What is a Higgs Boson?

What is a Higgs Boson

The news of the Higgs Boson is all over the Internets and news. I’m sure you heard, and if you’re like me, you knew the news was coming, because the liberal rags have been talking about it for a while.

The above is a nifty graphic to help you understand it a little better. I saw it on Facebook.

Otherwise, there are many articles about it. Start here or anywhere news is newsy. Google it, too.

What the kids are up to

As many of you know, I have an on-going series in which I post what those annoying atheists over at reddit.com/r/atheism are posting. I call the series, “What the kids are posting.”

But this is a twist called, “What the kids are up to.”

Instead of their offensive graphics and jokes, here’s a story that regular-reader Paul just sent me that you need to check out. I’ll post some of the story below. Read the rest here.

Disbelief has never been so evil.

Irreverent atheists crowdsource charitable giving

(Reuters) – Atheist bloggers have shown their charitable side by swarming to donate money to Doctors Without Borders, in what turned into the humanitarian agency’s biggest online fundraiser.

Doctors without Borders (DWB), also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, gets about 4,000 hits on its U.S. website on an average Sunday. Last Sunday that number ballooned to 50,000 as a horde of redditors, subscribers to the social media site reddit.com, thundered across the DWB homepage.

Thousands more clicked through from the atheism sub-reddit, a site normally given over to finding holes in religions and picking fights with creationists, and headed for a dedicated site at firstgiving.com, where they have so far given $180,000.

“It’s amazing, what’s going on. The amount being raised is amazing, definitely,” said Natalie Favre, an MSF spokeswoman in Geneva. “We don’t control any of this.”

Many donations were tagged with messages such as “Because god won’t,” “Good without god” or even “Good without Zeus.”

“I WAS gonna buy some Taco Bell… but screw it,” wrote DJW3NCH, who donated $5.00 via firstgiving.com.

Thanks, Paul!

***UPDATE***

I meant to include that this probably won’t change the public perception of atheists as worse than rapists, that regular-reader Xina reminded me of recently via Twitter.

Read here.

Europe puts the kibosh on Bush’s upcoming visit

Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr

Some American’s don’t travel to Europe because they’re reverse xenophobes according to this CNN article. Many of these people don’t watch movies or TV with subtitles.

“It’s too much work to read through a movie,” they say while scooping up another handful of potato chips into their greasy fat hands.

George W. Bush won’t be traveling to Europe any time soon, because the douchebag could get arrested for crimes against humanity.

Ol’ Bushy shouldn’t feel comfortable leaving the ranch for fear of arrest.

Here’s the article in question.

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Thanks, Luis, for the CNN article re: passports!