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Baby Bible Bashers

Category: Religion

Ready to be disturbed? Watch this graphic movie of socially sanctioned child abuse of the worst kind — children who are indoctrinated into idiocy. That's just the first part. Watch the rest, if you can....

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Canadian bluenoses

Category: Politics

Those Canadians have got a few prigs running things up there, and they've apparently trying to pass some laws to slap down those darned naughty artist types. There's just one line from the sour old prude that's worth mentioning,...

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Friday Cephalopod: Face like a flower

Category: Cephalopods

Metasepia pfefferi Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....

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Leap tomorrow!

The two most amusing explanations for why we have leap years that I've heard came from creationists: Those scientists can't even measure the length of the year accurately! They have to keep fudging their numbers every few years to make...

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Reality hurts farmers' feelings

Category: Environment

A few weeks ago, you may have heard about that interesting study that showed that using cropland to produce biofuels was actually more damaging to the atmosphere than using fossil fuels — among the reasons was that tying up productive...

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Exploding wind turbine

Category: Environment

This is something that will cause a few heart palpitations at UMM — we've begun this big push towards being a green university, exploring alternative energy and conservation, and we are very proud of our campus wind turbine, with plans...

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Inappropriate children's book covers

Category: Humor

Where it doesn't descend into bad poop jokes (the good poop jokes are funny), this collection of photoshopped book covers has its moments. I like this one: it's the book Brockman told Dawkins that he'd never get published, because...

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Texans of Fort Worth, Parker, Ellis, and Johnson counties: Vote for Pat Hardy!

Category: Creationism

There's a school board election in District 11 of Texas that has a clear choice: Pat Hardy is the pro-science candidate, despite being a conservative, religious Baptist, while her opponent is a deranged lunatic who is quietly outspending her...

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Which one of you little rascals Sokaled AiG?

Category: Creationism

Answers in Genesis started this so-called peer reviewed journal called Answers, and the latest publication therein is such a confused mess that I'm wondering if it could be a hoax. Here's the abstract, but I think just the title...

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Kowtowing to the worst

Category: Politics

John Hagee is one of the most contemptible people to have an unwarrantedly prominent voice in our country. He's an obese, smug televangelist whose claim to fame is a terrifying dedication to the apocalypse, war and death, and prophecy and...

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