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Why No Social Justice? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
I never understood why people don’t think “social justice” is a good thing. After all? People are unequal. There are real problems out there in social groups affecting different people for different r...
Critical Thinking in the 21st Century: What’s New and Why It Matters 27 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
Video of my brief talk at this year’s SSA Leadership Conference is now available [here]. I also have a handy page with explanations and links to all the books and resources I mentioned, and a bit more...
Mount Rainier Travelogue Parte the Thirde: To Paradise! 27 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
Paradise is so popular that everybody wants to get in. Okay, well maybe aside from a few people who’re like, “Yeah, but there’s all this other stuff I could be doing,” because it’s Mount Rainier and y...
Ilk T-Shirts! (And Tank Tops, Hoodies, Onesies, and More!) 27 Aug 2013 | 11:42 am
The commentariat here seems to have named themselves! I’ve been wondering for a while if this was going to happen. PZ at Pharyngula has his Horde, and now I apparently have… the Ilk. (As in, “Jen, Gre...
National Dog Day 27 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
So, yeah, I only found out a bit ago from Mano that it is National Dog Day* here. Knowing that I have written quite a lot about dogs, I thought I’d do the lazy thing and see what sort of dog verse (do...
More foot-gunning in the Shermer debacle 27 Aug 2013 | 06:08 am
John Loftus, ex Freethought Blogger who left because not enough Christians were engaging with his posts so he could convert them, who subsequently founded and then left Skeptic Ink for the same reason...
The Onion explains it all 27 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
The purported managing editor of CNN explains how they picked their top story in a fictitious opinion piece (which still rings very true). There was nothing, and I mean nothing, about that story that...
Judgement 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
No Coloureds Allowed Oh there were plenty of places like that once upon a time in Manchester. Places where you just couldn’t go in if you were “brown”. But Manchester has changed. There may be a few ...
Dawkins and Islam: Nick Cohen replies to me at the Spectator 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Friday’s post, on die-hard refusal in some quarters even to entertain critique of Richard Dawkins, took to task a column by Nick Cohen, parrying broadsides against Dawkins’ statements on Islam from me...
Millionaire teabaggers take not so bold stand against health insurance 27 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
If your net worth is somewhere between a couple of million and fifty mill, going without employer group health insurance rates isn’t exactly the risk of a lifetime. But for the average worker and thei...
