Tsunami Death Toll Continues to Rise
2004.12.31 (Fri) 02:56
We haven't said anything about the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia earlier this week for two reasons; first, we've been on hiatus due to the holidays, so we haven't said anything about anything lately [»]
Merry Christmas (Seriously)
2004.12.24 (Fri) 11:56
One thing that many of the fundies don't seem to get is that civil libertarians aren't just a bunch of grinches out to kill Christmas. In fact, some of us are very fond of Christmas, and would never g [»]
ACLU Screws Up - Er, no, wait...
2004.12.21 (Tue) 17:32
When we first read this article about how a teen's privacy won out over a parent's right to raise their children, we were outraged. When we read that the ACLU had filed an amicus brief in favor of the [»]
Dover Watch - The Cheese Stands Alone (Mostly)
2004.12.21 (Tue) 13:50
As reported from several sources, the Discovery Institute last week distanced itself from the Dover school board and their "intelligent design" curriculum. Per the Discovery Institute's press release [»]
What Don't You Get About "No Ten Commandments"?
2004.12.17 (Fri) 20:59
By now, the news of an Alabama judge wearing the Ten Commandments on his judicial robes when presiding over trials has surely made its way to all corners of the political world. Apparently, Roy Moore' [»]
CAP Alert: Good Idea, Bad Execution
2004.12.16 (Thu) 14:44
On our journeys through the World Wide Web, we do indulge in a particular vice: visiting websites which we find exceedingly misguided or deranged, simply for our own amusement. One such site, however, [»]
Dover Watch - Lawsuit Filed
2004.12.14 (Tue) 21:27
As expected, the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have filed a lawsuit on behalf of eleven parents of Dover, PA school children as a result of the Dover mandate to teach so [»]
Reiki Bullshit In Our Own Backyard
2004.12.14 (Tue) 00:55
Reading through a recent JREF weekly update, we were startled to see the name of a fairly local hospital, Chilton Memorial in New Jersey, apparently offering Reiki sessions. JREF reader Richard Seibel [»]
Unwitting Christians and Other Anomalous Creatures
2004.12.11 (Sat) 13:23
After reading various posts from Pharyngula and God is for Suckers over the past few weeks, we became ever so confused. A post on God is for Suckers pointed out this collection of polls about religion [»]
The World According to Christian Comic Strips
2004.12.04 (Sat) 17:37
Like much of the Religious Right's nonsense, we can't decide whether to laugh or cry about Jack Chick's litany of bullshit. If you've never seen his crap, and if you're not a weak-minded lemming, then [»]
Leave it to Beaver
2004.12.04 (Sat) 12:12
A recent post by PZ Meyers entitled What women are supposed to want got us thinking about something we've touched on before — the apparent agenda of the Religious Right, and the Bush Administrat [»]
SciFi Channel is More "Fi" Than "Sci"
2004.12.01 (Wed) 16:41
In James Randi's weekly wrap-up, Guy Matthews of the UK writes in to tell us about what the SciFi channel did to Merrye Olde Englande. In 2001 Sci-Fi UK announced they were going to be setting up shop [»]