Recently, Ophelia Benson has been giving the Colgate Twins a bit of a hard time about the fact that they had banned her from commenting on their blog, while they let another commenter call her a liar for months and only banned him once they realized he had been engaging in sock puppetry to boot. [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
“But what are you for?” Answering a stupid question
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 6, 2010
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I’m really not at all impressed with the Tea Party movement, for reasons Ed Brayton has explained at length. But I’m happy to defend them from a stupid criticism that’s been lobbed by Andrew Sullivan, especially since this is something atheists have to deal with a lot: I like their broad philosophy: “We’ve been running [...]
How many people actually think socialism is a good idea?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 1, 2010
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I’m scratching my head over a libertarian-bashing post by PZ Myers. The current political environment in the U.S. is so strange to me: when I think about the recently health-care reform, I mostly think about how no one opposed publicly funded education and how Europeans and Canadians seem pretty happy with their system, even if [...]