News 2014.03.17
World
- Creationists attack Neil deGrasse Tyson for his blind faith in science.
- Such exchange. So crash. Very panic. Wow.
- Just in case you thought of the Church of England as basically benign. (National Secular Society protest petition.)
- There may be as much water trapped deep in the earth as there is in all the world's oceans. We can't wait for the Hydroplate theory crowd to start up.
- Remember Arizona's hate the gays religious freedom bill, that Jan Brewer vetoed? Turns out she helped work on the wording.
- This is how you do a shameless plug and get away with it. [Autoplay video]
- Another writer makes the case that America has strongman-envy. ( The cycles of history.)
- Review of a recent book on the introduction of the idea of evolution into the Islamic world. How do you discuss Darwin in a language that does not have a word for "species?"
- Did you invent Bitcoin? Take Slate's simple quiz!
- Facts may not be the best method to convince conservatives.
- Ron Paul defends Putin's invasion of Crimea and sham referendum by citing the United States' long and glorious history of secession.
- World accuses Bill O’Reilly of being bad influence on 'boys of Irish heritage'
- Ancient Egyptian Baal-worshipers{sic} came to America and left thousands of rock carvings ... claiming the land in the name of Baal
- Disney's Frozen: a sweet fairy tale about sisterly love that turns children into evil, wicked homos.
- Fartiste and his buddies chuckle over a demotivational graphic irrefutably demonstrating that all civilization was created by white males... which, on closer inspection, is revealed to be nothing but a bunch of random pixels.