Old Posts

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

taking inventory of the irony

Immediately after every Republican gay sex scandal, we have an opportunity to inventory the irony, which usually involves an excited tromp through Lexis. Most Republicans vote against gay marriage bills, so that’s often the first thing uncovered. Some publicly rail against the evils of gay marriage. Some were apoplectic over Clinton’s indiscretions in the [...]

The Morality of the Atheist – Same as it Ever Was

A familiar pattern arises in every atheism v. religion debate (which arises in a host of contexts, but I’m generalizing a great deal here so I’ll not restrict myself to one); reduced to its essentials, the argument looks like this: Christian: Because atheists believe don’t believe in God, they believe in nothing. They owe no [...]

stuart pivar v. seed media group, llc and paul z. myers

Via Brent Rasmussen comes word that one of my favorite bloggers, PZ Myers is being sued for defamation over a pair of scathing book reviews written by Myers only a month or so ago.

I managed to get my hands on the full complaint. Pivar’s claim hinges entirely on Myers referring to Pivar as a [...]

Hindu-gate followup

The American Family News Network (AFN) is reporting: A conservative Idaho lawmaker [Bill Sali (R)] believes America’s founding fathers would not have wanted a Muslim elected to Congress or a Hindu prayer delivered in the U.S. Senate.

Bill Sali is probably correct in one sense — the framers would have flinched at Hindu prayers and [...]