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Via StupidEvilBastard, the following is pretty scary:

BattleCry, an evangelical Christian youth movement, held a conference in Philadelphia recently.

Here are a couple of reports about the leader, Ron Luce, from the general media:
The Christian Post describes a protest by TeenMania, the group that Luce fronts
A Philadelphia Daily News article by Luce himself, describing BattleCry


And then this is a report from an atheist attending the conference:

part one
part two
part three

A series of videos from "Day One", Luce's first TeenMedia/BattleCry event: here

With so little external information to work with, it's hard to assess the validity of Sunsara Taylor or Ron Luce, but I'd keep an eye on them. (Apparently Ms. Taylor has been on Hannity and Colmes and other such shows - here's the YouTube of her and Luce on The O'Reilly Factor.)

...that said, I hate O'Reilly's patronizing tone towards BOTH of them. Holy fuck.

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Aaaaaaaaaand confidential sources for newspapers are ALSO being tracked by the US government (i.e. in addition to 'terrorist-hunting'), apparently.

Wow. Just... wow.

IAT scores, redux:

Okay, so I said I was going to try the tests with associations I don't explicitly agree with again. Today is my day for doing that.

Here are my ( old results... )

( New results? )

And I still want to be Jewish, apparently.

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*point*
*gasp*

INTERVIEW?!

Yes, it's true, I got one. And at a real place, not some door-to-door charity hasslers.

*crosses fingers*

Off to get a haircut, now.