International Blasphemy Day

It’s my badminton night, so you’re not going to get much. But it’s International Blasphemy Day, and I can’t let that go unnoted. So, for what it’s worth: – I deny the divinity of the holy spirit. – Here’s a picture I made of the prophet Muhammed doing a dance: O-Z—< – I believe in [...]

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The Atheist’s Guide To Christmas

If you want to know what I think of the Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, a book that’s just been released, which was put together by the lovely Ariane Sherine (organiser of the Atheist Bus Campaign) and which features essays from many of the grooviest godless guys and gals of our time, you can read my [...]

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Anomaly Hunting

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. – Inigo Montoya This is a staple of pseudoscience. Not quoting The Princess Bride – everyone does that too much, regardless of their scientific credibility. I mean anomaly hunting. But the anomalies that woo-mongers think they’re looking for often [...]

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Humanist Symposium: call for submissions

The 43rd Humanist Symposium is up now, over at the Prior Perceptions Blog. I’m going to be hosting the next one, on October 18th. If you post anything in your blog between now and then which you’d like to be featured, email a link to cubiksrube, at hotmail dot co dot uk. Full guidelines for [...]

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Bible study

I’m feeling healthier today, and writing more stuff, hoping to get a new Skeptictionary entry up tomorrow. For today, just one quick thought, out of nowhere, with no real context, but possibly something worth thinking about. Either that, or one which I’ll marvel at the pointless of in the morning. I was reading some blog [...]

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(Going to) TAM I am!

Guess who’s just bought his ticket to TAM FUCKING LONDON, bitches! (Hint: someone whose crappy annoying cold/flu symptoms had fucking better have cleared up properly by next weekend.) Yeah, I’m still ill and have nothing to add today. Except that the new Skeptics’ Circle is up. Go there. I sleep now.

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Ugh

This sodding cold/flu/thing still isn’t leaving me alone. So I’m too tired and sickly to rant properly about the latest tedious story of politically correct secular fanaticism / “just take the damn necklace off when you’re at work” (delete as appropriate for your own chosen polarised extreme). Okay, I have the energy for one quick [...]

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Girls love boys and boys love girls

In which I apparently disagree with everyone in the pro-gay camp. A friend of mine posted a link on Facebook earlier to an article titled My 4-Year-Old Homophobe. It’s worth reading if only for the author’s awesome Pre-Kindergarten Program selection procedure. But it’s mostly about state funding of homophobic indoctrination. Well, kinda. This is the [...]

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Hey cosmos, clear my sinuses, chop-chop

Still poorly, so this will be brief. I’m still technologically backward enough not to have an iPhone, but apparently they have an app for everything – including the bullshit newage philosophy of cosmic ordering. Because, as all experienced practitioners of The Secret will tell you, the universe will respond to whatever thoughts you put out [...]

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Bleh

My cold’s getting worse, I’ve been feeling icky and oozing everywhere all day, any kind of creativity has been entirely beyond the lethargic limits of my current capacity, but I’m going through a phase of keeping up the habit of posting here daily, for what it’s worth. Until I’m back up to speed, go enjoy [...]

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