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A couple of new polls from Gallup over the past few weeks have some interesting data. 1.) Despite the Vatican's positions, Catholics seem to be just as excepting of a whole range of moral issues as non-Catholics, and sometimes even more so, and 2.) intolerance of homosexuals generally coincide with religiosity, albeit with variation by region and ( Read more... )

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Something fun from the archives. I need to write more silly stuff.Friends, have you been feeling down and rotten? Suffering from severe headaches or irritable bowel syndrome? Addicted to cocaine or hookers? In jail for serial rape or beating your pet lizard to death? Or even... partisan? Well, friends, it could be because of your thetans ( Read more... )

Gallup has released two polls on religion in the past few months, one on the importance of religion in the daily lives of Americans, and a recent one that sorta builds on the first, how the recession is affecting religiosity among Americans.

The first is the second installment of Gallup's four-part series "The State of the States" that also ( Read more... )

Ray "Banana Man" Comfort has published a god-awful (pun intended) piece of horrible shit called You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence but You Can't Make Him Think depicted with a horse not drinking water on the cover. OH SO CLEVER RAY TOO CLEVER FOR US IDIT ATEISTS RAY LOLERZ ( Read more... )

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• So DTV IS going to be delayed:
  
  The House of Representatives, by a 264-to-158 vote, today ended the debate over whether the country is ready for the digital TV transition with a clear “no.”
  
  It sent to President Obama legislation for a “one-time-only delay” that would postpone the digital transition from Feb. 17 until June 12.
  The ( Read more... )

During his inaugural speech, Obama said many words I thought I'd never hear from a president, at least not so soon in my lifetime. His devotion to science and science-based policy and education was already made apparent during his campaign and he reaffirmed that by saying "we will restore science to its rightful place ( Read more... )

I'm sick, class is cancelled, and the city's getting snowed in, so let's see what's on the ol' newswire today:

• Apparently Congress was not moved by Blago's special pleading on The View, because a draft for a state stimulus bill tells the state legislature that they need to sacrifice him if they want to money:
  
  None of the funds provided by this ( Read more... )