Clearsky

I love them both… this British humor is spot on!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I would tend to agree.

Here we go:

(I don’t believe it. A minute after I posted this, I found a dead bug in my Trader Joe’s Organic salad.)

@Davis, I wasn’t speaking of the majority of countries, but the majority of Muslims. As for most of the countries you list, I’m laying blame on their authoritarian governments for how they’ve historically and presently religiously oppress their populations.

But I was still wrong to say majority. You made me look! I don’t know how I got it so…[Read more]

Tom, I don’t even see hardball here. Not even a swing, when you’re asked a specific question wrt your view on evidence (e.g. blue-shift).

Wine woo lives in its own class, literally! Profit in hundred+ dollar bottles of wine drives both the science and psuedo-science of it. But I think its cultism is relativley benign, and the trickle-down effects are mostly beneficial.

(Also notice in that article, the author disclaims “commercial affiliations”, while simultaneously selling his new…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

(autocorrect just changed ‘Reg’ to ‘Are God’)

All of it is science fiction? Even LIGO measurements and blue-shift? These are softball questions!

You say EU is up against a vast conspiracy of institutionally entrenched scientists pushing BB. That’s not fair, when I can’t even get you to say what you’d like us to be researching. I’ve asked a few times now, which is fair, because we’re sharing…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali makes a good case for why Islam needs a reformation….now.

The book reviews there are pretty enlightening, too. I probably have the odd atheist perspective here, because I think it’s counter-productive to condemn an entire religion when the most powerful reform can come from its more moderate m…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
I’d like to know the historical reasons as well. It seems to have started off strict, although fairly relaxed in some surprising ways, but has become ultra-conservative in the past century or two.

Just like in pre-reformed Chrisitanity, authoritarians used religion to rule and subjugate. And it’s not over yet, with Putin l…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
just like the made up “crime” of Islamophobia

Oh man, the melting power of name-calling… Islamistphobia would be a more reasonable fear.

red-bulled light

Starbucks!

Aw-ww, Beanie. Quantum entanglement? Stuff popping in and out of existence?

My apologies for a couple of things.

True, I need to avoid the “in and out of existence” meme. It’s too hyperbolic and smacks of the same attention-grabbing meme as “something from nothing”, which too easily misrepresents the physics to lay people.

Secondly, I posted my…[Read more]