November 2010
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Sunday Sacrilege: The truth hurts : Pharyngula →
Here is an atheist’s understanding of our place in the cosmos. You are like a wave in the ocean, like a gust of wind, like a lightning bolt — each one unique, yet at the same time, part of a pattern of forces. But none of us have any special privilege in the universe. Your mind is the product of intricate, interlinked chemical process. It is complex, but it is also fragile, requiring a...
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“Deploying this statute to combat online copyright infringement seems almost like...”
– Ron Wyden about COICA Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill | Raw Story (via fred-wilson) My senator!
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Skepchick » Touched by a Stranger →
So, I’m going to be flying several times over the next couple of months. And, as I’m sure you’ve heard, the TSA has now implemented a variety of different new screening techniques.  […] Except. I am a rape survivor.  And I know that if I am forced to have the kind of circle jerk that I’ve seen on video–where a bunch of TSA screeners surround me and one of them touches me in very private...
Nov 17th
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Just watched the Medal of Honor ceremony, which was started and ended with a prayer. Seemingly a Christian prayer. Is this normal? Does this prayer change based on the recipient? What if an atheist is getting this award? Or a Muslim? Or a Scientologist? Or a Wiccan? Is it realistic to think that religion can be completely removed from government?
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An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion... →
You, who could not survive the thought of minimal health care reform, or financial regulation, or a marginal tax rate equal to that which you paid just 10 years earlier, perhaps are under the illusion that everyone is as weak as you, as soft as you, as akin to petulant children as you are, as unable to cope with the smallest setback, the slightest challenge to the way you think your country...
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Where Are All The Atheist Women? Right Here : Ms... →
Is it accurate when the media portrays the atheist movement as a club for old white men? It’s undeniable that most of the time men outnumber women, whether you’re looking at conference attendees or conference speakers, blog readers or best-selling authors. But when Monica Shores wrote that “no women are currently recognized as leaders or even mentioned as a force within the movement,” the...
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“There is a sort of an elitist idea that seeps into the head of a lot of people...”
– Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, expressing a belief that lawmakers take on an elitist attitude when they believe they’re responsible for making laws. (Submitted by andrewgraham)
Nov 1st
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