Author Archive for Arizona Atheist
The following is excerpted from Rothbard's larger work The Ethics of Liberty.
A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH discussions of the necessity of government is the fact that all such discussions necessarily take place within a context of centuries of State existence and State rule—rule to which the public has become habituated. The wry coupling of the twin certainties in the popular motto “death and taxes”
A perfect illustration of the absurdity of this argument.
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Over at the blog Why Evolution is True Jerry Coyne has linked to a vast collection of videos about evolution, creationism, science, and critical thinking. I was so impressed by this project that I've added the website to my list of recommended sites, but here is the video introduction and a link to the website is provided below the video.
The Web's Best Videos on Evolution, Creationism,
In Glenn Greenwald's article today he writes about the Obama administration's attempts to get internet service providers to give the government a “back door” into all forms of online communications, so they can monitor everything done online. This is just despicable. Not only for the obvious privacy implications, but building a “back door” for government surveillance also provides weak spots for
This first video depicts a cop who puts his gun to an innocent woman's head for apparently no reason at all. The news reporter explains the story in some detail. This occurred in Philadelphia in July of 2009.
The second video I found has a good description so I will copy it here.
DENVER - What started as a walk to the park with his dogs ended with a trip to the hospital for a
A few days ago I decided to re-read my friend Bob Clapp's book, Every Man and Woman an Island: The Individual Human Being as Prime in the Universe. I mainly did so in order to refresh my memory before writing a review of it for LibraryThing.com.
After roughly five years since the last time I read the book, it felt familiar but at the same time it felt like I was reading the book for the first
Someone named “Emanuel Goldstein” left a few idiotic comments and stupid smears on my blog, which I deleted. After doing a web search of the name I found that they've also visited P.Z. Myers' blog in the past.
This appears to be the exact same individual who spammed PZ's blog as the above Blogger profile is also from Kansas City. At the time they spammed PZ their name was “Andrew.” My guess is
On MSNBC I read the other day that the Vatican sent a very distressing letter to a group of Catholic nuns scolding them for “spending too much time on poverty and social justice concerns and not enough on abortion and gay marriage.”
In a stinging report on Wednesday, the Vatican said the Leadership Conference of Women Religious had been "silent on the right to life" and had failed to make the
I've decided to create a new section located on the side of my blog. It's called “The David Marshall Nexus.” I created it so anyone looking up rebuttals to Marshall's books, blog, and essays can easily access the posts I've written.
Not only is my thorough refutation of his book listed but I've also rewritten my expose of Marshall and the other two Christians who tried to smear me all over
An interesting piece by Glenn Greenwald was published today. It can be read here. He relates the fact that high ranking Obama administration officials are parroting the same right-wing nonsense that was spouted by Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and other right-wing nutcases. It's being claimed that “Iranian Terror is taking hold and expanding in Central and South America thanks to improving
When I was a child I believed a whole host of false beliefs. I used to believe that walking under a ladder or having a black cat cross your path brought bad luck. I used to believe that crossing my fingers and toes brought good luck (and the more digits you crossed the more luck you gained!). I used to believe in ghosts. I used to believe in aliens and UFO's. I used to believe that the
I'm finally saying goodbye to Amazon.com. I've deleted all my reviews and have deleted the content from my Amazon Profile. I will probably not participate on Amazon.com any longer because I'm fed up with all of the immature, loud mouth Christians I've had to put with on a near constant basis. The David Marshall's, the KC James', the J.R. Fraser's, and all the other mindless nitwits are too much
Below is a chilling exposé about how the NSA is gathering data from and about everyone in the U.S. Everything from telephone calls, emails, to web searches, (possibly even Amazon.com purchases), etc. is being gathered. A former NSA member explains that there has been over 20 trillion “transactions” (or bits of information) collected and they had begun doing this prior to the September 11th
I was sent a new video by YouTuber The Religious Antagonist. This was a pretty funny video. I especially liked his mocking of the uproar a while back about Rebecca Watson's complaints about being “sexualized” in an elevator at an atheist conference.
I've gotten quite a number of kudos on my review of David Marshall's 2007 book The Truth Behind the New Atheism. Here is some of the feedback I've received over the years. And a few of these are from Christians!“I will submit that Arizona Atheist has set an excellent example that, from the tone of recent conversation, a number of people here could benefit from emulating: he actually /read/ the
In 2009 I decided to comment on a discussion about the role of Christianity in abolishing slavery. My main opponents were David Marshall and J.R. Fraser, the two lying buffoons who have spread lies and smears about me all over Amazon.com. I had been reading about slavery and had written a response to the section in Marshall's book prior to this discussion so I had some basic knowledge about the
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