You might or might not be familiar with the blog Slacktivist, perhaps best known for its ongoing exegesis of the wretched theology and even worse writing in the Left Behind novels. The blog ran for years on typepad.com, and recently its author, Fred Clark, moved it to the Patheos portal in the interest of engaging with the broader ecumenical/ ( Read more... )

First, the OMGWTFBBQ. Via Pharyngula, the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, and TIME Magazine: pediatric endocrinologists Maria New and Saroj Nimkarn are advocating prenatal treatment with the glucocorticoid dexamethasone to "reduce behavioral masculinization" of female children ( Read more... )

Via fjm, British government finally apologises for its appalling treatment of Alan Turing and other gay menBy any sensible definition of sainthood, Alan Turing ought to have been canonised long ago (along with Alonzo Church, Haskell Curry, John Backus, John von Neumann, and a small host of other dead computer scientists, but that's another story for ( Read more... )

Worth exactly what you paid for it, so hey, if I piss you off, all you wasted was your time.

Anyway. I recently read some discussion in a trans* community about the following excerpt from an HRC newsletter:Getting the truth in front of the American public is no small undertaking. Extremist groups are not only attacking equal rights we've already ( Read more... )