Earlier in the month, Texas inserted the words “Under God” in the state’s Pledge of Allegiance. The Pledge is mandatory for schoolchildren to say, and if they want to get out of it, they need a note from home. This was around the same time that Texas was forcing children to have a moment of [...]

The latest issue of Wired magazine (September, 2007) has a brief list of the “World’s Lamest Social Networks” on page 52. On that list? The Richard Dawkins Social Network: What It Is: A place for fans of The God Delusion‘s author to meet and greet Who You’ll Meet: Humorless atheists What’s Annoying: Don’t these people [...]

Reuters reports: … the Vatican [recently launched] the world’s first airline for Catholic pilgrims. … The Vatican aims to serve 150,000 pilgrims a year on its chartered Boeing 737, run by Italy’s Mistral Air. Destinations range from the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to Mount Sinai in Egypt, where Moses is said to have received [...]