Archive for April 2008

Apr222008

Moral Dilemma: Leather vs. Plastic

I have always felt strongly about animal rights in a half-assed sort of way, being that I don’t subscribe to the notion that humans have “dominion” over other animals that they have been “put” here for whatever purpose we humans foresee. If I were to accept that idea, then clearly as a woman I must be here for men to do with whatever they please. But that’s purely offensive! As a woman, I think I should be equal to – and not above – any man, which parallels with my need (as the atheist in me) to be considered equally patriotic.

Apr172008

Stein to Darwin: “Why don’t you just live quietly”

In this interview, Ben Stein answers the following:

5. What would you like to say to Darwin? 

“You are a wealthy man, you married a wealthy woman, why don’t you just live quietly out in the countryside and not torture us with your half-baked suppositions, which have caused so much misery?”

Apr142008

Exposed Again

Since PZ Meyers has asked that we link to Expelled as much as we can, I decided to help out the cause. NOTE: I don’t usually do things just because I’m asked, as in the case of the Out Campaign “A” .