Golfing with God
2005.07.27 (Wed) 22:33
This falls into the "religious people say the darndest things" category, so we thought we'd share. We've been known to play a round of golf from time to time — we aren't all that good, and we ce [»]
Legislators Lagging Behind Media - By About Fifty Years
2005.07.27 (Wed) 18:19
Another good post from Les Jenkins — yes, we've been catching up on our SEB after a busy week — directs us to a press release regarding the recent ESRB rating change on the extremely popul [»]
Homo Sapiens: Spreading Like the Common Cold
2005.07.27 (Wed) 17:38
Last week, 2% favorite Les Jenkins focused our attention on a story that didn't make too many waves in the mainstream media: The US space agency believes the two rover spacecraft scuttling across the [»]
Judge Narrows Newdow's Pledge Case
2005.07.26 (Tue) 23:06
In case you don't know, Michael Newdow is the attorney who is trying to have the "under God" bit in the Pledge of Allegience declared to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. He won his init [»]
Carnival of the Godless #18
2005.07.24 (Sun) 23:13
The eighteenth edition of the Carnival of the Godless was posted earlier today at St. Nate's. We saw some pretty solid blogging over there, so go check it out! Unless, of course, you're busy at church [»]
Skeptics' Circle #13 (Farewell, St. Nate)
2005.07.22 (Fri) 12:04
The thirteenth edition of the Skeptics' Circle is available for your perusal over at Respectful Insolence. If you can manage to overcome your triskaidekaphobia, please go check it out. Orac has done a [»]
Skeptico Spoon-Feeds Thimerosal Facts to RFK Jr.
2005.07.21 (Thu) 19:40
After watching Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s appearance on The Daily Show last night, we were crossing our fingers that Skeptico would do a pile-driver on RFK's factual errors, quote-mining, scare tactics, [»]
Conservative or Liberal? How 'Bout Just: "A Judge"
2005.07.20 (Wed) 23:01
An observation: When did this country become so mired in partisan politics that we refer to judges — who, by the definition of their profession, are supposed to be impartial and non-partisan &md [»]
Roberts Chosen for Supreme Court
2005.07.20 (Wed) 00:28
Remember the whirlwind of rumors over the past few days that had Edith Clement as a lock to take Sandra O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court? Well, never mind all that — Dubya instead nominated [»]
Wait, Which Book Corrupts Children's Minds?
2005.07.16 (Sat) 14:56
In honor of the US release of the new Harry Potter book today, we wanted to mention something that we ran across on Skeptico. As you may know, the Catholic Church has spent the past few years whining [»]
Thoughts on the Ten Commandments Cases
2005.07.16 (Sat) 00:17
At the end of June, the Supreme Court ruled on two Ten Commandments cases — McCreary and Van Orden. In McCreary, the court upheld the ruling that a Kentucky display of the Ten Commandments in a [»]
One More Time: The Government Cannot Fund the Scouts
2005.07.14 (Thu) 20:36
As only a few news sources have reported recently, a federal judge ruled that the Pentagon can no longer fund the Boy Scout Jamboree, which they've been funding for many years. The cost of the jambore [»]
UTI: Back in the Saddle Again
2005.07.14 (Thu) 11:42
As you may know (and as we mentioned a little while back), one of our favorite blogs, Unscrewing the Inscrutable, had some hosting problems a while back. It turns out that the hosting problems were ev [»]
A Clear Sign for the Catholic Church
2005.07.13 (Wed) 23:08
You know, when certain practices of your group, organization or vocation are so malevolent and widespread that they provoke a need for support groups specially devoted to your victims...maybe there's [»]
Kudos to Spain, Again
2005.07.12 (Tue) 10:12
Hot on the heels of their legalization of gay marriage, Spain is once again pissing off the Christian contingent by pushing forward legislation aimed at allowing therapeutic cloning for embryonic stem [»]
Carnival of the Godless #17
2005.07.10 (Sun) 22:01
What better way to spend a Sunday than reading posts from the seventeenth edition of the Carnival of the Godless which was posted earlier today at Tobias Buckell Online? Mostly, that was a rhetorical [»]
The ALC: Giving Atheists a Bad Name
2005.07.10 (Sun) 19:44
Apparently, when people associate the word "atheism" with visions of anti-religious zealots, groups like the Atheist Law Center are what they are thinking of. We came across this group from a link on [»]
The Truth is Out There...Way, Way Out There
2005.07.09 (Sat) 20:58
Over at The New Republic, Ben Adler has an...interesting little piece up (we read it on Digby's blog, following a link from Majikthise). Adler asks of various prominent folks a few simple questions re [»]
Skeptics' Circle #12
2005.07.08 (Fri) 13:04
The twelfth edition of the Skeptics' Circle is available for your perusal over at the UTI Annex. So grab a Ouija Board, shake up your Magic 8 Ball, and soothe your senses with some skeptical goodness. [»]
Is it Safe...?
2005.07.08 (Fri) 11:45
The Two Percent Company would like to extend our apologies to our regular readers for our somewhat, ah, light Ranting as of late. In case you aren't a subscriber, and have been wondering where the hec [»]
Happy Fourth of July
2005.07.01 (Fri) 23:44
For those of you who celebrate the upcoming U.S. Independence Day, enjoy the holiday. For those who don't but who get a long weekend anyway, enjoy the long weekend. For those for whom this is just a s [»]