en-us jgoss@blern.com (Blern Admin) jgoss@blern.com (Blern Admin) http://blern.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/favicon.ico http://blern.com/5nTw6 I am genuinely amused at this caricature of scientists from a creationist site . How many of you believed these things? Everyone is biased. Scientists just happen to be biased in favor of reality, and have a set of tools Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:07:00 -0500 http://blern.com/5nK16 The atheist bus campaign has been a great success , and now it's about to expand, with godless signs going up all over . This is good news for reason — so many people are appalled at the blind faith of their neighbors, but since they Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:41:17 -0500 http://blern.com/5nJy8 It looks like Obama has picked Sanjay Gupta to be surgeon general . He seems a bit of a lightweight, to me — he's mainly known as a congenial talking head on television news. He's also an apologist for US health care , which does not Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:38:47 -0500 http://blern.com/5n9K0 Did you know the Catholic church was established by Satan? You would if you read Chick comics . We also get the communion ritual explained for us. You know what will happen if he doesn't. He will burn in hell for all Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:11:07 -0500 http://blern.com/5n6f0 You know you're looking at a right-leaning site when the consistently awful comic strip, Day By Day, is doing well. But the Best Comic Strip category in the 2008 Weblog Awards does have two great entries: Jesus and Mo , and xkcd . If Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:13:58 -0500 http://blern.com/5n3S7 Those Brits keep showing us up by unashamedly trumpeting good science on television and radio. The BBC has a whole collection of media on Darwin right now, most of it good. Most. One thing I simply do not get is the infatuation with the Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:12:50 -0500 http://blern.com/5n070 The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is angry. It is time for the Christian bashing to stop and for Christians to no longer be treated like second-class citizens. Second-class citizens who are virtually the only people who can Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:07:08 -0500 http://blern.com/5mj53 Would you believe that Nick Lally has responded — well, reacted might be the better word — to our criticism of his silly letter? This is a reply to one of the editors to whom he had sent his original mail. Dear "Yo", Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:37:14 -0500 http://blern.com/5mWQ4 The state canvassing board certified the results this afternoon ; Al Franken is our senator, by 225 votes. Also, the Minnesota supreme court has denied Coleman's request to reconsider some rejected ballots , but of course he's going to sue. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:38:39 -0500 http://blern.com/5mHS9 A while back, I posted some email from Debra Rufini that had been forwarded to me — a long list of stupid arguments for creationism. Now, almost 6 months later, she has discovered my posting, and she is hoppin' mad . Hello Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:15:19 -0500 http://blern.com/5mC79 Everyone is also asking me for a list of children's books on evolution, and it's always hard to come up with any titles. I am now saved: Charlie's Playhouse has a list of 89 kids' books on evolution ! You know, Darwin Day is coming Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:43:31 -0500 http://blern.com/5m9m7 Deja vu — I'm up for one of those Weblog Awards again, and once again, there's Phil Plait, and once again, there's the awful faux science blog, Climate Audit. I think we've been here before. One strange thing: in the list Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:34:01 -0500 http://blern.com/5m6v1 A certain astronomer was impressed with this video: Cool animation for sure (and even better in hd ), but Bad Evolution. Once again, we get the portrayal of evolution as a progressive process, driven by lots of bloody (oily?) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:40:16 -0500 http://blern.com/5m6r5 This is the day the Canvassing Board will announce their decision in the Minnesota senate race, and since he is ahead by 225 votes, that means Al Franken will be declared the victor . Expect 5-alarm histrionics from the right wing, howls of Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:39:45 -0500 http://blern.com/5ljO1 A newspaper editor sent me this bizarre little letter. Apparently, the writer, a Mr Nick Lally, was spamming it all over the place, and his copy was also sent to addresses at these domains (actual email addresses stripped to protect the already Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:44:20 -0500 http://blern.com/5lUI3 The Countess has been nominated for various awards for her writing , and she'd like our help in getting the word out. I warned her that you people aren't a flock of sheep who will just follow the beckoning, nubile arm of any horror/fantasy Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:58:55 -0500 http://blern.com/5lPs0 As Wilkins notes, they've admitted it now: the producers of Expelled lied to make their movie . The documentary links such scientists to Nazis. The reaction was what one would expect. 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