Monthly Archives: January 2014

AGW denier and generally right wing oriented contrarian Matt Briggs thinks atheists have a “problem” with evil[1], but I agree with commenter lucia’s first sentence: Matt, Your very first claim is nonesense: “Evil is a problem for atheists because, for them, … Continue reading →

The original was so much better than what he forced onto the NYT Magazine's Crazy Cover.

Syria peace talks: live – Telegraph. This leaves me with more sympathy than I expected to have for the Syrian gov’t position – specifically with regard to the need for the terms to explicitly disavow terrorist Wahabi elements in the … Continue reading →

Kenan Malik starts the year with a preview of FIVE BOOKS TO ARGUE WITH. The best kind of book, to my mind, is the kind of book you can have an argument with. Not a book so wrong that I … Continue reading →

The Atlantic asks and ThinkProgress answers Why (according to a recent Pew Research Insyitute poll) Republicans Don't Believe In Evolution Anymore. But I am more interested in what this means for the future.