I’ve just discovered that conservative wingnut gobshite Dinesh D’Souza, who has been berating atheists lately for not being “compassionate” in the aftermath of the VT killings (1, 2, 3), is an ex-beau of another conservative wingnut gobshite, Ann Coulter. Should we presume that they had sex outside marriage? I’m shocked!
It does, I’m sure, [...]

For those of you in the USA with high school kids with biology teachers called Melody, you might want to see if this is the same “Melody” that opined on the Discovery Institute’s recent Darwin vs Design conference-like thing in Knoxville and Dallas:
Thanks – awesome info. That will really help me as I teach both [...]

The text of Lord Harrison’s speech to, and the following debate in, the House of Lords that I mentioned the other day is now available on the Parliament’s publication web site (direct link).
The televised video of Lord Harrison’s speech, and the debate, is also available online (direct link).
I read a part of the debate, from [...]

In an amazing turn around, the BBC’s Thought for the Day programme may, in future, include humanist and other non-religious viewpoints! I’ve just received this email from the British Humanist Association (via the Humanist Society of Scotland):
From: Andrew Copson
Sent: 20 April 2007 16:34
Subject: Thought for the Day
We seem to be getting somewhere with our [...]

I saw a comment on TW’s Why Don’t You Blog? blog, and the commenter has his/her own Wordpress.com site called “Atheist Stooges” (I won’t link directly, a trackback is more than I’m willing to pay this moron) but I dare you to read it and not have your jaw drop to the floor with it’s [...]

At approximately 11.30am BST (10.30am GMT/UTC) tomorrow (Thursday 19 April) Lord Harrison will “call attention to the position in British society of those who profess no religion; and to move for papers”.
More information and the live feed can be seen on the ParliamentLive web site.
This post will be updated with a direct link to the [...]

I’m signed up to Amazon’s book recommendations by email, which are apparently based on things that I’ve bought in the past. Very occasionally, the (I presume automatic) choice of leader book which is put in the email’s sublect header is sometimes quite amusing or insulting.
Witness today’s email subject:
Amazon.co.uk recommends Teach Yourself Ethics and more
Charmed, [...]

Right-wingnut Debbie Schlussel pulls on her stompy boots and jumps up and down on this shocking series of events on her blog (or, as I prefer to call it, unfiltered media-whore retardograph). Yeah, go on, feel free to gooblebomb this cretin.
“Argh! It’s an Asian, muslim terrorist!”
Later…
“Argh! It’s a Chinese, godless atheist terrorist!”
Later still…
“Argh! It’s [...]

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Every Little Helps”, url: “http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/04/17/every-little-helps/” });

This is another one of those ideas that’s been rolling, tumbleweed-like, in my mind for a while — the myth (i.e. made up bullshit) about atheism as a religion.
However, I’m not going to talk about why atheism seems like a religion to those that just don’t understand it, and I’m not going to talk about [...]

Note: While this review was solicited by the publisher, the views expressed here are entirely my own without inducement, incentive or reward in accordance with my book review policy.
Short review
In The “God” Part of the Brain, Matthew Alper argues boldly and persuasively for a naturalistic explanation of religious behaviour and spirituality, based on a fear [...]

In today’s The Guardian, Nicholas Buxton, a priest in training, has tried to turn the coin of secularism and religion upside-down and puts forward the tired old story that being secular is dogmatic.
*sigh*
Instead of deconstructing his opinion piece, I’ll simply post the comment I submitted to The Guardian’s web site.
Buxton wrote: I am puzzled when [...]

There’s been much talk in the blogosphere and the press recently about “new atheism”, probably prompted by Gary Wolf’s Wired article, The Church of the Non-Believers in late 2006.
In the article, Wolf paints a picture of what he calls “new atheism” — a vocal, insistent form of atheism that seeks to get those who do [...]

I wrote recently about the pledge I signed up to to send a copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion to my MP.
Today James Randerson over at The Guardian’s news blog is running coverage of the pledge.
I’ll add other media coverage here if/when it becomes available.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Show your MP the delusion - media coverage”, [...]

After a bit of CSS wrangling, PHP hacking and DNS torture, I’ve finally managed to get the nullifidian sites — now, in the manner of metal coathangers, three in number — just about sorted out.
While people might already be aware of the main blog site, there’s also the new blogroll and tumblelog sites.
The blogroll contains [...]