If you like Apes (not monkeys), then you might enjoy Escape to Chimp Eden.
I find this show fascinating.
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I watched the Daily Show and was looking forward to their guest: “<Somebody-Something> discusses faith in Science”.
“Oooo,” I thought.
Happy Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!
Draw Muhammad Day: Summer Picnic with Jesus, Christopher Hitchens and the Prophet Muhammad
Don’t be fooled.
As posted on Pharyngula, Swedish Cartoonist Lars Vilks was attacked during a University lecture. After this event, his website was hacked and firebombs were planted in his house.
David Frum points out that the crowd of spectators who outnumbered the protesters 10 to 1 remained passive during the protest, while the police were slow to respond to protect the speaker. This silence and lack of enforment from authorities is despressing.
Daily life in Sweden and other European countries is increasingly governed by an unwritten set of rules very different from the country’s formal law.
The formal law forbids assault and upholds free speech rights. The actual rules of the game, however, concede that certain assaults and certain violations of free speech rights may proceed with impunity. Police arrested two men for disrupting the Vilks event; both were released without charge.
I do think silence is what allows these kind of pre-enlightenment mentality to continue.
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Tanya over at Webcomic Beacon was kind enough to invite me on a podcast with Steve from Tree Lobsters to discuss skeptic comics.
I can only hope I didn
Take the example of cartoonists Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who had death threats leveled against them for depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed in South Park (in a bear suit no less).
The Prophet Mohammed
When asked to comment, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Well, except for this.
But the first 2 minutes of Jame Randi’s recently posted TED Talk is a brilliant bit on how easily we can be fooled and how this short coming of ours is exploited every day.
