DrB- Recent interviews with Romney during one of this flights between events, he details the new methods he’s using to reach voters: For weeks many Beltway insiders had written off the Romney campaign as dead, saying the candidate had dug himself into too deep a hole with too little time to recover. [Read More...]
Build your own Romney
October 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
DrB- Do you feel that this election season, there just isn’t a candidate for you? That you vote just misses the mark on the current crop of voting targets? You’re in luck! This time around, there’s a candidate who believes everything you do. It’s a simple process too, you just input where you stand [Read More...]
I can not lie, I like big…
October 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DrB- I’m reasonably sure that this video, is the reason we have the internet. I mean, that and cat pictures. You can find me on twitter, @DrDavidBurger I recruit in Kansas City, http://www.kcatheists.org/ & https://www.facebook.com/KCAtheists [Read more...]
I vote for another drink
October 4, 2012 By 16 Comments
DrB- We know the United States wasn’t founded on Christianity, in any sense of the word. You know what it was founded on? Beer. George Washington famously brewed it. James Madison purportedly sought to create a cabinet-level Secretary of Beer. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped make it legal to produce and sell (again) by [Read More...]
Faith kills again
October 3, 2012 By 21 Comments
DrB- It’s a failure to be reasonable when a parent prays while their child dies of a curable condition. But murdering the child in the name of faith? A six-week-old baby was killed by her bipolar mother after she stuffed pages from the Bible into the infant’s mouth…..Christian fundamentalist Julia Lovemore, 41, killed daughter Faith [Read More...]
You can trust him, he’s a Pastor!
October 3, 2012 By 9 Comments
DrB- You ever notice how religion makes people develop superior ethics? How being in tune with the will of God makes one a better person? How those in leadership positions of theology are pillars of the community? A Toronto pastor swindled parishioners and colleagues of more than $8 million Well. That’s awkward. Well, [Read More...]
Enhancing your productivity
October 2, 2012 By 3 Comments
DrB- It’s a rough economy out there, and we could all use a boost to our productivity. There’s a new study out, with some new thinking into ways to boost employee output. What’s something you can do to further your career? A team of researchers at Hiroshima University recently conducted a study where they [Read More...]
A collection of Questions
September 30, 2012 By 1 Comment
DrB- I found a short multi-panel comic here, http://imgur.com/a/47GvE It’s just a few frames, with a curious take on the nature of questions, and their value as compared to answers. Because there’s some “answers” we don’t need anymore, having long outlived any initial purpose to their original question….and kicking and screaming, they’re slowly going. [Read More...]
Science Guy Style
September 29, 2012 By 3 Comments
DrB- A little while ago, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” stated the obvious, “The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.” Naturally, a great deal of willfully ignorant people got very upset about this. But that’s [Read More...]
Purity is for drinking water.
September 28, 2012 By 11 Comments
DrB- Even positive sex education will say that abstinence is some kind of virtue. As if “purity” was for people. As if sex had anything to do with a person’s value. Pop stars from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson, to the Jonas Brothers, to Miley Cyrus, to Justin Bieber routinely assert that they’re waiting [Read More...]
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