Friday Fundamentalist Farce File #2
What the FFFF? Here are the week’s highlights from the OneNewsNow newsletter. 2/21/2009 – Proposal would lift Arkansas restrictions on atheists How about them apples? This short news clip is pretty accurate and fair. There’s nothing to debunk about it. I never thought I’d be grateful to the Becket Fund’s support (still not sure that [...]
MMMMmmm…. Smells like BS! I mean… CLEAN COAL! :-)
Well, unsurprisingly, some sustainability issues are popping up here on ZFB, so I thought I should just go with it. Enjoy this new Clean Coal PSA:
Atheism at the Oscars
Bill Maher presented the award for Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars. He spoke very briefly about his own documentary, Religulous, which was not nominated. Watch the short piece about documentaries and then see what Maher had to say around the 2:51 mark:
This is for you, Harvey!
At Sunday night’s Oscars, Dustin Lance Black (Best Original Screenplay) and Sean Penn (Best Actor in a Leading Role) won for their work with the film Milk. I found their speeches particularly moving and thought it right to archive them here. Below them is an interview with Cleve Jones from last night’s Rachel Maddow show. [...]
U-Michigan working towards a post-gender society
There was a great article in last week’s Michigan Daily about gender and the way it plays out on the college campus: Seeking a post-gender society (The Michigan Daily) The article focuses on two trans students, and discusses their experiences quite well. I was slightly dismayed by the implication that all trans people must or [...]
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