here be dragons! ;o

Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

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Tagged as: religion,science,atheism,fallacies,psychology January 06, 2009 @ 05:34 pm

~persecution~

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Tagged as: cartoons,humor,religion,photos,atheism February 04, 2008 @ 05:11 pm

~busy~, but collection of good links anyways

but collecting links.  try these:

atheistic forum —some good stuff

the 9/11 norad tapes

the national debt chart —scaaaarrrryyyy

op-ed on presidential candidate responses to recession

rogue trader may have caused fed to cut interest rates

op-ed by caroline kennedy, endorsing barack obama—ted and patrick have now also endorsed obama

background story on obama’s church—some people seem so concerned

and for today’s bizarre story: In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur?—canadian is beautiful?

“He convicted Mr. Sosa of a double intoxication manslaughter, got a weak jury to give him 12 years in each, and then convinced Judge Wallace to stack the sentences,” Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent wrote in an office-wide memo. Then came the odd part: “He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing.”
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It is unusual that a seasoned attorney like Mr. Trent would not have wondered how a Harris County jury came to be stacked with Canadians. (There were no Canadians on the jury but there were some black members.) “The only way that there could have been Canadians on the jury, was if they were born in Canada and then became U.S. citizens, and then became citizens of the county in which the case was tried,” Mr. Vinson noted.

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Tagged as: religion,politics,wtf,atheism,racism,elections2008,links,bigotry,obama,economy,911 January 28, 2008 @ 06:51 pm

books, blankets and other babbling…

  been awhile, hey?  been busy!  doing… a buncha nothing!  sorta   finished reading harry potter’s last book and OMG, that was awesome :D talk about your twists and turns, i was cryin’ at the end :o i’m not quite the harry potter fanatic that i used to be, but i still enjoy the books regardless!

next up on my reading list: the clash of civilizations and the remaking of the world order by samuel p huntington.  i’m told everyone should read this book, and ... i’m everyone!  or… something like that :| 

finally finished the baby afghan i was working on and i’ll get a picture of that as soon as i decide what to put with it.  lil stuffed aminal or something similar, i’m thinking.  in the meantime, using up the skeins of purple that i had to make yet ~another~ afghan.  i expect that will be a gift tho

watched “a history of disbelief” and “the god delusion” today.  have to say, i’m wanting to read dawkin’s book, the god delusion, now.  it was really an excellent program. 

hrm, other news?  i have pink hair!!!  the photos came out crappy, but my camera batteries died :(  no.  i did NOT break the camera >:|  ok… maybe :(

other’n afghans and reading and watchin’ movies, i needa get busy and get my craft room sorted out and some errands run and apply for a couple more jobs.  we’ll see how that goes :o   ~wish me luck~

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