Paul Fidalgo

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Name: Paul Fidalgo
Date registered: March 28, 2012

Biography

Paul Fidalgo is a writer, actor, musician, and professional skepto-atheist. As communications director for the Center for Inquiry (which totally does not endorse anything on this site), he writes the daily blog series The Morning Heresy, and is also a contributor to Friendly Atheist. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and his original music can be enjoyed here. He lives in Maine with his wife Jessica and children Toby and Phoebe. You can endure his tweets as @PaulFidalgo.

Latest posts

  1. …A Guy Walks out of a Blog — May 21, 2013
  2. The Universe is a Slacker — May 14, 2013
  3. It’s Okay to Put Down the Book — May 12, 2013
  4. Where Obama Has and Hasn’t Blown It — May 11, 2013
  5. Women in Tech Put Up with a Lot of Crap Too — May 11, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Shut Up and Listen — 85 comments
  2. A Guy Walks into a Blog… — 34 comments
  3. …A Guy Walks out of a Blog — 34 comments

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May 21 2013

…A Guy Walks out of a Blog

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Due to a swirl of circumstances involving my employer and the feelings of many folks on this blog network, I’m taking Near-Earth Object off of Freethought Blogs. You know, things got awkward. My sincere thanks and appreciation to Ed and all those who welcomed me aboard. To the five or six people who read this …

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May 14 2013

The Universe is a Slacker

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I’m reading Bertrand Russell’s The ABC of Relativity (well, listening to it, in an audiobook read by Derek Jacoby FTW), and for one, it’s helping me understand relativity a tiny, tiny bit, which is huge. Relatively. But I also just heard Jacoby pronounce this tidbit, which delighted me: If people were to learn to conceive …

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May 12 2013

It’s Okay to Put Down the Book

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Tim Parks, blogging at NYRB, writes a thought-provoking piece positing that there may be something to the idea that a reader may opt not to finish a novel when they are, in essence, quite full and satisfied — and that authors should accept and embrace this. It’s a fascinating idea considering how rarely endings of …

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May 11 2013

Where Obama Has and Hasn’t Blown It

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Norm Ornstein looks to dispel the notion that Obama’s agenda is stifled because the president lacks some certain, special, nameless something that forces enemies in Congress to do his bidding. For example, on the myth that arm-twisting is some kind of chief executive panacea: On the gun-control vote in the Senate, the press has focused …

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May 11 2013

Women in Tech Put Up with a Lot of Crap Too

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I thought this might be of interest to my readers and to a lot of folks in the skepto-atheosphere: Dan Benjamin’s panel-discussion podcast The Crossover in recent months has done a couple of episodes that focused on the unique challenges faced by women in the tech and inter-webs industries. They’re both very insightful and illuminating …

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May 11 2013

Thank You For Enduring the Bullshit, Star Wars Kid

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I loved Star Wars Kid. When his video was cruelly put online for all to mock, I only saw myself. I mean, I'm human, I laughed and cringed. But I also saw both the wish to be something greater, something from fantasy, as well as the desire to actually make something, to use my enthusiasm …

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May 04 2013

Big Bucks to be Made When Middle School Becomes an Urban Warfare Training Academy

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From Liz Halloran at NPR, we get a story of the Rocori school district in Minnesota which is spending $25,000 on, wait for it, bulletproof white boards. “The timing was right,” Rocori school board Chairwoman Nadine Schnettler tells us. “The company is making these in response to the Newtown shooting, and has been making similar …

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May 03 2013

Delicious Disunion

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In Kansas, they’ve declared that they won’t abide by any federal law having to do with guns. In North Carolina, some folks tried to pass a law that would allow them to establish a state religion, and it enjoyed a great deal of popular support. Louisiana not only wants to teach creationism to its kids, …

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May 01 2013

The Problem Wasn’t the Internet

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When Paul Miller of The Verge began his year-long hiatus from the Internet, I rolled my eyes. I looked to me to be a kind of attention-getting gimmick, intended to raise his profile and lend him an air of sophistication. My assumption, however, was pure prejudice, having known nothing about him as a writer or …

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Apr 30 2013

Bowser the Fascist, Mario the Warchief

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I’ve just finished Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August, and I’m generally trying to get myself better acquainted with the societal and political conditions that surrounded the World Wars. But who needs real history? For a serious lesson in statecraft and warcraft, check out Domhnall O’Huigin’s explanation of the political context of the universe of …

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