regrettable one-night-stands: Here’s how it would likely play out: First, we should acknowledge that the cheaper service options will probably appeal to some people
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Net Neutrality and Why "Radical Libertarians" Are Hilarious
image source , fetched 10 Aug 2010 Good news! The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad moratorium on deep oil drilling in coastal waters will soon be lifted : The head of the government agency that regulates offshore drilling said Tuesday that it is “unlikely” a six-month moratorium on the practice will be extended.
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Gold in the Molars
Aren’t Christians fun? On the one hand, god drops unassailable moral truths from the sky, so that the rejection of god involves an “anything goes” moral chaos in which Adam and Steve get married, wiener dogs roam the parks and streets unleashed, and children mix breakfast cereals in ways their manufacturers never authorized or intended
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Morality – Binding, Eternal, and Totally Optional
Marriage as exactly one woman and one man is an “ideal,” writes Ross Douthat , trying his best to frame up a coherent, non-shrieking, last-gasp defense of legalized inequality. Fair enough — let’s suppose it is an ideal
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The Proof from Diorama
It’s a sad thing to behold, but apparently a necessary evil given the state of things: in this video, Ted Olsen, one of the attorneys who successfully litigated on behalf of marriage equality in the recent proposition 8 trial, gives a basic lesson in civics to a FauxNews hack, Chris Wallace: Individual rights are not, and should not be, subject to majority rule. If 50% + 1 — or even 100% — of voters want slavery, censorship of newspapers, or a mandatory form of worship, it is out of bounds under our system of law. The majority’s wishes do not dictate the legal outcome when it comes to fundamental individual rights, and the right to marry is a long-recognized individual right.
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K-5 Civics
After a few abortive starts I finally sat through a showing of Inception (spoilers below), the latest huge-budget logic puzzle adapted to film by Christopher Nolan . I credit Nolan and the others behind this film for casting Ellen Page in a moderately off-type role, and for casting in general; for the visual effects, which were compelling at times without seeming extraneous to the story; for the soundtrack; and for the way it lends itself to speculation and conversation.
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Inception – When Conceits Run Amok