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Should I stay or should I go?
There is this awesome “Empowering Women through Secularism” conference scheduled to happen in Dublin at the end of June, and I’m severely tempted to go. Partly because I have such great memories of my...
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The Internet as a surveillance state – Be afraid!
If you want to see a graphic real-time representation of how your online activities are constantly monitored and tracked by corporations and companies, you can download a little tool called...
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Enough with the fencepost-sitting already
Michael Nugent means well. He is sincerely concerned about the effect that the Deep Rifts™ in the skeptic and atheist movements are having on the groundwork being done by advocacy groups. And that’s...
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What we are missing
We don’t have anyone in the atheism and skeptic movements today whose eloquence and intellectual rigor can come even close to that of the late Christopher Hitchens. I miss him very much.
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Americans get to watch almost all Star Trek for free this month!
I’m a bit annoyed by this! US net streaming company Hulu has announced that on the occasion of William Shatner’s birthday they are letting their American customers access 693 episodes across the Star...
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The fight for Atheist souls is on
Ah look, I’m actually quite sick and tired of this whole schism debate in the atheist and skeptic movements. You know, the whole “decent people who would like to make the movements more inviting, safe...
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Atheist Courtyard of the Gentiles
Remember when the Catholics came up with the idea of a forum where believers and nonbelievers would sit together and calmly and politely discuss their differences? The so-called “Courtyard of the...
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Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia
I can’t wait for the day when the odious Saudi theocracy has only desert sand left to sell to the world. Maybe then we won’t have to read stories like this one anymore: The reported sentencing of...
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For shame, Qantas
Australian airline Qantas now flies to Europe via Dubai rather than Singapore, and has entered into a partnership with Emirates. As part of that deal Qantas has announced to remove all pork and pork...
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Comment moderation is currently active
Please be patient if your comment doesn’t appear on the site straight away at the moment, but because of the influx of too many insults, threats and yelling and screaming without substance I had to...
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Boston theater
At least 14 dead in an explosion in Texas, dozens of deaths this week in Iraq, today a hundred or more deaths in an earthquake in China, and what did the US TV media report exclusively in the last 36 …...
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On “The Top 10 ways Islam forbids terrorism”
Rarely have I seen a dumber article on Alternet. Juan Cole informs us of the Top Ten Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism. Here’s just 2 ideas that come to my mind when I read this pileup: 1. If you need...
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The MedRecruit deception
A regular feature in my Hotmail spam folder these days is missives from a company called MedRecruit, and in particular messages from their founder, one Sam Hazledine. MedRecruit is, as is rather easily...
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Tony Abbott’s Brave New World
See, I personally can’t wait for Tony Abbott to become Australia’s new Prime Minister. Finally an arch-conservative Catholic whose opinions on global warming seem to change by the day, who thinks...
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Rowan Atkinson’s “Archbishop of Canterbury” routine
Up yours, BBC. After 2000 complaints the BBC censored a 3 minute comic routine by Rowan Atkinson for Comic Relief:Funny for Money 2013, in which he plays a fictional “Archbishop of Canterbury”. It’s...
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A new Star Trek portal on Wikia
According to Mashable, Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek mastermind Gene Roddenberry and series actress Majel Barrett, has partnered with Wikia to launch the first-ever Roddenberry...
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David Cameron and “good, clean, WiFi”
Finally someone is doing something about those roving bands of 15-year olds jizzing into their Diet Cokes at Maccas while perusing porn websites on their smartphones over public WiFi! The Prime...
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Why would women want anything at all to do with the Catholic Church?
So I read today that some brainstorming conference by Catholic clergy in Germany has recently figured out that by dissing divorcees and women, they are kind of ruling out 75% of the population right...
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Bayern Munich 7 – FC Barcelona 0, a press review
There will be an all-German finale to the European Champions League in Wembley on May 25, and I can’t say that I’m a big fan of it, because it will in a way be missing that special European flair. But...
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