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In America, Our Inalienable Right to Vote is in Jeopardy
USA.GOV voting information site
Maddow: Tea party groups trying to steal election via voter purges
The Simpsons lampoons GOP-backed voter ID laws
Sarah Silverman explains voter ID: ‘Lawmakers are trying to fu*k you’
Last Clinics Standing: Alabama Abortion Clinic Struggles While Mississippi’s Forges On
Assertive Responses to Street Harassment
Voting While Trans -- Important info, but I'm not pleased about them requiring an email address in order to access it.
Anti-jihad 'savage' ads going up in NYC subway -- Pamela Geller. Again. What a fucking asshole she is.
Ryan Gets Booed At The AARP *snerk*
Two Easy Honey Candy Recipes -- Ooooooooh! Yummy!
Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Congressional Gold Medal
Elizabeth Warren Wins the "Which Side Are You On?" Debate (Opinion piece, obviously, but from what I saw, she definitely kicked some ass)
4 Ways Christianity Sneaks Into Our Secular Government -- And Why it Matters
Symbolic issues can have a significant impact. Employers requiring women to wear makeup wasn't the most pressing problems facing the women's movement... but most people understand why it was a fight worth fighting. Segregated drinking fountains and lunch counters weren't the most pressing problems facing the civil rights movement... but most people understand why they were deeply troubling and needed to end. President Obama saying same-sex marriage should be legal had zero effect on same-sex couples' legal rights... but most people understand why the President's statement mattered, and mattered enormously.
When you are told every day of your life that you are less than human, by your community and indeed by your government, it takes a toll. And when people who already think you're less than human get a thumbs-up on that attitude from the government that supposedly represents all of you, it reinforces those terrible attitudes, and makes people feel safer acting them out.
"Ceremonial deism" is neither. It is not "deism," a vague belief in a nebulous and ineffective god: it is the specific advocacy by the government of very specific religious views. And it is far more than just "ceremonial." It has real-world effects. It hurts people. It sticks a giant target on the backs of atheists, and others with non-mainstream religious beliefs... a target that tells the world, "Kick me. The government says it's okay." -- All of this. Yes.
Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers
9 Big Myths We're Being Peddled to Scare Us About Iran
Design Lessons from Star Trek to Consider Before Creating Your Next User Interface
Weirdest (and Most Poisonous) Food Colorings from Antiquity
Bolivia and Venezuela Scoff at Obama's Drug War Criticism, Tell US to Look in the Mirror
I Was Minutes Away From Ordering a Drone Strike on an 'Insurgent' ... Until I Realized It Was Just a Child at Play
New transparent soil reveals the secret world of plant roots
Band of Homeless Men Stop a Creep from Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl
Have You Heard Michael Jackson’s Unreleased Abortion Jingle? W.T.F.
The earliest split in modern humanity was 100,000 years ago
Baby Rhino Born at Pittsburgh Zoo - the First in Forty-five Years
Liliger Born in Siberian Zoo (with vid, and it's adorable)
How to Be a Good Commenter
Mysterious Underwater ‘Crop Circles’ Discovered Off the Coast of Japan -- Fascinating causation on these!
Trees Photographed by Grant Simon Rogers
Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code
Limbaugh: Penises now ’10 percent smaller’ and shrinking because of ‘feminazis’
China's netizens outraged over caged beggars at Taoist temple fair
YOU Can Make Science Happen
Bad Lip Reading and Other Illusions
Secularists are not atheists
Secularism is about separating church and state, not disbelief. Mixing it up with atheism serves only the right -- I'm essentially in agreement here.
The Science of Pomato Plants and Fruit Salad Trees
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Has Had Zero Negative Effects on the Military
Why does coffee never taste as good as it smells?
AP Exclusive: Private school vaccine opt-outs rise
Naomi Wolf's "Vagina" is full of bad science about the brain
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: Karl Rove and the Republican Dark Art of Election Theft
A CONSERVATIVE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Did Mitt Romney Seriously Just Wear Brownface to Appear on Univision?
Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate
USA.GOV voting information site
Maddow: Tea party groups trying to steal election via voter purges
The Simpsons lampoons GOP-backed voter ID laws
Sarah Silverman explains voter ID: ‘Lawmakers are trying to fu*k you’
Last Clinics Standing: Alabama Abortion Clinic Struggles While Mississippi’s Forges On
Assertive Responses to Street Harassment
Voting While Trans -- Important info, but I'm not pleased about them requiring an email address in order to access it.
Anti-jihad 'savage' ads going up in NYC subway -- Pamela Geller. Again. What a fucking asshole she is.
Ryan Gets Booed At The AARP *snerk*
Two Easy Honey Candy Recipes -- Ooooooooh! Yummy!
Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Congressional Gold Medal
Elizabeth Warren Wins the "Which Side Are You On?" Debate (Opinion piece, obviously, but from what I saw, she definitely kicked some ass)
4 Ways Christianity Sneaks Into Our Secular Government -- And Why it Matters
Symbolic issues can have a significant impact. Employers requiring women to wear makeup wasn't the most pressing problems facing the women's movement... but most people understand why it was a fight worth fighting. Segregated drinking fountains and lunch counters weren't the most pressing problems facing the civil rights movement... but most people understand why they were deeply troubling and needed to end. President Obama saying same-sex marriage should be legal had zero effect on same-sex couples' legal rights... but most people understand why the President's statement mattered, and mattered enormously.
When you are told every day of your life that you are less than human, by your community and indeed by your government, it takes a toll. And when people who already think you're less than human get a thumbs-up on that attitude from the government that supposedly represents all of you, it reinforces those terrible attitudes, and makes people feel safer acting them out.
"Ceremonial deism" is neither. It is not "deism," a vague belief in a nebulous and ineffective god: it is the specific advocacy by the government of very specific religious views. And it is far more than just "ceremonial." It has real-world effects. It hurts people. It sticks a giant target on the backs of atheists, and others with non-mainstream religious beliefs... a target that tells the world, "Kick me. The government says it's okay." -- All of this. Yes.
Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers
9 Big Myths We're Being Peddled to Scare Us About Iran
Design Lessons from Star Trek to Consider Before Creating Your Next User Interface
Weirdest (and Most Poisonous) Food Colorings from Antiquity
Bolivia and Venezuela Scoff at Obama's Drug War Criticism, Tell US to Look in the Mirror
I Was Minutes Away From Ordering a Drone Strike on an 'Insurgent' ... Until I Realized It Was Just a Child at Play
New transparent soil reveals the secret world of plant roots
Band of Homeless Men Stop a Creep from Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl
Have You Heard Michael Jackson’s Unreleased Abortion Jingle? W.T.F.
The earliest split in modern humanity was 100,000 years ago
Baby Rhino Born at Pittsburgh Zoo - the First in Forty-five Years
Liliger Born in Siberian Zoo (with vid, and it's adorable)
How to Be a Good Commenter
Mysterious Underwater ‘Crop Circles’ Discovered Off the Coast of Japan -- Fascinating causation on these!
Trees Photographed by Grant Simon Rogers
Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code
Limbaugh: Penises now ’10 percent smaller’ and shrinking because of ‘feminazis’
China's netizens outraged over caged beggars at Taoist temple fair
YOU Can Make Science Happen
Bad Lip Reading and Other Illusions
Secularists are not atheists
Secularism is about separating church and state, not disbelief. Mixing it up with atheism serves only the right -- I'm essentially in agreement here.
The Science of Pomato Plants and Fruit Salad Trees
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Has Had Zero Negative Effects on the Military
Why does coffee never taste as good as it smells?
AP Exclusive: Private school vaccine opt-outs rise
Naomi Wolf's "Vagina" is full of bad science about the brain
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: Karl Rove and the Republican Dark Art of Election Theft
A CONSERVATIVE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Did Mitt Romney Seriously Just Wear Brownface to Appear on Univision?
Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate