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Archive for January, 2012

Short Stack #10

Wise Old Saying I Just Made Up: We get a first life, which is Life. And we get this second life, which is the memory of us that remains in the minds of those who knew us. There is no other. So do everything you can to really LIVE in your lifetime, and to leave [...]

Give ‘Em a Million Years and They’ll Have Their Own Space Program

Are You Doing Your Part to Kill God?

Had a thought last night: Those of us who are atheists, we all came from somewhere. And it’s not such a reach to think that somewhere in our back trails, there are others who might appreciate a hand, in order to get where we got. I grew up in Houston, Texas, went to a high [...]

SF Fan All My Life

… And now someone I know has written an SF novel. Jim Downey, former co-blogger on Unscrewing the Inscrutable, that historic godless blog created by Brent Rasmussen, is the author of Communion of Dreams. The year is 2052, and the human race is still struggling to recover from a massive pandemic flu some 40 years [...]

Reader Question: Atheist Blood Drive

I willing to bleed for my fellow man (and woman). I used to donate blood fairly often, when I lived in Houston. I got my gallon pin and then donated a few more times before I moved to a little mountain town in California and it became much less convenient. I’ve been thinking for years [...]

Shameless Attack on the Atheist Food Supply

KeeeRYST, now what? It’s not enough that they want to keep us out of public office, or force us to touch Bibles in court, now they want to interfere with our tasty atheist snacks. Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey (he of the snappy, cutting-edge web page) seems convinced that some food coming into his state [...]

Sikh sect sick over lame Leno lark

India is up in arms over a joke made by Jay Leno. Judge the heinousness of it yourself: Right. In the midst of a very mild joke about Romney’s summer home, Leno flashed a brief image of the Temple of Amritsar, the “Golden Temple,” in the state of Punjab in northern India. 

Short Stack #9

The next atheist book I write, I’m having it printed on the tanned skins of raptured Christians. ——————————– Chinese New Year tomorrow! We enter the Year of the Dragon, the year of my birth! Yes, I am a Dragon! And no, I’m not breathing fire just to prove it.

Get Real: Losing the Love of God

Note for new readers: I lost my Dad, Dan Farris, a few months back. I’ve been thinking a lot about that, and what it’s doing to me. I keep a digital recorder with me all the time, and I record thoughts and impressions about the process and the milestones. Here is one such thought. I [...]

Evil Chic: You Know You Want It

Seriously, this is a good cause: Evil Little Shirts. The proceeds will support a very poised and bright young woman, Jessica Ahlquist, who spearheaded the recent fight to remove the unconstitutional Christian prayer banner from her high school. Ed and PZ say it better than me. But hey, even if you knew nothing else about [...]