February 2012
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Anonymous asked: Salut, je suis à Montréal lundi prochain. Envie de manger ensemble? Je serai au Holiday Inn Sherbrook-Ouest (ou West, c'est selon). Denis Lamy
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When Your 7-Year-Old Son Announces, 'I'm Gay' →
Considering that my son has a longstanding crush on Glee’s Blaine and regularly refers to him as “my boyfriend,” I thought there was a fair chance that he would someday say, “I’m gay.” But my kid is only 7 years old. I figured I had a few years before we crossed that threshold (if we ever did), probably when he was 14 or 15. I never thought it would happen...
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January 2012
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“It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession, and I’ve come to...”
– Ronald Reagan
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“Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened : it’s a...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
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“This was an essential stage of my formation and one for which I am hugely...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
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December 2011
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens,
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Gold embroidered hat-wearing Pope, carrying a... →
To me, the most offensive part about this is when he says that “we must dismount from the high horse of our ‘enlightened’ reason”. Umm…no, I’ll keep my reason, thanks.
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Paul Russell: Even in death, Christopher Hitchens... →
Christopher Hitchens may have liked to ‘trash the freshly dead,’ but isn’t that exactly what Raymond J. de Souza is doing in his column?” stated Alun Hughes. “He condemns Mr. Hitchens for his hatred, but displays palpable hatred toward him in the process. If the religious notion of sin means anything at all, then this hypocritical nastiness toward someone who has just died, prayers for ‘merciful...
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The Wheat Board Court Ruling: Let the Real... →
When producers market their products, customers vote with their monetary units as to whose efforts they choose to support. In a voluntary market system, the most productive of producers garner the majority of the votes in the form of monetary units they receive from customers.
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“I conclude that the moment of near despair is quite often the moment that...”
– Christopher Hitchens
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November 2011
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Loving the skinny peppermint mocha at Starbucks…
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Breaking children’s spirits in God’s name →
By “corporal punishment,” I do not mean occasional spanking but a systematic effort to break a child’s will by repeated imposition of increasingly severe physical discipline. The headline over a recent account of the dispute in The New York Times, “Preaching Virtue of Spanking, Even As Deaths Fuel Debate,” is misleading. Spanking is far too mild a term for what is at issue here.
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Atheists more familiar with Bible than Christians →
David Silverman contends these findings do make sense. He asserts that the more you know about a religion, the more likely you will reject it as mythology. The more you read your Bible, the more likely you are to encounter disturbing stories and absurdities that may cause you to doubt. Isaac Asimov put it this way, “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
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American Atheists Holiday 'Myth' Billboards To Go... →
American Atheists are planning to put up more holiday “Myth” billboards this year.
Last year, the atheist organization’s “Myth” campaign featured billboards with phrases such as: “You Know It’s A Myth. This Season, Celebrate Reason,” the Christian Post reports.
But this year, the group’s planning to erect signs featuring images of Santa,...
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New Research Says Anti-Atheist Prejudice Stems... →
In sum, participants frequently committed the conjunction fallacy when given a description of an untrustworthy person and a target who could be an atheist or a rapist but not for targets who could be a Christian or a Muslim……
… this implies that a description of an untrustworthy person is not viewed as representative of religious individuals, be they Christian or Muslim. On the other hand, this...
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Canada just released a brand new $100 bill, featuring a woman looking into a microscope, and a DNA double-helix. In science we trust, eh.
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Suicidal lesbian Marine Corps vet seeks help, gets... →
Esther Garatie is a hero to our nation, serving in the Marine Corps in war-time. She also happens to be a lesbian.
But that shouldn’t matter. Not when she checks into a Dallas-area VA hospital for treatment for severe depression – including suicidal thoughts. She wanted help, and was brave enough to actually ask for it.
She had been battling PTSD-like symptoms before she even received her...
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Today I went climbing with my gf for the first time. We had been talking about it for months…and we finally woke up super early, had breakfast, and went there.
It was amazing ! We both loved it and I believe it made us grow as a couple and I feel so much closer to her right now.
Can’t wait to go back :)
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October 2011
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“Telling us that we’re going to hell is like telling someone they’re...”
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Illiberal Belief : Corporations have too much... →
As the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement enters its fifth week and spreads to cities around the world this weekend, it is worth examining one of the central beliefs animating the disparate group of protestors, namely that corporations have too much power. While this belief is not exactly mistaken, it fails to get at the real root of the problem, which is that governments have too much power.
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The Science of Anarchism →
Gitlin describes contemporary anarchism accurately (if generally) as “a theory of self-organization,” one opposed to a plutocracy of elites who have “artfully arranged a mutual back-scratching society to enrich themselves.” For my life, I can’t think of a better way to describe the way that the state and capital work together against the common man and genuine free...
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“I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase.”
– Omar Little, The Wire
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How Meditation Changes Pain, Relieves Depression →
Interestingly, the more a meditator’s brain focuses on the pain experience, and the less activity in the evaluation system, the higher their pain tolerance. It’s what we hear all the time from our wisest meditation teachers: Focus on the sensations, drop the story. It’s the story that turns pain into suffering.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the best pet Halloween... →
For the record: 1. Yes, I am biased because I have (and adore) Italian Greyhounds 2. Yes, I am biased because I love Star Wars 3. Yes, I am biased because I appreciate my local “inspiration” for AT-ATs
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Happy Birthday baby :)
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Hate Crime: Christian Pastor Attacks Gay Couple To... →
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”
– Lao Tzu
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“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– G.K. Chesterton