Pastured a-plenty

The rising popularity of organic foods is encouraging and troubling at the same time. The fact that people’s health and that of the environment is of growing concern to the populace takes one step toward restoring my faith in humanity. It’s wonderful that people care about issues like BGH, pesticides, and genetic modification of plants. Conversely, this means big corporations want to get a piece of the organic pie. Producing foods organically is more costly than through conventional factory farming. The easiest way to please the customer and keep costs down is to pressure the USDA to relax standards.

Edit: Still more scariness about organic food!

Rose & Camellia via Joystiq

A wacky flash game in which you slap your female adversaries so as to garner their respect—by leaving them in a crumpled red-cheeked heap on the floor.

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Russell’s Teapot

It’s wonderful to find a fellow atheist with such clear thinking. I would like to say I don’t need anyone to feel the way I do about the supernatural in order for me to believe what I believe—and, if it comes down to it, I really don’t—but it’s undeniably reassuring to find intelligent people who share my thoughts. I was the first atheist I knew. I knew atheists existed, but I hadn’t met any. That may be a function of a sheltered childhood. I’m proud of where I am now in life. I have morality that isn’t anchored to a tenuous relationship with a supernatural being—morality governed by logic not by the whims of faulty humans who the gods seem to always task with transcribing their word for the masses.