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Hitchens vs Hitchens

Appeared much sooner than I expected. Are alcohol and cigarettes (Christopher) winning over quiche and tea (Peter)? Don't ask me yet, I'm on dialup. At the moment, the only thing I can say is that this is the only kind of blood sport which can be called civilized. Eat your ear, Mike Tyson!

Hitchens vs. Hitchens (1 of 14)

Tags: hitchens, atheism, theism, debates Tuesday April 8, 2008 - 09:10pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Index October 2005 — December 2007

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Happy Godless Xmas: Tags: atheism, christmas, holidays, calvinandhobbes, video, carols, thepogues, music | Edit Tags Thursday December 20, 2007 - 03:02pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

On Homeopathy: Tags: homeopathy, ignorance, frauds, debunking, science, pseudosciences, quackery, medical, humor | Edit Tags Friday November 16, 2007 - 11:49pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 5 Comments

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Youtube: Tags: creationism, debunking, video, pseudosciences, television, pets, pbs, nova | Edit Tags Friday November 16, 2007 - 08:13am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial: Tags: creationism, evolution, science, id, pbs, nova, media, video, pseudosciences, debunking | Edit Tags Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 09:38pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

New pictures in PAR1138's 'Atheism' album: Tags: humor, pictures, atheism, secularism, myspace, billmaher, religions | Edit Tags Sunday November 11, 2007 - 12:04am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Autumn Night: Tags: cats, billmaher, haikus, autumn, rain, | Edit Tags Thursday November 8, 2007 - 06:35pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

When ignorance fuels poverty: Tags: ignorance, politics, charlatans, zimbabwe, jamesrandi, billmaher, superstitions | Edit Tags Thursday November 8, 2007 - 06:23pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

Cectic: Tags: comics, skepticism, science, atheism, humor | Edit Tags Monday October 15, 2007 - 02:53am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

A Story of Religulous Censorship: Tags: urbandictionary, censorship, freethough, religulous, censorchimps, humor, atheism, satire, religions, beliefs, billmaher, quotes, unclean, whoa, culture, | Edit Tags Saturday October 6, 2007 - 10:27am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

"Why I am an Atheist": Tags: atheism, mapofsciences, science, religions, knowledge, truth, humanity, gods, maps | Edit Tags Thursday September 27, 2007 - 06:48am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Rendezvous with Rama: Tags: science-fiction, films, arthurcclarke, books, science, fiction, future, literature, raybradbury, exploration, carlsagan | Edit Tags Monday September 3, 2007 - 06:38pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 6 Comments

Hit the ball, not the wife: Tags: women, violence, abuse, animals, michaelvick, sports, children, media, crime | Edit Tags Sunday August 26, 2007 - 01:42pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Religulous !: Tags: pareidolia, jesus, billmaher, humor, stuff, religions, astronomy, michaelvick | Edit Tags Friday August 17, 2007 - 06:25pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 5 Comments

A gentle rain settles the dust: Tags: poetry, montreal, photos, rain, atheism, religions, water, dust, | Edit Tags Sunday August 5, 2007 - 11:31pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 5 Comments

God is an Atheist: Tags: gods, humor, philosophy, atheism, creation, yahoo | Edit Tags Saturday July 28, 2007 - 03:08am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

The Seven Random Facts Game: Tags: games, tagging, facts, humor | Edit Tags Wednesday July 25, 2007 - 03:31pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 5 Comments

Atheists are too damned serious: Tags: humor.atheism, science, lightbulbs | Edit Tags Thursday July 5, 2007 - 10:54pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

New 7 Wonders - Vote before july 7th: Tags: architecture, wonders, world, heritage, arts, education, history, links | Edit Tags Monday July 2, 2007 - 09:16am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Yikes! Two days left to get it: Tags: freebies, science, magazines, pdf, fishing, humor | Edit Tags Thursday June 28, 2007 - 10:17am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

The God Machine: Tags: neuroscience, biology, science, mind, brain, neurotheology, canada, whoa, | Edit Tags Wednesday June 27, 2007 - 04:53pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

What's up, dudes?!: Tags: dudes, pitch, contest, beer, goohf, canada, creationism, lebowski, bowling, heaven, humor | Edit Tags Tuesday June 26, 2007 - 06:57am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 3 Comments

Science as a little, quiet river: Tags: contests, science, beers, fsm, humor | Edit Tags Monday May 7, 2007 - 02:03am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 6 Comments

