I love Popehat. They’re certainly a brash bunch, but when there’s a spade around that needs to be called a […]
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Examining some gut reactions
I’m going to attempt to write this post, and then see if I’m too biased to even finish it. You […]
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2010: The year in photographers being harrassed by government officials
Carlos Miller of Photography Is Not A Crime documents incidents throughout 2010 in which photographers and videographers were penalized by […]
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What have scientists learned about religion in 2010?
Tom Rees at Epiphenom has put together a brief review of the results of scientific papers published on religion this […]
animal rights, Christianity, morality, politics, religion
Dog botherers
Quoth Tucker Carlson on Tuesday: “I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances. Michael Vick killed dogs […]
animal rights
Dog botherers
Cross-posted from State of Formation. Quoth Tucker Carlson on Tuesday: “I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances. […]
bias, cognition, creationism, evolution, freedom of speech, intellectual honesty, libertarianism, morality, politics, psychology
Who do you admire?
At The Daily Dish, Conor Friedersdorf contemplates the results of a recent Gallup poll asking Americans which men and women […]
food, sustainability
Factoid from The Omnivore’s Dilemma that I learned today
Pigs raised in factory farms have their tails docked (i.e., cut off) because they are weaned from their mothers at […]
politics, religion, Texas
So the Fort Worth transit authority made a decision…
…ban all ads relating to religion. Well, that’s one way of going about things. I suppose this could be called […]
food, morality, sustainability
“Survival and reproduction are in fact most definitely amoral.”
This was a remark made in the breeder comment thread. An odd one, I thought. It sounds sensical at first– […]