The Morning Heresy
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
The Morning Heresy 4/4/12: It Burns!
April 4, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
Michael De Dora blogs: Vast majority of voters, including Republicans, want a science-focused presidential debate
Greta Christina really, really wants you to go to the “barn-burner” that will be Women in Secularism Conference — and so do we!
Trump is now anti-vax (is that bad or good?)
The Morning Heresy 4/3/12: Bigfoot for Governor
April 3, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
Happy birthday to SSA’s Jesse Galef, who also served as official press wrangler for the Reason Rally! Well done, my friend. Jesse turns, I think, 12 today.
NCSE: Oklahoma anti-science education bill dead (for now)
Not even the widow of Ted Kennedy is safe from the institutional tut-tutting of Catholic bishops
The Morning Heresy 4/2/12: Pill-Popping Mouth Breathers
April 2, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
CFI’s “Living without Religion” campaign wins Favorite Atheist/Agnostic Ad of 2011 at About.com! High fives all around.
Ron Lindsay on the long road for atheists in America
Bill O’Reily’s traveling sidekick Jesse Watters tries to make fun of the Reason Rally, does a poor job, and tells his boss that the atheists were mean to him.
Homeopathic Job Search
March 29, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
20-year-old Iraqi Faisal Saeed Al Mutar in Big Think: “I didn’t become a Secular Humanist because of my hatred for organized religion but because I understand them. Secular humanism is not a way of revenge but a way of life that all humanity needs.”
What’s In *Your* Wallet?
March 28, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
CFI’s Michael De Dora cautiously applauds the lack of anti-blasphemy language in UN Human Rights Council declaration
Speaking of which: Reuters – Kuwaiti government arrests Twitter user for “the abusing of social networks . . . to offend basic Islamic and spiritual values”
The Consumerist: Capital One rejects atheist symbol on customized credit cards, has no problem with Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
I am newly honored with my first dissing from right-wing faux-media watchdog outlet Newbusters
Get Off My Lawn
March 27, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
More Reason Rally coverage, reaction, and aftermath
Fox-DC TV package is fair and positive, does give unnecessary attention to Cthulu protester guy (oh, look what I did there.)
Sarah Posner in the Guardian: Rally is first show of potential “political muscle” for seculars (This article also features my favorite picture so far from the rally)
Post-Rally Stupor
March 26, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
This will have to be a quick one today folks. Yes, there’s an enormous deluge of Reason Rally coverage, but I just lost hours of work on this morning’s Heresy because, yes, I didn’t hit “save.” And I am crushed. So this was going to be longer, but I think I can still give you the important stuff.
And by the way, it was so great to meet and reunite with so many of you this weekend. I’m very proud of us.
To the news!
In Transit
March 23, 2012The quick-and-dirty, in-transit-to-the-Reason-Rally edition!
Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo — LIVE FROM THE PORTLAND, MAINE JETPORT!
Rick Wingrove of Beltway Atheists gets op-ed in WaPo: “Reason Rally will show that all the cool people are atheists now and that the days of consent by silence are over.” Hell yes.
Washington Times coverage of Reason Rally press conference with Dawkins, Silverman, Galef, Bey
NPR piece on Reason Rally
Hemant in WaPo: “Even though there may not be a physical building where we can meet, atheists have discovered communities online that weren’t around a decade ago.”
The Morning Heresy 3/22/12
March 22, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
Public opinion tipping point: Pew survey shows majority in US want religion out of politics
Brave and heroic Tennessee legislator seeks to protect expressions of faith in public schools
More fun in Tennessee: State Senate passes anti-evolution bill
The Morning Heresy 3/21/12
March 21, 2012Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
I lend a quote to a WaPo/RNS piece on the rally, which prominently features SSA’s (and Rally press wrangler) Jesse Galef
Fred Edwords in WaPo: More atheists are “coming out,” in part, because we seem more interesting.