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Holy mother Church does the right thing

Sunday, April 27, 2008

This is Sunday, so it’s entirely appropriate that we turn to religion today. By a happy coincidence, religion is in the news, at least it was in today’s Courant, which reports that the Archdiocese of Hartford is kicking the Protestants off of its radio station, including the Episcopalians. I was shocked when I read the […]

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Pro se divorce in Yemen

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I thought I was done for the day, then I ran into this (via Pharyngula), and had to pass it on: SANA’A, April 9 – An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man. Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court […]

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Expelled

Friday, March 28, 2008

Regular readers of the excellent blog Pharyngula can stop right here. For the rest of you folks, I must bring you up to date on a controversy brewing in the ongoing wars between scientists and crackpots over evolution. It has been covered extensively at Pharyngula, whose blogmeister, PZ Meyers, world renowned atheist and biologist, was […]

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Happy Good Friday

Friday, March 21, 2008

Today we observe Good Friday, on which the believable events of the Easter myth took place. It takes no stretch of the imagination to believe that a person with a revolutionary message like Jesus’ would be executed. As for the rest, well return from the dead is a bit hard to swallow, Richard Nixon’s political […]

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Bringing the light of democracy to Afghanistan

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Via Americablog, this is something of which everyone should be aware: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation” […]

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Documenting anti-Semitism

Monday, January 7, 2008

Last week I noted that Chris Powell accused his fellow Lieberman loathers of being anti-Semites, without offering a particle of evidence. Today, Digby shows how you do it, by providing concrete evidence that Huckabee, if not an anti-Semite, offers aid and comfort to those who are, with links and all. In this strange country that […]

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Hung by their own petard

Saturday, December 8, 2007

One of the things about the pesky Constitution is that, no matter how much one warps one part of it, some other part seems to get in the way of those who seek to pervert it. Case in point: The religious groups that wanted to use public fora to display their creches had to accept […]

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A Mormon story

Friday, December 7, 2007

Since Mormons are in the news lately, I share herewith a story about my own pilgrimage to the Mormon Tabernacle back in 1971. The school year ended early as a result of the post Cambodian invasion student strikes. Four Bowdoin students, including me, decided to take the archetypal road trip, so we took off in an […]

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JFK versus Willard Romney

Friday, December 7, 2007

There have been a number of comparisons between Willard Romney’s speech yesterday and John Kennedy’s speech in 1960 to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. It really boils down to this: JFK was trying to extinguish the flames of religious bigotry, Romney was trying to fan the flames while changing the direction of the wind.   […]

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But why don’t you tell us what you really think?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Via Pharyngula, a fellow named Pat Condell: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cXWElb-GE[/youtube]

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