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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June 30, 2006
Category: Law
Reading and understanding court rulings can sometimes be difficult. When that ruling is 185 pages long and has multiple concurrences and dissents, it can be downright confusing. Sandefur has done us all a favor and posted a series of essays...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:46 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Dover Case
A new article in the York Daily Record about Judge Jones and how he's handled the aftermath of the Dover decision (okay, it's a few days old, but I just found out about it from Burt Humburg, and yes I've...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:57 PM • 7 Comments
Category: Religion
And out come the wingnuts. Here's the email I just received from someone named James Albright: Dear Ed, Noah's ark was discovered by Ron Wyatt, whose ministry is named Wyatt Archeological Research. The news media is only taking attention away...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:43 AM • 17 Comments
Category: Liberty
This is classic. Thanks to Jon Rowe and 386sx for pointing out this video of John Lofton debating Frank Zappa on Crossfire in 1986. Lofton calls for government censorship of rock music. His arguments are ridiculous. He claims that it's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:19 AM • 26 Comments
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This is a hilarious clip of Keith Olbermann hammering Bill O'Reilly on his ever lowering ratings. I love Olbermann....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:48 AM • 4 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
The Arkansas Supreme Court has handed us another major victory for gay adoptions, ruling that the state's child welfare board cannot prohibit gays from being foster parents. "There is no correlation between the health, welfare and safety of foster children...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:47 AM • 4 Comments
June 29, 2006
Category: Law
The Oklahoma judge on trial for using a penis pump under his desk during trials was convicted of indecent exposure by a jury today. Several thoughts come to mind. A. This gives a whole new meaning to "penal code". B....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:08 PM • 12 Comments
Category: Law
Good ol' DaveScot is back (with a brand new dance) and this time he's blathering about jury nullification. The problem is that he doesn't seem to have a clue what jury nullfication is. What makes it even funnier is that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:20 PM • 8 Comments • 12 TrackBacks
Category: Church and State
HR 2679 is not the only attempt by the religious right to rig the rules of the game because they keep losing. HR 2389, the "Pledge Protection Act of 2005", is another bill to do the same thing in a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:17 PM • 10 Comments
Category: Law
The Supreme Court today handed Bush a major defeat on the question of how to handle the detainees at Gitmo. In the case of Hamdan v Rumsfeld, the Court ruled 5-4 that the President did not have the authority to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:57 PM • 6 Comments
Category: Sports
In one of the craziest drafts I've ever seen, the craziest move of the night belonged to - who else? - Isiah Thomas. I've given the numbers before to demonstrate Thomas' world class incompetence as an executive, but let's recap:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:37 PM • 18 Comments
Category: Theocracy
I've been having an amusing exchange with John Lofton, the theocrat who owns The American View. You'll recall that he left a comment at Positive Liberty with his phone number and asked me to call him. I politely said no,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:23 AM • 54 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
James Dobson has written a commentary for CNN's webpage on gay marriage that is amusing both in its lack of logic and its misuse of statistics. The statistics come first, as he is claiming that the media provided "cover" for...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:56 AM • 13 Comments
Category: Politics
I've avoided saying anything about the current uproar over the NY Times until now, mostly because I think the whole situation is patently absurd. Every single side of the story is represented by people who are, frankly, completely full of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:32 AM • 6 Comments
June 28, 2006
Category: Sports
In a half hour, the NBA draft will begin on ESPN. As a certified basketball nut, let me make a few predictions here. 1. The team that decides to draft Rudy Gay instead of Adam Morrison will regret that choice...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 6:27 PM • 9 Comments
Category: Church and State
Here's a new church/state lawsuit (see actual complaint here), and one in which the Alliance Defense Fund is on the right side for a change. The city of Idaho Springs, Colorado refused to allow a religious group to use the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:32 PM • 4 Comments
