It’s a few months back and I’m answering a question I’ve just been asked online about my activist brand of atheism: “Why do you do this? I mean, why do you want to take away people’s faith? Even if they believe things that aren’t true, what is that to you?” “If you’re walking along a roadway and you see a nail out on the pavement, do you leave it there where it could puncture somebody’s tire, or do you pick it up?” “What? I pick it up.” “Yeah, well so do I.” … [Read more...]

[ Continued from Visits from Dead People — Part 1 ] Another thing I figured out: There’s room in your head for more than just you. I even wrote a story – okay, part of a story – about it one time. I figured that if multiple personality is really a thing – meaning that if there are real people out there with multiple personality as a disease, and sort of by accident – why couldn’t there be people who did it on purpose, and used it as an asset? Monday through Friday, you could be … [Read more...]

I purposely decline to read or watch or listen to "news" stories like this, because they're really little more than the news version of pop music. I like being beaten over the head with them about as much as I like being beaten over the head with the peppy, poppy, insidious, every-15-minutes-on-the-radio notes of "Call Me Maybe." … [Read more...]

I'm posting this from my phone (I'm at the bakery where I work), so it will be short, but people have donated enough to get me there. I'm a bit shocked at the number of hits the "appeal" post is getting, and I'm touched, wounded, blown away by the generosity. Thank you all soooo much. I'll keep you posted. … [Read more...]