UPDATED: The time, location, and topic of the Colorado State University event at Fort Collins has been announced! It’s on Thursday, March 7 at 7:00 pm, in A103 in Clark Hall on the CSU campus, on the topic “Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other Do It, And Why?” Free …
Monthly Archive: February 2013
Feb 28 2013
Why “God Believes in Love” is a Lousy Argument for Same Sex Marriage
This piece was originally published on AlterNet. Even if God did exist, we have no way of telling what he wants. Therefore, “what God wants” is a terrible basis for making law and public policy. How do we convince religious believers to accept same-sex marriage? The opposition to LGBT rights in general, and to same-sex …
Feb 26 2013
Crowdsourcing a BDSM/ Kink Resource Guide
I’m in the final stages of putting together my collection of erotic fiction — currently titled “Bending, and Other Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, and More” — and I could use some help. I want to include a short resource guide at the end of the book, listing books, websites, forums, and …
Feb 26 2013
Comedy Does Not Win a Free Pass: Seth MacFarlane at the Oscars
I am sick to death of the idea that “it’s just comedy” somehow gives you a free pass when you’re saying things that are racist and sexist. And I am sick to death of the idea that any transgression of social norms — no matter what those norms are, or why they exist — automatically …
Feb 25 2013
Runway Recap: Sizing It Up
If you’re going to design clothes for a bigger woman, you need to use a bigger dress form. And you need to showcase them on bigger models. Period. I mostly liked this episode. I think the “teams” concept is working out well, way the hell better than I’d expected. I was worried that when the …
Feb 21 2013
Priorities, When Depressed and When Not: Grief/ Cancer/ Depression Diary, 2/21/13
So there’s this thing that’s making it harder to manage my grief over my dad, and my recovery from cancer surgery, and menopause landing on me all at once like a sixteen-ton-weight, and what can only be described as mild PTSD from having all of these things happening within less than a month of each …
Feb 20 2013
Compassion for the Religious
“These people bring it on themselves.” “Their hijinks should be held up as an example.” “We can’t be soft on these people.” These are some of the reactions I got when I posted a piece of news on my Facebook page and wrote my commentary about it. The piece of news: someone got stuck in …
Feb 19 2013
Welcome Eric MacDonald at Choice in Dying to Freethought Blogs!
Eric MacDonald at Choice in Dying has just joined the Freethought Blogs network! Here’s his bio: Eric MacDonald, a Canadian schooled in India, has been variously, a sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy, a high school teacher, a university lecturer in philosophy, and an Anglican Priest. He was married to Elizabeth Lawrence, his one true …
Feb 19 2013
Runway Recap: What a Difference a Day Makes
Damn. Day-um. This season of Project Runway is like a rollercoaster. Last week’s episode had me kvetching about how it was a perfect example of everything that’s gone wrong with the show. This week’s episode was a perfect example of everything I love about the show: what makes it fun, what makes it compelling, what …
Feb 15 2013
On Monogamy and Non-Monogamy As a Continuum
Are monogamy and non-monogamy an either/or choice? Or is it more of a continuum? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about monogamy and non-monogamy: mostly because of a recent post I wrote about it, and the subsequent comment conversation about that post. And I had an idea I wanted to toss out there. It’s probably …
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