There is some most excellent news out of California today for those who believe in equal rights under the law for everyone. The California Supreme Court struck down a law banning gay marriage in the state, meaning that same sex couples are now free to marry as they please with full recognition under the […]

You can’t make this sort of thing up.  A substitute teacher in Land ‘O Lakes Florida has been sacked for wizardry.  The exact brand of wizardry?  He made a toothpick disappear for about half a minute and then made it magically reappear.  For this he is fired.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that there […]

Some third grade students in Georgia were allegedly conspiring to kill or seriously harm their teacher, and the plot was blown open yesterday.  I’d place the blame for an incident like this squarely on the little brats and the parents that raised them as little brats, but Christian media wanks know who the real culprit […]

I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]

It’s time to tackle some more creationist stupidity, this time from blogger and Intelligent Design proponent DaveScot at the Uncommon Descent blog.  Dave argues that, all evidence to the contrary aside, the state of science education in America is just fine.  You almost can’t blame a creationist for holding onto an incorrect belief in the […]

Those wacky short-earth creationists are at it again.  They lost the Intelligent Design fight in court back in 2004, so now they’re going straight to the source in an attempt to discredit the entire scientific body of knowledge supporting evolution by resorting to the oldest and most childish of logical fallacies: the ad hominem attack.  […]

I was in a local Borders earlier this weekend browsing through the Religious History section when I heard the following conversation from the other side of the stacks where all of the bibles and other strictly christian works were kept:
Son: “Look, some idiot put a Bible in the Christian Fiction section.”
Mom: ”Oh, well you’d better put […]