Ed Brayton is a freelance writer 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.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
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May 31, 2006
Category: Gay Rights
I know I spend an inordinate amount of time bashing the Worldnutdaily, but it's just a constant source of amusement for me. It really is mind-boggling to see how transparently irrational their arguments are and how calculated they are to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:30 AM • 8 Comments
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Doug Theobald pointed out to me this morning that there is a larger misrepresentation in Paul Nelson's comments of a couple weeks ago. In his comments he said, in response to the list of theistic evolutionists that included Keith Miller,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:18 AM • 52 Comments
Category: Politics
As many around the blogosphere have noted, yesterday was the one year anniversary of Dick Cheney's appearance on Larry King Live when he declared of the insurgency in Iraq: "The level of activity that we see today from a military...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:19 AM • 6 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
When you're emulating the Russians, perhaps it's time to reevaluate your position: Moscow's influential mayor said on Tuesday the city banned gay activists from holding a parade because it is morally cleaner than the West, which is caught up in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:52 AM • 4 Comments
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Radley Balko links to this hilarious story: Before President Bush touched down in Pennsylvania Wednesday to promote his nuclear energy policy, the environmental group Greenpeace was mobilizing. "This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:48 AM • 10 Comments
May 30, 2006
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Keith Miller has asked me to make available the entire transcript of the exchange between he and Paul Nelson. To do so would require substantial editing on my part to format it here, so I'm just going to make the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:06 PM • 9 Comments
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Paul Nelson has left a comment on the previous post that detailed his misrepresentation of the views of Keith Miller during an email exchange. He asked Miller for the full exchange and has now pasted in part of that exchange...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:06 AM • 39 Comments
Category: Religious Right Leaders
The Wall Street Journal has an interview with former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore that contains some predictably absurd statements. Like this one: Roy Moore makes no apologies. "I'm not trying to dodge or get away from my past," he...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:56 AM • 14 Comments
Category: Law
As expected, the Bush administration is asking the courts to ignore possible violations of the constitution stemming from the NSA programs for tracking domestic and international calls without ever looking into the question. The U.S. government has asked a pair...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:27 AM • 1 Comments
Category: Law
A California appeals court handed a huge victory to bloggers last week, ruling that from the standpoint of the law, bloggers are essentially the same as regular journalists and entitled to the same protections. The three-judge panel in San Jose...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:45 AM • 2 Comments
May 29, 2006
Category: Pop Culture
Thanks to Fishy Fred for tracking down Bravo's list of the top 100 comedy movies of all time. I caught part of it and wanted to comment on the list. For the most part, I thought the list was abysmal....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 6:55 PM • 66 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Religious Right Leaders
The Washington Post has a report on religious right poster boy Ralph Reed and his misuse of religion in the service of making himself right. This will surprise no one: In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:59 PM • 7 Comments
Category: Pop Culture
Who's Paul Gleason, you ask? He's a "That Guy", one of those actors you instantly recognize but whose name you don't know. He frequently played the same kind of character - the authority figure who blusters and poses but doesn't...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:53 PM • 12 Comments
Category: Law
Akhil Amar, one of the very best constitutional scholars in the nation, has an essay at Slate about the controversy over the FBI's search of the office of a congressman in a criminal investigation. He says pretty much exactly what...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:40 PM • 5 Comments
May 28, 2006
Category: Intelligent Design
There is a long history of creationist misrepresentation of the views of scientists, going back to the time of Darwin himself. As the creationist movement has grown and gone through its various phases over the last century, such misrepresentations have...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:13 PM • 52 Comments
Category: Church and State
Memorial Day weekend is a perfect time to report again on this story. Wiccans have been trying for years to get the Veterans Administration to allow soldiers buried in military cemetaries to have Wiccan symbols on their headstone. The latest...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:03 PM • 25 Comments
