Orleans Parish Says No to Creationism

In a move that surprised many people, Orleans Parish passed a no creationism policy last week for its public schools.  It’s a surprise because Louisiana isn't known for being reasonable where education and religion are concerned.  The sitting governor, Bobby Jindal, is an outspoken creationist and Christian who pushed through the Louisiana Science Education Act in 2008 which basically allows teachers to teach creationism in public schools.  So color me shocked that one small school board in Louisiana went out of its way to stop the insanity.

Arming Teachers Is Not An Answer

Friday, the head lunatic from the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, gave the organizations response to the Newtown tragedy.  As expected, their solution was more guns, but not just more guns; it included having armed guards at every school, blaming video games and movie violence.  Essentially they are blaming everything and everyone other than placing blame where it squarely belongs, which is on the NRA and their policy of fighting against any and all gun control laws, background checks, closing loopholes and anything that stops money from coming in from even one gun sale.  So what we were given by the NRA is nothing more than a non-answer to a continuing and growing problem in our society – gun violence.

Even More Right Wing Stupidity

After the massacre in Newtown, we all knew that the right would be spewing forth their nonsense about the cause being secularism, god not being allowed in school and all the normal nonsense.  Just when I thought that the stupidity couldn’t get any worse, The National Review proves me wrong in their editorial suggesting the cause of the massacre was really that the school was run by women.  Yes, you read that right – women running an elementary school caused the massacre.  Just when you thought the pieces of shit couldn't hit a new low, they go right ahead and shoot for rock bottom. 

Boobs – No, Guns – Yes….

American Sure Is Fucked Up!

I saw a graphic today that reminded me of the whole 2004 Super Bowl incident with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.  It pointed out that it only took Congress 10 days to convene a special hearing to make sure that the American public wouldn't have to suffer such breast bearing horror again in their living room.  This just made me think, “what the fuck is wrong with America?”

They Just Don’t Know When To Quit!

After the shooting in Connecticut, the worst of the religious people out there started with their usual rhetoric about how god either let the tragedy happen because of religion not being allowed in schools or because of birth control or some equally hateful reason.  You would have thought they would have stopped, with the exception of the Westboro goons, but the rhetoric and hate just keeps pouring out of their mouths.  The sad truth is that the evil bastards never fail to live up to the expectations that we have of them.

Why Do You Celebrate Christmas?

It’s that time of year again and like a lot of atheists out there it’s time for us to hear people asking, “why do you celebrate Christmas?” This is often a part of the discussion regarding nativity scenes and overt displays of religion on government owned property and government buildings, but that is not always the case.  Often it’s just a query from a confused Christian or religious person wondering why we celebrate “their holiday”.  Let’s set the record straight right here and now.

It's The Last Monday Ever.... Until The Next Time

Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that this Friday is supposed to be the end of the world according to internet nut jobs, conspiracy theory whackos and other brands of lunatics everywhere.  The Mayan calendar, or at least one version and one interpretation of it, runs out on the 21st and the crazies are convinced that this means the end of the world.  Yeah right, bozo.