Atheists are smart because of SEX
April 23, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under dating, religion, social and literary criticism
Or, rather, smart people become atheists because of sex, so says a psychology today blogger (HT: WWGHA).
The psychology today blogger describes this as a “silly reason,” and obviously he means to make it sound embarrassing. But it makes the most sense if you understand it in a less crude way. I grew up in [...]
Awful Guardian piece on the climate non-scandal
February 3, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, dating, science
Via The Volokh Conspiracy, the Guardian has a new piece which appears to show that, finally, journalists have discovered something scandalous in the hacked climate research e-mails. Except that once again, if you look closely, the situation hasn’t changed from what I described in December. A scientist was accused of fraud, but there’s no evidence [...]
Continue Reading »Department of things you already knew
December 20, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under dating, social and literary criticism
Robin Hanson reports on the results of a study supposedly showing that “It seems men are eager to visibly help heroically and financially, and to spend on visible status symbols, mainly to seek promiscuous short-term sex!” When I first saw that a few days ago, I thought, “Oh, that’s interesting, I’ll write something about that.” [...]
Continue Reading »How to Meet Attractive, Intelligent Atheist Women
December 8, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under dating, religion, social and literary criticism
This was a discussion at Atheist Revolution awhile ago. Vjack treated it as a rather difficult topic: “You know, if someone were to create a blog focusing on helping heterosexual male atheists improve their chances of finding desirable atheist women, I bet it would be very successful. Of course, the author would have to know [...]
Continue Reading »The male angst theorem; or, male whorishness and its consequences
October 8, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under dating, humor, mind, social and literary criticism
There’s a sort of emerging conventional wisdom that men have it pretty bad in the 21st century. The success of novels like Fight Club are a sign of the times. There’s always been a market for stories of men who have fist-fights and commit random violence, but only in the 21st century do we have [...]
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