I am no longer allowed to comment on creationist cartoonist Dan Lietha’s Facebook posts. Lietha does the After Eden cartoon on the Answers in Genesis website, and I’ve become somewhat fascinated with his work because it combines some quite respectable artistic talent with some absolutely baffling apologetics. And here I don’t […]
Read MoreNewt Gingrich said on the February 14th edition Fox News’ Fox and Friends Sunday: No, no, no. He has every right to recommend. He doesn’t have every right to choose. This goes back to the Constitution. The Senate is not obligated to approve who he recommends. I mean, he has a […]
Read MoreAfter my last post went live, the NECSS executive committee posted the following statement to their web site: We wish to apologize to Professor Dawkins for our handling of his disinvitation to NECSS 2016. Our actions were not professional, and we should have contacted him directly to express our concerns before […]
Read MoreOn Feb. 5th Richard Dawkins experienced a stroke while at home, on the cusp of traveling to New Zealand and Australia for a speaking tour. Fortunately it was a minor stroke, and he was allowed to return home after four days to begin recuperating. He reported later that it was […]
Read MoreIn reply to my previous post, “Jokuvaan” made the following comment: What you are missing here is the current double standard of european mainstream feminists treating rapes differently depending of the ethnical background of the perpetrators. So far feminists have made more noise about one man comparing women to cars […]
Read MoreLast Tuesday (Jan. 26th), Richard Dawkins made the following tweet: Text: “Obviously doesn’t apply to vast majority of feminists, among whom I count myself. But the minority are pernicious.” Here’s a summary of what happened next: Lindy West began a Twitter conversation with Dawkins, informing him that the woman caricatured […]
Read MoreVery early this morning, I woke up and was unable to get back to sleep. I generally wasn’t feeling well. So I looked at Facebook for a bit as a diversion, and read a discussion in which some guy was attempting to make his anti-feminist case and praised PUA (Pick-Up […]
Read MoreThe creator of a fictional character can make that character what the creator wants. Obvious, right? If you’re an author or an artist (or both), and you invent a character to be in the story you tell, you can make that character look and behave however you see fit. The […]
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