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Chalma, Mexico. At least 41 Indian pilgrims, most of them elderly women and children, were trampled to death yesterday in a crush of worshipers heading through a narrow marketplace to church for this town's Ash Wednesday celebration. … Chalma, about 35 miles southwest of Mexico City, is famous for its gold-trimmed church and the Father of Chalma image of Christ that is said to perform miracles.
[San Francisco Chronicle, 14 February 1991 (Los Angeles Times)]
March 31, 2008
Category: Carnivals
The latest edition of Encephalon, the carnival of neuroscience, is using Paris Hilton as a theme, I think because the contrast is so great. It still hurts to read it. I did find Jennifer Ouellette's pocket biography of Ramon y...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:33 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Hey, I said that in an interview last spring, which is getting a little wider circulation now: religions are fairy tales. Somebody slapped it on a billboard over Easter, though, and businesses around it reported a two-thirds decline. It...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:17 PM • 114 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Watch out, if you signed up for one of the Expelled showings, you might find your email address shared with more people than you expected. I think John ought to sell his newfound mailing list — it's jam-packed with the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:37 PM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
What an awful story: a young woman is murdered by her own father for online chatting. A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. The...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:12 PM • 151 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Local
Hey, look at this: Dan Dennett is coming to Minnesota State University in Mankato this week. I hope he shows up wearing that pimpin' hat. Dennett, one of the nation's most original and influential philosophers, will talk about "Religion as...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:41 AM • 67 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
OK, enough. Everyone is sending me a link to this comic, but your efforts are misplaced. You need to send it to Ben Stein or Mark Mathis or Walt Ruloff — I'm not in the market....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:05 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2008
Category: Godlessness
Michael Egnor, that neurosurgeon whose tenuous grip on rationality makes him so popular with the creationists, thinks he has a gotcha moment with some notorious atheist. That rude godless fellow, who is me, said this, which is accurate: …greater science...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:54 PM • 270 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I'm home. It's been a very long day with horrible flight delays, and I'm grouchy. I must frog blast the vent core. I was stuck on an airplane for far too many hours, and I wanted to get some work...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:42 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
You know that if I encourage this sort of thing, there will be a rising chorus of voices on the web screaming at me to shut up, don't you?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:06 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Don't forget: Atheists Talk radio at 9am Central time!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
