Finch Beaks Change Size, Evolutionists Ejaculate Spontaneously, "“Darwin Definitively Proven Right"”
by Emperor Darth Misha I
adspar's quick summary:
A highly-opinionated religious conservative blogger makes fun of evolution, generating hundreds of comments, many of which are among the more ignorant writing samples I've ever encountered.
why you should read it:
The original blog post is pretty damn stupid, but the comments are truly astonishing. It really seems like a gag where each commenter tries to say something stupider than the last. But what is sad and scary is that these people are completely serious. Somewhere in the mid-100s some people start defending evolution seriously, and the responses to them are truly amazing too. Basically this post has pissed me off for weeks now, so I'm sharing it with you. These are the people who vote in America.
IOKIYAC
by PZ Myers
adspar's quick summary:
A highly-opinionated godless liberal blogger discusses the role of atheism in the ongoing investigation of Pat Tillman's death. I have no idea what the letters in the title mean.
why you should read it:
Well PZ is pretty fired up about anti-atheist bigotry here, but I'm not quite sure I'd take it as far as he does. You can read the original story from ESPN to decide for yourself. I do agree that the officer sounds like he has no clue how to deal with someone who isn't a Christian. I've just always been touched by the Tillman story, and I think this was a guy who deserves to be remembered and celebrated as a true hero. And his death certainly deserves an investigator whose squeamishness about Tillman's atheism isn't so pathetically obvious.
Am I partisan? When I'’m forced to be.
by the BABlogger
adspar's quick summary:
An astronomer reluctantly embraces anti-Republican partisanship when faced with that party's seeming determination to destroy science.
why you should read it:
He shows that the South Dakota Republican party explicitly endorses creationism. The comments point out that the Texas Republican Party explicitly advocates teaching Intelligent Design as science (page 20) in schools. Are you kidding me? How can this be real? What the hell happened to our country?
"Snakes" Deplanes Critics
by Joal Ryan
adspar's quick summary:
New Line Cinema has decided not to host advance screenings of its new movie, "Snakes on a Plane," effectively keeping critics away from it.
why you should read it:
After all the rest of the heavy stuff in these links you need something light, and there is nothing lighter than a plane full of snakes. Brilliant!
The tortured "logic" of the House GOP
by Hume's Ghost
adspar's quick summary:
Discussing a bill in the House regarding the "under God" clause of the Pledge of Allegiance, the blogger shows the terrible reasoning skills of some of our elected (Republican) leaders, not to mention their fundamental lack of respect fseparationion of church and state.
why you should read it:
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., said America was a nation of God-given inalienable rights and that's why the country is in a war against "radical Islamists." Democrats wouldn't want to "cut and run" in Iraq, he said, "if they understood the importance of those basic principles and that inalienable rights are impossible without a recognition of God and that's why the pledge bill is important and not irrelevant or trivial."Unfuckingbelievable. Apparently American values don't work without magical invisibdeitiesies, and anyone who disagrees is a terrorist. UUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGH.
Question Skepticism
by Joseph j7uy5
adspar's quick summary:
A science blogger weighs in on church/state, specifically about the idea that we're a Christian nation because our founders were Christian. He also urges us not to over-simplify ideas into our impression of what someone's political agenda might be: "In the interest of clear thinking, let's keep the issues separate from the ideologies."
why you should read it:
I often hear political debates about issues of morality include something like "America is founded on Judeo-Christian values." I guess there is some truth to that. I'm no historical scholar. But I also thought that our founders were heavily influenced by the age of enlightenment, valuing reason and liberty. To go as far as to claim that "America is a Christian nation" because our founders were Christians is ridiculous. Was evolution a Christian theory because of Darwin's religious beliefs? Hilter was a Christian, does that make the Holocaust a Christian genocide? Religions have some good values, but our founders seems to have made their intentions about which values were appropriate for government pretty clear when they intentionalseparatedted church and state. So to make government decisions based on a majority population's religious values seems like a violation of our founders' intentions. Those are my thoughts anyway. This guy has some good ones too.
Free Speech or Fraud?
by The Two Percent Company
adspar's quick summary:
An interesting angle on an abortion issue. The argument is that evangelical groups that run abortion alternatives centers are committing fraud when they often advertise their centers as providing "abortion services."
why you should read it:
I just thought the argument, that free speech protection shouldn't extend into this kind of situation, was interesting.
Thus ends the second edition of links adspar likes. All of the links for it are neatly available here. I'll end with this YouTube clip that kind of ties everything together for you.
movie link
If you want a preview of my next edition, here's what I've gathered so far.
Later.
1 comment:
is mo'nique pullin' a mckinney? yeah i wasn't on the flight and we'll never be sure without a recording what was said but reading this account with the most open mind possible...i'm pretty sure "your people" refers to "your entourage". i'm fairly comfortable with storage in first class being kept under strict observance. had i paid that money, i wouldn't want coach bags above my head that didn't belong to me. and how ignorant, self-centered and short-sighted do you have to be to think this situation screams racism? is she simply projecting? maybe. maybe not. and she knows the staff wasn't equating her hair dryer to 9/11, how dare she use it as a buzzword and violate the emotion of it. if you make a fuss, you're off the plane. that's reasonable. that keeps us all a bit safer and on time!
i think shit like this, and mckinney, is unfortunate because it's crying wolf. there are racist people, racism happens, so don't trivialize it by playing the race card and don't magnify it where it doesn't exist. that's not fair to the accused or the victims of true discrimination.
on top of that, i'd really like to see more people with power, influence and money do something good for humanity, this place we live, and even a better life for themselves. encouraging black people to boycott an airline is short-sighted. does she not care about the black employees at united? no, she cares about herself and is too proud to say something like, "I overreacted, I was treated like any other passenger who might have done the same. I apologize to the people on the plane who were trying to get home to their families, their jobs, their vacations." instead, with her actions she was saying, "my time is more important than yours"
fuck that.
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