Tag Archive: Ed Brayton

May 26 2012

An Atheist’s Speech for Christians (Todd Stiefel at Fort Bragg)

Justin Griffith - Todd Stiefel late 2010

Todd Stiefel is an influential philanthropist who funds an astounding number of innovative atheist upstart projects. He also has decades of business experience, giving him that rare quality-control that our movement needs. We’re forever in debt to him for giving us a chance at the first Rock Beyond Belief. Todd is also an excellent public …

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Nov 30 2011

The worst song ever was actually by an atheist

jimmy-buffett

Ed Brayton accidentally launched an epic comment thread last week when he discussed his least favorite songs. I hate to tell you all, the worst song of all time is actually by an atheist. Don’t avert your eyes. Make yourself watch it. Jimmy Buffett – Fruitcakes I used to work in a used CD store …

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Nov 11 2011

This website is down and you can’t click here

welcome to the internet I

Oh, you fixed it. Anyway, we’ve been breaking the series of tubes that is our website. So we’re upgrading the modem from a paper cup and string all the way to a 2400 baud AOL dedi. To make things interesting, we’re doing this around 10PM Eastern (11 Bermuda Triangle Time) on 11/11/11. Wait, that’s not …

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Jan 02 2011

How a non-theist Soldier fails mandatory Spirituality test

Ed Brayton’s popular ScienceBlog: Dispatches From the Culture Wars has been very nice to Rock Beyond Belief. Ed has posted about what we are trying to do with our festival, and has even graciously agreed to emcee the event. Since I broke the dreadful Soldier Fitness Tracker survey story last week, a lot of attention …

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Nov 26 2010

RBB Speaker Ed Brayton on Rachel Maddow

Last month, we announced that Ed Brayton was going to be a speaker at Rock Beyond Belief. As you may know, Ed maintains a high-profile web-presence. Well, he is no stranger to mainstream radio and television either. Earlier this year, on one of his many appearances on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, he was …

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Oct 17 2010

Ed Brayton to speak at the Rock Beyond Belief

Ed Brayton is the latest amazing speaker to join the lineup for the Rock Beyond Belief. He currently blogs daily at Dispatches From The Culture Wars blog, hosted on ScienceBlogs. It’s tagline is: ‘Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture’. So it’s an obvious and natural fit for us. His recent post …

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