On Friday, a Bush-appointed federal judge (the first Bush, not the second) ruled in favor of the HHS in a lawsuit over the contraception mandate. This isn’t too surprising; the challenges to the mandate are on really shaky grounds. But I was particularly tickled, because the judge defended the mandate…
Greta Christina has a post on what I literally find the least interesting topic kicked around in atheist circles, the question of whether or not atheists should be "angry" or "friendly". There's many variations of this argument, with some of the hardline friendly types suggesting that there's never any value…