So, I sent my blog post yesterday to the Reason Rally essay contest and won two seats in the VIP section. Because I got here early, I actually got a seat in the front row. If you’d like to follow me, I will probably posting mostly on facebook, which you can follow, or twitter. The …
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Mar 23 2012
Why Reason Rally?
I have posted so much about the Reason Rally in the last few weeks, but I have one last thing I want to talk about: why I care so much about this event. Many of my friends talk about this event as a rallying of the troops, a way to build morale and group identity …
Oct 18 2011
75 Books 61-65: Dawkins, Colfer, and Dillman
61. Internet, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys – Don Dillman I had to read this for grad school. If you have a major need to understand the intricacies of how to create a survey, this is the book for you. Actually, it was fairly readable and not nearly as dry as one might expect such a …
Sep 17 2011
75 Books 56-60: George, Dawkins, Conley and Colfer
56. Dragon Spear – Jessica Day George This is the final book in this series. The story follows the discovery of a land where dragon’s have enslaved humans and Creel leads the “good” dragons to rescue the humans and reform the “bad” dragons. This book was just as entertaining as the earlier ones but lacked a …
Jul 19 2011
TAM Saturday
I got up early on Saturday and headed to the Del Mar bar to meet Ginger Campbell, super awesome brain and ER doctor, to watch the 3rd place World Cup match between Sweden and France. I didn’t stay for the whole thing, but Sweden ended up winning. I missed a panel about paranormal investigation and …
Jul 15 2011
TAM 9 Thursday
So, yesterday I arrived in Las Vegas. It was hot, but actually less hot than it was in Columbia, SC for the last few days. I then immediately got some Baja Fresh, because brown salsa is amazing. Then iw went to the hotel. I ended up hanging out with Heidi Anderson in the speakers rooms …
Sep 19 2010
Richard Dawkins Welcomes Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity. He’s an enemy of children, whose bodies he’s allowed to be raped and whose minds he’s encouraged to be infected with guilt. It’s embarrassingly clear that the church is less concerned with saving child bodies from rapists than with saving priestly souls from hell. And most concerned with …
Aug 27 2010
DBAD Follow Up
Why do I suddenly have the urge to build a giant phallus out of straw? – Tracy I am getting a fair amount of attention from the skeptic community for my post about Phil Plait’s Don’t Be A Dick Speech. I don’t really have much more to say than what I said originally. The really …
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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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