Mike Tidmus

Published two days ago, this article confirms something I’ve suspected for quite some time. The article comes via ACT UP Philadelphia and John S James. James is a revered AIDS writer who has been publishing AIDS Treatment News since the early, early days of the epidemic. Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder ~ [...]

How do they love us? Let us count NOM’s lies. Exodus Ministries stripped of tax-exempt status in New Zealand ~ NOM Blog An earthquake is beginning: If “gay is like black,” then “Christian is like racist.” The early warning signs are now taking place all over the globe. In New Zealand, Exodus Ministries was just [...]

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization (video: TEDtalks Director at YouTube) TED: David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may [...]

These silly twits are simply never going to get it. Evolution is still up for discussion, critique, analysis, evaluation, etc. It’s even open to being scientifically invalidated with the introduction of new empirical evidence. Not so (the Theory of the) the Bible. The Abrahamic faiths’ mind-bogglingly silly collection of preposterous stories, unproven miracles, and Bronze [...]

Good news, mes amis. PZ Myers is not dead. That will surely disappoint the fork out of the creepy cons over at Conservapedia and the anti-fun, anti-everything-but-pain religionoids at Focus On The Homos But Keep A Close Eye On That PZ Myers Chap. Sorry, FOTHBKACEOTPZMC staffers, there’ll be no dancing in the streets of Colorado [...]

Karen Ocamb has a must-read on the con job that President Obama is trying to pass off as a National AIDS Strategy. That long-overdue policy, unveiled with mass quantities of pomp and circumstance last month, could have been jotted down on a cocktail napkin by a stoned 12th grader in about five minutes. As an [...]

Reinforcements ordered in the War on Brains (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Is it really possible that the entire American right was hom skooled?

Bryan ‘Hitler Liked His Gays Butch’ Fischer, has hopped back up on his the gays are unfit to hold public office soap box over at the American Family Association‘s Rightly Concerned blog. According to Fischer: “I have suggested on more than one occasion that a practicing homosexual should not serve in public office. This is [...]

America’s creepy, rigid, arrogant, cruel, know-it-all, pompous, obnoxious, treacherous* right-wing Christians are bandying about the expression “the redistribution of wealth” — meaning: Oh my fucking god they actually expect us to pay fucking taxes! That’s socialism! That’s Fascism! Prosperity is our divine right. Where’s that damn Kenyan’s birth certificate? The French, on the other hand, [...]

“Surprisingly, the strongest reticence to speak out often comes from those who should be most worried about silence. Last May I attended a conference on science and public policy at which a representative of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences gave a keynote address. When I questioned how he reconciled his own reasonable views about [...]

What San Diego endured for all but a few magical days this July (graphic: Mike Tidmus) Cue San Diego’s most important Christian — in his mind, James Hartline! Kidding (in more ways than one). The weekend of gay pride in San Diego was drop-dead gorgeous – hot, sunny and beautiful. Of course, we can thank [...]

Lawrence M. Krauss, writing at Scientific American, says: “Religious leaders should be held accountable when their irrational ideas turn harmful.” Amen to that. Scientific American: Faith and Foolishness The section does exist, however, and Science magazine obtained it. When presented with the statement “human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of [...]

“Two plus two equals four. I put sugar in my coffee and it tastes sweet. The sun comes up because the world turns. These things are beautiful to me. There are mysteries I will never understand, but everywhere I look I see proof that for every effect there is a corresponding cause. Even if I [...]

“I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a [...]

“It seems that the British Medical Associaton is practicing junk science. All mainstream medical health organizations, science organization, have found one thing: they’ve never found a gay gene, they have not found homosexuality or sexual orientation to be innate. Therefore, change is possible.” — Regina Griggs, of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays, explaining why medical [...]