If you’ve got any money left after your profligate spree in my store yesterday, you might want to look at the Egyptian Renaissance Alliance. Not a penny goes to me, but it does benefit Egyptian secularists — and they’ve got some nice stuff.
She is gloating. Oh, yes, she is gloating very much.
I’m about to board a plane to Calgary, but I want to leave you something positive and uplifting to discuss for the next few hours. So here you go, excerpts from conversations on twitter.
I’m gonna be incommunicado for some time to come. I do so love dropping that kind of bomb on you all.
I know you’re poor. You’re planning to go to the Reason Rally by hopping a freight and camping under a freeway overpass; you can’t afford no pricey t-shirt. But how will we know that you are One of Us? Get a button, they’re cheap. Now available in the Pharyngula store is a selection of handy catchphrases in button form: Cupcake, The People’s Republic of Pharyngula, Raptor Jesus, and Your Concern is Noted.
Wait…you can’t afford a t-shirt, where are you going to stick these buttons? Now I’m picturing a mob of half-naked bloody-chested ferocious godless heathens descending on the media screaming, “Your concern is noted!” It will make good TV.
It’s the natural news site to go to for the announcement that Andrew Breitbart has died, at a surprisingly young age. He had a history of heart problems and collapsed suddenly: I have no sympathy for his views at all, but I can sympathize with that. It’s kind of how I expect to go someday.
Dennett has won the Erasmus Prize 2012. Here’s a list of past winners — it’s quite an honor, and well deserved.
Celebrate something or other, I guess!
It worked. Read Greta, Cuttlefish, Stephanie, Ophelia, Jason, Jen, JT, Sikivu, and Maryam, to name just a few, and you’ll see that our cunning scheme to assemble a network that was a flaming hotbed of decent human beings has come to fruition.
I did have an initial plan to use our time and effort to build a skull-shaped lair in a volcano on a tropical island instead, but I guess I’m glad we went with this one first.
Some people on the open thread, which is mainly about socializing, are complaining that it’s been taken over with tedious philosophizing about free will. There’s an easy solution: here’s a new thread just for anybody to talk about free will. Stick it here.
Myself, I don’t believe in free will — I think it’s an obsolete concept that confuses rather than clarifies, and would rather stay out of it.
