Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The title says it all, and yes, I confess that I did indeed quite enjoy reading this. The story is about Robert Saunders, a 79 year old retied teacher and devoted birdwatcher, who was out checking on some owls. While doing so he was confronted by an armed Oregon militant who quickly got in his face and … Read more
Cologne Sex Attacks The news of what happened is in the public domain … More than 100 women and girls have come forward with reports of sexual assault and robbery by gangs of men in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Victims have described chaos outside the city’s main station, as the … Read more
The #YallQaeda hash tag within the title should be a not so subtle clue that this is not a serious posting. OK, so here are 10 “facts”, and yes those are indeed air-quotes around the word “facts”, because I’ve mined some of these “facts” from satire-central, which is perhaps better known to you as The Onion. So … Read more
You would think that people on social welfare and Medicaid would be voting to elect those that support the concept of social welfare into office, yet time after time the candidates opposed to such support keep getting elected, so it can only leave you wondering what exactly is going on inside their heads – why do they … Read more
Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a Republican who has been the U.S. Representative for Washington’s 5th congressional district since 2005, and is now the highest ranking Republican woman in Congress. She is not a fan of what is often termed Obamacare (more formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)), and so has voted dozens of times to repeal it, but … Read more
This in so many ways sums up everything that is wrong with the marriage of religion and politics in the US. Andrew L. Seidel, the Staff Attorney of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, explains what happened within his latest blog posting. Now normally when quoting, I pull out a bit and provide you a link to go read … Read more