The Smug Baldy Speaks

The other day I was thinking how awesome it would be if everything revolved around me. Seriously, if I were the center of the universe, then all problems - worldly and otherworldly - would take a back seat to my own. When I moved, I would move the universe. When I shake, [...]

The recent murders of an American doctor in his church, and of an American security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC stand out as two examples, although depending on who you listen to, they’re seen as examples of different things.
One camp says that these are tragic examples of crazed and depraved lone gunmen. [...]

Here Pat Condell comments on how “the allowances we make for religion has encouraged Islam to push its way into our society, where it really doesn’t belong, and threaten all of our freedom.”
Some links from the youtube post are here for support:
Assault on free speech in the Netherlands
Islam can no longer be criticised at the [...]

John McCain’s got some powerful faith, and here’s where he revises history with his erroneous belief that America was founded upon Christian principles as a “Christian” nation. Never mind the fact that the founding fathers were largely deists, freethinkers, and Quakers. No, John lets his freak flag fly:

HT to Les at StupidEvilBastard.com

In a recent opinion piece in our local paper, the author announced support for something he oxymoronically called “non-religious” intelligent design (or ID), and went further to claim that this version of ID was more scientific than its predecessor since it made no claim as to the identity of the mysterious universal designer. The [...]

I made this response on Kevin Murrell’s blog after he made the following vacuous claim:

In the movie Expelled, Ben Stein gives a compelling argument for Intelligent Design.

Having not seen the film yet, I can’t really comment on how compelling his argument actually was, but I suspect that it wasn’t a compelling scientific argument. If [...]

Just when you thought that the battle for America’s soul was won, and the forces of lunacy and idiocy had retreated to the fetid holes from which they sprang, we find that Texas will be the new battleground for creationists bent on the destruction of rational thought in science education. In an editorial today [...]

They say that Truth is the first casualty in war. Not now. Not in this war.
A week ago, a hacker group calling themselves Anonymous posted their Declaration of War against the “Church” of Scientology, shortly after they were able to bring down one of the church’s websites. Then afterwards, Anonymous posted a [...]

With every presidential candidate shifting into total balls-out (or labia-out, as the case may be) pander-or-perish mode, I think it’s important to cut through the inane hype where possible, and get at their positions on issues that matter to me. One such issue is education. While the uneducated and undereducated aren’t necessarily [...]

In the latest issue of the eSkeptic newsletter is a link to an interesting debate held at Cal-Tech between Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Shermer over the relationship between science and religion.
In this debate on what are arguably two of the most important questions in the culture wars today — Is Religion a Force for Good [...]