Posted in Freethought on Oct 23rd, 2008
(Reposted from Freethought Fort Wayne)
London buses will soon be running an ad on the side that says “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
This is probably the best advice anyone can get, ever. See the article, here.
The British Humanist Association (BHA) is sponsoring the campaign, which was only intending to raised [...]
Posted in At the Waffle House, LOLCats on Oct 10th, 2008
Posted in LOLCats on Oct 10th, 2008
Waffles and I have been slacking with the LOLs lately. Here’s one; it’s from the petting zoo area of the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo:
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2008
My friends, fuck planetariums.
May God bless America!
Posted in Blogging about Blogging on Oct 7th, 2008
So apparently I should check my friends’ blogs more often. Jack of Jack’s Haunt has this nice story about an encounter with a douche at his work. It involves a wad of cash, a tire iron, the cops, and some pop-anthropology of Ossian. Go read!
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The title is German for “When you work in Ossian…”
Posted in Freethought on Oct 5th, 2008
Religulous isn’t the boring Jay-Walking skit I feared it might be. It’s much better than that, and I wonder about the critics who say it wasn’t funny. I was laughing several times, as was most of the rest of the crowd, because of the absurdity of the subjects and because of the well-timed [...]
Posted in Music on Oct 5th, 2008
Some people think atheists can’t grasp the transcendental sublimity of sacred art. Wrong. Some of us like it just fine; we just feel no compulsion to ascribe the response we feel to any supernatural explanation. What’s being “transcended” is the ordinariness of our typical emotional states, not the naturalistic laws that describe their origin or [...]
Posted in Birds, Saturday Birds on Oct 4th, 2008
Instead of an Attenborough nature show clip this Saturday, here’s another homemade YouTube clip of an excellent mimic:
weewoo the talking starling
People consider starlings pests, but I don’t. The avifauna around here would be poorer for having no enormous roadside flocks of shimmery black beauties swarming in the evening. (See this previous post for an [...]
Posted in At the Waffle House, Humor on Oct 2nd, 2008
I can’t stop drinking coffee. And I blame Butter.
Until recently, I’ve stayed away from coffee, mostly because caffeine makes me jittery, and decaf tastes funny. But when you spend time with Butter, you drink coffee. So, the social butterfly that I am, I drink it too. Last week as we were working on The Enlightenment [...]
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