tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277201142011-04-22T00:19:17.354-04:00<b>by Bling Fatih</b> <br>&nbsp;<br> Blind faith is the root of all evil. Bling Fatih champions critical thinking.Bling Fatihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06087283465092325401noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27720114.post-1150384247267601782006-06-15T11:10:00.000-04:002006-06-15T11:10:47.280-04:00

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I took pleasure in emailing friends and family.I found email the ideal medium for inexpensive, frequent, instant communications over long distances. Stamps, long-distance telephone bills, and my knock-off phreak redbox became pretty much obsolete.So it's with a sense of mourning that I've woken up and discovered I hate email. I recognized my loathing maybe a

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Learn why you should help here.

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When I was a child, my mother shopped for fun. I think it was her favorite hobby. It didn't matter that we had little money and subsisted on inexpensive, barely-healthy spaghetti night after night. She prided herself on hunting down the best bargains she could. She filled the house with knockoffs and seconds from Building 19, K-Mart, Zayres, Ames, Payless Shoe Source, and the clearance racks of

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Pandagon is on to something. These products reveal to me God's deep love for capitalism, the American religion. I'd better go buy some Jesus stuff now!

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A web site of interest: http://impeachforpeace.org/ImpeachNow.htmlImpeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based impeachment group, has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives ("Jefferson’s Manual"). This document actually empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves.I'm on my way

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I hate the short-sightedness of proponants of the sanctity of so-called "traditional" marriage and the so-called "traditional" family. Yes, our family trees show that for each new generation, a male and a female got it on and did some sexy procreating. But why should marriage, and the status of "family," only be conferred upon those with the ability to add another branch to the tree?

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I have a penchant for publications with the word "bitch" in the title. Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture rocks my world. So while I browsed in a local college book store Wednesday, a book on display near the register called Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin caught my eye.The book's focus is spelled out in small print on the cover: "A no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy

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Bloggers including Pandagon and The Happy Feminist have linked to an AlterNet article by Laura Sheahen of Beliefnet, titled, "Why Religion Must End."The article presents an interview with Sam Harris, and it outlines serious issues with blind faith in religion. Choice quotes:Sam Harris: On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every

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I have long loved Beliefnet's Belief-O-Matic. My results:The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common

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Dear Jane,I really enjoyed shopping with you at the Third Street Promenade last week. If part of your feminist project is finding the perfect pair of jeans, then I am happy to help! ;-)It worried me, though, when you announced that you hate clothes shopping because you're "so fat."Jane, you are petite and slender. "Fat" comes no where near describing you. I tried to convince you of this. First,

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An open letter to the young people at the Cardinal Martini blog.On May 16, 2006, "Andrew Winthrop Cunningham III" wrote:Bling,Thanks for reading CardMart. I'm not trying to metaphorically rape Blaine; I'm sorry that you've gotten that impression. I abhor rape. I just think that peoples' public pronouncements shouldn't go unchallenged, whether they are politicians, academics, or what have you.In

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It's Haiku time at John Patrick's blog. Haiku form is 5/7/5, but he prefers imperfections.I fancy that my five charmingly imperfect entries create a whole greater than the sum of their parts.Mourning doves lamentFor a world torn and tatteredIn terrible springtime.Send children to dieBombing Iraqi sinners.Season's greetings.Sex education?Abstinence only, of course!Decider knows

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Wow, you guys! I am SO relieved that I met the guys at Cardinal Martini. They are, like, soooo smart and persuasive and stuff, in ways that girls are so totally not. I hope they have a party sometime. We should totally hang out!!!I'm soooo glad they rescued me from myself. I can't believe how sad and dumb I've been! I'm SO not a feminist anymore. It's an all-new me!!!Boy, that super-smart

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Beautiful photos of Victorian-era Vaudeville women are available from Victoriana.com's stereoscope pictures collection. I have compiled a few of Victoriana.com's stereoscopic and non-stereoscopic photos to create this strip: [link]I am struck by the beauty of these images. Old methods of photography such as the daguerrotype produced elegant, crisp portraits unrivalled by modern photoraphic

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Following a link from the comments section of Dr. Diana Blaine's blog led me to the Cardinal Martini blog, where I read this post:"Why CardMarters Do Not Like Diana York Blaine"Al Fraken would have a field day with the Cardinal Martini blog. The blog entries purport to document serious problems with Blaine, such as use of the classroom for political indoctrination and the systematic silencing of

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What does the pop tart Pink have in common with schoolchildren?In 2001, children who won the "Dear Mr. President" contest penned letters like this:The "Dear Mr. President" contest pre-dated the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. Today, it's not just Samir who's afraid of intruders; countless U.S. citizens are frightened, too. Their fear has been used irresponsibly by Bush, to justify the terrorizing that

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One of many problems with living in a capitalist society is that we are all socialized, from our earliest years, to express our identities through the consumption of commodities. In other words, we are what we buy. Yuck.I am in recovery from years of crap-buying. When I lived in a small apartment, I was simply crushed by the clutter of my life. Now that I'm in a moderately sized living space, and

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The religious right missed a memo!"The path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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Lately, there's been a lot of media discourse about how teens put themselves at risk by posting too much personal information online. For example, see "The Dangers of Myspace for Teens". Girls are seen as facing Extra Special Risks on the worldwide web. These risks can play out in real life in scary ways, as articulated in the news article "When Teens Tell All: Social Networking Sites Have Law

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