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Aug 16, 2011, 8:37 pm
Rick Santorum. Really? Really?!?
What self-respecting person with any good moral sense for taking care of humans and the world we live on or in could vote for this guy? I have to say I laughed when I watched his kid cry when he got clobbered by Bob Casey in Pennsylvania's 2006 Senate election.... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2011, 9:42 pm
Man. I was sort of glad that the religious whack-a-loonery in American politics had subsided after the last presidential election. Sarah Palin's goofy exorcism stuff was enough. And thanks to enough sane and somewhat responsible Americans, the Alaskan almost-but-not-quite vice-nutball-in-chief won't... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2011, 10:49 am
As I walked along this morning, I was thinking about my dad. My friend from afar, Richard, spurred some of these thoughts in me after a conversation we had yesterday. His health has not been so good. He is a father and lover of nature and the wild and a sort of "brother in arms" for a more sustainab... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2010, 8:27 am
What is with this guy?
No one denies that astronomer Martin Gaskell was the leading candidate for the founding director of a new observatory at the University of Kentucky in 2007 — until his writings on evolution came to light.
Gaskell had given lectures to campus religious groups around the count... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2010, 7:14 pm
While I have gotten some pretty lame emails, nothing I've ever gotten compares to these.
But you "is totally sucks ass" because you are full of bullshit retard dogma. You have to love people who defend their impoverished beliefs with impoverished arguments built on impoverished ideas. I'd use the w... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2010, 8:18 pm
...I was more prepared than many of us. In fact, having been near my father for years as he approached his death, talked and ruminated with him on death, life, living, words, and the meaning of our many goings and comings, my father gifted me with the relief of his dying and death. He died on August... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 1:53 pm
Watch this garbage.
As an atheist father with an atheist wife, I wonder what would happen if some pious judge decided that atheist parents are unsuited to be parents. That's not what happened here, but it's worth wondering about... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_wi... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2010, 9:53 pm
...more about it! Why should anyone be surprised that those who are more generally informed about more stuff would know more about something that they wanted to know a lot about and then decided to reject? Got that?
Yeah. It took a lot of polling (reported here at Time) to figure out that atheists a... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2010, 10:40 pm
So I've just read this article. I have lots of thoughts about it but here are my responses to each point regarding the abolition of Colleges of Education. The last point is the most salient and conclusive.
1. American K-12 students perform in a mediocre fashion on international standardized tests, a... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2010, 3:11 pm
A really interesting set of presentations and great Q&A on Intelligent Design as a positive research "science." It features William Dembski and Michael Behe and their interrogation by Robert Pennock and Ken Miller. I'd love to run some commentary on it but there's just way too much to do. Follow the... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 8:52 pm
As some of you know, I love Cynic above all other bands. There's some really great video footage of them playing "Evolutionary Sleeper" over at Metal Injection. Enjoy.
To backtrack, I have posts on a show in Towson here, an interview with Paul Masvidal here, another show here where I met Paul, and ... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 9:50 am
I guess even Jesus has a sense of humor about himself. After turning himself into his own son and having himself sacrificed about 2,000 years ago he decided that he would burn himself in effigy in Ohio for some other inscrutable reason. Check it. A lightning storm set a giant foam and wood statue on... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 10:30 pm
But it's not just the government on whom we rely oh critic of the Tea Party...A piece in The New York Times states:
My hypothesis is that what all the events precipitating the Tea Party movement share is that they demonstrated, emphatically and unconditionally, the depths of the absolute dependence ... Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2010, 2:28 pm
Yesterday was a hell of a day for a race. I raced the Stoopid 50. It lives up to its name.
