105-year-old Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki has been running more than 30 global Zen centers and is something of a legend in his community. Evidently he is also a sexual harasser of the highest order. Read more
Yesterday, self-plagiarist and quotation-maker-upper Jonah Lehrer delivered a $20,000 speech to the Knight Foundation. He’s been criticized left and right for the #Humblebrag of a talk (in which he says he just needs a stricter set of rules so that he knows the difference between right and wrong)… but I actually liked a part of his speech where he (accurately) quoted Charles Darwin: Read more
Gallup has just released their annual list of the most and least religious states in the country and there’s no real change from the past. The most religious states (darker green in the map below) are in the same order from last year… while the least religious states (lighter green) gained Hawaii but lost New York: More… Read more
I don’t remember reading this in Genesis, but it’s on YouTube, so it must be true: Adam and Eve dueled in an Epic Rap Battle! (Warning: NSFW language) Read more
On Friday, BuzzFeed (AKA: the website that utterly consumes my downtime) published a list of “15 Questions Atheists Are Sick Of Answering.” I, for one, am pretty pleased with the format. Author Sean Curry used screenshots of actual questions that actual humans asked and answered them in succinct BuzzFeed-esque fashion. Here are a few of my favorites: Read more
I have finally found my favorite opening paragraph of anything ever. It’s seriously the “Call me Ishmael” of my generation: Read more
The Westboro Baptist Church, known for picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers and proclaiming freely that “God hates fags,” has announced that their next protest will be held at Vassar College on February 28th. But Vassar students have done them one better. Read more
Earlier today, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) introduced H.Res. 41 on the floor of the House, expressing his support for the recognition of February 12th as Darwin Day: Read more
Remember the Christians in Sullivan, Indiana who gathered over the weekend to plan out an alternative prom specifically to exclude gay students? Turns out they’re not handling the criticism very well and many of the locals are speaking out against it: Read more
