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. The Universe is a Slacker — May 14, 2013
  2. It’s Okay to Put Down the Book — May 12, 2013
  3. Where Obama Has and Hasn’t Blown It — May 11, 2013
  4. Women in Tech Put Up with a Lot of Crap Too — May 11, 2013
  5. Thank You For Enduring the Bullshit, Star Wars Kid — May 11, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Shut Up and Listen — 83 comments
  2. A Guy Walks into a Blog… — 34 comments
  3. Who Should Actually Worry about the Chromebook — 24 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr 28 2013

Nexus 7: It’s Not You, It’s Me

It became a little too much like work. When I decided to plunge into Android with a Nexus 7, I was happy with all the customization and inter-app communication that the platform allowed. But since then, I’ve found all the tweaks to be a little overwhelming, such that when there’s something not quite to my …

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Apr 24 2013

I’m on HuffPost Live, Talkin’ Nazis!

I think their usual lineup of guests must have all simultaneously perished, because HuffPost Live invited me to join a panel this evening, literally minutes before air time. I was happy to oblige, of course. (The host, Josh Zepps, has my boss on a lot.) We’re discussing he recent moves by Hungary to ban Nazi …

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Apr 24 2013

Paul’s ‘Friendly Atheist’ Roundup

As you might be aware, I also blog for a little outfit known as Friendly Atheist. Yeah, way more people read me there. Here’s a roundup of some of my recent posts there. I looked at how Andrew Sullivan is calling out liberals for being unwilling to confront the reality of radical Islam’s threat and …

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Apr 23 2013

If I Can’t Change Your Mind Then No One Will

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Because after over 20 years, Bob Mould’s song needed to have a mandolin, Rubbermaid bin, and egg whisk applied to it. Here’s my own twangy take on a song originally recorded by Mould’s band Sugar in 1992.

Apr 21 2013

Jon Huntsman, a Deeply Flawed Political Role Model

Jon Huntsman ran what turned out to be a pretty pathetic campaign for president in the 2012 cycle. Running to capture the nomination of a party that at several times was in the thrall of figures like Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum, he was already fighting an uphill battle to become acceptable to …

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Apr 15 2013

Smooth McGroove is the Smooth McGrooviest

Paul likes cleverly-arranged a capella music. Paul also likes beautifully composed music written for video games made before 2000. In walks Smooth McGroove (and his cat), and my world is changed. I wish Mr. McGroove great fortune, wealth, and additional free time to make more of these. My hero.

Apr 12 2013

A Song for Quetzalcoatlus

It’s been a while since I last debuted a dumb song about a prehistoric reptile for the amusement of my toddler son, so let’s correct that right now. Sung to the tune of “Macarena,” is a quick, stupid ditty for a certain pterosaur with a 40-foot wingspan. He wanna keep things tidy, yeah he wants …

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Apr 10 2013

“I Am Thrilled That He’s Dead.”

Andrew Sullivan has what at first seems like an alarming reaction to the death of his friend David Kuo, following a ten-year-long battle with brain cancer. Watch: I feel a revulsion to this line of thinking, that someone has gone “to a better place,” or as Sullivan calls it, “home.” It obviously comes from the …

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Apr 10 2013

Eat My Feelings

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I am known as something of a high-strung, ever-disappointed, self-loathing stick in the mud. Guilty as charged. So Hemant Mehta pointed me to a confection that could just possibly warm my cold, ashen heart. Yeah, that’s a Captain Picard facepalm cookie. Make it so…delicious.

Apr 08 2013

Squatting for Caro

I was curious as to whether Robert Caro, he of the voluminous Lyndon Johnson biographies, might be on Twitter. Imagine my amusement when I found this: To be clear: This account will almost certainly never be put to use. It has been reserved, however, “just in case.” — Robert Caro (@RobertACaro) May 8, 2012 The …

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