While others are working to send deserving people, I am selfishly sending only one person to the Women in Secularism conference: ME. I just registered. My greedy self-interest worries me…maybe I’m turning into a libertarian now.
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Chris Clarke
19 February 2013 at 11:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Can I have your state-funded job?
cervantes
19 February 2013 at 11:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Don’t worry PZ, I’m sure everyone will view your offer of your own presence as supremely generous.
(No, I’m not normally that nice.)
Dhorvath, OM
19 February 2013 at 11:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I saw this in the sidebar and thought it said “I am so shellfish.” Sigh.
PZ Myers
19 February 2013 at 11:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Chris, you know my state-funded job is about as far from the desert as you can get. I suppose you could switch your interests to wetlands…
Cuttlefish
19 February 2013 at 11:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wrong blog, Dhorvath, OM. ;-)
Dhorvath, OM
19 February 2013 at 11:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
But he links you. From time to time.
coyotenose
19 February 2013 at 12:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You’re safe, PZ. In order to be a true Libertarian, you’d have to get your trip subsidized and then actively work to keep other people from going because the Constitution doesn’t mention conferences or something.
Sili
19 February 2013 at 12:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
No Mary?
janiceintoronto
19 February 2013 at 1:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’ll be going due to the generosity of Marcus Ranum and Stephanie Zvan. This is gonna be, well, uh, dare I say “awesome”? I’d be dating myself to say it was groovy…
See ya’ there, eh?
Your friend in grooviness,
Janice in Toronto
jose
19 February 2013 at 2:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
But… you ain’t a woman.
*is confused*
PZ Myers
19 February 2013 at 3:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
No Mary. She has to work for a living.
jose: do you really think only women could be interested in justice for women?
jose
19 February 2013 at 9:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Not at all, just figured it would be like a convention for women. They do a couple a year here, just at a local level. I need to keep myself better informed. 0:)