“ We are here and you know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the lord
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’
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“ …by the very fact of being human, we have much more in common than we have differences. We share the same spectrum of potential for care, for compassion, for fear, for joy, for love
Atheist State Lawmaker Quotes Carl Sagan Instead of Doing Prayer Before House Session
“ Republicans have been criticized for their anti-science stance on evolution, global warming, and stem cell research. There is an equally disturbing tendency for activists on the other side of the aisle to cherry pick, misinterpret, misrepresent, and abuse science to advance their ideological and political agendas. They have misused science to attack vaccines and genetically modified foods, to promote organic food, and to propose poorly thought out environmental protection legislation. When science is co-opted to serve ideology, science is degraded and the resulting public policies do more harm than good.
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“ Of course, we don’t necessarily want you to be unhealthy. It’s just that it’s so much more profitable to provide foods that happen to be unhealthy. We’ve been able to industrialize the food system so that we can produce massive amounts of the cheapest ingredients available, in the cheapest, most efficient way possible.
Dear American Consumers: Please Don’t Start Eating Healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry
“ When the f— did Rush get so cool?” Dave Grohl gasped, after reading off their album titles with all the vein-bulging enthusiasm of a WWF announcer. But by the end, he’d already given his own answer: They’ve always been and always will be cool. Mystery solved.
Rock And Roll Hall of Fame answers one great mystery of rock music: When did Rush get so cool? | PopWatch | EW.com
“ It is the norm for adjuncts to be excluded from faculty meetings and to be deprived of any say in the management of departments. Instead of resisting the “adjunctification” of the professoriat by incorporating these colleagues—because they are colleagues—into the university and our respective departments, we tolerate them as useful proof of our Brahmin status. They are our untouchables. And we treat them accordingly.
When Adjunct Faculty are the Tenure-Track’s Untouchables ~ Remaking the University
