Category Archives: Social Commentary

Your local GOP makes the KKK look like the ACLU

By thecodepounder | Published July 20, 2009

The Nashville Scene for July 16-22, 2009 contains the annual piece, You are so Nashville if…. Always a fun read (regardless of orientation–political or otherwise), this year’s winner is the title of this post (see the cover art).

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Atheism is not a religion

By thecodepounder | Published June 30, 2009

Truly excellent piece at Skeptico:
This is a refrain I’m hearing a lot from religious apologists – atheism is a religion. Also its equally fallacious siblings, science is a religion and evolution is a religion. It’s a sign of their desperation that the best argument they have is not that atheism is wrong, or that god [...]

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Quote of the week

By thecodepounder | Published June 20, 2009

vjack writing at his incredible Atheist Revolution blog, Idiot of the Week: Juliana Davis:
It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that some people reconcile any discrepancies they encounter between reality and religious belief by completely disregarding reality.

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Why is education always the first thing threatened by budget cuts?

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

If this isn’t a great national crisis, I don’t know what is.  It’s sadly indicative of what our culture truly values when you see stories from across the nation indicating that education is still one of the first things lawmakers want to cut when money gets tight at the state level.
Here in Tennessee, budget shortfalls [...]

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Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners rejecting new gun-carry law

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners are rejecting the state’s new “booze it and shoot it” law in droves by establishing policies for their business(es) that prohibit the carrying of firearms on the premises.  Many are concerned with the obvious (well, obvious to everyone but the NRA’s lobbyists and the lawmakers who take their money, er [...]

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Tennessee House votes to override guns-in-bars veto

By thecodepounder | Published June 4, 2009

The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to override the governor’s veto of the so-called “guns in bars” bill.  The Senate is expected to vote on the override this morning.
As I’ve said before, I’m a huge supporter of the 2nd Amendment (indeed, the whole of the U.S. Constitution, for that matter), but at some [...]

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Bush-Gore lawyers work together to overturn California’s Prop 8

By thecodepounder | Published May 27, 2009

CBS News:
Opposing attorneys in the 2000 election fight for Florida – David Boies, who represented Al Gore, and Ted Olson, George Bush’s lawyer and later the U.S. Solicitor General – are teaming up to ask a federal court to throw out California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The two filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of two [...]

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California’s Prop 8 stands; look for Equal Protection challenge

By thecodepounder | Published May 26, 2009

Opponents of California’s biggoted Proposition 8, which bans equality for same-sex couples in the state, have lost an important battle, but may yet win the war.

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Nashville schools sued over block on gay web sites

By thecodepounder | Published May 20, 2009

Metropolitan Nashville and Knox County school districts are being sued for blocking so-called “pro-gay” web sites. The school districts do not block so-called “anti-gay” websites.

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Tennessean: Veto the gun bill, Governor

By thecodepounder | Published May 15, 2009

The Tennessean:
The bill proponents will tell you, Governor, that more guns make bars and restaurants safer, but they have no data to back up these claims.
The data is solid when it comes to police reports, which can tell you what happens when people enter drinking establishments with a gun.
Governor, Tennesseans are outraged that this bill [...]

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40 million non-believers in America

By thecodepounder | Published May 13, 2009

40 Million Nonbelievers in America: The Secret is Almost Out
Secularists have very quietly become one of America’s largest minorities — how long before they use their power?
[via Internet Infidels News Wire]

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Maine joins ranks of States recognizing equality in marriage

By thecodepounder | Published May 13, 2009

I’ve been out of town and/or out of the loop for the better part of the last two weeks, so it’s no surprise that I missed this: Maine has become the 5th state to allow same sex marriage.
Governor John Baldacci:
“In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions,” Baldacci said [...]

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