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The Shamefulness of Fat-Shaming

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 13, 2013 • 67 comments

This past week was set aside by the masculists over at Return Of Kings as a time to focus on…

Complimentary Earplugs (15/100) – Slate Political Gabfest

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 12, 2013 • No comments

If you’ve been following the government shutdown in the U.S. you may have noticed that it can be tricky to…

Freethought #FridayReads – The Last Answer

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 11, 2013 • No comments

If ever we take the trouble to put together a proper Atheist Bible, it will likely be packed with the…

Chart of the Week – Islamic Misogyny

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 8, 2013 • 5 comments

Inspired by a recent thread here at Skeptic Ink, I ended up skimming through parts of a detailed Pew Forum…

Monday Morning Musical Meme – American Jesus

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 7, 2013 • 2 comments

American exceptionalism is all over the news these days, what with our (hopefully temporary) inability to hold our government together…

Sampling the Slyme

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 6, 2013 • 65 comments

Random sampling is one of the most powerful epistemic tools ever developed by humankind. It provides us with the ability to…

Chart of the Week – Conspiracist Thinking and the Left/Right Spectrum

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 2, 2013 • 7 comments

This morning, some kind soul pointing me to PPP’s latest round of conspiracy-theory related questions, which you may find in…

Narnia Revisited

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 2, 2013 • 1 comment

Got into it with Tim Skellett last night over C.S. Lewis, on the matter of whether the Narnia books are…

Happy Fiscal New Year’s Day

By Damion Reinhardt • Oct 1, 2013 • 2 comments

For those unfamiliar with the American federal government, today is sort of a special day here, the beginning of fiscal…

Happy Blasphemy Day 2013!

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 30, 2013 • No comments

Today is Blasphemy Day, a day to take a stand for the human right to criticize and even outright mock…

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