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    Year 2010

     

    Interview: Richard Carrier: Is Christianity Responsible for Science? [audio, 1 hr. 4 min.]
    "Tolerance" and the "Ground Zero Mosque" [video, 3:43 min.]
    A Weird Way of Thinking Has Prevailed Worldwide by Anand Giridharadas
    What is the US Legacy in Iraq? by Patrick Cockburn
    The Atom so far (Sean Carroll, Ph.D.) [video, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6]

    Beck -- MLK Flowchart

    Serving in Iraq killed my faith in God by Adnan Sarwar
    Oath is to Constitution, not to religion by Billy Spaulding
    Richard Dawkins: The Arrogance of Immorality [video, 1:39 min.]
    Does Your Language Shape How You Think? by Guy Deutscher
    Iraq a Complete Failure for the United States by Amitabh Pal
    Hawks Box in Obama on Afghan War by Ray McGovern
    The "CO2 is Plant Food" Crock of the Week [video, 10 min.]
    Religion as a sexually transmitted disease [video, 5:31 min.]
    Martin Luther King Had a Dream and Glenn Beck Was Not in It from BuzzFlash
    Our Weird and Wanton Wars by Jim McCluskey
    Why Christianity Fails - Christopher Hitchens Illustrated [video, Part 1, Part 2]

    For Christopher Hitchens [video, 4:44 min.]

    U.S. Climate Bill Is Dead While So Much Life On Our Earth Continues To Perish by Subhankar Banerjee
    Inching Away From Bullfighting and Its Macho B.S. by T.L. Caswell
    Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals [video, 59 min.]
    Altruism can be explained by natural selection
    The Billionaire Right-Winger by Joe Conason
    The Primary Differences by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
    Abolish Primary Elections [video 6:22 min.]
    Neighborhood Confronts Anti-Gay Religious Protestors [video, 1:30 min.]
    Tax Jujitsu: Why Democrats Should Propose a "People's Tax Cut" by Robeert Reich
    Multiculturalism and Its Discontents by Susan Jacoby
    Westborough Baptist Church vs Brick Stone [video, 4 min.]

    Free Sticker: Turn Off Fox - Bad News For America

    That's not a heart! It's a flailing Engine of Destruction! by PZ Meyers
    Now U.S. should get out of Iraq's politics by Juan Cole
    The First Amendment in Five Minutes [video, 5:50 min.]
    Phil Plait: Don't Be a Dick [video, 31 min.]
    That's not a heart! It's a flailing Engine of Destruction! by PZ Meyers
    Now U.S. should get out of Iraq's politics by Juan Cole
    Things Americans Believe in
    David Cross on Conservatives [video, 2:44 min.]
    Bishops 'should do time' for sex abuse cover-ups by Marese McDonagh
    A Test of Tolerance by Christopher Hitchens
    Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse [video, 1 hr. 3 min.]

    Sean Carroll: Dark Energy, or Worse: Was Einstein Wrong? [video, 58 min.]

    At the Far Edge NY Times Editorial
    Rape Accusation Against Wikileaks Founder Dropped The accusation reeks of a smear campaign.
    John Shelby Spong: The Bible, It Ain't Necessarily So! [video, 1 hr., 17 min.] Here's a sermon Christians should hear.
    Blue Energy (reverse electrodialysis) [video, 3 min.]
    Was Jesus a Conservative or a Liberal? by Michael Shermer
    History Does Not Lie - Unless It Is Being Invented by Republicans by Paul Krugman
    Rapid Fossilization of Hats [video, 10 min.]
    Target Ain't People [video, 4:42 min.]
    Mosques, Muslims and America in Darkness by William Rivers Pitt
    Outrage Over Plans to Build Library Next to Sarah Palin from the DailyMash (satire)

    Dan Piraro: What If Jesus Had Died In the Electric  Chair [video, 3 min.]

    I'm Voting Tea Party!
    Civilian Control? Surely, You Jest by Andrew J. Bacevich
    Shorting Economists: The ‘Experts’ Keep Getting it Wrong by Stephen Hill
    TED: Sheryl WuDunn -- Our century's greatest injustice [video, 18 min.]
    The Climate Change Gamble: An Unacceptable Risk? [video, 4:31 min.]
    The Tillman Story: Just Gimme Some Truth! by Rory O'Connor
    The Atheism factor by Bella Counihan
    Yahweh's Amazing Miracle [video, 11 min.]
    Dogma or Science, a few words by Jacob Bronowski [video, 5 min.]
    The void within: the fate of Catholic Europe by The Economist
    Whaddya got? by Jerry Coyne

    To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic Mathematical rules cannot be assumed to represent the pure and perfect truth.
    Rep. Louie Gohmert Goes Berserk [video, 10 min.]
    Dismembering Afghanistan by Conn Hallinan
    Clerical sexual abuse is centuries old by Frank Abbott
    Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose [video, 53 min.]
    The Bush Tax Plan vs. the Obama Tax Plan
    Ewwwwwwwww! The surprising moral force of disgust by Drake Bennett
    America's Biggest Jobs Program -- the U.S. Military by Robert Reich
    Big Thinkers - Daniel Dennett [video, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3]
    Lionel Tiger: The Brain Creates Religion [video, 5 min.]
    The Coming Tax War: How Letting the Bush Tax Cuts Expire Could End the Economic Crisis by Anthony DiMaggio
    You Can’t Make Up Republican Candidates Like These by Eugene Robinson

    Robert Price on Apologists, Creationists, Religious leaders, etc. [video, 10 min.]

