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One of the best and brightest satirical bloggers has died. RIP Jon Swift.(1)
Al Weisel, best known to the blogging community as the satirical faux-conservative Jon Swift, died on February 27th. In a comment on Al’s blog, his mother shared the news of his passing:
I don’t know how else to tell you all who love this blog. I am Jon Swift’s Mom and I guess I’m going to [...]
A conversation on the nature of Skepticism
“What differentiates skeptics from non-skeptics?” or “What does it mean to be a skeptic” are questions that I think equally well sum up an interesting conversation I had on Twitter today with Daniel Loxton and Jim Lippard, with a valuable interjection by Liz Ditz.
Our conversation arose out of a much broader discussion on Objectivism and [...]
There’s no God in Porky’s pledge
A Porky Pig cartoon from 1939 has Porky Pig learning to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but where’s the “under God” phrase? It isn’t there, because “under God” wasn’t added to the pledge until 1954.
An Alternative (Humanist) Invocation
A few weeks ago, after it was learned that Barack Obama had chosen mega-church pastor, schlocky self-help guru and homophobic bigot Rick Warren to give the Inaugural Invocation, many of us liberal types were shocked and outraged. Obama had run a campaign based on hope. Hope for change, hope for a better world. Yet he [...]