The BBC reports on a paper recently presented at the American Physical Society meeting here in Dallas which makes claims about […]
religion
Helping vs. blaming in Japan
Over at Religion Dispatches Levi McLaughlin, a professor of religion who specializes in East Asian traditions, writes about Tokyo’s governor […]
religion, skepticism
An observation
The video of TamTamPamela thanking God for the Japanese earthquake was all over the web yesterday. I’m kind of disappointed […]
atheism, religion, skepticism
TAM 9 speakers
The Amazing Meeting has announced its list of speakers for this year, its ninth meeting. There are a lot of […]
freedom of speech, religion, Westboro Baptist Church
Palin clarifies– that she still doesn’t understand freedom of speech
From The Daily Caller: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin clarified remarks posted on Twitter this week in response to a […]
freedom of speech, military, religion
Should we be surprised?
So Rock Beyond Belief has apparently been canceled. All of that time and effort put into creating a secular concert […]
freedom of speech, religion, Westboro Baptist Church
Memo to Sarah Palin…
Umm, both your and Westboro’s wacko pronouncements in the public square (such as, for example, this very tweet) invoke God’s […]
freedom of speech, politics, religion, Westboro Baptist Church
SCOTUS rules in favor of Westboro on funeral protests
The Supreme Court ruling on Snyder v. Phelps was issued this morning– 8-1 in favor of Phelps, saying that the […]