Our profoundest condolences go out to friend and sometime co-host AronRa, who here gives a tremendously touching eulogy for his granddaughter Sidney, felled by cancer. I recently read a novel in which a character ruminates on death, expressing the view that — the phraseology notwithstanding — instead of thinking that our lost loved ones were [...]

Tracie and I finished off the year with one final show last night.  We had a lot of fun with this episode.  In case anybody wanted to read it, I’ve copied what I said about Christopher Hitchens below the fold.

I was at Barnes & Noble with my son last night and made a surprising discovery: There’s a newly published book of poems by Shel Silverstein.  It’s called Every Thing On It, and is apparently a post-mortem collection of poems he wrote between his 1996 book Falling Up and his death in 1999. As a big [...]

First exchange: I was watching some clips from your show on Youtube.  I am always interested in the challenges presented by differing views.  Your hosts make some compelling points about what seems to be a great injustice in the belief in hell. The problem with most of the anti-religion views is that they focus on the [...]

I wasn’t able to attend this year’s Skepticon (or the 3 that preceded it), but I have a very strong suspicion that I’ll be at SK5. I do, though, enjoy seeing what I’ve missed. I’ve had the great fortune of meeting and spending time with many of the speakers at other events and I love [...]