Conspiracy theories

Let’s establish some common ground first. Conspiracy theory stories can be a lot of fun. And there’ve been some damn fun stories that have really taken place. For centuries people have been gathering with small groups of trusted allies in shadowy corners, and making plans to cause some sort of havoc, upset some apple-carts, infiltrate [...]

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Stop defying God’s word, just get cancer like he wants

Okay, I’m almost ready to call Poe’s law on Stephen Green’s entire life. Three weeks ago, he reports the “There’s probably no God” Atheist Bus Campaign to the Advertising Standards Authority, and tries to prevent them from being allowed to express this view. From the National Secular Society today: It is preposterous for the ASA [...]

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These people aren’t plying a skill…

Almost finished with an article of actual substance, but I’m still not finding as much time or energy to get stuff written as I’d like. When Tim Minchin said he’d be lightening the tone of the evening’s entertainment with a nine-minute beat poem, I thought at first it was a joke. Nope. The word “man-crush” [...]

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“Io did it.” Fewer letters, even simpler

Edward Current is still awesome, but the parody’s getting less subtle, and seems harder to mistake for sincerity these days. Ninjas? No actual religion is awesome enough to have conspiracy theories about ninjas.

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I’m lazy again today

This. That is all.

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Free energy

After the roaring success of similar campaigns for both Tibet and Willy, it’s now time to discuss Free Energy. (Ha.) The idea of free energy is pretty much what it sounds like. It doesn’t just work in the “free cable” sense of tapping into someone else’s pipeline, but rather by actually creating new and usable [...]

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Not a bad start

Convicted fraudster and monumental fucknut Kevin Trudeau has been slapped with his biggest fine yet for repeated, continuous, colossal dickishness. (I’m paraphrasing the legalese.) I’m thinking he’ll get a write-up for the Skeptictionary someday, but there’s more about him all over the interwebs, not least at the Skeptic’s Dictionary. (Hey, anyone else notice the similarity [...]

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… but, y’know, mostly believers

It’s late, and I’m tired, and nobody’s that desperate to hear my thoughts on anything anyway. But I’m finding the time for a brief comment, because Obama’s inauguration is one of those things that I can’t really not express an opinion on and still claim to be an active part of the atheist blogosphere. Although [...]

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Probably no god: FACTUALLY ACCURATE

Well, sort of. The Advertising Standards Authority has decided that the Atheist Bus campaign has not breached their code, and that Stephen Green should shut up and stop whining. Okay, that last bit’s not really in their legal remit to make pronouncements on, but I like to think it’s implied. We live to blaspheme another [...]

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Calloo! Callay!

Hey, you guys in that big America place. You remember that George W. Bush guy? He’s not the President any more. You probably know that, but it’s a fact that deserves some encouragement to sink in. George W. Bush? Not the President. Last time that was true, I’d just started 6th form college. Now I [...]

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