Link roundup for 25 November 2007
I love this sign.
Every time I think Chick tracts couldn't possibly get any stupider, Jabberwock finds one that is even stupider. But surely this one must be the absolute rock bottom -- and Jabberwock's dissection is hilarious as usual.
Watch a priest go berserk.
I wonder if the Ron Paul campaign accepts these as donations.
Yet another televangelist sinks out of sight into a tar pit of sleaze. For more Christianity news, check out this megachurch leader and this bullying weirdo in Florida (found via Mendip). On a similar note, Daylight Atheism takes a look at the "prosperity gospel".
Russia is planning to develop nanotechnology-based weapons.
Italians resort to a simple but clever mosque-abatement tactic.
A British hair-salon owner is being sued for refusing to hire a Muslim who insisted on wearing a headscarf.
Bloggasm assesses the impact of Richard Dawkins's book The God Delusion.
I'm glad to see this appreciation of Canada, whose contribution to the Afghan campaign should be more recognized in the US.
When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When he's a "counterweight".
More shameful denialism, this time on Iraq.
A California teacher describes how his views on illegal aliens changed due to personal experience (found via Chell's Roost).
The gun is civilization. Reason shows how gun control is wreaking havoc in Uganda, while Of Arms and the Law tells of how gun rights helped protect peaceful citizens from violent mobs in 1906.
Here's more debunking of the myth of US decline -- at The Times, at The Telegraph, at Real Clear Politics, and at The Economist.
Joshua Muravchik clarifies the problem of Iran's nuclear program in stark terms. And anyone who thinks that a nuclear-armed Iran could simply be deterred the way the USSR was needs to read this.
Labels: Freedom, Illegal immigration, Islam, Lighter side, Military, Religion, Technology
4 Comments:
Thanks for the link!
BAC
The Paula Zahn CNN Richard Dawkins TV interview was great! I think the fact that Dawkins is so incredibly rational and reasonable is a main thing the religious folks can't stand.
As a dual citizen of the USA and Canada, I appreciate your acknowledgment of the latter.
Thanks for posting my link to the priest going berserk. I love these link round-ups.
I agree with Blurber about Dawkins.
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