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May 10, 2014
Beta Culture: Rebooting Civilization
As a superhero movie fan, I love reboots. Even though I know pretty much every...
April 2014
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 8 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 7 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 6 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 5 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 4 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 3 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 2 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Grizzly’s Gamble — Part 1 of 8 (Repost)
Parts: One — Two — Three — Four — Five — Six — Seven —...
April 22, 2014
Earth Day 2014: Thoughts Like Falling Leaves
[This is a repost of a piece I did several years ago, slightly edited for...
April 13, 2014
Goodness and Guilt on the Dark Edge of Life
I’m thinking about guilt as a driving force of religion. If you treat somebody badly,...
April 13, 2014
Beta Culture: Fresh Crops in Failing Fields
Thinking out loud here ... I've written about converting at least one closed church into...
April 08, 2014
Beta Culture: Social Sharing, Social Shaping
Early on, I asked myself why anyone would want to join an artificially-created culture, which...
April 06, 2014
Beta Culture: Forgotten Gods 2
Following up on my thesis that "remnant religion" still occupies us in ways simultaneously invisible...
March 2014
March 28, 2014
Beta Culture: The Long Shadow of Forgotten Gods
So you’re an atheist, and you’re totally free of religion, right? Oh ... maybe. And...
March 22, 2014
Beta Culture: A Citizen of Earth
I don't think I ever really got around to explaining the title of this blog....
March 17, 2014
Please Don’t Plan to Picket Fred Phelps’ Funeral
Word is that Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of Westboro Baptist Church, is dying. His...
March 08, 2014
Grieving Mother Mistreated by Heartless Atheists
Here's this article: Atheists Fight With Grieving Mom Over Roadside Crosses. Son dies in a...
March 05, 2014
An Epiphany on Road Rage … Online
I had to do a silly damned "defensive driving course" at work. It was this...
March 05, 2014
The Dark Side of the Sun
I belong to a couple of Facebook groups on Transhumanism and the Singularity, and I...
February 2014
February 15, 2014
RoboCop and Beyond: Fanboy Says Yes to 2014
RoboCop I saw RoboCop tonight. If you're younger than me, you can't imagine the thrill...
February 02, 2014
Feeling the Pain of the Rich and Famous
Apparently actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died. He ROCKED "Capote," but hell, I liked him as...
February 02, 2014
Help Get ‘Hug An Atheist’ to a Wider Audience
Sylvia Broeckx writes: I apologise for sending you this message out of the blue, but...
January 2014
January 25, 2014
An Unpopular View of Pets — and Pet “Lovers”
I'm conducting an argument on Facebook with a "lover" of cats, following the announcement of...
January 25, 2014
Beta Culture: The Footprint of the Past
One of my many interests is the residual social / societal effects of historical events...
January 20, 2014
Killing People, With Kindness
Watch this video of a 94-year-old man in an epic 65-meter footrace last year. Would...
January 17, 2014
Susan K. Perry Reviews My Book!
Multiply-published author and Creative Atheist blogger here at Patheos, Susan K. Perry, reviewed my book!...
January 13, 2014
Well, This Is Just Sad As Hell
Got this thing on Facebook, but it's very little different from stuff I've been getting...
January 12, 2014
Help (Really, Sort-Of, But Often Maybe Not Really) Wanted
I know from my own experience of reading blogs that I generally expect the voice...
January 11, 2014
Population Pessimism and Diminished Personal Freedom
Face it, if your Superbowl party includes a sofa that comfortably seats four people, and...
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