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World + dog united in scorn at Akin
In a rare few hours of unity, the entire world has come together to point at Todd Akin and laugh. Of course his stupendously offensive, hurtful, misinformed, deranged remarks are not a laughing matter....
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Are religious/conservative states more charitable?
…or as Hemant Mehta puts it, Are Atheists Being Stingy When It Comes to Charity? Hemant describes data presented on the website of The Chronicle Of Philanthopy Donors in Southern states, for instance,...
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Atheism+, misogyny, and the trouble with trolls
There has been a lot of conversation about Atheism+ over the last week. Excellent summaries of the arguments against Atheism+, and rebuttals to those arguments are presented by Jen McCreight, Greta...
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Check your privilege! Part 1
Today I am writing about white privilege. If you are already familiar with the work of Peggy McIntosh, Molly Secours, and the many other people who have explained this concept, and if you ‘get it’,...
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Check your privilege! Part 2
In my last post, I discussed white privilege and how to find out if you have it. Now I want to turn to another kind of privilege, one that is particularly relevant to the atheist community right now. I...
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Congratulations, trolls and misogynists
…for your work here is done. You have managed to chase away an excellent young blogger with your unrelenting harassment. Jen McCreight quit last night: I love writing, I love sharing my ideas, and I...
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How to pick a team to support
I never really got into following sport. As a child I could see that it was clearly important to many people: adults would talk about the local football (soccer!) team; other children would talk about...
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My time machine worked!
Excellent news! The time machine that I built yesterday, September 9th 2012, has worked! Here I am in the “future” of October 28th. I wonder whether I will be able to blend in? I hope so: the world of...
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Does feminism have an excluded middle?
Rebecca Watson recently posted a summary of her life in the skeptical/atheist community on Slate. The comments left in response by readers are, sadly, not surprising. The discussion on Slate is not...
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Participating in democracy
I can’t vote. Although I am a permanent resident of the United States, I am not a citizen, which means I do not have the right/privilege of voting. It’s kinda like taxation without representation…...
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