1. The Latest Wedge Document

Comment #201102 by Lycosid on June 29, 2008 at 3:13 am

This is disgusting.

2. Stephen Hawking: ministers' £80m error puts science at risk

Comment #193412 by Lycosid on June 15, 2008 at 2:27 pm

RightWingAtheist,
Hawking earned the title professor. I'd be willing to bet that if he clarified his statement, he meant it as a slam on titles that were dispensed at the whim of "royalty."

3. Report: Troubling texts at Va. Islamic school

Comment #192455 by Lycosid on June 13, 2008 at 5:09 am

Anyone attending this school should not be hired for a job or accepted to college. Economic reality would change these folks' outlook quite quickly. No need to burn the witch, just make sure those who graduate from the idiot academy can't afford ramen.

RAmen

4. Couple charged in Norway over genital mutilation of daughters

Comment #190314 by Lycosid on June 8, 2008 at 8:13 pm

someonefree,

Read about how Turkey handles their Islam infection. They're quite un-democratic about it, but their harsh treatment of Islamic anti-secularism is all that has kept their country from the abyss that most of the Islamic world rots in.

As for my two bits about immigration:

I feel for the people who want to escape sick societies, but I think they need to stop running. Pressure to change doesn't build if there is an escape valve. If people want to be free, they have to fight.

So cut off permanent immigration, but issue thousands and thousands of student visas. Bring in hordes of people to attend universities and experience a better life than they have at home. Send them back full of brilliant ideas and mouths that spit positive revolution in the faces of those who would hold them back.

When they achieve a liberal goverment that values progress, welcome their society back into the fold.

5. Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion

Comment #187697 by Lycosid on June 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm

This is more of an educated guess than anything, but it looks like the palladium/zirconium oxide was a catalyst, so the palladium supply question isn't really an issue.

6. Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings

Comment #186131 by Lycosid on May 29, 2008 at 4:38 pm

The funny thing about the internet is that the village idiot's voice is just as loud as the Nobel prizewinner's.

That being said, who wants to chase this guy with a router for kicks?

7. Trouble ahead for science

Comment #183926 by Lycosid on May 23, 2008 at 7:53 am

Comment #177048 by steveroot on May 8, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Excuse me, but I have a DDS and I can tell you that cavities are *not* caused by plaque per se, but rather by tooth demons that live in the plaque. They can be exorcised, but only with Holy Floss(R).

8. Turkish Islamic author given 3-year jail sentence

Comment #180756 by Lycosid on May 15, 2008 at 5:34 pm

This is exactly why Turkey shouldn't be held to the EU's current standards. You can't have religious freedom and democracy in a country where a majority of the population is afflicted with religion so badly that they aren't up to the task of self-governance.

9. Faith in Britain today

Comment #177067 by Lycosid on May 8, 2008 at 2:07 pm

I'm just glad he doesn't have children.

10. Trouble ahead for science

Comment #176962 by Lycosid on May 8, 2008 at 11:55 am

Cavities aren't caused by plaque, they happen when you displease the intelligent designer. The plaque is just there to shake your faith; it's a trick.

11. Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier

Comment #171678 by Lycosid on April 28, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Fuck these stone age people. Develop alternative energy and forget every country that is run by a theocracy, Iran, Iraq, Israel, etc..

Let the savages rot.

12. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166242 by Lycosid on April 23, 2008 at 3:24 am

Lord Winston, as a Jew you're an extremist if you hold others as inferior to yourself as a result of your misguided beliefs.

13. Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin Way Beyond

Comment #156111 by Lycosid on April 6, 2008 at 7:33 pm

Is there a better explanation of what Woese is trying to say anywhere? That article, while well intentioned, is incomprehensible.

14. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #154721 by Lycosid on April 3, 2008 at 3:45 pm

His followers should have been sealed in with him. Dumbasses.

15. Cutting Edge: Baby Bible Bashers

Comment #129376 by Lycosid on February 19, 2008 at 3:22 am

If Terry's mother doesn't die of heart disease it will be a miracle.

16. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Comment #118802 by Lycosid on January 31, 2008 at 2:09 am

Why not just drop leaflets with Mohammed's head photoshopped on some male-male porn in Karachi? Judging by the number of casualties a rather tame cartoon generated the mass murder would take care of itself.

17. Heath Ledger Death: Baptist Group To Protest At Memorial

Comment #115658 by Lycosid on January 24, 2008 at 1:53 pm

Goldy, what I believe you meant to say is "What Hitler was to fascism, and what Mao and Stalin were to communism." The Westboro folks are just doing what the good book tells them to do (considerably less actually).

18. Banned From Church

Comment #115117 by Lycosid on January 23, 2008 at 3:31 pm

It would appear that we reap what we sow.

19. We're All Going to Hell (Music Video)

Comment #113872 by Lycosid on January 20, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Yuengling Lager...HELL YES!

20. Stop revisionist Christian nation House Resolution 888

Comment #113869 by Lycosid on January 20, 2008 at 8:33 pm

Jayday, Jefferson and Co. didn't move to another country when they got fed up with British rule. We need patriots in America ready to do what it takes to safeguard our Republic. Stay and vote, please.

21. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111552 by Lycosid on January 15, 2008 at 2:01 am

If more people support reason there won't be any more wars...just barfights and rugby games. Thank you for everything you've done and continue to do from Gettysburg, PA, USA

22. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108850 by Lycosid on January 7, 2008 at 6:16 pm

What do you all think of using the word "Accept" instead of "Believe" when we're talking about people's views of evolution?

23. Moderates Storm The Religious Battlefield

Comment #106304 by Lycosid on January 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Ms. Miller used the word "hyperrational," when she described Sam Harris. People who rail against reason like her have no business voting.

24. I didn't know the FLEA CIRCUS was back in town!

Comment #85112 by Lycosid on November 5, 2007 at 2:42 am

To ricey: There is merit in allowing criticism, but these books are the intellectual equivalent of a filibuster for Jesus. There is no shame in dousing these fleas in soap suds.