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It should be said that the Salem Witch Museum , which I visited last Sunday, isn’t really a museum, and doesn’t contain any artifacts relate...

I saw much of “The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” this afternoon, and later read my feeds. One in particular seemed apt. The AK Press ...

Larry Coyne has been doing a series of posts on Lower East Side Jewish food, which reminded me of one I started months ago. I’m damned we...

The Honduran Resistance Movement has been awarded another human rights award: the Herbert Anaya Human Rights Prize , presented at the VII I...

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I spent an afternoon last week in the Cape Ann Museum . To some extent, I had to seek it out – there isn’t much talk of it, and while it’s l...

Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond of the Center for Constitutional Rights have a Counterpunch piece , ostensibly on “artist resistance in Hond...

Last week I posted on a gnus-vs.-accomodationists thread at Pharyngula. PZ, building on the “it’s about truth” theme of his conference talk,...

I wish I could laugh. It would be one thing if this just involved some lone, nutty public official with silly ideas about holidays, but in c...

Back in September I entered Dr. Charles’ poetry contest . The winning poems were beautiful, and I enjoyed reading the entries he posted ear...

I watched the livestream of the Free Inquiry conference in LA this afternoon. I thought PZ’s (theme: "But is it true?") talk was g...

My last update on Honduras mentioned this analysis comparing US media coverage of Honduras to coverage of Iran over the past year. One acc...

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Another from Galeano : *** THE NOBODIES Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day...

The news from Honduras, difficult to come by, has not been good. There continues to be pressure, led by the US administration, for the OAS t...