I stumbled across this study that’s been floating around the atheosphere (my new word for the atheist blogosphere), and since I think some people are getting it a bit wrong, I want to comment on it. It’s a study on atheism worldwide, comparing countries with high and low degrees of atheism and seeing⊠well, how …
Monthly Archive: August 2007
Aug 31 2007
Friday Cat Blogging: Catfish with Dangling Tail
And now, a cute picture of my cat. We don’t take that many pictures of Catfish, since mostly all she does is sleep on the heater. (She’s an elderly cat and loves the warmth even more than most cats, and the heater is always slightly warm from the pilot light.) But this pose with the …
Aug 30 2007
Not Just Another Right-Wing Hypocrite Sex Scandal: The Blowfish Blog
My new piece is up on the Blowfish Blog, a take on the latest right-wing hypocrite sex scandal called Not Just Another Right-Wing Hypocrite Sex Scandal. As you may have guessed from the title, I have a somewhat different take on the Larry Craig bathroom-cruising case than I do on the eighty zillion other Republican/ …
Aug 30 2007
Carnivals: Skeptic’s Circle and Carnival of Liberals
Skeptic’s Circle #68 is up at Aardvarchaeology. This is the first time I’ve had a piece in the Skeptic’s Circle — they were kind enough to include my piece A Self-Referential Game of Twister: What Religion Looks Like From the Outside — so I’m all a-twitter with girlish glee. Haven’t had a chance yet to …
Aug 28 2007
View from the Fourteenth Floor
I’m working on several different blog pieces now, none of which is finished yet. So tonight you get a dirty story from the archives. Note: This is a very nasty story, and family members and others who don’t want to read my porn or know too much about my fantasies may want to stop now. …
Aug 28 2007
“Where is my Faith”: Mother Teresa and Suffering
This one came completely out of left field. I’m still taken aback by it. For the last fifty years of her life, Mother Teresa had lost her faith. In private letters to friends and confessors (as documented in a new book “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light”), she acknowledged repeatedly that she no longer felt …
Aug 26 2007
Does The Emperor Have Clothes? Religion and the Destructive Force of Asking Questions
Is the mere act of questioning religion an attack on it? There are religious believers who seem to think so. An increasingly common refrain among religious writers and leaders is that the recent surge of atheist writing is unacceptably offensive and insulting. Intolerant, even. I’m not going to say atheists are never rude. But much …
Aug 25 2007
The New “Zoo” Review
This piece originally appeared on the Blowfish Blog. The movie is about bestiality. I want to tell you that right up front, since it takes a while for the movie to get around to it. A little more specifically, “Zoo” is a documentary about a 2005 incident in which a man died of a perforated …
Aug 24 2007
Friday Cat Blogging: Violet on the Suitcase
And now, two cute pictures of our cat. This is Violet, on Ingrid’s suitcase. I’d like to think that she’s doesn’t like Ingrid traveling so much and is trying to tell her not to leave. But really, I think she just likes sitting on the suitcase. Which, I would like to point out, is not …
Aug 23 2007
Only Losers Dine At Le Cirque: The Stigma on Sex Work Customers: The Blowfish Blog
A recent letter to the Savage Love sex advice column reminded me of a rant I’ve been wanting to make for a while; ever since I put together Paying For It, really. It has to do with the stigma on sex work customers, and the idea that “having to pay for it” makes you a …
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