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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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 06 2013
The Stream of Invective, a Price Well Paid
Wikipedian Brandon Harris takes to Quora to talk about how he felt being the subject of a lot of Internet derision during his famous banner appearances throughout Wikipedia’s fundraising drive. His words were, to say the least, helpful. None of it is real. There is a stream of invective from people saying that I look …
Feb 03 2013
Too Cute By Half
You know, I actually kind of dig Seth Godin. He really does drop some useful wisdom about work and creativity here and there, things I do try to remember and take to heart. But then, you know, he’s also Seth Godin, the “look at the mischievous upper-half-of-my-bald-skull” guy who is, let’s face it, sometimes pushing …
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 22 2013
The Facebook Trap
I feel trapped by Facebook. A recent Salon piece by Sara Scribner has rekindled my nascent desire to exit it altogether. Scribner comes to her own loathing of Facebook from the perspective of someone who, having escaped the cliques of junior high, finds herself once again in a social environment in which approval and validation …
Jan 16 2013
Thoughtful
The only difference for me is that I begin by dreading the responses. Comic by Jim Benton.
Jan 12 2013
Ruthless Curation of One’s Online Experience
I’ve been looking for ways to express my feelings about online interactions of late, and rather than articulating them successfully, I’ve been having something of a public meltdown. I am therefore grateful to whoever the hell it is behind the Twitter persona @pourmecoffee for his recent post, which included this: I instantly and irreversibly block …
Jan 11 2013
That’s a Mighty High Dudgeon You’ve Got There
My wife asked me a question I at first dismissed when I told her about the previous post. I’ll have to paraphrase from memory. But I was telling her about the subject of the post, how I thought folks were wrong to perennially demand Sam Harris’s, or anyone else’s head on a platter when there …
Jan 09 2013
This Tumblr is a BFD
Whatever’s bothering you, however crappy you’re feeling, this Tumblr will make you feel at least a little bit better. Unless you’re a bad person. (Hat tip to Moglia.)
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