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 […]
morality, social media
Digital dualism enables internet idiocy; monism motivates meaning
First things first– if you haven’t already, go over to technosociology and read Zeynep Tufekci’s excellent post Free Speech and […]
morality, religion
Demonology
Art by Sandro Castelli It’s getting close to Halloween, so let’s talk about demons. I’m going to define a demon […]
LGBT
Procotting
I can’t seem to find a word that denotes a deliberate decision to patronize a business in response to a […]
Uncategorized
I’m tripping over you, God
Cross-posted from State of Formation. In a Newsweek article grandiosely (to put it lightly) entitled Proof of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife published […]