Unplanned Parenthood

… because this made me smile and pretty much sums up the first couple years of my marriage.

Happy Skeptics Day!

Well, maybe.
Skeptics Day is either October 13th, January 13th, or the first Friday the 13th of the year.  I’m going with October 13th to fit my own selfish needs.
However, yesterday was Freethought Day.  A real and recognized by Wikipedia (and a number of other groups) holiday. I didn’t realize it was Freethought Day until this [...]

A beautiful sunrise and a random story

I don’t have anything to say about health care or bombing Iran or whatever happened on the last Open Forum Friday.
I did however happen to notice a particularly beautiful sunrise about a week ago and felt compelled to pull over and take a few pictures.

Sunrise 1

Sunrise 2

Taco Bell Sunrise

Sunrise 3

As I’m posting these pictures I [...]

The Physics of a Zombie Attack

Physicist Davide Cassi at the Università di Parma in Italy recently studied how long something could hide (an immobile target) in a complex structure without being found by a random walker. To Mike Lucibella at livescience.com, “immobile targets” are humans hiding and “random walkers” are zombies.  Lucibella infers from Cassi’s study that if zombies were [...]

Ode to the Internet

The Internet:  The world’s longest argument.
The Internet:  The Nerds, the Noobs and the Pwnd
The Internet:  6 Billion idiots.  1 Address.
The Internet:  Mental Masturbation and, well, all kinds of masturbation.
The Internet:  What else does Al Gore have to do?
The Internet:  As easy as Lindsay Lohan.  It’s open 24/7, shows you anything you want, and believes you [...]

Resurrection cookies: Sweet, tasty salvation

Read about Resurrection Cookies! A good Christian parent is supposed to make these with their child to teach them about Jesus. Then enter our contest, searching for the recipe for atheist cookies, and win an autographed copy of I Sold My Soul on eBay by Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist!

We put our godlessness to work for YOU!

Wow. I just found this site today — it’s Eternal Earthbound Pets, a pet care service for all those pious pet owners who get taken to heaven during the rapture.
You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind?   Eternal Earth-Bound [...]

Ceiling Cat iz pleezed.

I knew that I was in for a treat when I learned that the 300+ atheists from the Secular Student Alliance had a special Twitter hashtag for their Creation Museum walkthrough. (In fact, two of our members went on that trip!) Check out the tweets here.
So when I saw that one of the attendees made [...]

If Only He’d Read Jared Diamond…

We can now add another item to the long list of reasons to read Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel:  Your athletic career just might depend on it.
If you haven’t already read this expansive, exhaustive survey of human history, there’s no time like the present.  Framed by the question, “How did it happen that Francisco [...]

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?

I needed something funny this morning so, here are some of my favorite jokes of a rational/philosophical/freethought nature.
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During the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, one morning’s executions began with three men: a rabbi, a Catholic priest, and a rationalist skeptic.
The rabbi was marched up onto the platform first. There, facing the guillotine, [...]