FreeThought Music: First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit is the Swedish indie/folk band of the Söderberg sisters Johanna and Klara. These young ladies with their sensuous chords and dulcet tones started composing in 2007 with their first EP, Drunken Trees, being released in 2008 followed in January of this year by their full album The Big Black & the Blue. [...]

How Much Proof Do You Need?

It was interesting timing today since, right after our coffee klatch today, I found myself pumping gas and listening to Lee Ann Womack’s song There is a God.
I hadn’t heard of the song before, probably because I don’t listen to country music, but it just caught me a little off guard- enough that I was [...]

Happy Mother’s Day!

I just wanted to take a quick second or two and thank all of the mothers out there that take care of us all.
Nothing is more valued than the unconditional acceptance and support and caring of a loving  mother.
It is a hard fact of life that not everyone gets to enjoy the love and nurturing [...]

Other Ways of Knowing

Often I’ve thought about showing
All the other “ways of knowing”
Of which faithful often remind me.
Science, you see, can sometimes blind me.

All but the True Believers© are deranged.
The only constant of dogma is change.
Other religions are obvious fakes.
Just look at all of the false claims they make.

It is not really fair
To scoff at the faithful with derision,
As [...]

Pics from Notre Dame

Hey, is that a picture of Christopher Hitchens with his new “Be Reasonable.” bookmark?  I think it is.  Everyone has one of those nowadays!  All of the cool people anyways.  And of course, that’s the CAA’s Stephen cheesing next to him.  You can find the rest of our pics at the FFW flikr page:

Project Reason Video Contest Winner

The Project Reason video contest winner has been announced

ABC’s Frontline Special: Does God Have a Future?

There can be only one.

Project Reason (formerly The Reason Project) is still allowing members to vote on the 9 finalist videos from their $10,000 video contest.  You can still vote until March 21st if you are a member.
I like several of them.  I’ve narrowed it down to Imagine and Think Rationally.  I thought both of those were very good.
Imagine [...]

WTF is wrong with Utah?

*****For more information on this topic and other issues of ‘Women and Freethought’ tune in to tonights live Dial-an-Atheist for a conversation between Freethought Fort Wayne’s own Rae Surface and Ashley Martin, Vice President of Campus Atheists and Agnostics of IPFW. The show can be seen tonight at 7pm on local access tv (Comcast 57, [...]

Is our idea of privacy really changing?

The Introduction
Is our idea of privacy really changing? This seems to be the case according to a recent PC World article, Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving.
The Anecdotal Evidence
Netflix recently offered a $1 Million dollar prize to anyone who could make a 10% improvement in their recommendation engine. Netflix’s recommendation engine is the software that [...]