What Would JT Do?
It’s a tradition for Jon Stewart and the Daily Show that Christmas comes a month early for them…right about when Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin, and the fear-mongers at Fox News kick the fear mongering into overdrive as the year concludes. Read more
It’s a tradition for Jon Stewart and the Daily Show that Christmas comes a month early for them…right about when Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin, and the fear-mongers at Fox News kick the fear mongering into overdrive as the year concludes. Read more
Hey gang. Still sick this morning, so am gonna take it easy again in hopes of being less ill for the gamethon tomorrow. Rest assured that even if I’m sick I’ll play through the pain like a bawss. Here is a story of a real life fox and hound who became best friends. Read more
If there is anything in me that can be called bravery, rest assured it probably came from my mother. Dad just sent me this on facebook: One of Carol’s old–but rarely interacted with— friends posted this on facebook today: “I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE THINK IT’S KOOL TO BASH RELIGION ON FACE BOOK. ARE YOU SO DESPERATE FOR PEOPLE TO LIKE YOUR PAGE? YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION. IF YOU THINK GOD IS A MYTH, THAT IS... Read more
Ordinarily I change or omit the names from emails I get. For this one, though, the name remains intact. It is from a man named Henry Reid who will be participating in the gamethon this Saturday to benefit Foundation Beyond Belief’s support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Here, in his email, he explains why: Hello! I just caught word of Gamethon today and I am super interested in participating. My grandmother, Margie Reid, has been fighting leukemia for decades now. I am... Read more
I got this email today from Princess Toadstool: Today I stumbled across the blog post ‘Talking about polyamory with your partner’ (25 November 2011) while looking for resources for spouses of polyamorous people. I think you can guess where this is heading, but to elaborate: My husband and I have been together nearly 12 years, and married for seven, and we have a young child. About five months ago, my husband realised he had feelings for a friend (who is... Read more
One of the downsides to caring for a sick fiancee is that you have a high likelihood of catching what she had. That has happened. I’m going to be taking it easy today. I might post a few quick things or answer some fan email. We shall see. Long story short (too late), I could use some morning happiness. Here are some emus playing. Read more
How much must it suck to be fundamentally religious? I mean, how much must it hardcore suck to believe that Lucifer is out to get you along with all the liberals and the Communists? If I lived with that kind of paranoia, hell, I might stockpile guns too. Anyway, here’s the latest bit of fear-mongering on how the liberals aren’t bending and scraping to a single holiday in December, and we might even not like it when Christmas is used... Read more
Sure the Catholic Church cares about alleviating suffering…it just cares about doing god’s supposed will more, and if god’s will means people suffer, so be it. Despite her being in excruciating pain and with virtually no chance her pregnancy could survive, Mercy Health Partners told Means there was nothing it could do and did not tell Means that terminating her pregnancy was an option and the safest course for her condition, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit accuses the United States... Read more
A friend of my father’s posted my talk about why the arguments for god’s existence fail. An acquaintance of my father’s (I suspect without knowing that the “would-be intellectual” in the video was his son) left the following comment: The title of this video is “Why the aruguments for God Fail.” This young would-be intellectual fails in his logic. How? He assumes that the five senses a human possesses in unison with the human intellect are the cutting edge tools... Read more
American Atheists is really good at telling simple truths without sacrificing brevity. They’ve just taken out a huge digital 40’x40′ billboard in Times Square doing just that. American Atheists launched a major billboard display on Tuesday that declares Christmas is better without the Christ. The huge 40′x40′ digital billboard is located in Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. Here it is: I love it! For one, it’s a metaphorical middle finger to the people who insist that everybody must celebrate the... Read more
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