It looks like some of the first acts of a Barack Obama presidency will include reversing the Bush-era stem cell research ban. Welcome to 21st century United States, I’m sure you’ll like it here.

Barack Obama is…

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Here’s an interesting bit from a recent interview with president-elect Barack Obama:

JIM ANGLE: He was asked what he’s been doing to get ready for office and whether he talked to any previous Presidents.

PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA:…

There’s a lot of hope and excitement in the (more progressive) USA right now. Except of course at Pharyngula.

Bitter ol’ PZ Myers (I know the man’s not truly bitter) wrote a couple of posts since the…

Christopher Hitchens, bestselling author of God Is Not Great and an advocate of Atheism ranked with the likes of Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) appeared on the O’Reily Factor yesterday night. Laura Ingraham interviewed him on…

We all know that you can search for about anything left of the centre or non-religious on Conservapedia and come up with gut-wrenchingly hilarious results.  But with that laughter comes a loss of faith in humanity’s…

I have to appreciate Christianity Today’s post on religion in political cartoons. Here’s a sample (click through for a few more).

James Dobson, the fundamentalist who heads up the dominionist movement known as the Family Research Council is pissing me off. Even after I blocked them they still keep on sending me e-mails; apparently Lagos, Nigeria is…

Inspired by this delicious list of lies about Obama, and what (some Republicans) to fear in his presidency, I present a revised list of potentially real things to fear from an Obama presidency.

(Note: I am merely…

Obama = General Adama

McCain = Colonel Tigh

Palin = President Roslin

Who’s Biden?

Last month, I wrote about how tired I was that so much of this year’s election coverage has been about which of our two leading American presidential candidates loves Jesus more. This remains the case-I still…