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Open Forum Friday: Catholic Extortion
This Week’s Topic
This relates to some news that’s kinda old, and I’m surprised no one’s covered it on this blog yet. But it is a really interesting development. I am referring, of course, to the recent announcement by the Catholic archdiocese of Washington, DC, that unless the city changes a proposed law that would allow [...]
We will wear you down by our capacity to suffer
As I watched from the sidelines as the whole PZ/Cracker thing played out*, I couldn’t help but be struck by how similar the whole event was to an auto accident. You know how you sit at a red light next to a recent fender bender trying to recreate the accident to figure out whose fault [...]
FreeThought in the 20th Century
[ December 21, 2008; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] This is the 3rd in a series of posts exploring the Past, Present and Future of FreeThought. In this installment I would like to discuss how poorly FreeThought faired in the early parts of the 20th century but I promise to end on a high note. The primary focus will be from the turn of [...]
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