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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
March 31, 2006
I got an email today from John Allen Paulos, a mathematician from Temple University who writes a column for abcnews.com called Who's Counting. He is the author of a rather famous book called Innumeracy as well. He said he's going...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:12 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Religious Right Leaders
I've written a couple times about the "War on Christians" conference held in DC earlier this week, but some others have much more comprehensive reports on the subject. Michelle Goldberg, the terrific writer for Salon, has a full report on...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:48 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Sports
As we head into final four weekend, they're starting to hand out the end of season awards. The US Basketball Writer's Association split their player of the year award between JJ Redick and Adam Morrison, while the AP gave it...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:44 PM • 5 Comments •
So I'm perusing the MSU debate team webpage, which includes lots of pictures and stories of their national championship victory, and I come across this picture: That's the coach, and my old friend, Will Repko. Why is he dressed like...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:20 PM • 1 Comments •
I began a new project this week that I'm really excited about - writing a book. I've written a few million words worth of essays, but never a whole book, so this will be a new experience for me. Thankfully,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:03 PM • 27 Comments •
PZ Myers has a thorough takedown of the latest nonsense from the DI's Jonathan Witt. Well worth reading....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:50 PM • 1 Comments •
Jason Kuznicki and Timothy Sandefur (back from vacation) have begun a spontaneous debate about immigration. I have to confess that this is a subject I've thought very little about other than having a bias in favor of immigration as a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:20 PM • 9 Comments •
March 30, 2006
Category: Sports
Ken Brown, who has been commenting here lately, has a post at the Crux Magazine blog that compares Adam Morrison to Che Guevera. And I gotta say, the resemblance is pretty close. But would Che have cried at the end...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:24 PM • 7 Comments •
The Dallas Morning News has an excellent editorial responding to Tom DeLay's ridiculous performance at the "War on Christians" conference in Washington DC this week. They point out examples which show that DeLay, rather than being a martyr for Christianity,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:15 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Liberty
Yet another example of caving in to threats of violence from Islamic radicals: Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:10 AM • 39 Comments •
