I'm following the creation of the Atheism+ movement (social justice, or at least no tolerance for misogyny etc, in your atheism) and a common objection to the term in comments is "but that's just Humanism!" Many people have tried to explain reasonably the many ways it's not true. Here's my snarky unreasonable explanation ( Read more... )

I can't afford to post this in alt.polyamory, but I have to vent my snark at Steve Pope somewhere ( Read more... )

Back in the chimps post, eub and green_knight are having a conversation about intelligent behaviour in different animals, how we judge what is intelligent, and so forth. I don't have much useful to contribute to that, apart from agreeing that it requires observation of wild behaviours, and careful, non-judgmental observers. And I expect we still have a lot to ( Read more... )

David Friedman on rec.arts.sf.misc (still part of the thread of doom, of course).

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"Suzanne Blom" wrote ( Read more... )