The Pew Research Center recently finished a study on Americans’ religious self-identification (among other things) between 1990 and 2008. The above chart depicts the change in “no religion” identification by state throughout the U.S. The good old Northeast leads the way… as it seems to do every time. When you consider that Delaware and Washington D.C. are coded as being in the South, well… the actual South looks even worse. Still, more people in every single state are refusing to identify with a single religion, which is welcome news indeed.
Sign This Petition To Help End Aerial Wolf Hunting!
“More than 1,000 wolves have been shot dead in Alaska by aerial gunmen who chase the poor animals to exhaustion in the deep snow. The animals are shot from the air and left wounded to die a slow and agonizing death… or pursued and shot at point-blank range after the plane has landed.”
Gilbert Ng joined us for a photo session several weeks ago, in preparation for the forthcoming release of our first album, pastpresentfuture. Gil is an amazing photographer who shoots and develops real film. This image was taken on the rooftop of our DIY music space, The Yolk.
Australia today warned Japan to end its “scientific” whale hunts in the Antarctic by November or face international legal action, in a move that threatens to sour relations between the Asia-Pacific allies. The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has threatened legal action before in an attempt to end the slaughter every winter of 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean.
His latest warning comes on the eve of an official visit by the Japanese foreign minister, Katsuya Okada, for talks that were supposed to focus on the countries’ increasing trade and military ties. Rudd said he would prefer to reduce Japan’s whaling activities “to zero” through negotiation. ”But if that fails – and I’m saying this very bluntly and very clearly – then we will initiate that court action before the commencement of the whaling season in November 2010,” he told Network Seven TV.
Welcome to HERE.am, the official blog of the band HERE. Founded by twins Dan and Matt Mims, HERE executes harrowing, audience-shocking post-rock music and fine discourse.
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