Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A recent survey now reveals that only 760,000 attend Church of England Sunday services and so obviously well over 62 million other people don’t. This is all part of an ongoing downward trend that has been happening for quite some time and consists of a 1% drop each and every year since the second world war, and so … Read more
The title says it all, and yes, I confess that I did indeed quite enjoy reading this. The story is about Robert Saunders, a 79 year old retied teacher and devoted birdwatcher, who was out checking on some owls. While doing so he was confronted by an armed Oregon militant who quickly got in his face and … Read more
Cologne Sex Attacks The news of what happened is in the public domain … More than 100 women and girls have come forward with reports of sexual assault and robbery by gangs of men in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Victims have described chaos outside the city’s main station, as the … Read more
The #YallQaeda hash tag within the title should be a not so subtle clue that this is not a serious posting. OK, so here are 10 “facts”, and yes those are indeed air-quotes around the word “facts”, because I’ve mined some of these “facts” from satire-central, which is perhaps better known to you as The Onion. So … Read more
You would think that people on social welfare and Medicaid would be voting to elect those that support the concept of social welfare into office, yet time after time the candidates opposed to such support keep getting elected, so it can only leave you wondering what exactly is going on inside their heads – why do they … Read more
Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a Republican who has been the U.S. Representative for Washington’s 5th congressional district since 2005, and is now the highest ranking Republican woman in Congress. She is not a fan of what is often termed Obamacare (more formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)), and so has voted dozens of times to repeal it, but … Read more