This is the truth.

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Two things about FSM. (How appropriate, the day after Darwin Day, yes?)
Molly has alerted me to the hilarious FSM hate-mail page, which has its own RSS feed for your regular entertainment purposes.
Additionally, I found this Baltimore FSM sign on Flickr. It plays on two different Baltimore “sayings”. It’s not far away. I think I need [...]

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If you read a lot of scientific papers, or I guess academic papers really, and you care about where the information is coming from, you develop a habit.
I guess I, have developed a habit. I can’t speak for others but I think it’s fairly common.
That habit is to look for references whenever an assertion is [...]

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Skepticlawyer over at Catallaxy (where I sometimes blog) has a nice little summary of the pagan origins of Christmas, before it was co-opted as the pretend birthday of Jesus. Here’s just a snippet:

Romans decorated their doorposts with holly and kissed under the mistletoe. Shops and businesses closed and people greeted one another in the [...]

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