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A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.
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Pew Research Center: Secular Americans
The number of Americans who say they are atheist or agnostic, or choose not to identify with a religious tradition has increased modestly over the past two decades
Amish Protest Permits
“The simple answer would be to leave us alone,” he said.
How Gay Were the Hardy Boys? – 10 Zen Monkeys
“You know, I think people are only going to remember me for those damn books.”
Trevor Blake: OVO blog October 2007
Christ @ Work. The Bible does contain some fine moral advice in it. It also contains some inhumanly evil moral advice. It also contains some foolish nonsense that dresses itself up as moral advice. That doesn’t make it much different from any number of other books, ancient and modern.
Extremophiles. What might humanity be able to engineer for ourselves to become extremophiles? What dangers do exremophiles present to humanity?
Interfaith Dialog. In some places, disagreements are resolved by discussion. In other places, disagreements are resolved by flogging.
Islam is Peace. Islam, like Christianity and all religions, is a collection of mean-spirited superstitions invented by illiterate pre-scientific nobodies that we have no reason to heed.
Krankheit. Sometimes sickness is a benefit.
The Latter-Day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a terrible thing if the Mormons got out of the Scouting business.
More Sperm. February 2005 saw the return of OVO after 13 years of hibernation. The theme for that issue was ‘sperm.’ Sperm remains in the news, and here are some of the top sperm stories from the past two years.
Peaceable Protests After Amsterdam Attacks. Police in the Dutch city of Amsterdam say several peaceful protests were held in the sixth night of memorials after officers shot a Moroccan man dead.
Priorities. It seems that other people being free to celebrate or have their own superstitions is intolerable to Muslims, while public whippings and stoning are just fine as long as they occur in-house.
Publius Enigma. It has something to do with Pink Floyd and the Internet and a treasure hunt.
Saturn Return. Saturn Return is when Universe picks you up from under the Christmas tree and shakes you to see if it can figure out what you are.
SB777. SB777 protects religious belief against discrimination. It also protects discrimination in religious belief. Only religion can distort the rule of law to this degree.
Sharia in the United States of America. It is illegal to non-surgically amputate people’s hands as a punishment for a crime. Illegal under United States law, but legal under sharia law.
Superstitious Exemption from the Rule of Law. For better and for worse, it is not the case that we can all happily get along. But where there is the rule of law and not force, fiat or superstition we can at least get along peaceably.
Two Articles from All Africa. Replacing witch doctors with Christians is not going to help the situation.
Two Links via God is for Suckers. All money spent on religion is money wasted, wasted more thoroughly than money spent on weapons or torture. At least when someone is killed or tortured, something happened.
Workplace Religious Freedom Act (S. 893). If this bill becomes law, then religious employees will have rights and privileges that no atheist employee can have.
Trevor Blake: OVO 18 MONEY
ownership / jobs / theft / economics / capitalism / libertarianism / socialism / gambling / doing without / consumer culture / do-it-yourself / black market / free market / alternative currencies / free / barter / strikes / banks / gold / class / blackmail / sex work / wealth / mercenaries / poverty / lotteries / open source / intellectual property / stocks / wages / counterfeit / sabotage / etc.
Deadline: Noon Pacific Standard Time, 31 October 2007
Publication Date: January 2008
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Portland OR 97208-2321 USA
www.sleepingchinese.com – Welcome
over 600 images of Chinese people, sleeping.
IQs rise, but are children really smarter? – Los Angeles Times
If you asked a person in 1900 what a dog and rabbit had in common, they would say you could use a dog to hunt rabbits. Today you would say they both are mammals.
IQs rise, but are children really smarter? – Los Angeles Times
WorldNetDaily: Beat 'whitey' – get a reward!
In the name of “we’re gonna make whitey pay for what Alex Haley said they did,” many blacks continue to take one step forward and five steps back.
Reason Magazine – Hit & Run > An Exegesis of Marx's Facial Boils
“The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day,” Marx told Friedrich Engels in a letter from 1867.
Reason Magazine – Hit & Run > An Exegesis of Marx’s Facial Boils
RIP Fup. Store Cat. | MetaFilter
RIP Fup. Store cat. The longtime Powell’s Bookstore resident died peacefully surrounded by her co-workers on October 25th.
Tessa Farmer's Little Savages faerie/insect sculptures – Boing Boing
Farmer is the great granddaughter of fantastic fiction author Arthur Machen
Tessa Farmer’s Little Savages faerie/insect sculptures – Boing Boing
Pakistan's problem child recites the Koran – Telegraph
Memorize the Koran, but don’t learn to add or read or write.
'Hate literature easily found at UK mosques' – Telegraph
Extremist literature that encourages hatred of gays, Christians and Jews can be easily found at many of Britain’s mosques
