I’ve had a very strange day. I have a lot I’m supposed to be working on, but I’ve found myself in the middle of this tragedy playing out in Columbia, SC today. You hear about shootings and tragedies on the news, maybe you, like me, find them disturbing and fascinating and horrifying. Sometimes even those …
Monthly Archive: April 2011
Apr 24 2011
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Apr 22 2011
The Polygamist Message from May, 2007
I know you all can’t get enough creepy messages, right? So here’s the best of my collection, the greatest message I’ve ever gotten from a complete stranger. Can you handle it? Bolds are mine! It’s come to my attention that people (women) often say that one of the most fundamental things they are looking for …
Apr 22 2011
Today in Creepy
Oh, internet, you never fail to bring me something creepy on a regular basis. A message from a man I've never met: Wanna go out in the boat on saturday? really, you seem cool and itd be a great time with lots of people around so you wouldnt have to worry about being murdered. I look …
Apr 20 2011
Derren Brown vs Faith Healing
There are few things more difficult for the skeptic to let go of than their faith in their own intelligence. After all, recognizing the untruth of something lots of people believe in (gods, psychics, bigfoots) does give one a sense of intellectual superiority. I've certainly been guilty of a sort of mental vanity that is …
Apr 16 2011
Releasing the Prop 8 Videos
People in an open society do not demand infallibility in their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing - Chief Justice Berger Former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, who presided over the Prop 8 trial, recently used some of the video that was taken during the case as part of a lecture. …
Apr 10 2011
Interview with Nicholl Fellowship Winner Micah Ranum!
FSU Classmate and winner of the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship Micah Ranum very kindly answered some questions I had for him about winning and what his life has been like since. 1. What script did you win with, what’s it about, what do you love about it? My script is entitled “A Good Hunter.” The story …
Apr 07 2011
Skepticism: Tits or GTFO*?
Originally posted at SheThought. I hate writing about feminist issues, because every time I do I get accused of being a feminazi or caring more about women than men, or of buying into victim culture, or any number of accusations that come with the territory. Feminism isn’t generally my main issue, and so I’m always …
Apr 05 2011
Questions I Need Answers to from Christians
How do you resolve the question of suffering? Why do so many people suffer for no apparent reason? Does anyone who doesn’t believe in Jesus go to hell? If it’s “free will”, why are we made so poorly in the first place? Do you think homosexuals are evil? Is the bible literal? Do you think …
Apr 01 2011
I have a new crush, and it’s a cobra!
Are you following @BronxZoosCobra? If you’re unfamiliar with the story, the Bronx Zoo has lost a rather venomous snake*, an Egyptian Cobra, and in the ensuing New York panic, an incredibly clever person created a Twitter account in the name of the snake. Despite the fact that @BronxZoosCobra is only following one person, their funny …
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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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