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Celebrating the life… and evil lies… of Charles Darwin

By Mark | January 28, 2013

Had a vengeful God not struck him down for heresy, the famed naturalist Charles Darwin would be turning 204 years old on February 12, and literate folks around the world are marking the occasion by planning celebrations in his honor. I had forgotten that “Darwin Day” was upon us until earlier this evening, when a [...]

Posted in Other, Religious Extremism, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-science, Charles Darwin, Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day, creationism, Darwin Day, dino nuggets, Dinosaurs in Eden, evolution, Hitler, humans coexisting with dinosaurs, Kirk Cameron, Mark Chancey, Michigan Skeptics Association, Origin of Species, Phylum Feast, public education, religious fundamentalism, separation of church and state, Texas, Texas Freedom Network, the rapture, threats to public education | 35 Comments

Don’t ask me how my weekend was…

By Mark | January 13, 2013

note: He deserves better than to be commemorated in the footnote of a post about my petty plumbing problems, but I did want to note the fact that, if not for the this little emergency of mine, I’d surely be posting something thoughtful tonight about the death of internet activist and political organizer Aaron Swartz. [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life | Also tagged Aaron Swartz, academic journals, access to information, basement, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, information access, JSTOR, Michigan Power Rodding, plumbing, poop, privacy, problems in the basement, Reddit, sewage, shit, suicide | 27 Comments

Something to think about as you’re lighting up Chinese fireworks in celebration of our country’s unsurpassed greatness

By Mark | July 4, 2012

Following up on our conversation about the purposeful dumbing down of America, I though that I’d share this tweet, sent out today by renowned American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is in reference, for those of you who don’t know, to the fact that, earlier today, physicists near Geneva, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, officially [...]

Posted in Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged American exceptionalism, anti-science, bets, dumbing down of America, European Organization for Nuclear Research, fireworks, Fourth of July, god particle, Gordon Kane, Higgs boson, July 4, Large Hadron Collider, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Higgs, science fail, Stephen Hawking, subatomic particles, University of Michigan | 92 Comments

Neil DeGrasse Tyson blinding Bob Lutz with the incontrovertible truth of science

By Mark | March 5, 2012

Everyone’s favorite super cool scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had what I found to be an interesting exchange with GM’s former chairman, Bob Lutz, on Bill Maher’s program a couple of days ago. The ball got rolling when Lutz, who, as you’ll recall, was quoted in 2004 as saying that global warming was “a total crock [...]

Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1941, anti-science, astrophysicists, Bible, Bob Lutz, cognitive dissonance, crocks of shit, Florida, Florida Keys, General Motors, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, hurricanes, memories of childhood, Mitt Romney, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Obamacare, reality deficient, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Scarsdale, the origins of man, the universe | 14 Comments

Religion, a net positive?

By Mark | January 24, 2012

A few days ago, in response to a post about my aunt, who had been swindled by a member of her church in Wisconsin, a reader by the name of Mr. X left the following comment. Has religion given us more good than bad, historically speaking? I’d like to say that it was a positive [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Caleb Brokaw, evil, fire, Golden Rule, good, hypocrisy, Jesus, morality, pedophilia, rape, religion, Rome, sexing, survival of the fittest, the revolutionary nature of the Golden Rule, the wheel | 11 Comments

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Celebrating the life… and evil lies… of Charles Darwin

Don’t ask me how my weekend was…

Something to think about as you’re lighting up Chinese fireworks in celebration of our country’s unsurpassed greatness

Neil DeGrasse Tyson blinding Bob Lutz with the incontrovertible truth of science

Religion, a net positive?

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