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The World Is Just One Big Trouble Spot
Here’s a study from a while back, concluding that “Whether or not elected officials and other decision makers “care” about middle-class Americans, influence over actual policy outcomes appears to be...
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Whaddya Mean I Ain’t Kind? Just Not *Your* Kind
Andrew Sullivan links to this review of a new book about the pre- and post-war political effort to bridge the gaps between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, as the latter two succeeded in getting...
View ArticleI hear you get to do the weird stuff…
The Daily Mail points out a survey that finds atheists have better sex lives (warning, the link has a risque photo and some words that still make me giggle): Some 79.9 per cent of people raised in very...
View ArticleI Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In
Because I grew up in Massachusetts, witnessing the impact of the efforts of Cardinal Bernard Law, I came to the view that there is no more powerful force for atheism in this world than the hierarchy of...
View ArticleFree To Be
A mere 7 years after Massachusetts, New York is inching toward legalizing same-sex marriage: New York was on the cusp of legalizing same-sex marriage on Tuesday, after a second Republican state senator...
View ArticleYour Future Dream Is A Shopping Scheme
Dueling editorials in the NYT this morning, as Paul Krugman frets about “the deepening anti-intellectualism of the political right, both within and beyond the G.O.P.”, while Ross Douthat tries to tamp...
View ArticleOf Straws And Men
This morning, we noted the dueling Paul Krugman & Ross Douthat columns on the Republican Party’s deep-seated resentment of factual accuracy. Andrew Gelman flags the portion of Ryan Lizza’s New...
View ArticleNot OK
The constitutional doctrine of the separation of church and state continues to evolve in the 21st century. Well over 200 years after our country’s founding upon principles of freedom of religion and...
View ArticleFederal Judge Strikes Down Plan B Requirement In Washington State
From USA Today, apparently a federal judge in Tacoma, WA, has held that the state can’t force pharmacies to stock and sell Plan B. Details are sparse at the moment, but it looks really stupid....
View ArticleMaybe we’ll call this Free Thinking Friday
Boing boing highlighted a neat little study: If a baseball and bat cost $110, and the bat costs $100 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost? If you answered $10 you are inclined to believe in...
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