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2 months ago Reshared post from Alireza Yavari
Most Creative & Beloved Street Art Photos - Source: streetar...
November 30, 2011 2 months ago +Erik Kristensen, you'll enjoy this especially. But so will everyone else.
November 22, 2011 2 months ago Diary of early morning into late morning the day #ows was evicted from Zuccotti Park
November 20, 2011 2 months ago Eviction Night into the Morning
November 18, 2011 3 months ago Effective
November 2, 2011 3 months ago If you're in the unfortunate minority of people who trust in reason, you're shit out of luck so l...
November 2, 2011 3 months ago by the numbers article on the NLG's presence at #ows, I was interviewed for this but didn't provi...
October 29, 2011 |
Here are some excerpts and links to some of the most thoughtful articles on ID and the attendant controversy I’ve found: Michael C. Dorf, Columbia University Law School Why It’s Unconstitutional to Teach “Intelligent Design” in the Public Schools, as an Alternative to Evolution: But given the social reality, “intelligent design” is different. It is [...] Frank Rich testifies on the fake controversy controversy. Rich does a great job deeper in the article of obtaining quotes from progressive Christian groups who are being loudly ignored by a news media hungry to capitalize on the alleged ‘religion story’ (see TIME and Newsweek covers this week). ‘[Rev. Debra Haffner] detects an overall “understanding” [...] This is one of those stories where you can’t really tell what’s going on: A religious liberties law firm accused Plano school officials today of violating students’ constitutional rights by forbidding them to hand out candy canes and pencils with religious messages on them. Attorneys with the Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute said they planned to [...] University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers has a great blog which he updates daily – Pharyngula – and covers the current ID debate from a far more informed place than ours here. He also posts on his ongoing projects, and even his students’ projects. For instance, this post about the Birth of a Maggot [...] On the same day that the Supreme Court of Canada clears the way for same-sex marriage in the northern half of our shared continent, the Bush administration takes up the torch carried by supporters of crackpot Alabama judge Roy Moore, and urges the U.S. Supreme Court to allow courthouses to display the Ten Commandments. [...] Yes, that’s right. Christianophobia. In an ongoing campaign to have its hallucinatory persecution complex nurtured, the Vatican has proposed that the term be “recognized as an evil that is equal to hatred of Jews and Muslims.” “It should be recognized that the war against terrorism, even though necessary, had as one of its side effects [...] From the Washington Post: Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person’s genitals “can result in [...] |
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