Think of the children

You know, I’m a bit uncomfortable with some of this discussion about children being sold as sex slaves. I know, I know. Me and my crazy hang-ups. This post on Bound, not Gagged, a blog for sex workers, is worth reading. It provides some context to some of the hyperbole around the issue of child [...]

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Dial M for Miscarriage

I know I say I value genuine dialogue and constructive discussion over just shouting at people and dismissing them as idiots for daring to disagree with you. Some of the time I manage to walk the walk. But if you think a 15-year-old with a drug problem should be sentenced to life in prison, because [...]

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Lies, Justice, and the American Way

The HuffPo isn’t always the most reliable source of, well, anything. But they done good this time. They’ve recently posted a series of articles by Radley Balko of The Agitator, on Myths of the Criminal Justice System. Very short summary: The law is kinda screwed up. Some examples of things I didn’t know: Through various [...]

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The award-winning Paul Dacre

Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has won the tabloid bullshit of the month award over at Five Chinese Crackers. It could not possibly be more deserved.

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Alone in the Wildersness

Just quickly: Geert Wilders, blasphemer against Islam and probable dickhead, has been acquitted on charges of hate speech. This is basically a good thing, for obvious reasons to do with the goodness of free speech that don’t need repeating here. I am le tired, and Heresy Corner’s got this one covered.

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We hatesssss them

Quick anarchist update: I’m still not one, and I’m still reading. But I had a thought the other day, when I was typing something too slowly into Google, and it started suggesting things I might be about to search for. It does that now, Google. While you’re typing, it’ll give you a drop-down list of [...]

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Oh, those wacky atheists…

…and their ideas that some people seem to think they have. PZ Myers commented recently on an article about religion. Specifically, it was about ways atheists are wrong about religion. He was not impressed. Here’s my own examination: 5. Liberal and Moderate Religion Justifies Religious Extremism Like PZ points out, the author of this “myth-busting” [...]

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Miss California evolves into… Miss USA!

Teachers use Education on America! It’s not very effective… (That was an attempt at a Pokémon meme reference. It might not make any sense.) Anyway, the loveliest girl of all the lovely girls in America, as verified by SCIENCE, believes that evolution should be taught in schools. Yay, I guess? I mean, she’s right on [...]

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Not just for gorillas any more

A new study into inattentional blindness gives an important reminder of just how profound our brains’ shortcomings often are. Subjects in an experiment were told to follow a jogger through a park, and to pay particular attention to something entirely arbitrary – in this case, to count how many times the jogger touched his hat. [...]

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Who Would Jesus Hate?

Dan Savage, not for the first time, is mostly right. His plea in this video is to those Christians who consider themselves in the liberal and tolerant subset of their religion, who keep reminding him that not all Christians are bigoted homophobes. The problem, as he points out, is that they issue these reminders by [...]

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