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Entertainment/culture Music Religion

Sunday morning lazy YouTube blogging: “Dear God,” by XTC

One of XTC’s best songs: I actually heard this on the radio the other night, hence my looking for it on YouTube. I hadn’t heard the song in several years, and I don’t recall ever hearing it on the radio. In any case, it caught my mood this morning.

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Entertainment/culture Friday Woo Paranormal Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking Television

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Orbs invade the 11 PM news broadcast

Sometimes woo jumps out and hits you from sources from which you least expect it. Such was the case earlier this week, when I found my self in Detroit lazily watching a local newscast. Now, I realize that local news is not the place to look for skepticism. Heck, just the other day, I mentioned […]

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Humor Religion

Mr. Deity on fundamentalism of all stripes

I don’t know about you, but I find Mr. Deity to be hilarious. This time around, with the most recent episode, he takes on fundamentalism of all stripes and whether there should be an afterlife or not. (For a commercial-free direct link to the iTunes version, go here.) And, of course, who doesn’t want third […]

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News of the Weird Religion

Religious crazies on parade

Thanks, PZ. Thanks a lot for posting what has to be one of the stupidest, most vile examples of an idiotic religious nut that I’ve seen in a long time. It was so bad that it has to be seen to be believed: It hurt my brain just to look at this smug, smarmy twit […]

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Biology History Hitler Zombie Humor Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

After a year’s absence (except in reruns), the monster returns…for real

In nondescript dressing room in a nondescript studio in a nondescript office building in in a nondescript industrial park, a short, pudgy 63-year-old man with the stereotypical demeanor of a particularly boring economist was trying to squeeze into a pair of shorts. “Why oh why did I agree to do this?” he muttered in a […]