Carnival of the Godless, and edumacation of the godly

Carnival of the Godless #99 is up, over at OzAtheist‘s place. Lots of good stuff there from the heathen blogosphere, including one piece of my own – apparently the entry conditions were really pretty lax this time around, because I felt like an intellectual midget up against some of the other entries catalogued here. Go [...]

Read Full Post »

This week in veeps

I honestly don’t want this blog to get too predominantly political, and it’s clear that the wide reach of my ignorance on the subject will stop me from getting too carried away on that, but some of this is kinda pertinent at the moment. Stuff about Sarah Palin is starting to turn up, for instance, [...]

Read Full Post »

McCain totally taps that

Presidential hopeful John McCain has announced that Sarah Palin, the current Governor of Alaska, will be his vice presidential candidate in the upcoming election. I’ve no idea what Republicans are thinking about this, but the buzz I’m getting from the parts of the blogosphere around which I linger is that not much about her is [...]

Read Full Post »

Ceci n’est pas un proper blog post either

Been fairly occupied with other things today (partly writing a book, partly watching one of my favourite Buffy episodes), so just have a few bits and pieces to half-heartedly report on. I’ve also been scribbling more thoughts on this ongoing dialogue of sorts with Eric, my wacky Christian buddy. You can catch up with that [...]

Read Full Post »

Mojoey’s Atheist Blogroll

It’s a grand day indeed. I have been painfully inducted into the hallowed realm of The Atheist Blogroll, kept by Mojoey over at Deep Thoughts. Once I’ve recovered enough from the hazing rituals to be able to sit down again, I’ll hopefully be in a position to attract a wider audience of tens, dozens, perhaps [...]

Read Full Post »

Tonight’s top stories

This is an excellent article about the teaching of evolution, and following one teacher in Florida in particular, as he tries to work out how best to handle the creationists in his biology class. It’s an inspiring reminder that some real education can sometimes take place in schools, if you’re lucky, and this guy sounds [...]

Read Full Post »

Ceci n’est pas un blog

I’m taking the day off blogging today. Because I can. What are you gonna do about it? Huh? Back tomorrow.

Read Full Post »

Make Me A Christian

So, the three-part channel 4 series Make Me A Christian has just finished airing. There were some likeable people there on both sides of the aisle, but in the end, I think pretty much all of them got it wrong. The concept of the show is that a bunch of non-Christians live the Christian lifestyle, [...]

Read Full Post »

Vaccinate your kids, so they don’t die

I’m a blogger. I write stuff, a few sentences to a few dozen paragraphs a day, and get a couple of hundred visits in a good week. I’m a less significant social force than the talentless idiots I’m currently watching being laughed off The X Factor. But this whole internet thing has been taking off [...]

Read Full Post »

And verily the Lord sayeth to thee, take two of these and a Hail Mary in the morning…

PZ‘s latest experiment in poll-crashing has swung the ‘No’ vote to the question “Do you believe God has intervened to revive patients that doctors ruled were hopeless cases?” from 37% to 82%, over at the East Iowa Gazette. A very similar CNN poll from just a few days ago was less succesfully Pharyngulised, and in [...]

Read Full Post »