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