Not a totally new draft, just a tweaked one. I have a hard time doing rewrites immediately, I need time for things to gestate. I think I’m different from most writers in that I’d rather spend a lot of time thinking and write in a mad dash than to write a little each day. I …
Monthly Archive: May 2010
May 14 2010
On the wtf is up with Damon Linker?
This is the article: http://www.tnr.com/blog/damon-linker/another-kind-atheism A) I’m not sure why one wouldn’t conflate truth and goodness B) Atheism is a neutral, it’s morality that is positive or negative, and atheism doesn’t create a set of moral values C) I still haven’t heard a cogent definition for what a “New Atheist” is as compared to a plain …
May 12 2010
5 random things I’ve been thinking about
1. Toilet seat sheets. If you’re too grossed out to sit on the toilet, is a sheet really going to make it better? The show I’m working on, these two women who were otherwise not like high maintenance said they would never use a toilet that wasn’t their own without a toilet sheet. What? Seriously? …
May 10 2010
What happens if PZ links to you
I may or may not have spent a lot of time trying to be there when it read exactly 10,000. I will actually write up the rest of the conference, which was interesting too.
May 10 2010
Tom Lehrer makes me happy
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews.
May 09 2010
My Dinner Date with PZ Myers
I have no camera, but I do have an iMac. Apologies for any legibility issues, it says, “Notice: No Squid! This is Bullshit! PZ Myers.” That’s the Gideon Bible what I stole and kept because it was green. I stole it because that’s generally my MO in hotels, but I didn’t throw it away because …
May 06 2010
Weird and unrelated to anything
On huffpo there’s a picture of a billboard in Tallahassee, FL of a plastic surgeon there who I may or may not have consulted when I was in my earlier quest for a breast reduction. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/above-average-plastic-sur_n_566692.html It gets better. It gets oh so much better. He has a book available on Amazon called “The Good, …
May 06 2010
It’s Called MUTILATION for a Reason; Cutting off the Clitoris of Young Girl is Evil
I am so angry. I am so angry I don’t even know how to put it in words. But I’ll make the attempt. The American, AMERICAN, Academy of Pediatrics in the United States of America, in the year 2010, is asking the pediatric Doctors, you know the kind with Medical Licenses, to perform female GENITAL …
May 05 2010
Advice for 2010 Grads Coming to LA; 15 things
The Bitter Script Reader posted some advice about how to survive to move to LA. I tried to comment over there and it won’t let me, but this is what I said. 1) Get settled so that you’re as comfortable as possible — living out of boxes makes everything seem transient. Have roommates or whatever, …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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