Vermin Supreme is a candidate for the President of the United States of America. Free ponies for all.
I disagree with her: protest chants almost never feel meaningful.
On Karl Hess’s move to the Left.
By Andy Alexis-Baker of JesusRadicals.com. This paper is relevant to Christians beyond Anabaptists, and to people beyond Christians.
This anti-religious fashion police stuff is stupid authoritarianism dressed up as enlightened thinking.
This site aggregates some good religious content.
Mormon channel: http://www.patheos.com/Mormon.html
Atheist channel: http://www.patheos.com/Atheist.html
An interview with Justin Lee, the director of The Gay Christian Network. Some good questions and answers.
“Candy canes occupy an awkward place in the candy taxonomy.” I don’t quite understand the urge to invent history in an attempt at authenticating an idea. Whether it’s Joseph Smith and his Native American wars, so many gurus and their past lives (usually as famous historical figures), or “a candymaker in Indiana.” It doesn’t help.
After I posted three links to a video of a Dateline episode featuring a small Arizona religious group, two of the three hosts received DMCA take-down notices from the group’s lawyer and took down the video. So I pulled out my stenotype keyboard and made this quick transcript of the 40-minute program. Corrections welcome.
Nate Phelps, who left the Westboro Baptist Church when he was 18, answers redditors' questions
One of the Pussy Riot defenders, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said at the trial yesterday, “We are freer than those who are prosecuting us. We can say everything we want, and they have their mouths shut and are puppets.” Every Christian in the world should be cheering her on.
User-submitted links to information on various religious groups.
Fred Clark on why some church people like to believe silly things.
When atheists sound like fundamentalist Christians.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court has issued an opinion affirming that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional! From the majority (2-1) opinion: "The People may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a right as important as the right to marry."
Asthon Kutcher on SOPA
Mikhail Bakunin on social contract theory.