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By Dave Hitt on Jan 17, 2010 in Personal Adventures | 42 Comments
Jehovah’s Witnesses are actively discouraged (virtually forbidden) from contributing to relief organizations in response to disasters. On Friday afternoon someone on the Jehovah’s Witnesses Recovery Forum suggested setting up a site to encourage ex-JWs to donate to Haitian relief funds. Friday night several of us had a conference call to plan out the details. Now, […]
By Dave Hitt on Jan 12, 2010 in Junk Science | 29 Comments
Few things can make life as miserable as idiot neighbors. Imagine someone next door demanding you give up your cell phone and wi-fi because he’s allergic to electromagnetic radiation. If you life in Santa Fe, you don’t have to imagine it. Arthur Firstenberg is demanding his neighbors turn off everything to cater to his imaginary […]
By Dave Hitt on Jan 3, 2010 in Religion, Things Atheists Didn't Do | 27 Comments
I’ve got a lot of 2009 links left over for the ever-popular Things Atheists Didn’t Do series. Here’s the first half of the list.   (You can find other TADD here.) This one is actually from 2008. (I have so many of these things saved sometimes they get lost.) Three Christian parents murdered their children by […]
By Dave Hitt on Dec 28, 2009 in Politics, Yeah - That'll Work | 5 Comments
The latest terrorist attempt to bring down a plane proves, beyond any doubt, that the TSA’s security theater is useless. This guy was already on their watch list but that didn’t even slow him down. (The watch list has, however, caused a lot of perfectly innocent people, including infants, from getting on a plane, because […]
By Dave Hitt on Dec 18, 2009 in Nanny Nation, Political Correctness | 1 Comment
Just in time for Christmas, the British Medical Journal is featuring an article blaming Santa for obesity, speeding, drunk driving, extreme sports, smoking and reckless behavior. Dr Nathan “Grinch” Grills wants to rework Santa into a politically correct image, right down to wearing a helmet and seat belt. Using a variation of the nannies second […]
By Dave Hitt on Dec 9, 2009 in Yeah - That'll Work | 2 Comments
The Copenhagen summit on global cooling global warming climate change is barely started, and already impoverished nations are demanding handouts. Environment Minister Hasan Mahmud of Bangladesh says his country is entitled to a cubic buttload of money from the big nasty countries who arrogantly built successful societies while his government kept their citizens living in […]
By Dave Hitt on Dec 7, 2009 in Amusing | 2 Comments
Bobby McFarrin demonstrates that the pentatonic scale is a universal constant.