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Readers, be warned: This is not one of my more diplomatic pieces. I’m angry, and while I’m trying to be fair here, I’m not trying to be nice. If you don’t want to read that, please don’t. (It was also written under the influence of an entertaining assortment of prescription drugs; so if I’m more [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Blood and Suffering: A Seriously Pissed-Off Rant About Alternative Medicine
March 28th, 2008 
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Brief Blog Break
March 24th, 2008 Greta Christina Hi, all. Greta here. I wanted to let you all know: I went into Kaiser today about the bad cold/ asthma attack I got this weekend, and it turns out to be pneumonia. Not to worry or freak out — it’s not a terribly bad case, and with antibiotics and other nice modern medicines I [...]
A Tale of Two Scandals: The Obligatory Eliot Spitzer and “American Idol” Stripper Column: The Blowfish Blog
March 21st, 2008 Greta Christina I have a new piece up on the Blowfish Blog, a piece that manages to tie together the two big sex scandals of the week — the Eliot Spitzer scandal and the “American Idol” stripper scandal — into one, hopefully not overly belabored analogy. The piece is called A Tale of Two Scandals: The Obligatory [...]
Come Hear Me Read! Thursday, March 27
March 21st, 2008 Greta Christina UPDATE: This event is still happening, but alas, I won’t be there. I’m home sick with pneumonia and expect to be for several days, so I will not be reading at this event. Damn and blast. It should still be fun, though, and I encourage y’all to go anyway. Note to family members and others [...]
And The Winner of the Internet Today Is…
March 20th, 2008 Greta Christina PZ Myers, of Pharyngula fame, for being refused admission — dare we say it, expelled? — to a screening of the creationist propaganda film “Expelled,” while his guest was admitted without incident. His guest: Richard Dawkins. The whole story is here. It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. The creationist movement: stifling debate, and [...]
Do-It-Yourself Placebos
March 20th, 2008 Greta Christina Ever since I started blogging about atheism — and thus started reading more about religion than I have at any time in my life since I was a religion major in college — I’ve been puzzled by a particular brand of pro-theism argument. It’s the “religion is good for you” arguments: religion gives people comfort, [...]
Everything You Know about God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion: Shameless Self-Promotion, Round 3
March 20th, 2008 Greta Christina Finally, there’s one more book with writing of mine in that I wanted to tell you about. This one actually came out a few months ago, and I’ve mentioned it in passing a couple of times, but since I’m on a “shameless self-promotion of anthologies I’m in” roll, I wanted to take a moment to [...]
The Best of Best American Erotica 2008, 15th Anniversary Edition: Shameless Self-Promotion, Round 2
March 20th, 2008 Greta Christina And I wanted to tell you about yet another book that I have writing in. I am very proud to have been included in the most recent edition of Best American Erotica: the special 15th anniversary Best of Best American Erotica 2008, collecting the standout authors and stories from the history of the series (along [...]
Best Sex Writing 2008: Shameless Self-Promotion, Round 1
March 19th, 2008 Greta Christina Note to family members and others who don’t want to know about my personal sex life: This post mentions my personal sex life. It doesn’t talk about it in any great detail, but it mentions aspects of my personal sex life that may be seriously too much information. If you don’t want to know about [...]
On The Amazingness of Atheists… And Why It’s Doomed
March 18th, 2008 Greta Christina I think the contemporary atheist movement is amazing. I am inspired and enlightened and completely blown away by it, on an almost daily basis. Not to mention vastly entertained. I think the contemporary atheist movement is largely — although far from entirely — made up of people who are smart, thoughtful, ethical, caring, passionate, honest, [...]
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