Archive for August, 2005
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
So, it's come to this: "Christian Schools Bring Suit Against UC". Sounds like the University of California system is not treating the anti-science and non-accredited "educations" given to kids via fundy and home-schooling with the honor and respect they think they deserve.
Christian Schools Bring Suit Against UC
...University of ...
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Saturday, August 27th, 2005
A year or so back, I wrote a little rant here (Why academia tends to be liberal) about conservatives whining over the apparent overrepresentation of liberals in academia. Same old crap -- they try to make it seem like there's some targeted discrimination against conservatives, and that this is ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Now, from Julia Sweeny's Pat Reily to Jesus' (or is it Satan's) Pat Roberson.
Pat, Pat, Pat. I've said it before; Pat Robertson is just too freakin' easy. I always feel a little bad when I pick on him. Not because he doesn't deserve it, but because he's ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2005
I married a couple today. A couple of what, you say?
As some of you may know, I occasionally officiate at weddings. I'm empowered to do so as an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church (which asks only that I believe in doing that which is right -- ...
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Saturday, August 20th, 2005
BoingBoing has been following the arc of the world's newest religion, Pastafarianism, which worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster. "Discovered" in the wake of the silliness in Kansas about "Intelligent Design", Pastafarianism is sweeping the country like wildfire, and includes a $1M challenge, payable to anyone who can prove that ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2005
Oz was sick this week, including somewhat feverish; he's almost all better now. A couple of comments from him:After a little fit of coughing, he says "I have to stop coughing, or my head will pop off!"In the depths of fever, looking for comfort from his parents, he looks ...
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Monday, August 15th, 2005
Atheist poster-girl Julia Sweeney (SNL's "Pat", and GF of "Wolf" in Pulp Fiction) has a book coming out called "My Beautiful Loss of Faith Story : A Memoir". She's hitting the interview circuit to promote it, so there's a nice interview in the S.F. Chronicle today: Finding My Religion: ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
The FCC has continued to drive toward more "decency enforcement" since the departure of Michael Powell as director. (Although Colin's son did some bad things too, he had some interesting high points. Most notable in my view was the ruling that said Bono's use of the word "fucking" ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
Earlier this year, when I was about to be interviewed by the local Fox-TV affiliate for a story on alien abductions (see the history of this media-whoring outing here), I looked a little at some of the recent work on abduction experiences, including sleep paralysis, memory distortion and implantation, and ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
I'm back from a strange sleep; awakened by the pathetic comments from W the Moronic Shrub on teaching "Intelligent Design", as if it were some kind of scientific theory. And I hereby make my tiny little contribution to Google Bombing "Intelligent Design".
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