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October 31, 2011
Dealing With Fear — Part 2: Coming Out as an Atheist
There are several fear issues related to coming out as an atheist. Beyond the more...
October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
Full sympathies after the jump: .....
October 29, 2011
The Horrors of Fall
I have a notoriously sucky sense of direction. I still can't help but point and...
October 29, 2011
A Different Kind of Prayer
This is probably old-verging-on-ancient. But it's new to me: ...
October 29, 2011
Seven Billion Peeps: Thank You Jesus — and Oh, Shit!
[ Still feeling like hell, but I couldn't keep away ... ] Here’s a personal...
October 27, 2011
Sick Day
Ugh. Persistent sore throat. Headache. Tired and achy. I had hoped to finish the short...
October 27, 2011
Sick Day
Ugh. Persistent sore throat. Headache. Tired and achy. I had hoped to finish the short...
October 26, 2011
Dealing With Fear: Side Note Side Note
The previous post came out of an answer to a comment by anthonyallen on Dealing...
October 26, 2011
Dealing With Fear: Side Note
One of my readers, “anthonyallen” has submitted a couple of good comments on two other...
October 25, 2011
Dealing With Fear — Part 1: Everyday Life
The subject of fear came up in the comments on a recent post, one writer...
October 24, 2011
Greta Christina Says Something Fantastic. Again!
Well worth reading: We’re Telling Them They’re Wrong: Why Coming Out Atheist Is Inherently Oppositional...
October 24, 2011
The Immortality of Gullibility
One of my readers left a comment on my Religion vs. Science piece and provided...
October 23, 2011
The 30,000
Say someone gave you $30,000, in cash, and the deal was, you had to live...
October 23, 2011
Religion vs. Science and Roads Not Taken
Any serious writer could tell you: Not everything you write ends up on a page...
October 22, 2011
Pro-Science Presidential Speech (repost)
This was buried fairly far down in a previous post, Obama’s Speechwriter … sort of,...
October 22, 2011
Are We There Yet? Well, Yeah. Pretty Much.
"The Rapture" — by Robert Bissell I was in a Schmuckapalooza supermarket in my hometown...
October 22, 2011
Best Use of the Phrase “Mouth-to-Snout”
Kudos to Wausau, Wisconsin firefighter Jamie Giese and teammates on the Wausau Fire Department, for saving...
October 21, 2011
If You Masturbate, You Are … Fabulous
Goddammit, it's not enough that the world is ending today. Now we have to stop...
October 21, 2011
The Last, Very Last, End of the World. Seriously. No, Really. This One.
The significance of all the rapture rhetoric from Harold Camping isn't that Camping is ......
October 21, 2011
Obama’s Speechwriter … sort of
Ever the optimist, I write letters to people. It's been surprising, over the years, the...
October 20, 2011
Back of the Bus: A Woman’s Place
Get thee behind me, woman! I'd read about gender-separated buses in Israel, and was not...
October 20, 2011
Short Stack #4
“Faith” is the belief in something for which there is no evidence. Breach the protective...
October 19, 2011
Right of Weigh
Want to guess how this overturned car got that way? ...
October 19, 2011
You’re All Going to Die and Burn In Hell. Again.
Woe, I say woe unto you, heathen masses! Your time has, I say your time...
October 19, 2011
Life-Changing but Not World-Changing
This Reuters piece on a milestone in malaria research — not an excited shriek of...
October 18, 2011
Blue Collar Atheist: Three Posts
What follows (below, in posts time-stamped earlier than this one so they’re stacked 1, 2,...
October 18, 2011
Blue Collar Atheist: Introduction — Who is this guy?
I grew up in Texas with a bunch of rodeo cowboys. I wanted to become...
October 18, 2011
Blue Collar Atheist: Foreword — Saying Goodbye To Gods
My dog died. Don’t sweat it – it was more than a decade ago now,...
October 17, 2011
Milestones
Sometime today Blue Collar Atheist will reach 100,000 reader hits. I know other bloggers here...
October 16, 2011
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street
I lived through the Vietnam Era. Just a few of the consequences of that war:...
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