Category Archives: Politics
Don’t you annoy me
Repeatedly annoying or insulting someone in Brighton could get you fined.
The City Council Thursday passed ordinance amendments aimed at protecting individuals from harassment, intimidation or interference by others in their daily activities.
City Manager Dana Foster stressed that the amended ordinance wasn’t adopted to muzzle anyone or infringe on their rights.
The ordinance makes it a civil [...]
Free Thought of the Day
Rabbi Sherwin Wine:
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity, hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance [...]
Child Abuse-Turning Kids into Political Zombies
Free thinkers envy children with their unbiased perception of the world. Training children to become mental zombies, mouthing responses they don’t understand and can’t possibly have arrived at on their own is tantamount to child abuse. People who force their children to act as though they believe in the parent’s politics or religion are doing [...]
A reason to hope?
I’m usually critical, skeptical, not easily given to optimism. I know enough about humanity and its history to be fairly confident in my pessimism.
Tonight, however, I’m wondering if this next year might prove my worst expectations false. Perhaps Americans have noticed the damage that’s been done to our country by Bush/Cheney and decided to change [...]
Facts don’t get in the way of Web political rumors
With just days to go before the election, gossip, hearsay, innuendo and smears are flying through the Internet as gadflies and rumormongers hope to sway voters before they head to the polls.
“It’s a lot of mud being slung, it’s understandable, but I think it’s still kind of sad,” said Nick DiFonzo, a psychologist and rumor [...]
This is how fascism comes: Reflections on the cost of silence
Tim Wise has written a thoughtful and enlightening article in the Red Room that challenges Americans to either take an active stand against the encroaching fascism in our country or reap the rewards of silence.
For those who have seen the ugliness and heard the vitriol emanating from the mouths of persons attending McCain/Palin rallies this [...]
63 trillion votes so far from Florida alone
Florida voters are overwhelmingly supporting Palin for president. Even dead Floridians are voting for Palin. Vote silly in ‘08!
The Liberal Insult Generator
For all those who proudly call themselves Conservative, who subscribe to any far right position without reason or consideration and who cannot manage on their own to compose a killer comeback to those pesky, commie-loving, homo-supporting, anti-god, anti-troops, anti-American, spineless, sushi-eating, terrorist-coddling, Hollywood-humping, liberal defeatocrats: the internet brings you the The Liberal Insult Generator.
Now your [...]
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 [...]
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