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December 31, 2013
Beta Culture: Sometimes It’s You
Outside my bedroom window, three floors down and about 50 yards away, a car alarm...
December 28, 2013
Beta Culture: More About the Nexus
One of my central ideas about Beta Culture, about creating it, is that every culture...
December 25, 2013
Beta Culture: The Necessity of Change
This is a bit more heated than I'd say the thing ... Burn the Fucking...
December 24, 2013
Yeah, About That “Atheism as Intellectual Luxury” Thing
So ... THIS got written: Atheism is an intellectual luxury for the wealthy It starts...
December 22, 2013
Beta Culture: Self Defense in the Medical Arena
So you go into a hospital and it looks like every other, right? Doctors, nurses,...
December 21, 2013
Things I’d Like to Take Home on the Eve of Christmas
The impulse, I suspect, is in all of us. Put a 5-year-old on a beach...
December 15, 2013
Cross-Posting Frank Schaeffer
Not a HUGE fan of Patheos co-blogger Frank Schaeffer ("Why I Still Talk to Jesus")...
December 14, 2013
Atheist Christmas Present from William Lane Craig
Eye roll. Fox Snooze gives us William Lane Craig writing A Christmas gift for atheists...
December 14, 2013
Actual Proof There Is No God
Probably the best banana-eating, beer-drinking, nose-harmonica player in the world today: This is actually pretty...
December 13, 2013
Don’t Eat This.
Okay, pretty much anything with a dog on the label is going to make me...
December 13, 2013
The Forcing of Bad Choices on Innocent Bystanders
I have a limited amount of respect for devout Muslims. Honestly, for any really religious...
December 09, 2013
Bullies With Four Legs, Bullies With Two
This video has come up a lot lately, posted or referred to by people who...
December 08, 2013
Clarification of an Argument for Atheism
What follows is an excerpt from my book (Red Neck, Blue Collar, Atheist: Simple Thoughts...
December 08, 2013
Beta Culture: Proposing a New Definition of Atheism
One thing I’m adamant about in my thoughts on Beta Culture: That the people within...
December 07, 2013
Facebook Memes #2
I tinker up these things occasionally, just for fun.
December 07, 2013
Short Stack #21
This 2013 thing hasn’t worked out all that well for me. I’m considering saying Screw...
December 02, 2013
God Crashes Train, Kills Four. Oh, wait …
This story caught my eye because it happened fairly close to a place in the...
December 01, 2013
Beta Culture: Morning Thoughts
Toothpaste or teethpaste? The fact is, if it had initially been called teethpaste, we'd be...
December 01, 2013
Religion is Weird. That is All.
Stumbled across a new word today: Tauroctony. Wikipedia defines it: The tauroctony scene is the...
November 2013
November 28, 2013
The Meaning of Thanksgiving? Hint: Not Supernatural Superbeings.
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! Hope you’re having a good day with friends and family, or finding...
November 25, 2013
Reason Riders Followup
Couple of pics of Pierino Walker, the originator of the Reason Riders patch, with bike...
November 25, 2013
Dying to Escape Hasidic Judaism
Generally I aim my verbal volleys at the Christian world, with the occasional whack at...
November 24, 2013
Christianity Facing Extinction? Wow. Cool.
An article in The Telegraph warns: Christianity at risk of dying out in a generation,...
November 24, 2013
Is Handling Poisonous Snakes a Constitutional Right?
Pentecostal Pastors Argue 'Snake Handling' Is Their Religious Right Is it? I'm going to say...
November 23, 2013
Do Atheists Have the Right to Offend Muslims?
The question was posed in an article from The Muslim Times (which features such articles...
November 23, 2013
Reason Riders Are Really Real
You know about my horseback career, I'm sure. But way back when (and still more...
November 21, 2013
Beta Culture: The Stench of Royalty
I'm convinced there are two major classes of people on Planet Earth, with a very...
November 21, 2013
Beta Culture: To Not Be Owned
One of the prime motivations of my life has been independence. I have a deep,...
October 2013
October 15, 2013
Beta Culture: Signs in the Heav … uh, News
I keep seeing news stories -- a LOT of them -- that spark this thought:...
October 09, 2013
The World Is Ending. Michele Bachmann Says So.
I love this quote from the Daily Kos story: Rep. Michele Bachmann is a member...
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