The two main impetuses for this post are both already old news in the blogosphere’s short news cycle, but I think the issue is important, so here it goes:
Fact checking some outrage over news coverage of the Steubenville case
March 17, 2013 By 7 Comments
As you probably know already, two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio were found guilty of raping a teenage girl and sentenced today. I’ve been seeing a bunch of outrage on Twitter and Facebook directed at CNN’s coverage of the verdict, for example this image:
Libby Anne on outrage blogging
February 20, 2013 By 2 Comments
A very good response by Libby Anne to my recent post on outrage and the atheist blogosphere:
BS outrage and the atheist blogosphere
February 11, 2013 By 26 Comments
A few days ago I stumbled across an article by David Wong titled “5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 5 Seconds.” One item in particular was uncomfortably familiar: “The Headline Is About a ‘Lawmaker’ Saying Something Stupid”:
I hope I’m not like this when I’m 70…
February 9, 2013 By 3 Comments
William G. Dever is one of the archaeologists fundamentalists sometimes cite as supporting their view of the Old Testament, so I thought I’d take a look at his work. I came across this essay, where the main point is that no Dever does not in fact accept Biblical inerrancy, but the first and last paragraphs [...]
What Christian blogs are worth interacting with?
July 24, 2012 By 26 Comments
It seems like in the first couple years of my blogging, atheist and Christian blogs interacted a lot more. I suspect this was in part the result of a self-reinforcing trend, where the less someone interacts with you, the less they seem interacting with. Yet there’s no doubt a lot to gain from that interaction. [...]
Internet flamewars explained by SCIENCE!
July 13, 2012 By 9 Comments
Well, not exactly, but while I was reading Steven Pinker’s excellent book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, I came across a section that, while not directly about the internet, seems to explain a lot some of the things that happen here.
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