Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
A bill that has been designed to make it very difficult to obtain medication for Erectile dysfunction has been introduced in South Carolina, and I’m not kidding, because here is the actual official bill itself. Some hilarious highlights from the text of that bill include … Before issuing a prescription for a drug intended to … Read more
This has been doing the rounds … There are potentially a couple of rather important points here, but they are all trumped by one key one. We could perhaps start by taking this as a cue for an immediate rant because it is quite frankly an abhorrent idea for an elected official to promote and … Read more
A few days ago, Heather McManamy sadly passed away at the age of 36 from cancer. She knew this was coming, and not only faced it all with courage and dignity, but she also left a message that has now been shared by her husband Jeff on Facebook. I’d like to now share those words with … Read more
PublicPolicyVoting conducted a recent poll in which many questions, (42 to be precise), were asked. It is a real poll and you can find the details within a huge PDF here. Browse and you will find many interesting questions and some rather surprising and quite shocking responses, and so you need to be aware that this was … Read more
The BBC have an article about the Pope formally recognising that Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, has successfully performed a 2nd official Miracle, and so is well on track to becoming an official saint next year (about September I think). The BBC article explains … Pope Francis has recognised a second miracle attributed to Mother … Read more