Has there been any response to the arrival of Our Revolution from the folks at Brand New Congress?

Sounds like you are dangerously close to volunteering to serving as a club organizer....

I’m the state director for a national atheist organization. I can assure you, this is not a publicity stunt — the plan is to really and truly roll out these after-school club meetings.

Sharp is also accused of beating her children with a rod; three of them testified that she would say she was trying to “beat the fire” out of them.

So sharp I had to tweet it:

I’d like to start seeing on-duty police officers voluntarily decline to carry firearms on their person.

Has anyone else here read “Railsea” by China Mieville?

Without wishing to lend any defense to this nonsense, I know that many high-level academic administrators do not directly monitor their email accounts. They have staff assistants to read and reply to emails, and ghost-writers who will compose important messages leaving from that account.

I am an organizer in the secular community. We hear this same origin story a lot from new atheists.

I am baffled why so many people are reflexively okay with the use of coercive force was deployed in a situation where words would have sufficed.

I fear it isn't a sound critical argument to imply that those who found this sketch amusing are either lacking in good taste or I sufficiently educated. Not strong reviewery there.

That’s a reasonable interpretation, yes. Well noted.

Ibn Khaldun’s Muqqadimah talks about the pattern of decay over generations: the first creating value, the second enjoying it, the third destroying it. Should be required reading for all undergrads...

I worry when I see groups of young men like this. That kind of enclave is good for perpetuating cultural traditions, sure, but can also foster extremism when ideology isolates and amplifies itself in an echo chamber. (Setting aside the fact that some of those traditions are in and of themselves deplorable.)

Excuse me: How do they know he made it to the ocean?

No worries, really. I think we’re coming from the same place.

<<Reasons are not excuses.>>

There are plenty of reasons though, eh? And if you don’t keep them in mind, you’ll have a harder time bringing her around. Amazingly, hate and hostility don’t do much to dissolve hate and eradicate ignorance. On the other hand, making known the expectations we have of each other, given our understanding of the…

Why not both? She can take responsibility for being insufficiently uncritical of the views she inherited.