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Archives for November, 2010
Our Republican choices
Posted by PZ Myers on November 25, 2010 So North Korea is rattling the sabre again, and I’m hoping some serious, mature people on our side will step up and act responsibly…but I’m pretty sure we won’t find those people on the Republican side. So far, their responses range from the stupid to the evil. Here’s Sarah Palin babbling away on the Glenn…
Episode CXXXV: The Thanksgiving Thread
Posted by PZ Myers on November 25, 2010 It’s Thanksgiving. Only two weeks left in the semester here. And I feel Nicholas Cage’s pain. Go ahead and chatter away, all you participants in the chattery thread, but I have to howl at the moon and pound at a keyboard for the next four days. (Video not safe for work. May upset Grandma, too.…
Awww, that’s kinda sweet and silly
Posted by PZ Myers on November 25, 2010 There’s a campaign of sorts that’s beginning in the UK, in which Christians are urged to stand up and announce that they are not ashamed to believe in a zombie redeemer who will protect them from his flaming torture pit deep beneath the earth. In a way, I’m sure it’s very nice for them personally…
Battle gear for the War on Christmas
Posted by PZ Myers on November 24, 2010 You need a hat, right?
Botanical Wednesday: Even this makes me think of snow now
Posted by PZ Myers on November 24, 2010 Victoria amazonica
UN priorities are a little screwy
Posted by PZ Myers on November 24, 2010 So, various factions at the United Nations have been pushing for anti-blasphemy motions — after all, we can’t go around picking on weak ideas. But do you know who the UN thinks are fair game? Non-heterosexual people. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were once again subject to the whims of homophobia and religious and…
At last, moral clarity from the church
Posted by PZ Myers on November 24, 2010 Just so you understand, you’re going to Hell anyway. (via MacLeod Cartoons)
Sick and crazy can have other causes than religion
Posted by PZ Myers on November 24, 2010 John Fiala is a bad man, and he’s also a Catholic priest. I’ve got a flood of email telling me I ought to highlight the case because he’s a priest who forced a boy to have sex with him at gunpoint, and later tried to hire a hit man to kill him. What he has…
I get email
Posted by PZ Myers on November 23, 2010 Would you believe I still get lots of mail from devout Catholics? I still even get these nice heartfelt letters via regular mail from little old Catholic ladies who think their flowery stationery will finally bring me around to the faith. But mainly I get something out of the blue where I can tell someone…
It’s Hawaii in Minnesota in November
Posted by PZ Myers on November 23, 2010 You probably already heard that Christie Wilcox won the $10K blogging scholarship — I helped by plugging her most excellent blog as a worthy entry. Now she has very nicely returned the favor by sending me a large care package from Hawaii with many tropical delectables. Unfortunately, some of them, like the boxes of chocolates,…