The Object Shifts its Orbit
Near Earth Object is moving–merging with my other blog project, Bloc Raisonneur. This does not mean that this blog is dead, as its contents will live on over at Bloc, and the topics on which I’ve been writing will continue to be covered there (I may even preserve the title for those non-atheist-specific posts). The move is explain

Parade of Fanatical Ignoramuses
All photos in this post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/progressohio/ / CC BY 2.0 It is almost becoming a ritual in our house these days. At the end of a long day at work, the wife and I turn on MSNBC and watch, stunned, as Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart put on the parade of angry right wing lunatics. We sit, mouths agape, as we see manufactured rage at town halls over something t