Monthly Archives: August 2011

LEGO Milling Machine

I’ve always been impressed by the creativity of the people who make elaborate sculptures from LEGOs. I’ve also been appalled by their obsessiveness, but that’s another story. This takes things to a whole new level: Arthur Sacek created this 3D … Continue reading

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QotD: Porn Addiction

Over at the CNN Belief Blog, there’s a very long article about American Evangelical Christianity’s attempts to deal with “porn addiction.” You can read it at your leisure or not, I just wanted to ask some superficial questions: First, is … Continue reading

Posted in Questions, Sexuality | 92 Comments

Perry on Abstinence Education

Rule 1: Abstinence education works. Rule 2: In situations where it doesn’t appear to work, see rule 1. That’s the read that people like Steve Benen are getting from this clip of Rick Perry: From Benen: The problem here isn’t … Continue reading

Posted in Education, Politics | 76 Comments

Inappropriate Christian Book Titles

Eh, could have been better … Ummmm …. bad idea …. … what the hell were you thinking?

Posted in Books, Christianity | 37 Comments

Before I vanish for a week I thought I’d leave you all the gift of laughter. Normally I’d have posted a Tim Minchin song for this purpose, but instead I decided I’d post some of his stand-up on religion. With … Continue reading

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The Christian James Bond

Evangelical Christianity can never seem to make up its mind. Does it want to separate itself from popular culture, or does it want to embrace popular culture? Sometimes it seems to want to do both, rejecting pop culture for awhile, … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Culture | 60 Comments

Dave Mabus Arrested

Good news for the entire internet: Dave Mabus, probably the atheo-sphere’s most prolific spammer, has been arrested in Montreal. Mabus is believed to be a pseudonym of Dennis Markuze, and for 15 years or more he’s been making a frightening … Continue reading

Posted in Administrative, Atheism | 10 Comments

QotD: What do you tell them?

So you’ve made it through the long, dark night of the soul, and you come out of it an atheist. After soul-searching, prayer, research and reflection, you’ve shed your old beliefs like the threadbare set of clothes they had become. … Continue reading

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Rick Perry in the Running

Rick Perry has been getting a lot of attention. According to the conventional wisdom, he’s tied with Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. A lot of this has to do with timing. The field was looking … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Politics | 16 Comments

Chupacabra

I was really into crypto-zoology when I was a teen. You know what that stage is like, you believe whatever is more fun to believe. Thank FSM I got out before this whole “chupacabra” nonsense. As Ben Radford pointed out … Continue reading

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