1. Christopher Hitchens Explains It All for You: Move over, Sam Harris; another atheist wants the pulpit

Comment #40967 by Kleis on May 15, 2007 at 9:07 am

Well, I will take Hitchens' intellect over flinging maidens into volcanoes, which we still continue to do in one form or another. I thought it was nice of Hitchens not to call his book "People are Stupid" because I would have done.

2. NEXT MONDAY: Bill O'Reilly interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #34058 by Kleis on April 23, 2007 at 5:54 am

I'm betting that O'Reilly is savvy enough to know that Dawkins can make bully jelly of him and that he's much better off being polite and respectful. However, when O'Reilly feels the audience growing sympathetic toward Dawkins, he'll get ugly and throw some stupid scenario at him, as he did with Harris.
Dawkins, IMO, will handle it beautifully.

3. The Coulter Hoax: How Ann Coulter Exposed the Intelligent Design Movement

Comment #32021 by Kleis on April 15, 2007 at 9:04 am

Coulter is too blunt an instrument of the fundie right to be capable of this kind of subtle instruction.

However, brilliant parody of her stuff.

4. Fossils: The Devil's Handiwork

Comment #22918 by Kleis on February 24, 2007 at 11:47 am

This clip made me buy the entire video, which is absolutely stunning, a very good laugh, especially the bit where Black suggests that the old testament god took an anger management class before the new testament.

5. Native American populations share gene signature

Comment #22910 by Kleis on February 24, 2007 at 8:37 am

I saw a special on television wherein they found artifacts, on the west coast of South America, made of the same rare jade used in Chinese antiquity.

6. Richard Dawkins interview with Paula Zahn

Comment #22908 by Kleis on February 24, 2007 at 8:19 am

Excellent point, Jamesstephenbrown, about Jesse Lee so sadly re-affirming the bigotry and intolerance that made slavery and segregation a "god-driven" imperative for his.

7. Richard Dawkins interview with Paula Zahn

Comment #22907 by Kleis on February 24, 2007 at 8:12 am

This discussion group, such as it was, was so illustrative of what RD and other atheists have been up against in any public debate of the matter - hysteria and self-righteous posturing. Johnson was too polite and should have taken the opportunity to point this out, because the rev shouted stock commentary until time ran out. So typical.

8. Atheists come in last

Comment #22874 by Kleis on February 23, 2007 at 6:14 pm

Agree with JDAM - how refreshingly wonderful it would be in America if we allowed politicians to withhold any mention of their religious beliefs and permitted them to make logical and practical decisions. This will happen, alas, when lower primates fly out of my underpants but I can dream, can't I?