I had an N64 as a kid. It was the straight up shiz! Fuck Playstation 1! The only reason people owned a PS1 was for Final Fantasy VII anyway (ok, also Tekken). Sega Genesis or Super NES…now there’s a debate…
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April 27, 2012 By 28 Comments
Christina here… Oh, One “Million” Moms… you are a parody of yourself. I got a new email from One “Million” Moms today. I couldn’t help but laugh. While children are starving, being raped, or being abused, One “Million” Moms chooses to use their collective agency to police commercials and media. Their concern is over this [...]
Anybody want to sit with the superstars?
April 27, 2012 By 7 Comments
I got my speaker book for the Freethought Festival in Madison this weekend and on page three I saw the following sentence. Seats will be reserved for speakers in the front row of the lecture hall. Ugh, class distinction. So I wrote back and asked the organizers if I could give up my seat. They [...]
Update on the Osteen situation. They lied even worse than we thought.
April 26, 2012 By 12 Comments
I’ve added the following update to the post on Joel Osteen and his wife visiting a public elementary school today. From one of the people keeping tabs on the goings on at Amidon-Bowen. I was lied to by the Vice principal. He told me to my face when I asked, “What will be read?” that [...]
Time to put on my game face
April 26, 2012 By 7 Comments
Holy balls!!! I just took another peek at the schedule for the Freethought Festival in Madison this weekend. Look at the session I’m in… I guess I should be happy that the Confronting Religion session is so strong. But seriously? I’m in the same block with PZ Myers, Hemant Mehta, Matt Dillahunty, Valerie Tarico, and [...]
I knew it
April 26, 2012 By 45 Comments
Ok, so we were worried about Joel Osteen visiting a public elementary school. Like Bradlee Dean, they said they were going to keep it secular. However, for people who have a vested interest in converting children it’s just a difficult cheese to swallow that they’re going to the school just to pull weeds and read [...]
Make everything better
April 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
Man, there’s been a lot of aggravating stuff to write about lately. As an antidote to the badness, I offer this video. And if that doesn’t work, there’s always this button. Have a good day, everybody! Changing the world is a slow process, but look back just ten years and remember we’ve made a metric [...]
School bringing in prosperity gospel anti-evolution preacher, Joel Osteen
April 26, 2012 By 24 Comments
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why!!?? Ok, here’s the deal. Joel Osteen is headed to DC to pray with some people. Big whoop. But beforehand he’s gonna swing by a local elementary. I got this email from a concerned parent. So in advance of his crusade, he’s coming to the school [...]
Hate first, then help if you've got spare time.
April 25, 2012 By 9 Comments
DrB- I found this a few days ago, but forgot to ever do something with it. To start, the bible does have an overwhelming amount of sexism, war, violence, genocide, rape, and general things decent humans recognize as “bad.” However, there’s a few notes in there about helping the poor, loving your neighbor, social justice, [...]
Anybody coming to Madison who wants an awesome place to stay?
April 25, 2012 By 8 Comments
I’ll be yapping in Madison, WI this coming weekend. Just got this comment from Sastra. Hi, JT. I was really looking forward to meeting you in Madison this weekend, but my sciatica is acting up and I’m going to have to cancel both my convention and hotel reservations. Regarding the latter, do you or your [...]
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