I saw a very bigoted rant about immigration on Facebook. It contained many fallacious and erroneous statments. I would like to respond to these.
The post starts out thusly:

Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted ( Read more... )

Apparently, some uber-conservatives are making a movie about how gay marriage is the first step on the path to making it a criminal offence to be christian. I just watched the trailer for this film, and there was nothing in it that was not wrong.

I cannot let this sort of egregious misinformation go unanswered.

( Behind the cut are the quotes spoken by the individuals who have agreed to be filmed in this movie. Following each is my response to that quote. )

Culture (kuhl-cher) n - 1. the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.
2. the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.

I've talked about this before. Several times. ( But I'm going to talk about it again. )

Aaron Stiles is the state representative for the district in which I live. He's started sending out campaign advertising material. I wish to address the most recent flyer I've received ( Read more... )

Remember a while ago, I ranted about the Buzzfeed photo collection in which atheists and christians at the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate wrote messages to each other? Well, I discovered a similar one recently. This time, the topic is ( birth control. )

Before we go on, I want you to stop, grab a nearby piece of scratch paper, and jot down a quick list of characteristics that Americans share. What does it mean to be American? When you picture an American in your mind, what does he look like? What does he wear? How does he style his hair? And think about personality too. What kind of personality ( Read more... )

On 24 June 2014, Oklahoma held the primary elections for the upcoming general election on 4 November. Amongst those elections were the primaries for State Superintendent for Public Education ( Read more... )

An individual by the name of Joshua Feuerstein posted a video to facebook in which he makes some bold claims. The video can be found here.

I would like ( to respond. )

So Matt Stopera from Buzzfeed went to the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate and asked 44 people, 22 from each side, to write a question or message to the other side. He posted them in two separate articles on the website.

( Let's examine these, shall we? )

Earlier, I posted an entry discussing some issues with the topic of wealth inequality. I mentioned that there was an article written by David Brooks that I wanted to analyse, but I didn't have room. So let's tackle that article ( now. )