Religious groups losing ground.

Perhaps the most remarkable trend is that between 1990 and 2008, the people reporting as atheists increased from 8.2% to 15.0%. Incidentally, their table code seems to have a bug, since LDS reported no appreciable gains or losses, and this translated to an NaN.N% increase.

The air around Central Square was unusually thick with cannabis smoke this evening. I think it was a combination of the unseasonably good weather today (some people were wearing t-shirts) and the relative recentness of the marijuana ballot initiative ( Read more... )