Archive for March, 2013

Russell here. Lucky me, the 2013 American Atheists convention was held in Austin this year, which meant that all I had to do was shell out money for a ticket and no travel or lodging fees. I’d be crazy to pass up such an opportunity! I’m a couple of days behind on blogging the experience, but trying to catch up now before Jerry DeWitt begins his “Easter Service.” I took a day off of work on Friday so I could arrive at the Hyatt early in the morning and help my friend / our product guy Mark Vandebrake to set up the Atheist Community of Austin’s table with t-shirts, keychains, and bumper stickers. Lots of credit to Mark for creating and ordering our new polo and t-shirts. Read more

Okay, we all know that Kirk Cameron is a has-been actor from the ’80s whose minimal intellect has reduced him to partnering with professional joke Ray Comfort, a deal which, in a country full of similarly stupid people, has proven more lucrative than actually pursuing acting work would have been for him. So you’d already expect him to be too unintelligent to understand the legal and Constitutional distinction between decalogue monuments on private property versus public (ie. government-owned) property. That’s a given. At the same time, this is the first instance I’ve seen of him making smirking, approving comments about how people who fight for church/state separation should be murdered. Of course, if you were to call him on it, I’m sure he’d explain it’s all “a little joke.” Still, you know…what a shithead, huh? Read more

The guy who called the show with wild claims of people who live their entire lives without eating or drinking, emailed us today. Read more

Apropos of everything relating to current discussions about misogyny, in the atheist/skeptical community as well as the world at large, John Scalzi boils everything you need to know down to a couple of sentences. Now go have a good weekend.

So um, yeah… this happened. Read more