Pictures from gothic master Edward Gorey’s beautifully macabre children’s book for learning the alphabet, The Gashlycrumb Tinies.

UPDATE: The voting is over. And… YOU DID IT!! You won $90,000 for secular charities! The final totals are:

Secular Student Alliance – $50,000
Foundation Beyond Belief – $20,000
Camp Quest – $20,000

Thank you everyone who voted!!

Welcome, new Patheos readers to Camels With Hammers! Welcome Camels With Hammers readers to our new home here at Patheos! Soon I will properly introduce myself to Patheos readers–including, specifically the religious believers who may be around here in slightly greater numbers than at Freethought Blogs. I also hope to share some of the many [...]

I am pleased to see how many people are responding positively to my post Saturday on why I am against denigrating people’s intelligence with words like “stupid”, “idiot”, “moron,” etc. I want now to address a few common objections or caveats people want to offer. The key question people want to raise is whether or not [...]

No, not the government. Well, okay, yes, the government. But also the restaurants: Increasingly, restaurants are recording whether you are a regular, a first-timer, someone who lives close by or a friend of the owner or manager. They archive where you like to sit, when you will celebrate a special occasion and whether you prefer [...]

Pretty hilarious. Here are 9 more videos of animals trying to figure out the animal they see in the mirror. Your Thoughts? ————————————————— In the comments, Hazzard writes: The kitten is detecting agency in the mirror. It is experiencing the sensus felinitatus. Its intuition that the mirror contains a kitten is properly basic. Therefore, we can have [...]

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