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December 31, 2007

Happy New Year!

Category: Personal

I'm saying it a few hours early because when the clock ticks over to midnight I expect you all to be snogging or otherwise partying away, unless you're one of those sensible types who doesn't think having to get a...

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Bustin' out all over

Category: Creationism

Yikes. More Florida school boards — in St Lucie, Palm Beach, and Martin counties — are infested with creationists. Florida Citizens for Science is maintaining a watch list. So…have you checked your local school board? Do you have creationists biding...

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You know who's got a hard job?

Category: CreationismHumor

It's those poor creation scientists....

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Silly scurrilousness against the sanctimonious

Category: HumorReligion

I've been slacking off on Pharyngula lately — I've had a week to relax and get caught up on a few other things. Here, though, are a few links to ridiculous religiosity that have been piling up in the mailbox....

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Anybody who'd hate an octopus is warped

Category: Humor

I must confess: I've always identified with Gomez....

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All chance, no purpose

Category: CreationismEvolution

That friend to the Discovery Institute and creationist advisor to the Vatican, Cardinal Schönborn, has a new book out, titled Chance or Purpose?. I haven't read it, but Michael Behe has, and Zeno finds a particularly delicious Behe blurb: Science...

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December 30, 2007

Poor baby

Category: Religion

Elle Jacobson is a high school student who is skipping school because she's afraid of atheists. Some parents are joining in the fear, all because of one little incident: "This boy got up and his visual aid was a Bible...

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Super-evolution

Category: HumorWeirdness

One of my Christmas presents was something just for fun: Superman: The Dailies 1939-1942(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). It's a collection of the newspaper strips by Schuster and Siegel that were published in the earliest years of the superhero, and they're both funny and...

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December 29, 2007

Why is Ron Paul so popular?

Category: Politics

OK, 'fess up — some of you know that I thoroughly detest libertarianism, that reactionary political movement that seeks to elevate greed and selfishness as a ruling principle, and I suspect one of you got me a subscription to Reason...

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Torture — what's it good for?

Category: Politics

One little post about waterboarding seems to have stirred up the mob, but at least the majority seem to agree that it is torture. How could it not be? It's a process for causing pain and suffering, nothing more....

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December 28, 2007

So that's what waterboarding is like…

Category: Politics

Someone was willing to try waterboarding on himself — he was in complete control, but he still found it a terrifying experience. Now we just need to get all our representatives who claim it is not torture to try it...

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Friday Cephalopod: Best buddies

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms

It's still Friday, isn't it? Some of you have noticed there was some screw-up in post scheduling, which has been fixed now…and here at last is the Friday Cephalopod. Sepia sp. Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by...

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An honest creationist, at last

Category: CreationismHumor

From Cectic: Quote of the week: "Either the theory is wrong, or I'm just incredibly stupid." -Todd Friel on Evolution, from The Way of the Master Radio for 24 Dec. The first true utterance I've heard on that show since...

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Any volunteers?

Category: GeneticsHumor

Next time I'm told by some "scientific" racist that he has evidence backing up his contention that certain races are inferior, I'm just going to tell him that there is one more experiment he has to do....

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Swiftian round-up

Category: Weblogs

Jon Swift asked for various blogs to submit a "best of" post for his end-of-year list, and it's a clever way to get an idea of a blog's content and introduce yourself to some interesting blogs. My entry is a...

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Converging in ignorance

Category: Creationism

Denyse O'Leary is a very silly person, but you all knew that. One of her latest entries on her silly Design of Life blog, which purports to be promoting Dembski's silly book of the same name, is treading old ground....

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