Meditations on my personal experience with introversion, extroversion, friendship, interpersonal intimacy, small groups, large groups, social anxiety, social media, and public speaking.
Is Religious Circumcision of Male Infants Morally Defensible?
July 27, 2012 By 102 Comments
Last month a court in Cologne, Germany ruled against allowing the circumcision of children too young to give consent. CBS News summarized the facts: a German court ruled that circumcision infringes on a child’s right to be protected from bodily harm. The regional court in Cologne said that circumcision went against the “fundamental right of [...]
We Need A Skeptical Guide To Islam
July 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
Tired of having to sift through whitewashing religious apologists or fearmongering bigots when trying to get information about Islam that is both factually accurate and defensibly critical? Heina, an apostate from Islam who was formerly a devout believer, wants to write that book and is looking for donations to help fund her efforts: Learn more [...]
Blaming Rape on the Ideal of Egalitarian Marriage
July 23, 2012 By 35 Comments
Robert M. Price’s Podcast “The Human Bible”
July 11, 2012 By 24 Comments
Robert M. Price is an amusing, charismatic, and atheistic scholar of the Bible. Since February he has been doing a radio show/podcast for the Center For Inquiry called “The Human Bible”, wherein he explains all the ins and outs of the Bible from a scholarly and skeptical perspective. Below the fold are brief episode summaries [...]
The Higgs Boson
July 4, 2012 By 7 Comments
I figured with the big Higgs Boson news today, I would repost this fantastic video explaining what the Higgs Boson is and then round up some more resources for learning more about it and about what the discovery of a new particle today was and what it means. Go to PhD Comics for individual images from the [...]
Catholic 2012 Election Propaganda
July 4, 2012 By 10 Comments
The distortion of the meaning of freedom of religion in this video is disgusting. I’m not going to repeat myself but if you don’t know what is wrong with the claim that it is a violation of religious freedom for the Catholic Church not to be able to impose its religious standards on its employees [...]
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