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If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
[Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911]
May 31, 2009
Category: Pointless polls
It's a silly poll, but seeing such one-sided numbers (one-sided in the wrong direction!) just irks me. Teach this person that you can't just smugly throw up a pointless poll on the internet and expect affirmation. Do You Believe in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:51 PM • 183 Comments •
Feministe has an excellent list of pro-choice charities. Want to do something to infuriate the women-hating anti-choicers and do something positive in honor of Tiller's work? Donate!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:04 PM • 70 Comments •
While we're all feeling a bit shocked at the horrible event in Kansas, we can all turn to the Reagan legacy. Mike Reagan is giving away free copies of a book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation, written by...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:02 PM • 386 Comments •
Category: Evil
Dr George Tiller, a Kansas doctor who has long provided abortion services (including late-term abortions) was gunned down this morning. He has been the target of anti-choice fanatics for years: his clinic has been vandalized, he was shot and wounded...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 PM • 530 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
I'm impressed. It's a highly critical article about Oprah's peddling of quackery, and it's about time one of the big media players pointed out that she is promoting dangerous fake therapies…all with a happy smile, of course, and a message...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:17 AM • 117 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
This comment thread, which has been going on since February — I close them when they climb up to around a thousand comments, open a fresh one, and then you guys fill it up again. I threatened to close it...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:21 AM • 1014 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Today at 9am Central time (short notice—you've got one hour to get to the internet! Oh, you're already there) the crew at Atheists Talk radio will be discussing the work of Bart Ehrman....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:59 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Organisms
This is really low, and I'm already ashamed of myself…but I couldn't resist, either. Behold the cuteness. (via Chris Clarke)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 AM • 96 Comments •
May 30, 2009
Category: Religion
You must listen to this ghastly interview with Bill Donohue on the Irish Catholic scandal. He is calmly taken apart by one of the victims of priestly rape — his views are characterized as "obscene". What a nasty little man....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:05 PM • 180 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I know it's a teaching cliche that there is no such thing as a stupid question…but it's not true. There really are stupid questions. So moms are everywhere in nature. Females often go to great lengths to feed, save, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:21 PM • 245 Comments •
