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April 29, 2012
God Without Spellcheck
I love/hate this kind of thing. Either way, it's often worth a laugh. I'm sure...
April 28, 2012
Small-Town Blowhard Kills Jesus
I wrote a piece for my local newspaper some weeks back, and it came out...
April 27, 2012
In Which I Admit to Being Wrong
Kudos to the lot of you! I’m more than a little pleased with how the...
April 23, 2012
Stilling the Jerk of My Liberal Knees
Look at this picture (click to embiggen) of a woman arrested in France for refusing...
April 22, 2012
If NASA Made Home Movies
Big-screen this and watch. Outer Space from Sander van den Berg on Vimeo.
April 22, 2012
The Great Debate
I went to the “great debate” – Does God Exist? – last night at Binghamton...
April 21, 2012
Earth Day 2012: Thoughts Like Falling Leaves
[This is a reprint of a piece I did several years ago, slightly edited for...
April 20, 2012
Reason Rally: The Speech That Didn’t Happen
This is the speech I would have given, if I’d been asked to speak at...
April 15, 2012
Throwing Out Leftovers, Civilization-Wide
I’m gonna tell you about four things I used to do. Four actions – habits...
April 15, 2012
Doing My Part: Christopher
[ This is a response to Doing My Part for the Godless Future. If you'd...
April 14, 2012
Fanboy Does ‘Wrath of the Titans’
Wrath of the Titans: Whoo-boy, a serious action movie, with some beautiful special effects. Fortunately,...
April 13, 2012
Murderous Purple Panda Terrifies Terrified Children
Sorry, can't help but laugh at this. ABC News reports on an incident at Pennsylvania's...
April 12, 2012
Doing My Part: Cory Brunson
[ This is a response to Doing My Part for the Godless Future . If...
April 12, 2012
Doing My Part: Stephanie
[ This is a response to Doing My Part for the Godless Future. If you'd...
April 11, 2012
Doing My Part for the Godless Future
Read Dear Friends, Bloody on the Highway, before you read this. In this followup post,...
April 11, 2012
Dear Friends, Bloody on the Highway
As I've said here in the past, I still get emails from old friends in...
April 09, 2012
The Pure Poetry of Pendulum Periodicity
Watching this video will waste 1.75 minutes of your time. But hey, afterwards you'll have...
April 08, 2012
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
This Guardian article must have been written by a nasty atheist, because there's no mention...
April 08, 2012
Rewinding Religion, Recreating Science
Any serious writer could tell you: Not everything you write ends up on a page...
April 08, 2012
Babies. Lemons.
Ah, if only we had this instinctive reaction the first time we were spoonfed the...
April 07, 2012
What Will YOU Do When the Angry Voices Come?
One of the most riveting quotes from the Reason Rally stage was this one: I...
April 07, 2012
Think About This at Easter
One short thought on freedom of religion: If we continue to define “freedom” as the...
April 07, 2012
Happy Easter (from the Church of the Dead Bunny)!
The above ad, in the spirit of the holiday, is from an actual church....
April 06, 2012
Ebola and Gonorrhea on Sale!
Science nerd alert! Yes, now YOU can enjoy deadly disease microbes in the privacy of...
April 05, 2012
THIS Is The Future I Want
Google's "Project Glass." Don't know if the reality will live up to the hype in...
April 01, 2012
Sad News: Greg Laden Departing
Many of you know that Greg Laden and I are good friends. He has asked...
April 01, 2012
The Joy of Coming Out
Several speakers at Reason Rally spoke about “coming out,” and the phrase showed up in...
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