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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August 31, 2006
Category: Law
The court of appeals for the 2nd circuit ruled in favor of a student who wore a t-shirt calling President Bush the "Chicken Hawk in Chief" and including pictures of Bush with lines of cocaine on a mirror and a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:25 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Church and State
The layers of hypocrisy on the part of the religious right in relation to discrimination laws are many and varied. Let's examine them. Example #1: In California, they're screaming bloody murder that a bill adding sexual orientation to the state's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:16 AM • 15 Comments
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Mark Plus posted a comment last night that included a great idea for the perfect retort to all this Darwin leads to Hitler crap. Here it is: And on 9/11, the World Trade Center was knocked down by creationists who...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:03 AM • 19 Comments
Category: Church and State
The ridiculous overreaction to California adding sexual orientation to their anti-discrimination laws continues, documented, naturally, by the Worldnutdaily. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has tossed out all sexual moral conduct codes at colleges, private and Christian schools, daycare centers and other...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:48 AM • 10 Comments
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
I haven't given out a Robert O'Brien Trophy in a while, but here's someone who really deserves one: Jill Stanek. The award is given for this breathtakingly idiotic column at the Worldnutdaily where she actually claims that legalizing the purchase...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:41 AM • 10 Comments
Category: Religion
This one from South Dakota's governor, Michael Rounds. He issued an executive proclamation declaring July 24-30 as a week to pray for rain. A press release accompanying the proclamation said, "We are a strong people and all can provide help...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 16 Comments
Category: Evolution
Dembski links to a site called Origin of Life Fairness in Pubic Schools, which seems to be trying out a new argument against the teaching of evolution in public schools. I've heard various people use this argument in the past,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:12 AM • 17 Comments
August 30, 2006
Category: Sports
The Sports Guy has a column about Tiger Woods and how boring he's become. To some extent, he's right. Tiger never says anything the least bit controversial. He dominates the tour in a manner no one thought possible. He's always...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 8:49 PM • 4 Comments
Category: ACLU
If a STACLU contributor says something in a forest with no one around to hear it, is it still ridiculous? I couldn't let a day go by without pointing out some stupid statement from them, and this one again occurs...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 7:59 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Politics
Senator Ted Stevens' spokesman confirmed that he was indeed the senator that put a "secret hold" on a bill that would increase government transparency and help us find where our tax dollars are going to. Apparently, the memo about committing...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 7:45 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Law
The Worldnutdaily is reporting that Ken Starr, famous for his prosecution of Clinton in the 90s, has petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of a school in Alaska in the case of Frederick v Morse. The case involves a student...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:03 PM • 10 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
Ahnold signed into law this week a bill that adds sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination statutes. Naturally, the religious right is in full freak out mode over it and making absolutely hysterical claims about it. I love the way...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:08 AM • 25 Comments
Category: Politics
A bill in the Senate that would increase government transparency and accountability has been put on "secret hold" by one or more Senators, who, by Senate rules, can pretty much kill the bill in this manner: A bill to promote...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:36 AM • 17 Comments
Category: Church and State
Agape Press reports on an ACLU lawsuit against Doniphan Elementary School in Missouri for opening mandatory school assemblies with Christian prayers. This is a really, really easy case where the school is absolutely certain to lose, but Liberty Counsel, a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:10 AM • 24 Comments
Category: ACLU
Remember the story of the couple in Black Jack, Missouri who were told they had to leave town because they weren't married and having three unrelated people living in a home violated zoning laws? The ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:04 AM • 5 Comments
August 29, 2006
Category: ACLU
Prof. Volokh has a post about a particularly good brief in a student free speech case, filed by the ACLU of Southern California and partly written by a former student of his. The case involves a student who wrote two...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:57 PM • 4 Comments
