“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I was just treated to an interesting story of a couple, Caroline Leto and Venera Magazzu, who will be celebrating 70 years together on August 17. Yes, I said
70 Years Together!
Unfortunately for nearly all of that time they were unable to share the reality of their relationship because they are lesbian, and such things were [...]
Dammit. Geez my back is killing me, down in the lower spine. Not a muscle thing, feels more like a pinched nerve or something. Can hardly move without it twinging and sending shooting pains all over. Damn that hurts. Weird part is that I don’t recall doing anything particularly out of the ordinary, haven’t tried [...]
Middle of the week. I’ve been really busy lately, not much time for scanning the news and other shit going on.
And I’ve gotten news this week that two people, neither of whom I knew beyond internet contacts, died. Both of them yesterday, actually. It’s weird how this internet stuff works — basically anonymous names on [...]
Very cool! A blogger, Michael Nugent, conducted an informal survey, seeking people’s favorite atheist books.
Not surprisingly, The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins, was the number 1 recommendation. It is a very good book, in my opinion, and should be read by anyone having to deal with aggressive and/or militantly obnoxious religious people. You won’t agree [...]
Last December I put up a post about Non-Religious Wedding Officiants. This morning I discovered a new comment submitted to that post, and I want to address the question directly:
Kat writes:
I became a widow when my first hausband died in 1990, after 18 1/2 yrs. I remarried in 1994, in a couthouse, but it only [...]
There is an organized effort afoot to deface our nation’s Capitol Visitor’s Center, and such destruction of public property needs to be stopped.
The major problem is that they are proposing that taxpayer dollars be used to engrave “In God We Trust” as well as the adulterated version of the Pledge of Allegiance over the entrance [...]
Weird! There’s a lot of activity in India surrounded their recent move to decriminalize homosexuality, but this wacko is stirring up plenty of shit on his own:
‘Yoga Cures Gay Disease’, Indian Swami Says
1:52pm UK, Friday July 10, 2009
India’s top TV yoga expert has challenged a court ruling legalising gay sex in the country [...]
The mailperson just carried a box to my door, with a quizzical look on his face.
This is the corner of the box, as it arrived. (I’d already opened it to see what it was). Notice the slash marks in the corner?
And this is what was inside, exactly as it was as I removed the [...]
I love Keith. He’s funny, and usually spot-on.
In last night’s “Worst Person” segment he awarded TX Governor Rick Perry the “Worst Person in the World” for contemplating appointing Cynthia Dunbar to head the Texas State Board of Education. Ms. Dunbar is a certifiable nutcase who, as Keith points out, believes fundamentalists are too liberal, among [...]
Holy crap. Somebody thinks this is actually a good idea!
Game show looks to convert atheists
How can this be?
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success [...]
Today is the Fourth of July — Independence Day in the United States. The Colonists declared their independence from British rule. Our founding fathers established our country to not only be free of British rule, but free of religious rule as well. Ours is one of the first truly secular nations in the modern world.
Yesterday [...]
Okay, I’m sure it was nothing related to my previous post about Sarah Palin, but I just now heard the news!
Palin is stepping down this month! How cool is that? And here’s the text of her resignation speech.
With any luck this means she will retreat back into private civilian life. It is hard to think [...]
Fact: Sarah Palin needs to get out of the spotlight and give people adequate time to simply forget her!
As discussed in this clip with David Shuster and Richard Wolffe, besides being a Christian of the worst sort (hyper-funda-gelical), she has a very unstable relationship with truth and reality.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, [...]
This is making the rounds… too funny!
Amazing how people can get time-relevant videos made so quickly, huh?
long, long ago, almost in another lifetime, I was married. To a woman. In a church. In St. Peter and Paul Full Gospel Deliverance Church, to be exact. It was a deliverance church. And Full Gospel. So they believed in divine healing and stuff like that. There was a pair of crutches mounted on the [...]
I was catching up in Facebook this morning and this ad caught my eye (for obvious reasons), but then the text beneath it gave me pause:
Now, don’t get me wrong, but if they are advertising TO WOMEN for a laser hair removal, it seems to me that they should show an image of a woman. [...]
This article, WFLA should have seen the red flags over antigay program shows that some people in the media still don’t get it.
On Saturday morning, thousands of people turned out to celebrate at St. Petersburg’s annual Gay Pride parade and festival, promoting acceptance and tolerance of the area’s gay, lesbian and transgendered residents.
Hours later, WFLA-Ch. [...]
