Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This in so many ways sums up everything that is wrong with the marriage of religion and politics in the US. Andrew L. Seidel, the Staff Attorney of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, explains what happened within his latest blog posting. Now normally when quoting, I pull out a bit and provide you a link to go read … Read more
A bill that has been designed to make it very difficult to obtain medication for Erectile dysfunction has been introduced in South Carolina, and I’m not kidding, because here is the actual official bill itself. Some hilarious highlights from the text of that bill include … Before issuing a prescription for a drug intended to … Read more
PublicPolicyVoting conducted a recent poll in which many questions, (42 to be precise), were asked. It is a real poll and you can find the details within a huge PDF here. Browse and you will find many interesting questions and some rather surprising and quite shocking responses, and so you need to be aware that this was … Read more
Michael Moore, the documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and journalist, went and stood outside Trump tower with a sign that reads “We are all Muslim” (pictured above), then when finally moved on by the police, he went home, sat down and wrote Mr Trump the following letter … FROM: Michael Moore TO: Donald J. Trump Dear Donald Trump: You … Read more
The standard knee-jerk reaction to an atrocity is to pick some almost random target in the middle east and proceed to bomb it or invade it. If you look back, clearly this has not worked out all that well … ever … and yet here we are about to embark upon more of the same, and … Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a few tweets that have ended up upsetting the pro-gun lobby with some rather uncomfortable statistics … 9/11 had a huge impact, and the response was the US (and others) invading Iraq for some very dubious reasons, and yet when you compare the response to terrorism with the response to the ongoing tide of fatalities … Read more