My friend Rebecca saw this sign on a recent road trip, and of course she photographed it and sent it to me: An ordinary person might just post the photo and let it speak for itself. But this is me, and of course I want to gas on about why it’s both so funny and …
Monthly Archive: September 2007
Sep 30 2007
Carnival of the Godless #76
Carnival of the Godless #76 is up at A Load of Bright. They were kind enough to include my piece Good Cop, Bad Cop: Atheist Activism (a piece of which I’m unusually proud), so many thanks for that. My favorite pieces in this week’s carnival: Clearing the Ground by Ebon Muse at Daylight Atheism, on …
Sep 28 2007
Friday Cat Blogging on Saturday: Catfish in the Sun
And now, two cute pictures of my cat. Isn’t she angelic, sitting there in that patch of sunlight? Doesn’t she just look like the sweetest thing? And here’s a note that our catsitter left when we got back from vacation. Click to enlarge. “Fluids” means subcutaneous fluids, the reason we hired a catsitter in the …
Sep 28 2007
Tech issues with the blog: comments and archives
Just a quick FYI: If you’re having trouble clicking on comments in the “Recent Comments” list, you’re not alone. The comments are there, at the end of the posts where they should be; but TypePad is tinkering with the way their blogs display comments, and it’s messing with the connection between “Recent Comments” and the …
Sep 27 2007
Best Erotic Comics 2008 – Artist List Finalized! Plus Call for Submissions for Best Erotic Comics 2009!
It’s at the printers! The artist list is finalized! After some predictable delays in production, my new anthology, Best Erotic Comics 2008, is moving forward, with an expected publication date from Last Gasp of December 2007! Here’s the skinny. (Yes, in this case “the skinny” is the book’s official blurb, but I wrote the blurb …
Sep 27 2007
Skeptic’s Circle #70… and a Rant on Alternative Medicine
Skeptic’s Circle #70 is up at Conspiracy Factory. They were kind enough to include my piece Seeing Jesus On Drugs… a decision they may come to regret, as it’ll only encourage me to blog drunk again. My favorite pieces in this Circle: Skeptico on the testing (a.k.a. the lack thereof) of most alternative medicine (this …
Sep 26 2007
Carnival of the Liberals #48
Carnival of the Liberals #48 is up now at Liberal England. They were kind enough to include my piece The Galileo Fallacy, and the Gadfly Corollary, which makes me very happy. The Carnival of the Liberals is a selective carnival — it typically only includes the ten best blog posts submitted — so it’s always …
Sep 25 2007
Night of the Living Vacation Photos
This is the price you pay, people. You want my opinionated rants thoughtful commentary on religion and politics and sex; you have to put up with my vacation snapshots. Hopefully some of you will emerge from the horror unscarred. This is me and Ingrid in front of the Berwyn Spindle. Berwyn is a suburb of …
Sep 25 2007
The Catholic Church: Pedophilia as a First Amendment Right
I think I’m going to be sick. Via Dispatches from the Culture Wars: In one of the many pedophilia lawsuits against them, having to do with known pedophiles in the priesthood not being reported to the police and in fact being re-assigned repeatedly to new dioceses, the Catholic Church is arguing that the case should …
Sep 23 2007
The Galileo Fallacy, and the Gadfly Corollary
“Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” -Robert Park. Stolen from the header of Conspiracy Factory There’s a form of very bad thinking that I see a lot in some very smart, thoughtful people. The thinking goes like …
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