"A" Week On Facebook - Out Campaign for Atheists
11 March 2010, 9:05 am
Tired of being marginalised because your lack of religion leaves you with no central point of cohesion and you feel all alone as an Atheist? Proclaim your rationalist status with the "A" Week on Facebook campaign! Use the Scarlet "A" as your profile pic for just one week to help highlight to the theists, just how many of US, there truly are.

I'm going to the Global Atheist Conference, are you?
11 March 2010, 5:17 am
Rusty Lime. News, Rhetoric, Discussion, Occasional Relevance

Things Coffee Athiests Find Facinating Bout Coffee Drinkers
11 March 2010, 4:36 am
As a coffee atheist, what is this obsession with people walking around with a cup of boiling hot liquid looking sophisticated? Here's 5 Things Coffee Athiests Find Facinating About Coffee Drinkers

Liberals, atheists have higher IQs
11 March 2010, 12:05 am
The title says it all

Glenn Beck, Porn for Bibles: What They're Both Missing
10 March 2010, 11:56 pm
Article on Glenn Beck's recent comments regarding social justice, and how social justice is an answer to the unfriendly criticism of atheist groups.

Higher Intelligence is Associated with Atheism and Liberals
10 March 2010, 10:56 pm
A new study shows that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to be a liberal and an atheist. But you already knew that.

Editor's Viewpoint: Reel sign of recovery (Belfast Telegraph)
11 March 2010, 6:43 am
A more positive image of Northern Ireland can be gleaned from its cultural life. Related Stories Editor's Viewpoint: Real power now back at Stormont Editor's Viewpoint: Fashion fest opens Editor's Viewpoint: Orde’s gaffe is just unacceptable

Last ticket snapped up (The Press)
11 March 2010, 6:40 am
A single ticket to hear the world's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, speak in Christchurch tonight has sold on Trade Me for eight times its asking price.

Cuba’s free sex changes mark break from past (MSNBC)
11 March 2010, 4:09 am
A small but remarkable transformation is happening in Cuba, a nation known for the rugged revolution of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and a band of ever-macho, bearded rebels, who long punished gays and transsexuals, but is now paying for sex changes.

Clashing Beliefs Color Next Fall , Opening on Broadway March 11 (Playbill)
11 March 2010, 12:46 am
Next Fall, American playwright Geoffrey Nauffts' acclaimed romantic comedy-drama that explores questions of love, sexuality, religion, family and tolerance, opens at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre March 11 following previews that began Feb. 16.

Jewish Israeli Film Fest: From Nazis to young lovers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
11 March 2010, 12:37 am
The Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival continues this weekend.

Irish police arrest 7 on murder plot charges (CNN)
10 March 2010, 8:49 pm
Irish police arrested seven people Tuesday suspected of plotting to commit a murder abroad, they announced.

When Bishops Play Politics
They see themselves as crusaders for human rights—protectors of the innocent, the voiceless, and the powerless.

15 March 2010 | 1:00 am

Threatened Muhammad cartoonist has no regrets
A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog said Wednesday he has no regrets and believes the suspects in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals.

10 March 2010 | 12:00 am

Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism
The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region.

10 March 2010 | 12:00 am

'JihadJane' indictment alleges threat from within U.S.
Using e-mail, YouTube videos, phony travel documents and a burning desire to kill "or die trying," a middle-aged American woman from Pennsylvania helped recruit a network for suicide attacks and other terrorist strikes in Europe and Asia, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday.

10 March 2010 | 12:00 am

Decoded Genome Gives New Hope in Confronting Diseases
10 March 2010 | 11:44 pm
The falling cost of genome sequencing is allowing scientists to begin studying the complete genomes of sufferers of genetic diseases. An interesting snippet: > Besides identifying disease genes, the Seattle team was able to > make the first direct estimate of the number of mutations, or > changes in DNA, that are passed on from parent to child. They > calculate that of the 3 billion units in the human genome, 60 per > generation are changed by random mutation — considerably less than > previously thought.

Militant Views Online Were Unknown to Neighbors
10 March 2010 | 11:39 pm
Seemingly normal Pennsylvania woman turns into a radical jihadist after turning to Islam. excerpt: “This is not what I knew her to be,” said Mr. Barnum, who was married to Ms. LaRose in the 1980s. “I don’t know what she got into later in life.” “She was just like anyone else,” he said in a brief interview, describing Ms. LaRose as upbeat and easygoing. “She had a brother, a sister, a family. There wasn’t anything really different about her.”

Yamani or Your Life: A nasty attempt to coerce Danish newspapers into apologizing for the cartoons o
9 March 2010 | 9:27 am
An excerpt from the Saudi law firm suing the Danish newspapers: Over the past months my law firm has been contacted by several thousand descendants of the Prophet, who have learned about your newspaper’s republication of the drawing, depicting their esteemed ancestor as a terrorist suicide bomber with a bomb in his turban. As descendants of the Prophet, these individuals feel personally insulted, emotionally distressed and defamed by your newspaper’s re-publication of the drawing.

Scores dead in religious clashes in Nigeria
7 March 2010 | 10:16 am
More than one hundred people were feared dead in Nigeria following violent clashes between Christian villagers and Muslim herders near the central city of Jos. Ethno-religious violence claimed 326 lives in January in Jos, according to police although other observers put the overall toll at more than 550 in Jos.