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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July 31, 2006
Category: Poker
From the Card Player live updates from yesterday at the World Series of Poker main event. One guy, William Thorsson, has been running incredibly hot and is the chip leader. How hot? This hot: William Thorsson raises to $700 from...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:46 AM • 18 Comments
Category: Intelligent Design
As a perfect follow up to my earlier post about the IDers dishonest claim that the Kansas science standards have nothing to do with getting ID into public schools, take a look at this post at Dembski's place. Dembski's research...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:21 AM • 26 Comments
Category: Intelligent Design
One of the standard talking points from ID advocates these days is that us evolution advocates are just plum crazy to even suggest that policies requiring schools to teach "critical analysis of evolution" are a way to get intelligent design...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:40 AM • 6 Comments
Category: Law
For sheer volume of nonsense, it's hard to top Judith Reisman, the religious right's favorite anti-sex crusader. In this Worldnutdaily column, she's responding to this article by Glenn Reynolds at MSNBC.com. It's filled with all the usual distortions and illogic...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:15 AM • 4 Comments
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I'm sure everyone knows by now that Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving on Friday. When he was arrested, he was apparently quite belligerant and ranted at the officers arresting him, threatening them and hurling anti-semitic slurs. Even more...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:53 AM • 11 Comments
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A man walks up to a woman in a bar and asks her to dance. She says no. He says, "What are you, a lesbian?" She replies, "What are you, the alternative?" So goes the old joke. You may know...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:36 AM • 3 Comments
Category: Religion
The New York Times has an article about the situation in Indian River, Delaware where a Jewish family has filed suit over a long list of instances of Christian intimidation of their children. Some of the examples are absolutely stunning....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 19 Comments
July 30, 2006
Category: Poker
Daniel Negreanu has a video blog on his website, and if you go to the entry for 7/26/06 you'll hear his take on the lawsuit against the World Poker Tour from 7 top players. It contains some interesting information that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:51 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Joseph Farah has a column at the Worldnutdaily about the drought in Lubbock and the resolution from the city council there to ask residents to pray for rain. It's standard religious right rhetoric - the media is full of pagans...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:37 AM • 21 Comments
July 29, 2006
Category: Church and State
This one is a high school equivalent of the various college cases going on involving whether a school can refuse recognition of a religious group because it restricts its membership to members of that same religion. It involves a public...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:06 PM • 13 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
Here is an absolutely textbook example of that simplistic binary thinking that comes up so often in political discourse. It's from David Bass, a "20 year old homeschool graduate" who writes for several of those ubiquitous conservative commentary sites, and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:29 PM • 14 Comments
Category: Poker
Yesterday was the first first day of the main event of the World Series of Poker. I say first first day because there are 4 first days. This year may have as many as 8800 players, with 2000 players plus...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:03 AM • 4 Comments
Category: Church and State
Jon Rowe and I have spent much of the last two years pointing out the numerous false quotations and false claims about the religious views of the founding fathers that are tossed about by both sides in debate over church/state...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:58 AM • 9 Comments
July 28, 2006
Category: Creationists
Here's an update on the Hovind trial. When arrested, he was forced to turn over his passport and stay in that judicial district. He asked the court to allow him to travel to South Africa for a preaching tour but...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:23 PM • 9 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Gay Rights
You gotta hand it to the military for having their priorities straight. With a long track record of white supremacist groups stealing military equipment and giving it to their KKK buddies, they still won't do anything to break up a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:28 AM • 19 Comments
Category: Church and State
Jon Rowe noticed that Roy Moore is now writing for the Worldnutdaily too, but he went into a lot more detail on the many problems with Moore's legal theories. Well worth reading....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:19 AM • 0 Comments
