Everybody Stop Sending Money
I’m posting this from my phone (I’m at the bakery where I work), so it will be short, but people have donated enough to get me there. I’m a bit shocked at the number of hits the “appeal” post is...
View ArticleSikh sect sick over lame Leno lark
India is up in arms over a joke made by Jay Leno. Judge the heinousness of it yourself: httpv://youtu.be/WfGlyjY5bJU Right. In the midst of a very mild joke about Romney’s summer home, Leno flashed a...
View ArticleI Will Not Be Weighing In On The Colorado Shooting
I purposely decline to read or watch or listen to “news” stories like this, because they’re really little more than the news version of pop music. I like being beaten over the head with them about as...
View ArticleVisits from Dead People — Part 2
[ Continued from Visits from Dead People — Part 1 ] Another thing I figured out: There’s room in your head for more than just you. I even wrote a story – okay, part of a story – about it one time. I...
View ArticleThe Place of Failure and Death — Part 1
It’s a few months back and I’m answering a question I’ve just been asked online about my activist brand of atheism: “Why do you do this? I mean, why do you want to take away people’s faith? Even if...
View ArticleWell, This Is Just Sad As Hell
Got this thing on Facebook, but it’s very little different from stuff I’ve been getting for years via email. Here it is in full, with picture attached: ***A MUST SHARE***A young man working in the army...
View ArticleBumper Snicker
Saw a bumper sticker on a car ahead of me in traffic a day or two back. It said only 1.20.09 Took me a minute, but I finally figured it out and laughed out loud. It’s the date of the end of the House...
View ArticleThe Book of Good Living: Solve It Once
Something I used to do all too often was to have a recurring problem that I feebly failed to solve. And I know I’m not the only one. “I put my glasses down somewhere and now I can’t find them.” “Darn...
View ArticleHillary Clinton / Margaret Sanger
Well, this is making the rounds, so I’ll say a couple of things about it. First, it’s a pure hit piece against Hillary Clinton, and it absolutely came right out of the GOP hate machine. Second, it’s a...
View ArticlePile-On Against ‘Rationalia’
Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted in favor of evidence-based policy. And the response was just weird.
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