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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Category: Politics
Representative Patrick Kennedy has been barred from taking communion by the Catholic church. This is a politically motivated action to intimidate a politician into supporting a position on a political issue opposed by the church, abortion rights. Hmmm…using religion to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:33 PM • 210 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
She has so much of it to spread around, too. Sarah Palin's memoir reveals her unsurprising opinion about evolution. Elsewhere in this volume, she talks about creationism, saying she "didn't believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:57 AM • 184 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
That seems to be the idea behind forming a council of key policy advisors, whose qualifications seem to be the fervency of their obeisance to an invisible man in the sky. The move has been criticised by secularists who warned...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:35 AM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A sensible federal judge has struck down South Carolina's plan to proselytize with license plates, pointing out that it violates the separation of church and state for the state to not only endorse religion, but a specific religious sect. Good...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:46 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The man who slaughtered 13 unarmed people in Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was clearly mentally ill, and should have been treated and cared for before he snapped and went on a rampage. Unfortunately, there's another factor that seems...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 PM • 276 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Wow. I thought our local vets were petty when they threatened to yank scholarships if they weren't allowed to lead prayers in public schools, but now someone has topped them. Who, you may wonder? As if you couldn't guess, the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:57 PM • 103 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Equality
Sometimes I find it hard to believe how callous these conservative politicians can be. The governor of Rhode Island has just vetoed a bill that would have allowed a same-sex partner to make funeral arrangements for a dead partner. So...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:43 PM • 160 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
This is a charming local story for Veteran's day. The American Legion post in Bloomington has been doing a little ceremony at the public schools for 40 years, and has also been giving scholarships to students. Last year, they surprised...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:36 PM • 525 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The sentencing of a convicted murder, Khristian Oliver, should be an embarrassment to the state of Texas; the jurors consulted the Old Testament to see what should be done with him, found a bible verse they liked — "And if...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:49 PM • 129 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pointless polls
It looks like justice was defeated in Maine, but we got a glimmer of success in Washington (Hooray for my home state!). I think everyone who is unhappy with Maine voters should go tromp on this Canadian poll just to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:22 PM • 309 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