02:03:04 05/06/07: Tags: meltdown, collapse, humor, drinking, goodbye, horror, party, satire, stuff, superstition | Edit Tags Saturday May 5, 2007 - 06:18pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 4 Comments

One Ring to Rule Them All...: Tags: education, abstinence, failure, chastity, usa, religions, | Edit Tags Wednesday April 18, 2007 - 07:24am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 4 Comments

Where's your God?: Tags: cats, humor, science-fiction | Edit Tags Monday April 16, 2007 - 10:04am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 4 Comments

Podcasts on GW @ Geek Counterpoint: Tags: podcasts, globalwarming, climatology | Edit Tags Sunday April 15, 2007 - 06:39am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1922 - 2007): Tags: vonnegut, obituary, science-fiction, fiction, literature | Edit Tags Thursday April 12, 2007 - 07:39am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

Pigasus Awards: Tags: randi, pigasus, awards, paranormal, debunking, | Edit Tags Tuesday April 3, 2007 - 10:12pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 4 Comments

Roll the Bones !: Tags: mars, poetry, space, exploration, humor, illusions, photos, music | Edit Tags Monday March 26, 2007 - 09:37pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 5 Comments

70 Years Ago : H.P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937): Tags: literature, fiction, lovecraft, cthulhu, supernatural, horror, theprodigy | Edit Tags Thursday March 15, 2007 - 05:22pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 4 Comments

The Unclean Animal: Tags: unclean, humans, pigs, parasites, tapeworms, fundies, humor, microbes, beliefs, weird, cruelty | Edit Tags Tuesday March 13, 2007 - 11:20pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

A musical interlude (in the dead of the winter night): Tags: cardigans, music, lyrics, beliefs, love, blues | Edit Tags Sunday March 11, 2007 - 07:06am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Darwin's Gods: Tags: atheism, evolution, cognition, religions, psychology, illusions, cats, biology, humor, beans, | Edit Tags Tuesday March 6, 2007 - 06:04am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 8 Comments

See you in Hell: Tags: hell, sartre, fundies, books, satire, silliness, superstition, humor, heresy, delusion, tests, | Edit Tags Sunday February 25, 2007 - 12:24pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 7 Comments

Beware the snow (plowers): Tags: snow, storm, montreal, 2007, quebec | Edit Tags Friday February 16, 2007 - 09:53am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 4 Comments

Bleepations and bowdlerizations (part 2): Tags: pastafarianism, flyingspaghettimonster, richarddarwins, atheism, gods, humor, games, rael, silliness, miracles, satire, censorship, bowdler, bleep | Edit Tags Friday February 16, 2007 - 02:19am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin: Tags: charlesdarwin, evolution, sciences, biology, birthday | Edit Tags Sunday February 11, 2007 - 02:09pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Anthropogenic Global Warming, Cyanobacterial Gods: Tags: microbes, globalwarming, climate, sciences, future | Edit Tags Tuesday February 6, 2007 - 03:25am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Is Tom Cruise The Messiah? The CoS certainly thinks so: Tags: drinking, gods, humor, religions, scientology, silliness, tomcruise | Edit Tags Sunday February 4, 2007 - 03:46am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

The most dangerous: Ignorance or Irrationalism ?: Tags: rationalism, ignorance, superstition, magicthinking, religions, sciences, tradition, rituals | Edit Tags Wednesday January 24, 2007 - 09:59am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 3 Comments

Libations and revelations: Tags: pastafarianism, flyingspaghettimonster, atheism, gods, humor, games, rael, silliness, miracles, satire | Edit Tags Tuesday January 9, 2007 - 10:03am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 6 Comments

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2007 Year: Tags: christmas, newyear, weber, future, drinking, 2007, smoking, space1999 | Edit Tags Sunday December 24, 2006 - 09:27am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 3 Comments

GONE: Tags: cats, goodbye, beer, tv, party, | Edit Tags Friday October 13, 2006 - 12:41pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Henri-Frederic Amiel: Tags: amiel, quotes | Edit Tags Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 12:23pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 1 Comment

Crikey! (yet another Steve Irwin story): Tags: steveirwin, humor, animalwelfare, animals, obituary, death, greer, goodbye, quotes | Edit Tags Wednesday September 6, 2006 - 12:38am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 5 Comments

Scientologists of the year

Tags: scientology, humor, hubbard, tomcruise, arts | Edit Tags Friday September 1, 2006 - 11:52am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Your six-word story: Tags: literature, six-word, stories | Edit Tags Sunday August 20, 2006 - 01:46pm (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 10 Comments

PAR1138 101: Tags: par1138, humor | Edit Tags Thursday July 13, 2006 - 09:05am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 8 Comments

