Here is Sam Harris' talk he gave at TED very recently. I realized most of you have already seen it, but for the uninitiated, it's a great presentation that deserves your attention. Because there are such great time constraints at these events, we unfortunately don't get to hear everything about Sam's ideas (why are you so harsh on time, TED!), but I'm looking forward to see how they develop, and I'm eager t ...

Pope Benedict XVI is again being implicated in another abuse scandal, this time out of the state of Wisconsin. Reverend Lawrence C. Murphy worked in a school for deaf children, and while Benny was alerted in two letters that the priest had been suspected of molesting dozens of children, he failed to do anything at all. Unsurprisingly, Murphy was transferred from the school when the heat got too high to anot ...

The Chasers are no match for the awesome bullshit powers of John Edward! Too bad he wasn't psychic enough to see them coming. The best line in the whole gag: "are you the gatekeeper?". ...

Albert Gubay, founder of Kwik Save (a grocery chain in the UK) has put his business into a trust in order to keep a promise he made to an invisible sky deity after he asked his help to become a millionaire. Now, at 82, this Catholic is now donating almost a billion dollars to various Roman Catholic charities (you may recall these are the same institutions that use homeless people and orphans as pawns in the ...

After the Super-bowl annoyance that was the Tebow's message that abortion is wrong, it's nice to know he's on the receiving end (is that a good football pun?) for once. While taking something called the "Wonderlic" test (sounds pretty sexual, that's all I'm saying), he asked everyone else in the room for a small prayer. He was politely told to "shut the fuck up", which was immediately followed by a roar of ...

So, according to this piece of shit, the "kill the gays" bill in Uganda is right by the Bible, so it must be right by him. Of course, I don't see him in favor of stoning disobedient children, people who grow different crops in their fields, or folks who wear cloths made of more than one fiber (I'm guessing his jacket alone would merit the death penalty). Most depressing part of the video: when the guy uses ...

Here's a weird study; a pair of academics analyzed some of the more famous paintings of the Last Supper over the past thousand years, and found the food portions depicted in the paintings seemed to have grown by 69.2%. So rather than the anemic portions that were common before a serious revolution in the way we produce food, today's paintings offer a larger variety and abundance of food stuffs. It just goes ...

Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Good Atheist Podcast! This week, Jeff joined me to share some of his thoughts on the Catholic Church denying gays the right to adopt, and the plight of women in Afghanistan (and something about me being your crack dealer). Don't miss out. Don't forget, this podcast is free, and if you love the show and want even more (when you're done all with the current backlog) ...

Can we not all bask in the warm glow of failure from bullshit psychics and their ridiculous parlor tricks, especially when they have such hilarious outcomes? I like the look of shock on this guy's face. Maybe she actually got his drawing right... ...

I regularly read "The Guardian". They normally have a pretty decent science coverage, but the latest article entitled "Why everything you know about evolution is wrong" outraged me enough I felt the need to talk about it. The article starts simply enough, referring to the burgeoning science of epigenetics, and how some researchers are finding genes that become expressed due to environmental factors can effe ...