That’s right, the leader of Australia’s’ Christian Democratic Party, Rev Hon (sic) Fred Niles computer log in was used to access pornographic websites, with over 200,000 hits recorded!
Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Casey Luskin, the Discovery Institute writer/lackey, thinks that a certain picture of Charles Darwin published in Nature last year reminds him of a certain special someone: … the back page of the packet shows a picture of a smiling young Darwin with animals flocking about him (lizards, birds, monkeys, flowers, sponges, turtles, etc.), much like the […]
Pseudo-cross posted from Homologous Legs Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a perfect, perfect example of non-terrible fanfiction (stories about and within the context of other authors’ fictional universes, written by fans of those universes). Set in an alternative universe to the books, it imagines the consequences of Harry Potter being raised to […]
Cross-posted from The Carapace In what insurance companies are calling an “act of God” a 62 foot tall 40 foot wide statue of Jesus in Ohio (pictured above) was struck by lighting the other week and burned to the ground. I can see why insurance companies are quick to pass the buck, after all who would want to pay […]
Cross-posted from Homologous Legs As every teacher and parent knows, children and young people will one day take over the world, including the scientific community. Get people while they’re young and ideologically-malleable and they’ll carry assumptions and falsehoods to the grave. It’s this idea of reaching out to the younger generation that no doubt initiated the […]
In case you’ve not seen around the internetz or on 774 radio, Josh Thomas, Tom Ballard and Jamie Kilstein are doing a fundraising event tonight to raise money for the Equal Love gay rights rally on May 15th. I’m going to be there — you should be too. Details are: What: Jamie Kilstein, Tom Ballard & Josh Thomas […]
Writing in the Herald Sun, former Geelong football star Gary Ablett Sr. — the guy who provided Heroin and other drugs to a 19-year old girl — is concerned about “a very serious decline in morals and values in our community.” Did I also mention the girl subsequently died in his hotel room of an overdose? I digress. So why […]
… no wait! That’s Richard Hughes and Jack Scanlan from The Pseudo Scientists podcast, and regular contributors to the Young Australian Skeptics blog. They attended the University of Melbourne Secular Society’s recent “Flying Spaghetti Monster Mixer” (come dressed as your favourite deity or religious figure).
