Yep, that sounds logical. That’s definitely the most likley outcome of this scenario especially given the police response to non-white people in general. Palin, Dawkins and Maher are behaving idiotically right now.

Dawkins appears to have developed a raging case of Watson-itis. One brilliant idea/accomplishment does not mean that you’re suddenly immune from all of the ridiculous biases that you and many other people have. Even accomplished scientists stay stupid racist and sexist things, and they deserve to be called out for it…

President Obama also just seems like a really inapproprate target for this. His original tweet, at least, was basically “Hey, it’s cool that you’re engaged and doing projects like this of your own volition for fun. We’d like to encourage everyone interested in STEM.” He didn’t even mention the police or the school.

There are a bunch of surveys that show that most americans view athiests as less trustworthy than any religious group (including Muslims, Hindus, etc that they hate for racist reasons). It’s less prevalent among younger people, so I think it’s likely to change over time, but, right now, no way someone who was openly…

What? I don’t understand what he’s saying.

Yes. I only have a queen sized bed, but you would think that would be more than enough room for me and 2 ~8lb cats. Nope, I regularly wake up to one of them poking me with a paw, or trying to drape herself over me. How?

My thoughts exactly. I’m sure this works great as long as you’re white, and don’t happen to share a name with anyone on any kind of watch list.

The only thing I can think of is that it was supposed to be shorthand for “Marriage Always Equals”, and it just went very wrong. Other than that, I’ve got nothing.

I was deeply confused by that as well.

I had about 12 wonderful hours where I was out of the greys before being demoted again. You have my sympathies.

Best use of a Warren Zevon lyric I’ve seen today. =)

The whole thing just stinks to high heaven. I think that every school district in the country has an action plan for a suspected bomb. I’m equally sure that plan does not include throwing the suspected bomb in a desk and going about your day while harassing a 14 year old kid.

Yes, I’m aware. I’m just trying to point out that even positive attention isn’t always welcome, and comes at a cost.

That is great, but as Arthur Chu pointed out on twitter, he now doesn’t have the option of being anonymous. He’s a 14 year old who now has to think in terms of PR, alliances, etc. Plus, there’s going to be inevitable backlash. This 14 year old is now going to have complete strangers loudly and publicly expressing…

M&M’s are made by Mars, not Hershey’s.

This is a joke, right? This cannot possibly be an actual thing. Please tell me this isn’t an actual thing.

I’m starring for your anteater picture, not for your opinion on cady corn (which is just plan wrong).

You’re assuming that she had the choice of a non-catholic hospital that was nearby and in her insurer’s network. Given how agressive religious hospitals have been about expanding and buying out competitors in many areas, that’s far from being a given.

I know the feeling. I swear I’m not a troll.

She’s actually otherwise pretty liberal. It was really weird.