I have some things for you to read. First, please read about how Ashley Miller was disowned by her father […]
atheism, personal, philosophy, psychology, religion
I am not a cockroach– what materialism is, and isn’t
Several years ago, I bounded out of a faculty building on a university campus and, in a thoughtful and optimistic […]
feminism
You fill in the harmony
The Atheist Experience posts that they received an email which reads: Dillahunty is off his rocker if he thinks feminism […]
family
Your own kind of closeness
I promise you’ll be happy/And even if you’re not/There’s more to life than that/Don’t ask me what Happy day-after-Thanksgiving. Today […]
boycotting, contraception, politics, religion
I’d like a glue gun, some acrylic paint, and some birth control
A federal judge denied Hobby Lobby’s request for exemption from the federal requirement to provide health care coverage which covers […]
personal
Current reading and “reading”
One of the most enjoyable things about Skepticon was actually the drive there. I’m listening to the audiobook of Jeffrey […]
contraception, morality, politics
Dear Bill O’Reilly…
…no calculator, moral or otherwise, will make it less expensive to arrest people than to help them. Trust me on […]
atheism, social media
Internet antipathy, part 2….thousand
So, one of the people I was most looking forward to seeing (and talking with, if I could come up […]
politics, psychology
Politics for creative types
Matthew Inman’s comic on the creative process (which you’ve almost certainly seen already because you already read The Oatmeal; and […]
religion, skepticism
How Skepticon is and isn’t like going to church
Is: Skepticon is a gathering of like-minded people on specific dates.Isn’t: The particular dates don’t matter, except that that also […]