Christian like me
[Religiously] Unaffiliated Americans are also less likely to vote in presidential elections than other religious groups. Although they make up...
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...
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...
A simple ethics of expectations
On the news this morning I listened to a report about a new virus discovered in Saudi Arabia. But after...
Skepticon 5
So, I’m going. Registered, got a hotel room, time off work scheduled, etc. Haven’t been since 2010, and I’m sure...
Atheism Minus
…is my term for the collective group of idiots who contributed to Jen McCreight deciding that blogging is no longer...
Oh, on that sexism in atheism/skepticism topic…
If you only read one thing about it– or, more likely, if you’ve read plenty about it and are either...
What’s a “bad atheist”?
Ian Murphy has a piece on AlterNet called The 5 Most Awful Atheists, the title of which can be read...
Petition to free Alexander Aan
I had no idea that the White House had established a web site specifically to host petitions. Some of them...
The big bad atheist will blow your religion down?
Ronald Lindsay, president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), wrote a piece for the Huffington Post comparing coming...