Classic Articles There is over twenty years worth of material on the blog on wide-ranging subjects. First stop is the category drop-down menu, to the right on large screens and at the […]
The Only Metric That Matters
I’ve been reading reviews of the the peevish Jerry Coyne’s new book Faith Versus Fact (I don’t have any money to give him to buy an actual copy). Recommended is Austin Hughes […]
Vote For Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan For President: It’s The Intelligent Thing To Do
I normally don’t vote in presidential elections because the choices are between flavors of progressivism—D-type, R-type, etc.—and I desire none. But scrappy “transhumanist” Zoltan Istvan has changed my mind. He has my […]
Ireland’s Same-Sex Gmarriage Vote: Or, The Snakes Return?
Update See Saturday’s post for results. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has “no wish to stuff [his] religious views down other people’s throats”—is that done with a shillelagh?—and so he won’t tell or […]
128 Million Bigots (Including Your Mother): Gmarriage By The Numbers. Updates
Your Mother Is Evil Latest Gallup survey showed about 40% of citizens did not support gmarriage. According to gmarriage supporters, those who oppose gmarriage are bigots. Since mostly older people and folks […]
Stephen Hawking Thinks Too Much Of Us; More
Autumn of the Modern Ages What!? You haven’t headed over to Mike Flynn’s place and read his series The Autumn of the Modern Ages? Sometimes I don’t understand you people at all. […]
Another Puzzled Atheist Wonders Why Religion Persists
Orientation quiz. True or false: periodically, some societies have gone insane. The answer is True, true with bells on. Many examples will suggest themselves. Thing about these cultural sanitariums is that most […]
Voting (And Wisdom Of The Crowds)
First read Wisdom of the Crowds (and Voting). There are in this great land of ours some 315 million souls. Citizens, I mean. Another 12 millions (or so) are, as the euphemism […]
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