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Happy Easter, Which is Not Named After Ishtar, Okay?

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Department of Awful Facebook Memes

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My unfavorite new Facebook meme is this bit of sillyness which has apparently been spotted everywhere from the feeds of my college friends to (allegedly) that of Richard Dawkins' Foundation for Reason and Science:

I immediately knew that this was a bit of nonsense for the simple reason that Easter is...

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