Archive for June, 2009

PZ@GMU

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Here’s the video of a talk PZ Myers gave at George Mason University last year, at an event organized by the GMU Rational Response Squad.

It’s possible that you might be able to catch a glimpse of me there.
(HT Shelley.)

Pointless Photo Op Not So Pointless?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

I tend to be rather cynical about events like the
United We Serve kickoff,
in which cabinet secretaries let themselves be photographed doing
community service type jobs, such as Trade Representative Kirk feeding
homeless people at a soup kitchen, HUD secretary Donovan helping to
rebuild a home destroyed by hurricane Katrina, and so forth. I always
imagine them tossing their apron [...]

Freedom of Tackiness

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

A woman in Colorado says she was
evicted from her apartment for keeping her Easter decorations up too long.
I think I’m leaning toward her side, even though from the brief
description it sounds as though her display was unutterably tacky,
simply because I want to live in the sort of country where people can
show the world just how [...]

Win Ben Stein’s Argument

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Remember Expelled, the wretched movie starring Ben Stein
in which he argued that science — and evolution in particular
— causes things like the Holocaust?
Now, at BeliefNet, David Klinghoffer has an
article
in which he insinuates the same claim about von Brunn, the guy who
recently walked into the Holocaust museum downtown and started
shooting.
[Quoting von Brunn]:
[T]o the astonishment of the [...]