I aten’t dead

But I’m still taking a holiday. Because I can, dammit. Seriously, this heat is draining my creativity and motivation, and it’s been a while since not writing anything has felt this good. So, I’m going to keep trying that for a little while longer. See you soon.

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Links

– Penn Jillette kicks ass. I kinda don’t even care how much I disagree with him on some stuff, which is actually less than you’d think when you really get down to it. – If you’re in the UK, the British Humanist Association want you to email your MP to try to ensure that good [...]

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FGM FTL

What’s your immediate reaction to this sentence: University research into the long term effects of using a sharp blade to hack bits off the genitalia of young girls. If you thought something along the lines of “sounds pretty fucked up to me“, you’re not alone. (That quote isn’t the abstract of a scientific paper or [...]

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Deity, smite thyself

So there was this statue in Ohio called King of Kings. It was a massive sculpture of Jesus, but only the top half of him, so it looked like he’d sunk into quicksand and was reaching up for someone to help pull him out. And on Monday night it was struck by lightning and burned [...]

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Assortment

Sorry for the silence. I have a good old-fashioned rant almost ready for tomorrow, and a few links to briefly moan about now. Gosh, I make this blog sound like so much fun, don’t I? – Let’s start with a nice list of things atheists didn’t do. Specifically, some religiously motivated acts of immorality, where [...]

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The certainty of uncertainty

Yeah, so atheism again. It’s still interesting and important, even if I’ve been drifting somewhat lately, toward other topics on which I’m even less qualified to comment. And even aside from the occasional appalling and criminal outrage to get angry about, there are still things that wind me up about the ongoing religion discussion. Here’s [...]

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I am not an Anarchist

I am also, in case you were wondering, not an Anti-Christ. I’m less than certain what I want, and am very vague on the subject of how to get it. I’ve been following the Broadsnark blog for a while now, and trying to learn a little something about the political philosophy of anarchism. I’ve flirted [...]

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Links

– A list of ten reasons to support comprehensive sex education in schools. My only real quibble is that it doesn’t cite any specific sources, or link to any raw data, but it’s still persuasive. (I also got a little twitchy about the implicit association between “faith” and “moral behavior” in point 8, but it’s [...]

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Stay classy, Church

A 15-year-old girl had to stand in front of a crowd to apologise for being raped. And no, not in one of those crazy, backward, foreign countries, where they wear funny clothes and do things differently from us, and have their own primitive religious ideas where women have to cover their whole bodies up and [...]

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Drugs? In prison? Surely not!

I’m still on something of an annoying journalism kick. That’s a kick against annoying journalism, I mean. It’s not annoying that I’m blogging about journalism more these days. At least, I’m not annoyed about that. Stories like this one, however, do annoy me somewhat, because it’s about something I feel like I know just enough [...]

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