The issue of same-sex marriage is settled. After Obergefell same-sex couples have a right to enter into marriage in any state and there’s nothing those states can do about it. But one lawmaker from Kentucky, Joseph M. Fischer (R-eally dumb) has a plan: what if they just stop calling marriage? Brilliant! He’s introduced a hulking bill that would both introduce the concept of matrimony (it’s just like marriage, but no homo) and replace every instance of “marriage” in the state’s... Read more
About a month ago KCRW Radio ran a segment with skeptics and supporters of Donald Trump. At 18:55 Shermer is introduced as a supporter. He doesn’t correct the host and proceeds to talk about what he likes of Trump: his deal-making ability and Shermer says he would be a strong military leader. I…what? I’m strained to believe that any competent person, which I think Shermer is, could say those things with any sincerity. I mean, I got Trump’s campaign to... Read more
Good morning, everybody! I’m feeling a hair better. Throat is still trying to mutiny, but I’ll drown it in water and see what shakes. This dog made a new friend: View post on imgur.com Read more
Carson is calling it quits: Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who briefly led the Republican presidential race before his campaign began an extended public implosion, will tell his supporters in a statement Wednesday afternoon that he does not see a “path forward” and will not attend Thursday’s debate in Detroit, according to two Republicans familiar with his plans. Carson, however, will not formally suspend his campaign. Instead, the Republicans said, he has decided to make a speech about his political... Read more
I think I’m going to drive up to voice lessons and quarantine myself in a corner. I’ll leave you with this clip of League of Legends from last week. I was playing with some other atheist gamers and turned what seemed to be a lost fight completely around. See you all tomorrow. Read more
Thanks for all the moral lectures over the years, Bill. Hey, maybe you should do an episode on how to traumatize your own kids with a no-spin segment on the virtues of choking your spouse: The court’s Feb. 24 ruling upheld a Nassau County Supreme Court decision granting full custody of the 12-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl to Maureen McPhilmy, theFactor host’s ex-wife. “Viewing the totality of the circumstances, there is a sound and substantial basis for the Supreme Court’s... Read more
Russia is quickly becoming the manifestation of a Franklin Graham wet dream. As Christians continue to build a theocracy there it has actually become illegal to offend religious people (you’re still free to hurt atheists’ feelings all you like, of course). One example is Viktor Krasnov, who is facing trial for tweeting “There is no god”: A Russian faces up to a year in prison for saying “there is no God” during an argument on social media, his lawyers said... Read more
The Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have begun reaching out to the community in a major way: by posting advertisements in the Madison bus system: Atheists inhabit the Madison bus system Hell yes! Undoubtedly some of the same people who think billboards threatening people with hell are just peachy will be offended at signs that ask if religion makes sense. Wonderful work by AHA@WM! Read more
Good morning, all. I’m still sick. This thing comes and goes. This morning I felt a little better, but still wiped. I slept straight through til 10:30. Then I got up and felt like crap again. Weird thing is that Dave got diagnosed with strep throat last night. I don’t think I have that — I don’t have white spots in my throat and haven’t developed a fever. But…ugh. I may try to go do voice lessons with my students... Read more
I really wish I had the energy to provide more commentary on this beyond “I’m thoroughly disgusted.” Alas, I had to crawl out of bed just to post this: A statewide investigating grand jury has determined that hundreds of children were sexually abused over a period of at least 40 years by priests or religious leaders assigned to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane’s office announced today. The widespread abuse involved at least 50... Read more
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