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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas —uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.
[Salman Rushdie]
Category: Personal
I'm off to some place in New York on 1 April — I'll be speaking at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Webb Auditorium, Bulding 7 at 8:30PM. This is going to be a quick blitz, fly in Thursday, fly back...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:28 AM • 49 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
I especially like her lesbian robot video....
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:15 AM • 61 Comments •
Category: Politics
There's always someone ready to take advantage of another's misfortune, often while wearing a pious expression on their faces. Here are two bad charities: Sean Hannity claims to support our troops, endorsing a charity called Freedom Alliance that supposedly pays...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:55 AM • 54 Comments •
March 29, 2010
Category: Godlessness
Whoa. Superman is a humanist! Nice dig against Christianity in that last panel,too. Somebody needs to tell him about the Out Campaign, though....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:55 PM • 68 Comments •
Category: Politics
Meanwhile, the rest of us will laugh. The Republicans have been indulging in a little hanky-panky. The Republican chairman, Michael Steele, promised on taking office that he would bring the party to corners of America it had not reached before....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:47 PM • 70 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Quick, here's a distraction! It's strange, but over the weekend we've had several threads top out over the magical 666 comment mark that I use as a signal to kill threads. There's the ever-expanding endless thread, of course, but...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:47 PM • 1055 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
Apparently, someone is flying around in Federation space with a ship called the USS PZ Myers, NCC-92803. This is a dreadful mistake—everyone knows I would be piloting a Borg cube....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:35 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: Politics
The Moscow subways have been hit by two terrorist suicide bombers — at least 38 people are dead. At least American terrorists have the useful property of being generally incompetent....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:12 PM • 27 Comments •
Category: Kooks
The FBI is cracking down on a Christian militia group that has been threatening to assassinate police officers and overthrow the government. There are nuts like this scattered all over the place; they collect guns, dress up in military gear,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:24 AM • 264 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Acanthoplus discoidalis But there's something really special about this insect. To become unpalatable, the insects squirt toxic blood out of gaps in their body and make themselves sick by throwing up food they've just eaten. Isn't that neat-o? (via...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:49 AM • 22 Comments •
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