FtB Meetup at Skepticon 4

Since there will be six freethought bloggers at Skepticon 4, it’s been decided there will be a meetup!  This will take place Saturday night at 9:30pm at the Farmers Gastropub at 431 S. Jefferson, suite 160.  The place is awesome, and you can swing by to have a beer with PZ Myers, Greta Christina, Jen [...]

Skepticon 4 Thread

The god virus has gotten into the FtB servers during the upgrade and things are still a little hairy while the techies attempt to exorcise it, so I’m not posting anything of great import lest it disappear.  Ed warned us that if things got worse we may have to have the level 3 techie’s mom [...]

Webinar Tonight: How To Make Your Group More Edgy

This semester, the Secular Student Alliance has begun doing a series of webinars on how to be a better leader in your atheist group.  When we were divvying out the topics, “How To Make Your Group More Edgy” came up and there was a sudden moment of silence when everybody slowly turned to stare at [...]

A Wonderful Time In California!

This last weekend I made it out to San Francisco to give a couple of talks.  It was a wonderful time. I got to crash several nights with my hero, Richard Carrier and his piquant wife, Jen. I got to waltz on the beach with David Fitzgerald and Dana Fredsti.  We found the cutest dog [...]

PZ, Greta, And Myself In Cincy This Weekend

This weekend is the Free Inquiry Group’s 20th Anniversary Conference in Cincinnati.  The fun starts Saturday morning at 10am and runs through until 5pm on Sunday.  The list of speakers is insane. From Freethought Blogs they will have PZ Myers, Greta Christina, and moi. Frankly, you should come just to see PZ and Greta and [...]

Coming Out In America

Troir Films is coming out with a documentary about the difficulty atheists in America have coming out of the closet and living as they truly are.  Part of the film will focus specifically on how uniquely difficult life as an atheist teen can be. Looks like I get my fifteen seconds of fame. Coming Out [...]

Off To California! Come Say Hi!

Tomorrow morning I depart for San Francisco to give a couple presentations of my talk Coming Out Skeptical (title borrowed, with permission, from the amazing John Corvino).  The Atheist Advocates of San Francisco have a perfectly overflattering post written up on it.  The presentations are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, October 8th, 1:30 – [...]

Skepticon IV poster released

Skepticon IV is coming up!  Skepticon is an annual conference in Springfield, MO that is one of the biggest every year.  Last year over 1,000 people attended and this year looks to be even bigger!  They just released this year’s poster and it kicks every ass in the barn. Among the lineup of exceptional speakers [...]

Upcoming appearances

There will be two places where you can hear me yammer in the next couple weeks.  The first is the second weekend in October in San Francisco.  The Atheist Advocates of San Francisco have a perfectly overflattering post written up on it. This month Atheist Advocates of SF features a young atheist organizer who is [...]

Coming to Tennessee

Next week I’ll be cutting a swath through the state of Tennessee.  Hope you can make it out to one of these.  Monday (9/19) – I will be in Clarksville, TN at Austin Peay speaking to the Students for Secular Humanism and anybody else who wants to make it out.  We’re meeting up at the [...]