Hot. Humid. 7000' of climbing. Over 30 miles of rocky single track trail. I got to the first trail in the front 5 or 6 single speeders. Moved up to 4th by the first aid station. Forgot something at the aid sta... Comment - Like
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Jun 10, 2010, 9:18 pm
It's been a little while since I took on some of the more terrifying parts of the Christian right. Over at truthout.org, Chris Hedges (about whom I have mixed feelings) has a great piece up on the surge of recent Christo-fascism. Hedges writes:
Those who embrace this movement see life as an epic ba... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2010, 3:03 pm
I won the single speed category at the Dash for Cash and here's some video of some of the madness. Check the river crossings, the ass-behind-the-seat chutes, the nutty climb, and the rocky single track. At about 1:30 I'm the guy in the plaid invasion garb who goes by on the Bianchi single speed...on... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2010, 4:44 pm
This is a seriously awesome video of Stage 7 Trans-Sylvania MTB Epic on CyclingDirt. Once again, I am blown away by how fast these front five guys were. Jeremiah Bishop is a freak of nature (in the best way) and Christian Tanguay, still finished in amazing time after his getting reamed with a deep-m... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2010, 3:02 pm
Right now, I am sitting at the intersection of Little Shingletown Road and Pine Swamp Road, miles into the Rothrock State Forest. Within 50 feet of me I can see two species of butterflies, different grasses, ferns, hemlock trees, pines, oaks, and Laurel Run, a stream that winnows its way down to Whi... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2010, 9:02 am
As some of you know I am a late-spring- to fall single speed mountain bike racer. Riding bikes brings me to new levels of physical, mental, and emotional awareness about myself and my place in the world. It, at the same time, exhilarates and humbles me with and before myself, other people, and the a... Comment - Like
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May 29, 2010, 7:10 am
Sometimes I write poems about where I think I am.
"We glide along the ecliptic"
Thoughts from deep time glide along the ecliptic.
We become conscious.
Being in our consciousness and our consciences; of
Being bewildered skeptics pondering
God’s point of view.
Sitting inside the chapels of our skull... Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 10:12 pm
Check out this billboard 30 miles from my house. I like that God created a phone number on a billboard. I thought he could do better than that. Come on.
But now, I will just let Michael Shermer deal with Genesis 1:1 because, as Jesus was alleged to say, "It is finished." And Shermer did it better t... Comment - Like
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Apr 18, 2010, 7:49 am
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Apr 14, 2010, 10:34 pm
Didn't George Bush, Jr. do more to promote and extend the internationalization and global economy and the one-world view under the aegis of a Pax Americana than Obama? Right. I must be mistaken and this guy right.
After the great and terrible totalitarian rulers of the 20th Century (Lenin, Stalin, H... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 9:56 pm
You should all know that the Rapture Index is pretty high these days. In case you don't know what it is, it describes itself as:
The Rapture Index has two functions: one is to factor together a number of related end time components into a cohesive indicator, and the ot... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2010, 9:01 pm
If only I could watch James Cameron SHRED Glen Beck. Read The Hollywood Reporter.
Asked what he thought about Beck during a junket appearance in support of the "Avatar" home video release, Cameron said: "Glenn Beck is a fucking asshole. I've met him. He called me the anti-Christ, and not about 'Avat... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2010, 8:01 am
Tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday March 24th at 3 pm, I will be giving a public lecture titled "Kitzmiller v. Dover and the Purpose of Education." The talk will be given in 324 Sackett Building at Penn State's University Park campus. It is open to the public.
In 2004 and 2005, the small town of Dover in... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 10:15 am
I took a shot at my local public radio station's This I Believe and they aired it this week.
What do I believe? Heavy metal of course. Give it a listen and read the transcript below.
I believe heavy metal.
When I was 12 years old I saw Metallica’s music video for the song, “One.... Comment - Like
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Mar 13, 2010, 8:00 pm
UPDATE: With just a few hours to go, Metallica is losing 49% to 51%. Go vote. Seriously.
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This shouldn't be a contest. But it is. To my mind, this is a faceoff between the greatest metal album of all time and one of the top 10 metal albums of all time. Let's face it, Master of Puppets c... Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2010, 8:22 pm
I am going to remain relatively quiet on this one because I want to wait for the public comment period. But Texas has just pulled off the best piece of miseducation policy since...oh wait...South Dakota decided to embrace the total miseducation platform to deny climate change which is the best piece... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2010, 11:30 am
Over at DotEarth, Andy Revkin has posted a cool entry on Avatar and some of James Cameron's thoughts. I saw Avatar again last night for the second time so I thought a little about Revkin's concluding question: Do you think that movies or other screen experiences can have a concrete impact on... Comment - Like
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