What could we do with $10 trillion?

Opportunity Cost of George W. Bush and 10 Trillion Dollars

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Obama interviewed by O'Reilly, the transcripts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

An interesting read. I thought it went pretty well on both sides.

Wow. Am I surprised? Not really.

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller

Belief-O-Matic Quiz

I just took the Belief-O-Matic Quiz and here are my results on how well I identify with the beliefs of each group:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
3. Liberal Quakers (77%)
4. Nontheist (71%)
5. Neo-Pagan (69%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (69%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (63%)
8. New Age (52%)
9. Reform Judaism (49%)
10. Taoism (49%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (42%)
12. Mahayana Buddhism (41%)
13. Sikhism (34%)
14. Scientology (33%)
15. Bah�'� Faith (32%)
16. New Thought (31%)
17. Jainism (27%)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (27%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (23%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (22%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (20%)
22. Hinduism (19%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (19%)
24. Islam (19%)
25. Orthodox Judaism (19%)
26. Roman Catholic (19%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (12%)

I guess thats about what I would expect. What results do you get and would you agree with them?

Scotty B

"A non-believer cannot commit blasphemy. To blaspheme, one must be within the set of belief and ritual contrasts of the faith community." -John S. Wilkins

...but not to me!

You won't see Jenny McCarthy touting this study:

Mental Disorders In Parents Linked To Autism In Children, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (2008-05-05) -- Parents of children with autism were roughly twice as likely to have been hospitalized for a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, than parents of other children, according to a new analysis. The association was present regardless of the timing of the parent's diagnosis relative to the child's diagnosis.

And here's a cool video on eye evolution (thanks PZ):

Hilarious (and mildly NSFW):

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LSD Inventor Dead

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who created the hallucinogen LSD, died the age of 102. What do you think?

More vids...

Richard Dawkins discusses The God Delusion on Real Time with Bill Maher:


Cool:


And this (click to embiggen):


And a link:
Stein is right: Darwinism causes antisemitism

One more vid...

SEXPELLED (Expelled parody)



Okay another...

Lewis Black on Evolution



Oh, and the Bad Astronomer on Hulu.com

Some Vids:

Susan Jacoby on Colbert Report



Comedian John Oliver on Politics and Creationism



New Skeptologists Trailer

Neat.

glumbert - Gay scientists isolate Christian gene

Phenomenal.

Take a good long look folks, this will be one of the last things you see before it hunts you down and kills you.



Seriously though, how cool is this thing? A great example of, if you want to do something well, just copy nature.

Speaking of nature though, lets see robotics compete with this:

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. -Frank Lloyd Wright

Burglary.



Via Tiny Frog.

Skeptic Pitied

FAYETTEVILLE, AR-Craig Schaffner, 46, a Fayetteville-area computer consultant, has earned the pity of friends and acquaintances for his tragic reluctance to embrace the unverifiable, sources reported Monday.

Ralph Nader on the Daily Show.

Part I:


Part II:


Part III:


If you haven't seen it yet, go rent An Unreasonable Man.

To the youth of America, I say, beware of being trivialized by the commercial culture that tempts you daily. I hear you saying often that you're not turned on to politics. The lessons of history are clear and portentous. If you do not turn on to politics, politics will turn on you. -Ralph Nader

A couple of good posts on Homeopathy:

The Homeopathy-Allergy Shot Analogy over at Neurologica

and

Homeopathic Drugs found in US Drinking Water over at Skeptico

"So far as a man thinks, he is free" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blowing up the Spy Satellite:

NASCAR Coach Reveals Winning Strategy: 'Drive Fast'

NASCAR Coach Reveals Winning Strategy: 'Drive Fast'

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

And this one too: http://wondermark.blogspot.com/2008/02/378-in-which-children-suffer.html

Here's something for my fellow Pastafarians:

Spoof of Tom Cruise video:


Spoof of Anonymous video:

More vids...

Religious billboards via Pharyngula:
Dueling Billboards

Add to My Profile | More Videos

The Godless Girl via Skepchick:


Bill Maher via Friendly Atheist:


and Henry freakin' Rollins (!) on Evolution via Pharyngula:


Thats all for now, be back in a few minutes.

I laughed. I cried. I laughed so hard I cried. (ILSHIC?):

Hahaha! Can we say straw man?

Scientology, redefining crazy:



Another one on the dangers of Scientology (not for the weak of stomach):



Thankfully, we've got these guys:

Science v. Creationism:



And for something really cool... excavating an ant colony after filling it with 10 tons of cement: