We are playing two shows this weekend, so I’m going to be all messed up by Monday. If it shows in the writing then I do apologize. Until then, here’s a video of me singing one of my favourite cover tunes: Enjoy! Or don’t. Or… I dunno, something else. Like this article? Follow me on …
Monthly Archive: July 2012
Jul 20 2012
The Allure of White Supremacy
[TRIGGER WARNING] There’s going to be some pretty racist stuff going on in this post. Please be aware of that before diving in. NOTE: I had originally opted to use more inclusive and gender neutral language when I first wrote this post, but I decided to change it so that the voice it is written …
Jul 20 2012
Movie Friday: Black Folk Don’t… do atheism
A brand new series came to my attention a little while back called Black Folk Don’t, which confronts and discusses (but doesn’t necessarily debunk) stereotypes about the African American community. I had been meaning to throw one of them on here as a Movie Friday for a couple of weeks, but the latest version was just …
Jul 19 2012
Because I am an atheist: WilloNyx
Today’s contribution comes from reader and bl0g-buddy WilloNyx, who writes at IdioPrag. Because I am an atheist… …I am more moral. The confidence that I was doing “god’s work” kept me blind to the harm I caused with my religion. I believed the “hate the sin love the sinner” trope and I did not actively …
Jul 19 2012
Trayvon was part of YahwAlladdha’s plan – Zimmerman
There is a school of thought among anti-theists like myself that rejects the smiling, hat-in-hand, ‘moderate’ version of theist belief that seems to dominate the newspaper opinion columns and academic debate halls (and yet seems to correspond not at all to the front page headlines) as profoundly dishonest. If you believe that the Bible or …
Jul 18 2012
Myth… confirmed
There is a bit of ‘wisdom’ about stereotypes that says that they have a basis in truth. Reader and regular commenter mynameischeese* referred to a particularly insightful observation: As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie once pointed out, the problem with stereotypes isn’t that they’re untrue; it’s that they are incomplete. If you go to Mexico, you can …
Jul 17 2012
Is this racist? You can bank on it.
Part of the challenge of incorporating anti-racism into mainstream skepticism is that skepticism has been primarily focused on developing techniques of inquiry honed in material sciences (by which I mean the study of physical systems like cosmology, biology, and physics – not materials science which is an entirely different thing). Ask most mainstream skeptics, and …
Jul 17 2012
Because I am an atheist: Alyson Miers
Today’s contribution comes via e-mail from Alyson Miers, who blogs at The Monster’s Ink. Because I am an atheist… I’ve wanted to be a writer ever since I was a kid who still prayed to Jesus, so I can’t credit atheism for my creative impulses, but it does have a lot to do with what …
Jul 17 2012
“How come there’s no post today?!”
Because instead of doing the responsible thing and staying home last night, I went and did this: Talib Kweli is an unbelievably skilled emcee, and when I saw he was coming to Vancouver I thought there must surely be a mistake. My reflexive skeptical cynicism notwithstanding, I bought a ticket and went to Yaletown to …
Jul 16 2012
The Essentials of our movement
[This is written by Brian. And I'm glad to be writing again. Feel free to violently disagree. ] DJ Grothe and his ambivalent stance regarding sexual harrassment. Dawkins and his ‘Dear Muslima’ letter. Penn and… well, frankly, everything. All of these freethinkers and atheists and skeptics taking a wrong turn here… They must be bad …
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