Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. What’s the best way to spend Pi Day (March 14th)? Arguably eating the Venn Piagram pictured above, but luckily that choice doesn’t rule out coming to a theatre talkback I’ll be leading that night! Theatre J is reviving its stellar production of New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza and, after the 7:30 show on March... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. The second most incorrect thing people say about evolution is that it is the survival of the fittest. (The most incorrect award has to go to the claim it doesn’t exist). The problem with this framing is that it sets up a picture of evolution-as-craftsman, carefully scrutinizing genetic variations and selecting and nurturing the most promising variant.... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion, is, as you might guess, a bit persona non grata with the New Atheist blogosphere. After reading his most recent CNN Opinion piece (“What atheists can learn from religion”), I’m guessing religious folks will also be thinking, “Please, don’t help us.”... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. I do want to do a substantive post on the contraceptive mandate later in the week, but, to set the stage, I want to talk about the conscience objection for pharmacists first.. Since we haven’t all been having this argument to death (at least not recently), maybe it can give us a better lead-in to the more... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. Via the Daily Dish, André Ford, a student in the architecture department at the Royal College of Art came up with a kind of grotesque final project for a class focusing on “how a dense and vertical architecture can bring back food production and consumption in the city.” Ford designed an apparatus that would give a... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. I’m always pleased with the traffic bump that comes with a link from the Daily Dish, but the headline Sullivan used on my block quote gave me pause: Why Atheists Should Observe Lent. Look, let me be blunt: I try to be shamelessly opportunistic when it comes to reforming my character, and the Lenten season with... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. The Bright Maidens, a trio of young Catholic women who try to dispel myths and misconceptions about their faith, frequently do themed blog carnivals, and this week their topic is “Instructing the Ignorant.” Elizabeth Hillgrove of Startling the Day covered a lot of topics in her post, but you can’t be surprised to find out it... Read more
Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five nominees for Best Atheist Blog. More details here. This is part two of my response to Brian S. about my choice to give up free food during Lent. The first focused on why I glommed on to Lent in the first place. Now we’re addressing the substance of the change I’m trying to make. Brian wrote: I disagree [that the feeling of having cheated... Read more
— 1 — A bit of housekeeping before the Quick Takes: This blog is one of five nominees for the About.com Award for Favorite Atheist Blog in 2011. You can vote once per day, and I would really appreciate it if you did. — 2 — And speaking of the “Please vote for me” refrain, perhaps you’re aware of the Chinese documentary of the same name? This movie follows a Chinese class of 8-year-olds who get to elect their own... Read more
Thanks a lot to everyone who voted in the initial phase of About.com’s Atheist/Agnostic Reader’s Choice Awards! Unequally Yoked is one of five nominees for Favorite Atheist/Agnostic Blog of 2011. Voting is open now through March 21st. and you can vote once per day. Spoiler Alert: I am totally going to get whupped by PZ Myers’s Pharyngula, but I’d quite like to not place last, if possible. From my original vote-for-me post, the reason I’d like to do well: Last... Read more
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