Monthly Archives: September, 2008
Our Representatives ain’t representing
May I say that every non-Jewish representative that took advantage of a Jewish holiday to quit working on a solution to this situation and head home for a break ought to be voted out at the next opportunity.
The Jewish representatives have an excuse, though personally I think they should be ashamed to be putting their [...]
Atheist & Frethinker’s Forum
Due to misuse by a few recent new “members” of the Frethink Forum, I’ve closed that forum and reopened the Atheist & Frethinker’s Forum. It’s all new and open to all free thinker’s, atheist, agnostics and skeptics. Theists are welcome to join, as long as they understand no religion is sacred or protected from skepticism [...]
Anti-intellectualism, the video
If you still have any doubt that our education system is failing to do its job and Americans are flocking to become members of the Church of Stupid, watch this:
Caption Contest
Winner selected by the commenters. Judgement by peer.
(Hat tip to BeeLing on Friendfeed)
We don’t need change
Now that both presidential campaigns are on the Change bandwagon we’re beginning to see the pausity of that promise. Change isn’t always good nor does it always promise an improvement. There’s “change for the sake of change” and “change for the worse” in addition to “change for the better”. Without a better idea of what [...]
Presidents and toilet paper
In a country where we have the choice of 50 kinds of toilet paper, why do we limit ourselves to only two viable candidates for the presidency? Why do we allow ourselves to be convinced that only two parties can possibly represent the views of all Americans?
a task that is from God
Three months before she was thrust into the national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God.
Her speech in June provides as much insight into her policy leanings as anything uncovered since she was asked [...]
Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities
An excerpt from an article by Michael Shermer, Scientific American:
The reason that our folk intuitions so often get it wrong is that we evolved in what evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins calls “Middle World”—a land midway between short and long, small and large, slow and fast, young and old. Out of personal preference, I call it [...]
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