I woke up this morning to see that a huge pine tree that was right next to our house in the backyard had toppled over. Fortunately it missed our house and the garage and the power line. It did knock out our telephone line so now I have no landline phone and hence no internet access at home, since I use DSL. [Read more…]
Dan Barker, a former preacher turned atheist and now co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, will be speaking on the topic of the separation of church and state on Thursday, Oct 25th, 7:00-9:00pm in the 1914 Lounge in the Thwing Center on the CWRU campus. Thwing Center is at 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland just east of Severance Hall.
The event is organized by the CWRU chapter of the Center for Inquiry and is free and open to the public.
Although I started blogging on January 26, 2005, I joined the FreethoughtBlogs network just this year, on January 10. I noticed that yesterday, I had reached the one million mark in page views since I came here.
Of course, that is small compared to many other blogs but I am personally very gratified by the level of interest. Thanks to all those who have visited and also to those who have taken part in the discussions in the comments. It has been fun and I hope to continue the relationship for a long time.
Conservationists in Kenya got a report that a baby elephant had fallen into a well. The problem was how to get it out with just a rope and an off-road vehicle. [Read more…]
Fellow Freethought blogger Greta Christina has been having a run of unfortunate setbacks in her life recently. Her father just died after a long illness and then almost immediately afterwards she was diagnosed with endometrial cancer that requires surgery and will cause her to curtail much of her writing and speaking (which is the source of her income) during the period of surgery and recovery.
Greta is, typically, hanging tough and being upbeat about her situation but she is also realistic that at this time she needs help so she is reluctantly holding a fundraiser to help tide her over just during the period of her treatment, until she can get back to writing and speaking full time again.
Any help that you can give her will be greatly appreciated.
As regular readers would have guessed by now, I am very fond of Baxter the Wonder Dog. I think it is safe to say that most people either like dogs a lot or are indifferent to them, with only a few actively disliking them. [Read more…]
The people of Cleveland are huge sports fans. The sports section of the daily paper The Plain Dealer is easily the largest section, not to mention the extra sports supplements that it puts out regularly. Like other newspapers around the nation, the paper has been cutting back on beat reporters and news coverage, except for sports. [Read more…]
What is it about Jack Russell terriers that make them so teachable? I wrote earlier about Uggie, the terrier that stole the show in the film The Artist. Now I learn about another terrier Jesse who seems to be a big help around the house. [Read more…]
1. The Center for Inquiry Northeast Ohio will be holding its 2012 conference on the topic “On the Barricades: Reason vs. Religion in Public Policy” on Saturday, October 6, 2012 from 9:00am to 4:00 pm in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Independence, Ohio.
More details of the program and registration information can be found here.
2. The CWRU chapter of the Center for Inquiry will be hosting Eddie Tadash who will talk on “Is America a Christian Nation?”
The talk is free and open to the public and will be held on Sunday, October 7 at 6:00 pm in Room 322 in the Wickenden building on the Case quad of the campus.
Take a look at this video of a clairvoyant at work. [Read more…]