Daily Archive: August 18, 2009

Aug 18 2009

A brilliant deconversion story

This is how people come to atheism — not through indoctrination, not through reinforcement, but through critical thinking. Make no mistake, this is why theists want to control the schools. They are afraid of people who ask “why”, because forcing a child to think critically about the things they believe unquestioningly is indeed the most …

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Aug 18 2009

Out Campaign hotlink URLs changed

Those of you with Scarlet A’s on your blogs should update your URLs. I’ve just done so — they’re now cloud-sourcing the images to avoid network downtime and bandwidth issues. You can get the new code here.

Aug 18 2009

Seth MacFarlane: “It’s about fucking time!”

While I’ve always eyed Bill Maher as a potential stumbling block in the atheist movement, given his propensity toward believing other forms of woo to fill the void left by his lack of faith in religion, I appreciate what he does to popularize being godless in an age where it is viewed as anathema. His …

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Aug 18 2009

My headache

I’ve sat on this for a while, as I’ve had quite a bit on my plate lately, and I don’t want to go out of my way to give Zdenny a bigger stage than he already has. Yet, I link to him because he quote-mined me here to make a larger point about science as …

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Aug 18 2009

No, Felicia Day, you’re far hotter than your avatar.

Oh my Flying Spaghetti Monster. This is genius! Absolutely love Vork trying to rap. (Seriously — she Tweeted a pic of her real-life WoW avatar once. It was a dwarf with color coordination problems. Though even if she’d picked a Night-Elf, she’d probably still be hotter.)

:)