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« October 2006 | HOME | December 2006 » November 2006 Julia Sweeney Lexi reminds me: Just wanted to let you know that there are great discussions going on in the comments at Julia Sweeney's weblog. Her CD is out, too. I haven't heard the CD, but I saw the show twice. Highly... November 29, 2006 What do you think about Bigfoot? Proposal: Right now there is a great ape species dwelling in the forests of North America. A likely descendent of gigantopithecus blacki, this ape migrated across the now-gone Siberia/Alaska land bridge and has lived in the forests of North America... November 29, 2006 What I learned on the Web recently How to get ahead in the Bush Administration: Fail. Science educators' choice for global warming facts: Oil companies. Kramer remixed: Funny. Where orangutans hang out: MySpace. Desire of some to ignore the clear and present dangers of religion: Boundless.... November 29, 2006 Two views of Bigfoot 1. A belief that Bigfoot likely exists can only be held by those under the spell of a delusion. There is no significant evidence for the existence of the creature -- just hoaxes, stories from unreliable witnesses and a lot... November 26, 2006 The stupidity It burns. Proceed at your own risk. Example (condensed from the original): SAM HARRIS: Even if your claim about the link between faith and morality were true, it would offer no support whatsoever for your religious beliefs. Even if atheism... November 25, 2006 Rational Response Squad Interview with recording artist Proclaim and then me about The God Who Wasn't There. (MP3)... November 21, 2006 My kind of missionaries In SLC. (via PZ)... November 21, 2006 Shorter MPAA We want to sell fewer DVDs and make our customers hate us.... November 17, 2006 Religion never does any harm Ever.... November 17, 2006 New site on religion From Sam Harris's email newsletter: On Faith: A Washington Post / Newsweek Website The Washington Post and Newsweek have jointly launched a website to discuss religion. Sam has signed on as one of the bloggers. This looks like it will... November 15, 2006 Standing firm on medieval values Both depressing and encouraging: BALTIMORE, Nov. 14 -- Faced with rising public acceptance of same-sex relationships, three U.S. Christian denominations are taking strong measures this week to condemn homosexual acts as sinful. The nation's Roman Catholic bishops, meeting in Baltimore,... November 15, 2006 Republicans cheat To Republicans, voters are not people to whom they are accountable. They're just people to fool. If the National Republican Congressional Committee had not placed literally millions of deceptive robocalls (the machines called people back over and over, and tricked... November 14, 2006 Breath Control Watching this clip reminded me how good the 2002 documentary Breath Control was when I saw it at the Newport Film Festival. Breath Control appears to be another lost film. It's not at Amazon or Netflix. Weird. There's obviously a... November 14, 2006 All singing! All dancing! All girls! An all-girl high school in L.A. is putting on a production of Bat Boy: Marlborough School will present "Bat Boy: The Musical," the '90s rock musical ripped from tabloid headlines, at 3:00 p.m. on November 16 and at 7:00 p.m.... November 13, 2006 Liberty University pwned: If you were told that Liberty University taught that San Francisco was twenty-eight feet from New York you wouldn't believe it. So when Richard learns that Liberty University teaches its students something equally absurd, that dinosaurs are a few... November 12, 2006 Flying Spaghetti Monster sighting Ramen!... November 12, 2006 No surprise What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the... November 11, 2006 The power of myth There is a popular myth among pundits that Democrats must increase their share of the evangelical vote in order to win. Since the Democrats won, that means they must have won over the evangelicals, right? That was an automatic reaction... November 11, 2006 Christmas is not Christian Christians join the War on Christmas. Seductive.... November 10, 2006 Your plans this weekend TGWWT in Monterey: "The God Who Wasn't There," written by ex-evangelical Christian Brian Flemming. 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13 at the Monterey Senior Center, 280 Dickman at Lighthouse avenues, Monterey. Sponsored by the Humanist Association of the Monterey Peninsula Area.... November 10, 2006 The God Who Wasn't There iMix Just testing the new iMix feature from Apple...... November 10, 2006 Links Godless: See Richard Dawkins on TV this weekend: A recording of Richard Dawkins' book tour event on October 23rd in Lynchburg, Virginia will be played on C-SPAN2 twice this week: On Saturday, November 11 at 10:00 pm and Sunday, November... November 08, 2006 WWJD? The video.... November 08, 2006 Scientist apologists Depressing. Sam Harris chatting in RA's forums: I just returned from a three-day meeting at the Salk Institute entitled, Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival. Participants included Steven Weinberg, Harold Kroto, Richard Dawkins, and many other scientists and philosophers... November 08, 2006 Richard Carrier Richard Carrier Blogs. You read.... November 08, 2006 The restoration of Ted Haggard Dobson is no longer on the team that is going to re-program Ted Haggard, but, really, this "restoration" process is just sick, and should be considered a bigger scandal than the sex and meth. The process that Pastor Ted faces... November 08, 2006 Nice day Who would have thought that the party of fiscal irresponsibility, military incompetence and torture would lose so badly?... November 07, 2006 Election Day Just in case you forgot. Find your polling place with this easy tool. Report irregularities.... November 07, 2006 Dear Republicans, I know I have Republican readers, and this story has made me wonder: Does it bother you that your party is the party of voter suppression? I'm not talking about tough political ads, harsh rhetoric, etc. That certainly happens on... November 06, 2006 Ruled by hate It's impossible not to feel sorry for Pastor Ted. His written confession/apology (PDF) to his congregation practically contains an entire Greek tragedy. The protagonist is a gay man who posed in a straight role because he felt the gay part... November 05, 2006 It can't happen here That's a given. But I wonder what it would look like if fascism were creeping into the United States?... November 05, 2006 Biblical values Ted Haggard on gay sex: We've decided the Bible is the word of God. We don't have to have a general assembly about what we believe -- it's written in the Bible, all right? So we don't have to debate... November 03, 2006 Blogging Bat Boy The University of Mary Washington is putting on a production of Bat Boy, and the whole process is heavily blogged. Main blog. Shelley's blog. Dr. Parker's blog. (Thanks, Lyssa.)... November 03, 2006 Olbermann As usual, Olbermann doing the unthinkable: Stating the obvious on television. (Thanks, Rena.)... November 03, 2006 Two things In my mailbag, two questions have been popping up lately: 1. Why didn't I write a six-word short story, too? (Best version of this question from Javier: "Posted Papa's. Didn't write one himself.") 2. Why haven't I commented on Death... November 02, 2006 Haggard Will he use this opportunity to finally do some good with his life? Haggard has tremendous potential now to stop spreading hate and start introducing his flock to the concept of tolerance, but I won't hold my breath. Jeff Sharlet... November 02, 2006 Almost half of America Is agnostic or atheist? (Thanks, David.)... November 01, 2006

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