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 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 …
Mar 29 2013
A “-gate” Repeats Itself
Alice Marwick at Wired on “Donglegate“: Regardless of the nuances of the incident, the fact remains that [Adria] Richards faced a gargantuan backlash that included death threats, rape threats, a flood of racist and sexually violent speech, a DDOS attack on her employer — and a photoshopped picture of a naked, bound, decapitated woman. The …
Mar 13 2013
A Population Equally Brave
Jennifer Michael Hecht is one of my favorite writers, and in her review of Susan Jacoby’s new book on Robert Ingersoll, she leaves me with this haunting thought: There have been atheists and religious doubters throughout history, but the ones who remain famous after their deaths tend to have been equally famous for something else …
Mar 13 2013
The Bergoglio Imbroglio: The New Pope, Tweeted
I enjoy Twitter during big public events, especially those that are incredibly silly. One such kind of event would be, say, a GOP candidates’ debate. Today, we had the announcement of the new pope, which is even sillier because at least with Republican presidential candidates, only some of them think they were anointed by God. …
Feb 14 2013
Cover Those Stats with a Smudge of Ash [Updated]
The folks over at Non-Prophet Status are indulging in this secular Lent thing, where they all give up something for 40 days because, well, I don’t know why. They’re weird, what can I say? Maybe they think it’ll make them better people to go without something for so long. Oh, except Chris Stedman, who’s just …
Feb 11 2013
Dear Roman Catholics: Pick Me!
His creepiness Pope Benedict XVI is going to resign at the end of the month, and before anybody gets any ideas, I want to throw my hat into the ring to be the new guy wearing the giant, ridiculous hat. Why Paul for Pope? I’ll lend an unprecedented breath of fresh air to a decaying …
Jan 27 2013
So I Ran Into American Atheists President Dave Silverman at the Supermarket
Well, no I didn’t. But get this. So this vending machine is selling stickers of Internet memes (or “meme’s”), which is clever enough I guess. But do you see what I see? No? Look closer. I’m sure Dave is getting a piece of this action. Right?
Jan 26 2013
Shut Up and Listen
We do not like to be told we are being jerks. We do not like to be told we are being demeaning, or belittling, or discriminatory, or bigoted, even if by accident. Particularly we skepto-atheists, who so pride ourselves on our rationality, our grip on reality, our ability to coolly evaluate information on its merits. …
Jan 04 2013
Not All Deep Rifts Are Worth Diving Into
Kate Donovan, who is a real blessing to the interwebs, makes a great point about the Deep Rifts in the skepto-atheosphere, which I will then pour a teaspoon of cold water on. Kate writes: . . . if we’re going to be intellectually honest, we DO need to be arguing, critiquing, and otherwise speaking up …
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