Fear and greed says PZ. One of the more important PZ posts I’ve read.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Marriage, morals, and the green-eyed monster
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 15, 2009
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Atheist perspectives on sexual morality Recently, I finally got around to picking up a copy of Bertrand Russell’s Marriage and Morals, the notorious book that played a major part of the campaign to get him barred from teaching in New York. I also had brought to my attention a Richard Dawkins piece on sexual jealousy [...]
Review: Unscientific America
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 12, 2009
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Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum are liars, with a severely warped moral compas, and I would rather the fundamentalist approach to science win out in America, than that their approach to science win. That’s my dead-serious verdict after finally reading their book Unscientific America, a book published last July attempting to explain how to improve [...]
Quote of the Time Being
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 12, 2009
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If the position taken by the Obama administration wins in court, there will be no constraints whatsoever on the government’s ability to not only violate our constitutional rights but to maim, torture and kill anyone they want in the name of national security with absolutely no right to challenge that authority. The situation is that [...]
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 9, 2009
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One of my roommates just alerted me to this story, and my first reaction is “Really? You’re serious? I guess I have to believe you since it isn’t anywhere close to April 1st.” But seriously, this cheapens the prize. You may think that Henry Kissinger’s prize or Al Gore’s prize were mistakes, but at least [...]