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 Blogging about Blogging, Freethought on Sep 15th, 2008
Congrats to Waffles for becoming a celeb in the blogosphere today. He’s achieved the most popular thread to date at the Freethought Fort Wayne blog by getting a positive endorsement from PZ on Pharyngula. Waffles’s atheist coming-out story is honest and moving, and reveals the real perils of religious education. If you [...]
Posted in Freethought on Aug 25th, 2008
I was going to get work done this weekend; really, I was, but then PZ posted a clip from The Atheist Experience, an Austin public-access call-in show, and Waffles and I got hooked. I haven’t been that entertained by something on television in a long time. (The Pegasus arc in season two of BSG—maybe.) [...]
Posted in Books, Freethought on Aug 12th, 2008
I buy used books a lot, and I’m usually a fussy buyer, trying to find copies that are in as pristine a condition as possible. I may have to rethink that policy, though, since I found out it can also be fun to browse through the annotations and scribblings left by previous owners. This weekend [...]
Posted in Freethought on Aug 10th, 2008
Religion can fuck up your brain in subtle ways. Even when you grow up and choose reason over superstition, little islands of irrationality and special pleading can linger and come up at odd moments. As evidence, take Robert M. Price. I first learned of him when Freethought Fort Wayne announced they were bringing him to [...]
Posted in Freethought, Web Videos on Jul 23rd, 2008
A few weeks ago, this lady was on Colbert:
The combination of faith in revealed knowledge and a lack of evangelical zeal struck me as damned odd. It’s a combination that I’ve seen in other religious moderates, and it’s always puzzled me. So indulge me while I piss and moan about it a bit.
Look, [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging, Free Speech, Freethought on Jul 14th, 2008
You’ll notice, of course, that in my pro-P.Z. letter to President Bruininks, I pretty much avoided the core issue. To a large extent, it’s irrelevant: P.Z. enjoys free-speech rights, particularly on a private blog that’s unaffiliated with the university, and anyway, he has tenure. Any organized campaign to pressure the university to take action [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging, Free Speech, Freethought on Jul 11th, 2008
So there’s a little kerfluffle over at Pharyngula about P.Z. making fun of some
crackers. Basically, Bill Donahue and the Catholic League got their dander up about some kid absconding from Mass with a Eucharist wafer (which is totally the body of the Lord Jesus, even though it seems to every empirical investigator to be [...]
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