Grieving Mother Mistreated by Heartless Atheists

March 8, 2014 by 33 Comments
crosses

Here's this article: Atheists Fight With Grieving Mom Over Roadside Crosses.Son dies in a auto accident at the age of 19, grief-stricken mother erects a memorial of crosses and flowers on city property, humanist group asks city council to disallow it.Good call? Bad call? Commenting on Facebook, Sinis Tergrin weighs in: I think it's pretty mean spirited to target a grieving mother. What kind of person complains about this based on the "separation of church and state"?? I thought we in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News and Views, Politics, Religion & Atheism 33 Comments

The Dark Side of the Sun

March 5, 2014 by 1 Comment
transcendent

I belong to a couple of Facebook groups on Transhumanism and the Singularity, and I avidly read the articles and posts. But I don't buy into every one of them. Yes, I want fantastic things to happen. Hell, I fully EXPECT fantastic things to happen. But ... a lot of the articles are more about possibilities than realities.  For instance, I think we've been predicting safe, abundant fusion energy -- any time now -- for the past 50 years. I've kinda begun to wonder "What if it just isn't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beta Culture, Environmental, Nature, Politics, Sciency Stuff, Serious Shit 1 Comment

Beta Culture: The Footprint of the Past

January 25, 2014 by 3 Comments
War Dead

One of my many interests is the residual social / societal effects of historical events and social movements.For instance, the fact that we still say “God bless you” when people sneeze, 14 centuries after the supposed origin of the practice ... One explanation holds that the custom originally began as an actual blessing. Gregory I became Pope in AD 590 as an outbreak of the bubonic plague was reaching Rome. In hopes of fighting off the disease, he ordered unending prayer and parades of cha … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beta Culture, Phil Ossify, Politics, Religion & Atheism 3 Comments

Cross-Posting Frank Schaeffer

December 15, 2013 by 2 Comments

Not a HUGE fan of Patheos co-blogger Frank Schaeffer ("Why I Still Talk to Jesus") but this is worth reading: The Slow-Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama.Go over there and take a few minutes with it. For me the title alone was an eye-opener; "slow-motion lynching" opened doors in my head, giving me an A-Ha! that had been 6 years building.One of the comments: This president is as good as it gets. And more. I am with you ALL the way---he is part of the 99% but when it comes to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics, Serious Shit 2 Comments

The World Is Ending. Michele Bachmann Says So.

October 9, 2013 by 2 Comments
BACHMANN

I love this quote from the Daily Kos story: Rep. Michele Bachmann is a member of Congress. She's one of the people currently celebrating the shutdown of the American government as being a fine thing. She is on—and I am not making this up—the House Intelligence Committee. This is a person who gained so much respect in her home district, where people KNOW her, that she has been repeatedly elected to public office -- first the Minnesota state senate, later the U.S. House of Representatives -- sin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics, Serious Shit, The Light Side 2 Comments

Ted Nugent — Masculine, Admirable, Freedom-Loving American. Or Not.

February 12, 2013 by 26 Comments

Pimple-on-a-dog's-ass aging rocker Ted Nugent has been invited to the State of the Union Address by Texas Rep. Steve Stockman.Considering that Nugent has made fairly blatant public threats against both the President and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — for instance:  “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” — and — "Obama, he's a piece of sh*t. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary [Clinton], … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics 26 Comments

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