If you had to vote for one of two hypothetical candidates for president, and one was a liberal Christian and […]
politics
Not a shocker
I’ve taken the ISideWith quiz before with similar results, but that time I basically zipped through it and this time […]
ethics, politics, religion, skepticism
International Blasphemy Rights Day
https://www.facebook.com/events/440034722701608/ Blasphemy. Noun: The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk. In other words, […]
politics, psychology
Ew, gross, ban that
Recently I finished listening to Jesse Bering’s book Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being […]
LGBT, politics
Equal opportunity flirt-slaying
I received an email this morning from Change.org: “Yeah, I killed him, but he did worse to me.” In 1997, a […]
food, politics
Quote of the day
From Jason Foscolo’s blog Food Law: At the NYT, Bittman evokes Mrs. Lovejoy in his support of the Bloomberg Soda […]
LGBT, politics, religion
Pastors come up with creative ways to express how unequal gays are
Now, I’m sure that pastors denouncing homosexuality from the pulpit isn’t a new thing. It’s impossible to know how often […]
atheism, bigotry, cognition, politics, psychology, religion
Religion is and isn’t special
Passerotti, God the Father The primary reason, it seems, that people are now telling Dan Savage that he shouldn’t have […]
politics, sexuality
Conservative group to gather, bemoan 40 year old advance in sexual freedom
No, I’m not kidding. And no, this is not from The Onion, though it sounds like it. The Family Research […]
politics, sexuality
Misconceptions on contraception
Do you know how this stuff works? This ongoing battle over the significance of contraception has come as quite a […]