From StreetProphets
I don’t know what I find the most tragic aspect of this case to be. That a child suffered and died a needless death. That the parents of the child had such a narrow and distorted faith that their actions led to that death. That those same parents now face charges and jail time [...]
So, I was thinking. Who should sing the next Bond song. Maybe…maybe…maybe a doped up drunk who spends most of her time teetering on the line between rehab and jail who regularly gets into well-publicized fights, blows off concert dates, and wanders down the street barely coherant.
And I said to myself: Yes, thats who we [...]
Second Amazingly Horrible Comics Decision This Year
He’s so fast, he can even outrun death: Barry Allen, aka The Flash, is speeding back to life 23 years after being killed off.
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Grant Morrison, who along with Geoff Johns is responsible for resurrecting The Flash in the last panel of “DC Universe #0,” said comic book characters don’t [...]
In 1964, the premier of the single greatest movie ever
(it is shockingly strange, really…I’ll have to try and find my review)
They’ll almost certainly get away with it too. All the defense has to do is convince one person on the jury that if we require people to be responsible for their actions taken in the name of religion then religious freedom will vanish.
All that has to happen is for one person to realize that they [...]
Deep down inside, I know that Madeline’s death is our fault as a nation. We let them get away with it. We refuse to ever question anything about religious beliefs (unless you are a scientologist…).
And, because of that, people continue to act without rational justification and we continue to say its OK.
We continue to act [...]
Its OK, we killed our daughter because of our religion. Shouldn’t we get a free pass?
A day before Madeline died, according to the criminal complaint, the father wrote an e-mail with the headline, “Help our daughter needs emergency prayer!!!!.” It said his daughter was “very weak and pale at the moment with hardly any strength.”
Fuck [...]
In a very cool move, Dean Heckler, designer of OneLessDesk that I posted about gave us a reply:
Thanks for the kind words. I am exploring producing a standard steel version of OneLessDesk (in addition to the original version) in order to have a lower priced product. The stainless steel of the current desk is what [...]
I’m actually not writing this as an attack or even criticism of ID.
Its been bothering me for quite a while that supporters of ID can’t understand why it doesn’t belong in science classes.
The core reason is that these people don’t understand what science is. They think that science is a quest for truth, for fact. [...]
So Florida is considering a vanity plate with a christian message (’I believe’ and a cross).
Of course, many might not see this as crossing the church/state divide. But those arguments collapse thanks to this telling line:
[Rep. Edward] Bullard, the plate’s sponsor, isn’t sure all groups should be able to express their preference. If atheists came [...]