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Category Archives: It Would Be Irresponsible Not To Speculate
Immaturity and Intellectual Sloth? Really?
I just saw a post over at Sacerdotus that saddens me. I’m not going to excerpt it because of the explicitly-stated licensing conditions on the front page, but it’s a brief read, and I suggest you take a look at … Continue reading
I Have No Argument Against the Tax-Exempt Status of Churches.
I don’t need one either, because the churches make them for me.
Posted in Activism, Boy You Suck, Education, Elections, Fuck Your Team, Fundamentalism on the March, It Would Be Irresponsible Not To Speculate, Posts That Will Get Me Hate Mail, Self-determination, So how do we fix it?, Sometimes I Just Do It To Piss People Off, Stupid Power Tricks, WTF?
Tagged advocacy, clergy, election 2012, endorsement, first amendment, politics, separation of church and state
The Anachronism of the Gold Standard
There’s a saying that’s famous among physicists: “That’s not even wrong.” The idea is that an answer or theory is so far afield that not only can it not be falsified, it ignores the foundational conditions of the situation it … Continue reading
A Proposed Explanation for Atheism+
I hate getting some questions, I really do. I received this from a friend: I have a totally unfair question to ask you. I ask because 1.) I know your opinion won’t be bullshit that you just made up, and … Continue reading
DUDEBROS w/ BLING 4 LYFE (and President)
Holy fuck, John Derbyshire got shitcanned at the NRO (old post, old news), but the crazy JUST KEEPS COMING! Like a Boss When it comes to being a rich guy, Mitt Romney should own it By Kevin D. Williamson Someone … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Media! Bad!, Bad Science Reporting, Boy You Suck, Fuck Your Team, Fundamentalism on the March, It Would Be Irresponsible Not To Speculate, Reproductive Rights, Schadenfreude, Self-determination, Sometimes I Just Do It To Piss People Off, Stupid Power Tricks, Stupid Safari, The Consequences of Finance, The Peter Principle, When Bloggers Attack, When the Internet and RL Collide, WTF?
Tagged bad humor, evolutionary psych, LEAVE EVOLUTION ALOOONE, mitt romney, national review online, stupid, wingnut welfare, you mean they pay you for that
The New MRA Homeland
So the verdict is in: The members of Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. For those of you who don’t know what Pussy Riot is, they’re a Russian punk band … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Boy You Suck, It Would Be Irresponsible Not To Speculate, Posts That Will Get Me Hate Mail, Self-determination, Stupid Power Tricks
Tagged demonstrations, feminism, free speech, hooliganism, MRAs, patriarchy, protest, punk rock, pussy riot, putin, russian federation, russian orthodox church, social regression
GirlWritesWhat Also Doesn’t Understand the DMCA (or YouTube)
Update at bottom In her most recent video, GirlWritesWhat is cranky. You can watch the video below, or go to her blog, which has a transcript: Meh. What to say that I haven’t already said before (many times, but yanno)? … Continue reading