From the daily archives:

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Something to make you throw up a little …

October 7, 2009

… is this truly appalling picture of Christ handing down the US constitution. You need to hover your mouse over each of the figures to appreciate the full awfulness. (The bad guys are in the bottom right.)
(HT Andrew Brown)

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A few more appreciative words for atheism

October 7, 2009

I start by putting several different things together. First from two comments on this post yesterday:

(David Keen) There’s also room for “Yes, but what I mean by ‘God’ isn’t what you mean by ‘God’ ” The Theos research on Darwin earlier in the year indicated that about 1/3 of theists believe that God is the [...]

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Who is retirement for?

October 7, 2009

It seems to be headline news in the UK that the Conservatives are talking about increasing the retirement age by a whole year, but only in seven year’s time. This is being presented and perceived as a slightly risky cost-cutting measure.
I’m not entirely convinced. Firstly, there seem to be as many retirees who would want [...]

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New Prisoner trailer

October 7, 2009

A short clip.
I hope we don’t have to wait too long for this in the UK.

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Vandalising ads for the Alpha course

October 7, 2009
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An ad for the Alpha course on a billboard I see on one of my main journey routes has been vandalised.

I must confess that my initial reaction was that this atheist had been either a) athletic or b) drunk to have risked filling in this particular billboard. I’m intrigued to note that something similar has [...]

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