February 2012
The Myth of 'Practice Makes Perfect' →
It’s not how much you practice but whether you’re quick to fix your errors that leads to mastery.
CNN Publishes Op-Ed from Black Preacher Calling... →
Next week, CNN will also post an Op-Ed column from some white, old, fat, bald, Christian preacher on why African-Americans’ skin color is the mark of Cain….
Washington State Senate Allows Superstitious... →
The Washington Senate has approved a bill that would allow families to block autopsies for religious reasons.
Lawmakers passed the plan Thursday evening with a 46-2 vote. Democratic Sen. Adam Kline says the measure seeks to balance people’s religious beliefs with the need for medical examiners to do their work.
The bill would allow families who have religious objections a 48-hour window to...
Sarcastic Oklahoma Senator Says "Life" Begins at... →
Flushing semen down the toilet is no better than flushing a human being down the toilet, one senator argued. Sarcastically.
Oklahoma legislators introduced a bill yesterday that says “the life of each human being begins at conception.” But state Sen. Constance Johnson, a Democrat, decided that the Republican, Evangelical Christian bill, SB 1433, didn’t go far enough to protect...
What Did People Do in a Medieval City? →
What did people do for work in the Middle Ages? And what were the sorts of job title you were likely to hear? This is a fascinating list of jobs and job-titles from the 5th Century to the 15th Century.
Illinois May Follow Washington in Legalizing... →
“Where is the tolerance of someone having a belief structure that is based in...”
– Truly Stupid: Rick Santorum Actually Thinks His Superstitious Beliefs Are Scientific and Reasonable and that He’s Not a BIGOT
The man is truly intellectually disabled.
“A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly...”
– British Justice Minister Lord McNally, explaining the true lesson to be learned from this tragedy - in “Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing”
Santorum Given the Republican OK by Bigots in 3... →
Rick Santorum, who has the most hostile positions on gay-related issues of the four-man field of major candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, won the Missouri primary, and the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses.
“Steve Jobs cried a lot. This is one of the salient facts about his subject that...”
– Who Was Steve Jobs?
(via azspot)
The Bullying of America's Muslim Children →
Global Battleground or School Playground?
Muslim children suffer rejection, victimization, and social ostracism and isolation, and physical bullying because of their religious affiliation. Indeed, growing up Muslim in the U.S. in the 21st century is probably one of the most challenging tasks in human development.
“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black...”
– Study: African-American Boys Treated Like Shit in America
But we’re not racist….
(via omchomsky :: sourcedumal)
Most of Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule... →
Black American Atheist Group Points to the Only... →
Members of the Black skeptics organization African Americans For Humanism (AAH) are planning events on Feb. 26 in six major U.S. cities, “targeting African-Americans who have privately or openly questioned their faith.” The group holds religion responsible for “many of the problems plaguing the African American community” and promotes “rational and scientific methods of inquiry” that...
“Today’s Republican Party may revere Reagan as the patron saint of low...”
– How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
The story of how the Republicans completely abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda on behalf of the wealthiest 1%.
Marriage Equality in State #7 →
Washington Post Editorial: President Obama Should... →
Contractors that do business with the federal government, according to the Labor Department, employ roughly 26 million people, 22% of the national workforce. In exchange for federal work, contractors have to agree not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or sex. But the legal protections do not extend to sexual orientation or gender identity.
Federal legislation...
Proposition 8 Unconstitutional, 9th Circuit Rules:... →
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision in Perry v. Brown is the most significant advancement in the fight for marriage equality in American history to date.
Consider this: Never before has a federal appellate court affirmed any of the conclusions that the Ninth Circuit did today:
that denying gay couples their right to marry does not and can not encourage opposite-sex marriages;
...
Washington State House of Representatives Is Now... →
The House measure is likely to pass today after a few hours of debate. The Senate measure passed last week on a 28-21 vote. If the Marriage Equality bill is passed by the Legislature, Gov. Chris Gregoire has said she will sign it into law next week, which would take effect 90 days from then. Right-wing bigots (like the Christian Hate Group American Family Association, both nationally and...
