Dec 24 2012
For some reason, Lousy Canuck defends lies about me while he talks about* a man who was kicked off this blogging network for the exact type of harassment that we all rail against.He argues that we’re all living in different parallel universes. I think he’s right. *(holiday edit) And then there’s when Greg Laden says he wants …
Dec 23 2012
Fort Bragg area animal rescue, Thundering Paws, has found a new home for Dolly! You may remember that my wife rescued and nurtured this (then) very pregnant abandoned cat for weeks. We were about to move and Dolly needed a home. In an extremely unfortunate turn of events, a man who was temporarily fostering her …
Dec 23 2012
This is really vile. I don’t care what you think about your opponent in an argument. You never ever do this: That link contained what he hoped was Mykeru’s home address. Only it wasn’t his home, it was his ex-wife’s home, and that was years ago. Even then, she may not even live there anymore! …
Dec 22 2012
Shirley Husar at the Washington Times, wrote an attack piece against atheist West Point Cadet Blake Page. It veers into histrionics rather quickly: If the founders didn’t intend to require that cadets be Catholics or Baptists, they also clearly didn’t intend that they be atheists. Page therefore found himself in a system designed not to eliminate atheists, …
Dec 22 2012
That’s right, the Oklahoma Atheists podcast hosts, Damion Reinhardt and Chas Stewart, reserve the right to circumcise the unsynagogued. Watch out all you heathen anteaters. Actually, the host’s statement wasn’t a non-sequiter at all. It an absurdist reduction of a military chaplain’s proclamation, “I reserve the right to evangelize the un-churched.” That chaplain refused my request for him …
Dec 22 2012
A particularly annoying nagnostic named George showed up to the comments a few days back. Some of us engaged him. Articulett of Debunking Christianity fame mopped the floor with him. It was funny, and it was over. Or not, it seems. Now, George has apparently worked out an ingenious way to still refer to atheism as a …
Dec 21 2012
By now you’ve likely seen the divisive “Mary had a little lamb… of god… that belongs in the schools” variant on Facebook. Mary had a little lamb, His fleece was as white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, The Lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school each day, ‘Twasn’t even in …
Dec 17 2012
The original viral image comes attached with a truly awful poem: twas’ 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38 when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven’s gate. their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air. they could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there. they were filled with such joy, they didn’t know what …
Dec 17 2012
Check out today’s featured article on Wikipedia! Well played, Wikipedians.
Dec 17 2012
It’s obviously not just evangelicals and uninformed Christians spinning a national tragedy on their metaphysical terms. Here’s one from a yoga instructor. You see, the real ‘tragedy’ is that people are calling it a ‘tragedy’. Brace yourself: The comments and ‘likes’ were awful too. People said things like “that was beautiful!” Full text below
The free festival on Fort Bragg's Main Post Parade Field was a massive success! Expect updates, highlights, and other footage over the next few months.
UPDATE: A second festival is in the works for Camp Pendleton - a large Marine Corps base near San Diego, CA. Summer 2013
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