Last Monday, Christopher Hitchens was up in Boulder debating Dinesh D’Souza. I didn’t go because it was a school night and tickets were sold out before I could change my mind, but it seems from this e-mail I just received that it’s possible I wouldn’t have gotten in anyway. Listen to this:
Neither of the organizers [...]
Archive for January, 2009
31 Jan
Atheist Ticket-Holders Turned Away at Hitchens/D’Souza Debate
28 Jan
AND!
Let me get this straight.
Right now, an invisible force is gluing me to the surface of this spherical object that has liquid rock on the inside and it’s hurtling through a vacuum called space.
AND!
This object called Earth is revolving around this giant orb of gas called a star where atoms get thrown at each other so fast that [...]
27 Jan
Quotes
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve gotten a rather frequent commenter on my posts. This was brought about by me commenting on one of her blog posts and expressing a dissenting view.
These have been posted publicly on the Internet. I therefore have the right to repost them.
Enjoy reading them.
And I never said it’s ok to [...]
20 Jan
Materialism: Dropping Watermelons from Great Heights
Please give me instances which prove materialism?
-Dawkinswatch
You went to Dawkinswatch’s blog, you commented, he decided that the main reason we were all Atheists was because we were materialists, he wrote a new post.
Well… I think I should first make two things quite clear:
Materialism here does not mean the same thing as consumerism (just to make [...]
16 Jan
“Dawkinswatch” Asks: Why Are You An Atheist?
Everybody’s favourite Internet creationist, “Dawkinswatch” (watching Dawkins so you don’t have to), is opening up his blog for comments from Atheists answering the question: Why are you an Atheist?
He seems to think that these are the most likely possibilities:
- You read the works of Voltaire and became a convert?
- You are a secret Luciferian [...]
13 Jan
Course of Reason Podcast
You are an editor’s worst nightmare.
Tyler Handley
So my friend just told me that I’m on the Course of Reason podcast. Another friend told me that the episode has been up there for months. Only a lazy bum like me could be on a podcast and not know it’s been posted there for the past four [...]
2 Jan
Why Edward Cullen is Not Sexy: A Biology Nerd Rant
A certain co-author of mine has been making me read Twilight out loud to him over Skype so that he can mock it (which is admittedly loads of fun), but even if we weren’t mocking it there is no way I could find Edward Cullen hot enough to make the book worth the 500 pages [...]
1 Jan
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all my readers!
So far 2009 looks a lot like 2008 except it being colder this morning and my new haircut, but I’m sure there are many joys and fun thingies to look forward to. For now…
You can listen to me, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, Phil Plait, and other godless friends of [...]
