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So...apparently some students here at the University are convinced that the building is haunted. (It's one building, though dorms are being built and scheduled to be completed in August.) I just checked the student forum...apparently they're going to have "a real psychic" at the first meeting...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2261602,00.html The Sunday Times July 09, 2006 Stop dithering, this dictator's really got WMDs Andrew Sullivan Case No 1: a genocidal, certifiably loopy dictator with a history of nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry has the potential to...

"Islamic Imperialism" by Efraim Karsh. In this interesting book, Karsh does away with both the "Muslims are victims of the colonlialist west" nonsense and the "Muslims are inherently savage beasts" nonsense. On the one hand, Karsh is politically incorrect in telling the obvious: Islamic...

Well done. Regardless of whether you agree with the war in Iraq or not, certainly we can all agree that Fred Phelps protesting soldier's funerals denouncing their deaths as appropriated by God to punish the USA for harboring gays is a completely offensive and horrible act. These guys work to...

This may sound very lazy but I sorta have to get past the book club block to get to the actual politics forum and I note that the book club has not had any posts in a while. Migh we deep six it? Or, failing that, rent the space to a greased goat porn site?

5 members strong! http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupid=100813518&Mytoken=20050801104628 Also, check out the Community of United, Non-Theistic Skeptics group. http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=100002606 Odd that...

The book club threads have not been as lively as I had hoped. I thought I might try to post some of Sharansky's idea to encourage more people to get involved in the book club. All quotes are from Sharansky. Since the book is not online, I have having to type it. Please excuse my errors...

The following is a post from my up and coming bureaucrat roomie about governance of a school club. He'd like comments. For myself I'd rather watch paint dry. PDF file Richards comments follow: The actions encased in this post do not necessarily reflect the poster Fid, just his idiot roommate...

I just finished Natan Sharansky’s "The Case for Democracy" and was feeling appreciative of Rik for suggesting it and Demon for goading me into advancing it on my reading list. What I liked about the book is it breaks away from the usual liberal/conservative dichotomy and looks at world...

I just though it might me nice to have a post where skeptics could discuss and review their favorite skeptic related books.

I'm not understanding why this isn't getting more press coverage. I'd expect a huge stink seeing as Iraq pales next to Iran when it comes to support for terror. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040612/D835OR1G0.html

In my todays Sunday 4-25 newspaper's insert called "SmartSource Magazine" (one of those several page coupon clip-out thingies), there was a full page ad in there (opposite the full page ad for Oreck vacuum cleaners) about this revolutionary new driver. It is called "The Hammer". Ya gotta love...

Has anyone here been Officially Condemned? Certainly, everywhere you can find declarations that all non-Baptists (etc) are going to Hell. I'm not talking about those; nor am I speaking of impersonal message board or chatroom discussions. I'm talking about the real, face-to-face kind where the...

I am member of the Discovery Channel Book Club, formerly the Natural Science Book Club. In general the titles offered have been pretty good, even after NSBC was taking over by the Discovery Channel. At least I thought so until this month's mailing. Included in this month's mailing is a little...

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I just picked 200 as an arbitrary number. I'm too lazy to go look up how high astronauts are at Earth orbit. I'm not sure if this belongs in the science forum either. Here goes: With all of the male and female astronauts / cosmonauts that have gone into space together and have stayed in the...

Yes, as of this morning, what was 2 is now 3. China has a man currently in outter space. Discuss. My big worry is that since their space agency is almost 100% military in nature, that this will have vast and negative reprecussions for Asian and the world in general. Also, the speech that...

http://www.nbc4.tv/education/2493104/detail.html Its no surprise that a member of the black KKK is opposed, equal rights for everyone (except whitie of course:rolleyes: )