    Stephen Hawking on Religion: Science Will Win [video, 4 min.]
    The truth is not out there by Evan Davis
    Christopher Hitchens has cancer, the faithful begin to respond - "gotcha" by Jeff Musall
    What Faith and Science Share [video, 6:24 min.]
    Staff Tackles and Chokes Deaf Shopper suspected of Shoplifting [video, 8 min.]
    Democratic Values, Islam and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Fallacy by Stuart Whatley
    How the Military Destroys the Lives of Soldiers Who Try to Tell the Truth by Justine Sharrock
    The War on Brains [video, 5:29 min.]
    Conservative Losers' Lament [video, 2 min.]
    The slow, whiny death of British Christianity by Johann Hari
    The coming evangelical collapse by Michael Spencer
    Richard Carrier: Jesus Has Left the Building [video, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5]

    Lawrence Krauss Interview [video, 5 min.]

    The Anne Rice defection: It's the tip of the religious iceberg by William Lobdell
    Pat Tillman's mother on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: I told you so by Mary Tillman
    Hitchens Talks to Goldblog About Cancer and God [video, 8:34 min.]
    Jimmy Kimmel: This Week in Unnecessary Censorship [video, 1:23 min.]
    Transubstantiation by ex-catholilc girl
    The Ministry of Oil Defense by Peter Maass
    Penn & Teller Bullshit!: Self Esteem [video, 28 min.]

    Dan Ariely: Coffee or Health Insurance? [video, 5 min.]

    How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" From Life on Earth? by Robert Naiman
    The problem of evil, disembodied minds, and other ponderings by Luis Cayetano
    Kurt Vonnegut's advice to young writers [video, 11 min.]
    The Onion: New Law Bans Marriages Between People Who Don't Love Each Other [video, 2:33 min.]
    A scientific approach to happiness by Randy Shore
    Climate change: It's time to talk, and act, tough by Bill McKibben
    Hitchens on cancer and prayer [video, 8 min.]
    Stephen Hawking's Warning: Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction
    Republican Reality by Michael Hittleman
    Mormons lose on Proposition 8 by Staks Rosch

    Darwin's Stance on Christianity? A Damnable Doctrine [video, 4 min.]

    Pastor Panty [video, 3 min.]
    Topic of Cancer by Christopher Htichens
    ‘Dropping Babies,’ Abandoning Principles by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
    Lost in Translation by Lera Boroditsky
    George Carlin - The American Dream [video, 3 min.]
    Philosophy and Faith by Gary Gutting
    Ragbir Bhathal: Aussie Alien Hunter by Royce Akers & Alex Dunbar
    Pat Condell: Freedom is my religion [video 6 min.]
    Old People Rule [video, 38 sec.]
    Faith and Foolishness: When Religious Beliefs Become Dangerous by Lawrence M. Krauss
    The Trouble With Unconstitutional Wars by Ron Paul

    Debunking "Beck U" -- Faith 102 with "Professor" David Barton by Chris Rodda [videos included]

    QI: The Great Disppointment [video, 5 min.] The Rapture
    How the US learned to love healthcare reform by Sahil Kapur
    Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn by Chris Hedges
    Florida Church Plans 'Burn a Quran' Day [video, 4 min.] . . . and why not the Bible too?
    My Recent Conversion to Atheism [video, 3 min.] It's a-theism, not athe-ism.
    An Agnostic Manifesto by Ron Rosenbaum
    Immigration as Partisanship by Eugene Robinson
    The Miracle of the Herrings [video, 3 min.]
    Model describes universe with no big bang, no beginning, and no end by Lisa Zyga
    Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species by Christopher Ryan
    Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest by Micah Uetricht
    Julia Whitty Says BP Using Oil Dispersant to Cover Tracks [video, 1:32 min.]

    Just for fun: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Steve Carell [video, 3:36 min.]

    Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System by Bill Quigley
    The Republicans Approach To Jobless Benefits by Political Ironing
    Don't Shit in Your Spacesuit [video, 3 min.]
    Immigration Myths and Cable News
    The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs by Robert Reich
    Ten Things WikiLeaks Documents Reveal: We're Playing the Fool in Afghanistan by William J. Astore
    Sen. Franken: Stop the Corporate Takeover of the Media [video, 2:50 min.]

    New Looks at NASA Atlantis Launch [video, 10:34 min.]

    Where is the Vatican's Outrage about Child Molestation? by Carla Seaquist
    Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the US Criminal Justice System by Bill Quigley
    Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks [video, 1