Via Amanda at Pandagon, I’m drawn to
this interview with Michael Shermer, the founder of the Skeptics Society:

Christians today might say, I don’t believe in Zeus, that was a silly superstition. Yet for many people that was a real god. So it turns out there are 10,000 gods and yet only one right one. That [...] Read more »

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If you’re going to live off the grid, it’s vitally important that “you don’t shoot a cop”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082201118.html. It’s been a little weird the last few days seeing photos of armed men on campus and reading quotes from people working my own favorite hangouts near campus.
When I went to school at Virginia Tech — where [...] Read more »

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It’s been a few weeks since we drove through Vermont and I’m still thinking about it. It’s a beautiful state. We had lunch with a friend of family there and I said to him, “you know, I’ve only been in the state thirty minutes and already I’m thinking of moving.” He said “yup, it kinda [...] Read more »

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When I saw this headline from the Ottawa Citizen, I immediately wondered why the Jedi Council was involving themselves in Middle Eastern affairs:
p(centerimg). !/pimages/ottawa_force.gif (Force must be ‘balanced’)!:http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9f5af010-c42a-4678-889b-3cb361b34e31&k=14702 Read more »

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There seems to be renewed interest in some wingnut corners in “racial profiling” — at least in screening potential terrorist threats in airport security. Consider, for example, Mike Gallagher’s notion of a “Muslims Only line”:http://pandagon.net/2006/08/16/winger-radio-show-host-mike-gallagher-is-a-dumbss/. Or “Mac’s recent chat”:http://www.peskyapostrophe.com/index.php/weblog/on_deaf_ears/ with her stylist.
Gallagher thinks that we don’t do racial profiling out of an abundance of “political [...] Read more »

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