It's generally bad. For example, take this painting, one shared by The Archdruid Himself:


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It's old, so I apologize if this is old news to you, but seriously, check out Chris Martenson's podcast interview with Frances Koster. Dr. Koster runs something called The Optimistic Futurist, where he documents efforts to improve food, energy and fuel security in ways that make local investments in one's community both profitable and of benefit ( Read more... )

PZ Myers railed today against the anti-choice league, and made me laugh:

The argument is about whether that living thing is a person requiring extensive legal and moral protection, and it’s entirely clear that “life” is not a sufficient criterion, or people would be lobbying for the protection of turds and tonsils.
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From tacit:

"Past a certain point, any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

Really, Gov. Huckabee?

David Barton introduced Mike Huckabee at the Rediscover God In America conference, praising him as the epitome of the "Black Robe Regiment" mentality of seeking to apply the Bible to every aspect of the culture.

Huckabee, in turn, repaid the compliments to Barton, calling him one of the most effective communicators in ( Read more... )

Just came across this disturbing but hardly surprising article about a religious effort to politicize evangelical pastors:

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Hundreds of conservative pastors in Iowa received the enticing invitation. Signed by Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential contender, it invited the pastors and their spouses ( Read more... )

God helps those
who help themselves.

- Benjamin Franklin

I just finished Thomas Geoghegan's Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? and found, tucked away as an almost parenthetical observation, something absolutely not a part of his narrative thesis yet so crucial, something so obvious that I should have seen it years ago, something that helps ( Read more... )

"Religion: Treat it like your penis. Don't show it off in public, and don't shove it down your children's throats."

-- from some guy's email sig line.

Ever wonder what would happen if the biblical Jesus was the Jesus of the Tea Partiers? Wallow in his red-lettered insight.


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