An improbable candidate

In the Chicago Tribune an entry about the newly-elected president of the United States reads:
“Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, becoming the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream.”
Since the hullabaloo about the inauguration of America’s first ‘black’ president, something started gnawing [...]

Good News: Atheists are Coming Out

You can now get OUT-campaign hoodies and T-shirts with the big scarlet letter “A” (hee hee) for atheist at: http://richarddawkins.net/store/

Wear your “Scarlet Letter of Atheism” proudly.

I’m terribly amused by all this, even while applauding frowned-upon beliefs for coming out and taking their rightful place next to the rest of humanity. I won’t go as [...]