The Morning-ish Heresy 5/18/12: Bio-Adjusting Mattress

by Paul Fidalgo
May 18, 2012

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Tonight marks the start of the much-talked-about Women in Secularism conference, and I have a feeling this is going to be an event that will really get the gears turning for folks in the movement. I suspect a lot of content generation will result.

 

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The Morning Heresy 5/17/12: Un-liked

by Paul Fidalgo
May 17, 2012

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First things first. As our Facebook followers know, we uploaded a bunch of photos yesterday from the Castles along the Rhine cruise (“It went well, thanks,” reported our boss), and while this usually is a non-event where all the images happily snuggle together in one fell swoop in a photo album, something went terribly pear-shaped with our program, and every single photo went into folks’ news feeds individually, littering people’s Facebook homepages with pleasant-yet-relentless images of happy secularists and scenic European vistas.

 

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“The Raven” (A Nickell-odeon Review)

Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
May 16, 2012

Baltimore, 1849. First, there is the brutal murder of a woman and her daughter in a fourth-floor apartment that is locked from the inside. Then the body of a man named Griswold is found in a torture chamber, sliced in half by a great curved blade at the end of a pendulum.

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L. Frank Baum, Freethought Firebrand?

Advocatus Diaboli with Tom Flynn
May 16, 2012

Tomorrow (May 17) is the 112th anniversary of the publication of that subversive freethought children's book, THE WIZARD OF OZ. You didn't know it was a freethought book? Have I got a tale for you ...

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The Morning Heresy 5/16/12: Tugging on My Kuiper Belt

by Paul Fidalgo
May 16, 2012

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Urgent new action alert: The House version of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act strips away crucial protections based on sexual orientation, religion, and nationality. We need you to take action right now to oppose this version of the bill, and to tell the House to take up the Senate version, which CFI supported

The Morning Heresy 5/15/12: They Can’t Burn Our Internet

by Paul Fidalgo
May 15, 2012

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Everyone at CFI is feeling like a proud parent today, because our plucky podcast is getting some well-overdue accolades from the mainstream press. Hyperactive news website Business Insider named our own Point of Inquiry one of the 10 best podcasts, grouping it with such shows as Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! and Anderson Cooper 360. We are beaming! Our sincere congratulations to hosts Chris Mooney and Indre Viskontas, and producer Adam Isaak! (And yeah, we'll be making more noise about this, because that's what proud parents do.)

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Is The ‘Real-Life Barbie’ a Media Myth?

A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper with Ben Radford
May 14, 2012

News organizations around the world claimed that a young Russian model has achieved her desire to look like a Barbie doll, sparking discussion and outrage about the media's influence on women. But is it true? 

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The Morning Heresy 5/14/12: Share the Meat

by Paul Fidalgo
May 14, 2012

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CFI's suit to allow secular celebrants to solemnize marriages in Indiana is sparking more attention.

Indy Star columnist Erika Smith looks at the state of marriage equality in Indiana, and says:

What Obama said was inspiring and what the Center for Inquiry is doing is amazing.

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The Morning Heresy 5/11/12: Bottomless Chum Bucket

by Paul Fidalgo
May 11, 2012

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CFI-Indiana director Reba Boyd Wooden and member John Kiel do a great job being interviewed on WSBT television on CFI's efforts to end religious privilege in solemnizing marriages in Indiana. Reba says, "We shouldn't be forced to portray ourselves as religious. We should be able to [solemnize marriages] under a secular certification."

Secular Campus Group’s Office Vandalized; Group Responds

by Debbie Goddard
May 10, 2012

This morning the Titans for Reason, the secular pro-science student group at California State University – Fullerton, found their on-campus office space vandalized, apparently by a religious individual or group.

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