Republicans hate science. Still.

Republicans move to delay climate bill progress because they hate science and deny it for the sake of petty politics and big business.
All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week’s work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at [...]

Fla. man lies, claims religious discrimination

Okay, maybe the article doesn’t say “lie”, but that’s what he did.
A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a “One nation under God” button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs [...]

Naked mole rats and cancer resistance

Cells have what is called contact inhibition. This means that once they come into contact with each other (or something else), they will cease to grow (or slow growth significantly). However, this is not true of cancer cells. Indeed, it is a hallmark of such cells; they grow and grow and even layer atop each [...]

To help you determine what religion to follow

Helping the ‘Yes on 1′ campaign

Helping the ‘Yes on 1′ campaign with its ads.
The Maine Attorney General and commissioner of Education have determined the “Yes on 1″ ads asserting that legalizing gay marriage will lead to gay marriage being taught in Maine schools to be a load of … um … manure.
With that in mind, perhaps we should help the [...]

Tremendous honesty

I have lately found myself hammering people with certain points. See, it is one of the most common tactics to ignore the points of an argument that are inconvenient, so I have found it expedient to only address counter-arguments as long as I also include my most important issues. Namely, I have been presenting Yes [...]

Rights and why they matter

I have found descriptions of this blog and myself on the Internet where I am labelled a defender of gay rights. That is only superficially true. I am no less a defender of gay rights than I am a defender of straight rights. It is the same fight.
That said, here is a piece I’ve written [...]

The Traveler and the Farmer

Traveler: God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer.
Farmer: You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn’t around.

Why do atheists care about religion?

Making the pleas

I’ve been pleading with people who I suspect or know will vote “Yes” on 1, the Maine ballot measure that would codify one group’s idea of morality over another, thus damaging the very concept of rights (and, incidentally, keeping it illegal for same-sex partners to marry). Here is one message I made specifically for someone, [...]