Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld to be Announced
2005.02.28 (Mon) 21:54
According to a press release found on Progressive Newswire, the ACLU and Human Rights First will hold a press conference tomorrow, March 1, at 10:30AM EST in Washington, DC to announce a lawsuit again [»]
Gonzales Announces a List of Bad Ideas
2005.02.28 (Mon) 20:49
What do you get when you appoint an asshole who rubber stamps torture as your Attorney General? Shit like this, as reported on Yahoo News: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday he would move a [»]
Ten Commandments Cases to Begin This Week
2005.02.27 (Sun) 23:02
Two Ten Commandments cases — Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky — are scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court beginning this Wednesday, March 2. For our part, we [»]
Libertarians and ColecoVision
2005.02.24 (Thu) 23:18
We recently heard from reader Joe, who asked about our view of the Libertarian party. He had read a Score entry in which we explained why we do not agree with the Libertarians, and was looking for som [»]
Two Percent Company Rants Are Back Up
2005.02.24 (Thu) 15:17
Sorry for the forced hiatus — our host server was experiencing some major issues (still being researched) that impacted MovableType's ability to work and play well with the database libraries. W [»]
Carnival of the Godless #4
2005.02.20 (Sun) 00:55
The fourth edition of the Carnival of the Godless is available today — head over to Philosophy, et cetera to check it out. We were lucky enough to have one of our Rants included in this edition [»]
Arkansas on ID Stickers: "We had our fingers crossed!"
2005.02.19 (Sat) 14:14
In a move strikingly similar to the well known playground tactic of crossing their fingers, the Beebe, Arkansas school board recently announced that their recent announcement concerning the removal of [»]
Class Action Reform & Common Sense (or Lack Thereof)
2005.02.18 (Fri) 15:48
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 was signed into law today by President Bush, after passing the Senate last week by a 72-26 vote, and finding approval in the House just yesterday. This bill repre [»]
The Daily Show on Blogging
2005.02.17 (Thu) 19:30
Last night's epsiode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had a lengthy opening segment that addressed the effect of blogging on the political landscape. Using AmericaBlog's breaking of the Jeff Gannon [»]
Skeptics' Circle #2
2005.02.17 (Thu) 12:26
The second edition of the Skeptics' Circle is alive and kicking. There seems to be no shortage of Behe bashing (bashing people who use bullshit pseudo-science to attack real science is always a good t [»]
Virginia Government Challenges Alabama's Crown
2005.02.16 (Wed) 01:25
From time to time, all states are guilty of proposing stupid or dangerous legislation, and to be sure, the federal government is no stranger to this phenomenon either. For example, every time we see a [»]
When Parallel Lines Diverge
2005.02.15 (Tue) 18:26
Ed Brayton over on Dispatches from the Culture Wars reports on the sentencing of convicted child molester and — surprise! — priest, Paul Shanley. In his blog entry, Ed brings up a very poi [»]
Carnival of the Godless #3
2005.02.13 (Sun) 12:01
The third edition of the Carnival of the Godless is available today — head over to Science & Politics to check it out. Among the other goodies, an older post from Brent at UTI poses the ques [»]
Our Door is Always Open
2005.02.11 (Fri) 16:47
Since we opened up shop here in November, we've received several comments on our Rant entries and a fair number of e-mails via our Contact page. We would like to thank all those who have taken the tim [»]
Arkansas Removes Anti-Evolution Stickers
2005.02.11 (Fri) 00:47
As reported by the ACLU, and initially found in TheCabin.net, it sounds like creationism suffered a loss in Arkansas yesterday: LITTLE ROCK, AR--Following action by the American Civil Liberties Union [»]
Marvel Madness
2005.02.08 (Tue) 09:29
In a casual perusal of the forums for the MMORPG City of Heroes, from NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, we came across a reference to one of the most ridiculous examples of frivolous lawsuits: Marvel Enterp [»]
EFF: Endangered Gizmos List
2005.02.07 (Mon) 22:04
Last month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation created a list of Endangered Gizmos — a watchlist for products and services that are being lobbied and legislated out of existence by large corpora [»]
Carnival of the Godless #2
2005.02.06 (Sun) 13:28
We hope you've finished reading the first edition of the Carnival of the Godless, because the second edition is available today at Pharyngula with twenty-three brand spanking new submissions. For this [»]
Senate Confirms Gonzales, Predictably
2005.02.04 (Fri) 19:31
No, it wasn't a surprise that Alberto Gonzales was confirmed by the Senate to be the next Attorney General, but that doesn't make it any less tragic, embarrassing, and horrific, and it doesn't make us [»]
Skeptics' Circle #1
2005.02.03 (Thu) 09:44
The very first edition of the Skeptics' Circle is available for your perusal. So far, the entries we've read certainly live up to our expectations. In the face of the growing proliferation of quackery [»]
Astounding Hypocrisy by the BSA
2005.02.02 (Wed) 20:42
We read through Natalie Angier's speech at the Ethical Culture Society (found via Unscrewing the Inscrutable). It's a lovely speech, a must read for anyone who wants to raise intelligent, independent [»]
New Year, Same Old Creationists
2005.02.02 (Wed) 19:16
It seems to us that becoming an expert in "Creation Science" isn't all that difficult. The curriculum goes something like this: Step 1:Read Genesis, with enough suspension of disbelief to ignore the a [»]