Last night Pittsburgh CBS affiliate, KDKA gave approximately three minutes of news time to Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik to guilt Catholics into voting for “pro-life” John McCain while repeatedly insisting that he couldn’t tell anyone who to vote for.
“The Pope has said you know we’re so concerned about financial bankruptcy but maybe the question that [...]

I just got wind of a really exciting event happening in Pittsburgh.  The Creative Non-Fiction Writers Conference 2008 is presenting on Science and Technology from October 2-4.   They have a myriad of events for writers as well as those just interested in hearing engaging panel discussions and readings from leading voices in the scientific community.  [...]

Apparently, Pittsburgh cops have written 188 disorderly conduct citations in the past 20 months for incidents of “swearing, making profane gestures or just generally acting like jerks.”
Some of these “incidents” were genuinely funny, e.g., the woman who said “I’m an [effing] passenger” at a traffic stop; but I think that we should also be genuinely [...]

“Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper last week fired the head of the bureau’s chaplaincy program.” Apparently, chaplains Lara Zinda and Keith Smith were nice people but somewhat underqualified for the job: they hadn’t been officially ordained.
This issue raises two main questions for the skeptical community–or maybe more (you tell me). Here’s what I’m asking:

What really [...]

I recently read an article in the Post-Gazette about a man who was inspired to provide food for homeless people here in downtown Pittsburgh after reading John 21:17: “Feed my sheep.”
The “Feed My Sheep” organization is a terrific one, but an obvious question comes to mind when reading stories like this: how important was the [...]

Guys, I wish I’d seen that Jason Rosenhouse of EvolutionBlog was going to be in Pittsburgh for that embarrassing International Conference on Creationism that plagues us annually now. I would’ve emailed him to see if he wanted (and had time) to join us for a special guest edition of Drinking Skeptically.
Jason’s blog is evolution central, [...]