The Orca’s Thumb

Webster Cook, the guy who started Cracker-Gate by simply walking back to his seat with a cracker, now faces censure and possible expulsion from his university.
It’s a cracker. A silly symbol of superstition. Nothing more.
Then again, one shouldn’t be surprised. The Catholics used crackers before for providing a pretext to encourage massacres…

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John McCain is stopping in Louisiana in an unexpected move, and rumor has it he’ll be chatting with the antiscience ID-supporting creationist exorcist Governor of that state, Bobby Jindal, who is considered to be on McCain’s shortlist of vice-presidential candidates…

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Let’s try a mind experiment:
Jesus has said that many, even a majority of people, won’t make it to Heaven - not because they are necessarily BAD people - but just because they are not saved. This is doctrine.
So, there is an excellent chance that someone you know will be going to Hell. In fact, there [...]

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Seed has compiled an appealing list of scientific applications for the iPhone.

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There’s been a row over a friggin’ cracker lately, ultimately resulting in actual death threads.
Where’s the connection to the title, you ask? Well…
Everyone who’s ever eaten beef has done something sacrilegious to Hindus, for whom cows are sacred animals not to be killed or eaten.
Alas, I guess this doesn’t count, since Hindus do not believe [...]

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Remember Chris Comer, the Texas director of science curriculum, who was pressured into resigning because she forwarded an e-mail announcing a talk by Barbara Forrest?
She sued the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Robert Scott, alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding said e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to promote intelligent design [...]

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Americans United, however, has put out a call for Obama to shut down the government’s pandering to religion with these faith-based charities.
Doesn’t funneling government funds through organizations, that already have “faith-based” mechanisms for raising money, seem superfluous?

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