Monthly Archive:: January 2008

31 Jan 2008

Freedom and democracy in Afghanistan

If you bothered to listen to the king this past Monday you’d heard him state that everything’s great in the newly minted democratic Afghanistan. There’s only one problem. A 23 year old journalist was recently sentenced to
31 Jan 2008

Stop the presses! Bigot found in church!

A choir member at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church up in Washington decided to quit the choir because “80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than [she does].”
30 Jan 2008

God needs better lawyers

Religious people do weird things and when they’re not doing weird things they’re apparently coming up with ways to get around doing things their god wants them to do.  Case in point: A Jewish law apparently exists
30 Jan 2008

What’s new in racism

The scandal involving District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal here in Houston has brought to light a new way to be a racist without actually saying anything “racist”.  The word is “Canadian” as in “a couple of Canadians on
30 Jan 2008

Holy Joe to attend GOP Convention

Joe Lieberman says he’ll attend the Republican convention should his buddy McCain win the nomination as he will “probably be more welcome there”. Gee. I wonder why. Maybe it has something to do with his endorsement of
30 Jan 2008

A look at Kenneth Copeland’s Empire

CBS news recently did an investigation into the grandfather of the money making scheme called the “prosperity gospel” Kenneth “Holy Warrior” Copeland an this is what they found: Four private jets, an airport/strip and a lakeside house
30 Jan 2008

Pope Benedict: Don’t fire me, bro!

The Bishop of Rome has once again opened his mouth about science, this time declaring that science must be accompanied by research in “anthropology, philosophy and theology” to give insight into “man’s own mystery, because no science
29 Jan 2008

Death to Vespidae!

The only good hornet is a dead hornet!
29 Jan 2008

Richard Dawkins answers questions

The following video is an excerpt of a talk Professor Dawkins gave a Macon’s last year. A young woman asks him that time worn question of “what if you’re wrong” and his response is priceless: The text
29 Jan 2008

Hating the gods ain’t the same as being an atheist

Why do so many theists persist in telling testimonies that are completely at odds with claims that they were atheists? I read one such testimony recently where the man telling it made a statement to the effect