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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January 31, 2007
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Holy crap. Reader jpf found this song called "I was Amway" by Pat Boone, praising the company that I consider to be a cult. He's also emceed events for the Rev. Moon. Is there any limit to what Pat Boone...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 3:19 PM • 11 Comments
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Most of my readers know that I love to cook, so it probably won't come as a surprise that one of the few "reality" shows I've ever gotten in to is Top Chef on Bravo. I don't know if anyone...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:46 AM • 9 Comments
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Scoobie Davis has an interesting essay about how the Rev. Moon's money has bought politicians and people in the media, including Chris Matthews and Bob Dole, both of whom were previously hostile to Moon and his henchmen. He begins with...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:53 AM • 13 Comments
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Demitri Martin is a very funny and unusual stand up comic in the Mitch Hedberg/Steven Wright vein. Really strange observational humor. Below the fold I'll post 5 Youtube videos, his most recent Comedy Central special in order....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:45 AM • 4 Comments
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Peter LaBarbera, head of the pompously (and ridiculously) named Americans for Truth, has made a staggering discovery: gay people know how to use the internet. I know, I know, this will come as a major shock to you, as it...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:29 AM • 25 Comments
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It sure sounds like it: Moscow's mayor vowed Monday never to allow a gay rights parade, calling such events "satanic," but activists said they would defy a city ban to hold what would be the Russian capital's first gay rights...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 2 Comments
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I offer, without much comment and for your amusement only, Pat Boone's attempt to disprove evolution. Funny stuff, with some of the tried and false arguments from yesteryear. Why aren't apes evolving into humans now? Yep, it's in there. Out...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 18 Comments
January 30, 2007
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This is classic, a Youtube video showing John McCain contradicting himself left and right, saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another audience. Of course, one could make an identical video about virtually every major politician in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:51 PM • 19 Comments
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Focus on the Anal Sex Family apparently has so much time on their hands that, according to this article on a Christian news service, they're now targeting the epidemic of pressure on parents to throw elaborate birthday parties for kids....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:53 AM • 16 Comments
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I've been encouraging my friend Vinx, the amazingly talented singer I've been fortunate enough to get to know over the last 15 years, to put some video footage of himself on Youtube for a while now, but he's in the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:40 AM • 1 Comments
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Poor Dinesh D'Souza has an op-ed piece in the Washington Post whining about his horrible mistreatment by reviewers of his new book that blames terrorism on the fact that people in the West actually dare to exercise their liberty in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 32 Comments
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This article by someone named Kazmer Ujvarosy, the founder of some group called Frontline Science, is truly one of the strangest defenses of intelligent design I've ever seen. It's so incoherent that one wonders if it's a parody of some...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:15 AM • 23 Comments
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I don't know why I'm just finding this out from a British newspaper, but the county treasurer of Alcona County, Michigan, has been indicted for embezzlement to cover losses he took when he fell for the Nigerian spam email scam....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:07 AM • 9 Comments
January 29, 2007
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ID advocate and Moonie Jonathan Wells has an article in the Yale Daily News about Evolution Sunday, coming up on Feb. 11th. He urges churches not to "buy into Darwinists' ploy." It takes serious chutzpah for a follower of Rev....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:52 PM • 14 Comments
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The Poker Players Alliance is the largest group looking out for the interests of poker players and defending the rights of all adults to play games with other adults, something that should none of the government's business. They have now...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:52 AM • 19 Comments
Category: Dover Lawsuit
The ruling in Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District was a pretty cut-and-dried text, as must judicial rulings are. So it was a bit surprising when, near the end of the opinion, Judge Jones bluntly referred to the "breathtaking inanity"...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:46 AM • 30 Comments