Personal or Recommended Links: Tags: | Edit Tags Thursday July 13, 2006 - 07:38am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

George Carlin's 2006 Rules

Tags: georgecarlin, billmaher, humor | Edit Tags Thursday January 19, 2006 - 05:36pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 19 Comments

Best wishes for 2006, and a few thoughts: Tags: calvinandhobbes, babylon5, science-fiction, newyear | Edit Tags Friday January 6, 2006 - 02:55am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 7 Comments

Blasts from the past: Tags: quotes, blasts, past, history, links, atheism, music, radio, mp3, ebooks, books, censorship, literature, pdf, humor, animals, religions | Edit Tags Thursday December 15, 2005 - 11:49am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 3 Comments

China's great firewall: Tags: china, humanrights, animalrights, censorship | Edit Tags Thursday December 1, 2005 - 05:36pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 3 Comments

1985/11/18 : 1rst Calvin & Hobbes Strip: Tags: calvinandhobbes, humor | Edit Tags Friday November 18, 2005 - 01:57pm (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Science-Fiction: Michael Coney's last gift: Tags: michaelconey, science-fiction | Edit Tags Sunday November 6, 2005 - 11:00am (EST) Edit | | Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Copyright and Fair Use policy: Tags: copyright, fairuse, images, photos, avatars, sources | Edit Tags Sunday October 2, 2005 - 04:21am (EDT) Edit | | Permanent Link | 0 Comments

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Tags: index, 2006, 2007, administrative Tuesday April 8, 2008 - 08:53pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

So Many Poisons to Choose From

Cruise is mad over drug association. Indeed, nothing beats a clear, thetan-free mind.

Cruise Fumes over MJ Association (sfgate.com)

No doubts Ben Stein's film Expelled also benefits from the clarity of mind provided by a drug-free environment.

Ben Stein's Expelled - The Short Version (youtube.com)

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Tags: humor, religions, cults, benstein, intelligentdesign, doomsday, drugs, hitchens, expelled, films, tomcruise Monday April 7, 2008 - 12:09pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Killed

IHEU: 'Combating Defamation of Religion' unnecessary, flawed and morally wrong | International Humanist and Ethical Union

The International Humanist and Ethical Union submission says that the very concept of ‘defamation of religion’ is flawed, since it is individuals, both believers and non-believers alike, who have rights, not religions.

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Vote on freedom of expression marks the end of Universal Human Rights | International Humanist and Ethical Union

For the past eleven years the organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), representing the 57 Islamic States, has been tightening its grip on the throat of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yesterday, 28 March 2008, they finally killed it.

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How the Islamic states dominate the UN Human Rights Council | International Humanist and Ethical Union
The fourth session of the new Human Rights Council's high hopes that the Council would find a way forward on Darfur were dashed when the Council declined to act on the report of a High-Level Mission to Darfur because of obstruction by the Sudanese government.

IHEU "ambushed" at Human Rights Council

Tags: humanrights, un, islam, oic, marcusbrigstocke Friday April 4, 2008 - 01:45am (EDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments

Not an April Fools' Prank

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Fitna (discord) is a short film on the ugly side of the koran, made by the dutch Geert Wilders, an extreme-right politician. Normally I wouldn't give more attention than necessary to extreme-right and extreme-left populists — and we all know how much the bible and many other so-called sacred texts glorify violence—, except for the fact that 1) islam is at the moment an unleashed totalitarian religious ideology which hasn't been tamed yet, and 2) the film is being censored by governments or by interest groups for many wrong reasons.

Austin Cline nails it efficiently in a recent column.

Muslim Plan to Fight Negative Perception: Suppress Free Speech

"Some people just don't get it, and then some people really, really, really don't get it. If you regularly did things which caused people to develop a negative impression of you, and this bothered you enough to want to change that impression, would you change your behavior or just do more of the same in the expectation that this time things would be different?

Muslim leaders at the Organization of the Islamic Conference appear to be opting for the latter choice because they think they can fight the negative perception of Islam in the West by working harder to suppress criticism of Islam in the West. I remember reading somewhere that insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over in the expectation of getting different results. Might this qualify?"

My muslim friends wouldn't prevent me from seeing it. Nor would Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Nor would Theo Van Gogh if he was still alive. So here are a few links of interest.

Video: Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about the Quran (English)
WARNING: Some graphic images

Tags: fitna, videos, censorship, islam, geertwilders, freespeech, violence Tuesday April 1, 2008 - 05:01pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments

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