From the Freakonomics blog at the Gray Lady, I learned about Swoopo.com. This is evil. Click on the link and see what the opening page looks like. It appears that things are for auction for ridiculously cheap prices. There’s two… Continue Reading
Helen Smith, from back in good ol’ Knoxville, gets it exactly right in giving advice to a teacher: …what a teacher chooses to teach can have a hand in how that student thinks about the world. That said, Scott, in… Continue Reading
We can count on our recruiting going down, and recruiting for evangelical churches to go up. Oh, well. Hat tip to Bradlaugh at Secular Right.
A subject near and dear to my heart since my legal career began is student newspapers. Fact of the matter is that student writers and editors, at least at the high school level, have diminished free speech rights with respect… Continue Reading
A professor at Amherst College predicts that the next big fight in the evolution-creationism debate will take place in Islamic circles. Salman Hameed claims that less than half of Muslims are comfortable with the idea of evolution, as compared to… Continue Reading
What’s sad is that there are likely some people out there who would think this is real, and see no reason why it wouldn’t work as represented: Still, it proves that cruelly mocking religion can be funny.
Scenario: A ground war against Iran. Troops moving into the Kurdish-dominated city of Urmia and. Sergeant Harris takes some shrapnel and goes down. His second-in-command, Corporal Washington calls out “Medic!” The medic arrives and… sticks acupuncture needles along Sergeant Harris’… Continue Reading
Hemant Mehta is surprised that an evangelical leader who displays almost-tolerant views on civil institutions for homosexuals (he’s against same-sex marriage but lukewarm in favor of civil unions) and global warming (he thinks that good Christians should protect the world… Continue Reading
George W. Bush — not a Biblical literalist. Actual quote (the headline is deceptive): Asked whether the Bible was literally true, Mr Bush replied: “Probably not. No, I’m not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from… Continue Reading