Apr 28 2013
Earlier this week, Crommunist pointed me to this article in The Atlantic, People Who Believe in God are More Responsive to Treatment of Depression. And ohhh boy do I have feelings and crinkly skeptic eyebrows. [As a side note, I’d like to thank The Atlantic for putting a link to the original research in their footnotes. Nice touch, actually …
Feb 13 2013
It’s been a very long time since I’ve allowed myself to do video commentary on YouTube. I once had a vlog and it was so thoroughly abused by assholes that I took it down. But, I am short of time lately and it’s less difficult to just sit and talk than to carefully construct an …
Jan 04 2013
Okay. So, atheists. You might have seen some arguing in the blogosphere lately. You might have heard people with pleasant accents saying unpleasant things about feminists. Or you’ve been ensnarled in a Twitter spat. Or three. It’s exhausting, and I get it. You want us to all get along and stop writing blog posts at each …
Nov 13 2012
[Content note: aggravated homophobia] You might remember when Chick-Fil-A was in the news a few months back. WinShape, the ‘charitable’ arm of the corporation had been donating to anti-LGBT groups for a while, but Dan Cathy, CEO, had just reaffirmed his inability to understand the meaning of charitable in a few paragraphs of biblical-family-and-tradition nonsense. …
Oct 16 2012
Today, I’m giving a (very brief) talk at our interfaith society’s meeting about atheists and death. This is a semi-outline of my points and suchlike. Criticism is accepted and encouraged. A good deal of the highlights are cribbed from this piece: Why Atheism Inspires Me to Seek Social Justice. Hi, everyone. I’m Kate. Junior, Psychology …
Oct 09 2012
I am taking a class this semester on intersectionality and, unsurprisingly, despite the fact that the class is about Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, it has also become significantly about religion. You’re welcome. It has also focused on the election a great deal. One thing that has come up is the idea that Romney’s religion …
Aug 24 2012
American Atheists caused a bit of a stir by putting up billboards criticizing religion up in Charlotte, NC, where the DNC convention is going to be held. But there is good news for hateful bigots who use their religion to bludgeon other people with fear and loathing: all of the death threats and hate speech …
Aug 08 2012
This could also be titled “how to get unfriended on Facebook”. Always beware of someone asking “genuine, non-rhetorical questions” they want answers to from the opposing side. Sometimes they don’t like your answer. My former FB friend posted the following, in reference to an article by Michael Rowe: I truly hope this opinion from one …
Jul 25 2012
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. H/t to George Takei for posting it. Chick-fil-A has been horrific to gay people for a long time, I am glad that they’ve finally been outspoken enough about it to cause everyday people to start protesting. The story is this: the founder’s son/COO said …
Jul 23 2012
The South is the new epicenter of HIV transmission — half of all new infection happen here, though we have less than a third of the American population. South Carolina is 8th in the nation for rates of HIV, but other southern states are doing poorly as well. Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas… HIV is not …
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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