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Why your religion is none of my damn business

I was raised as an ordinary kid in a family that didn’t really attend church every single Sun-day but still did so frequently. My friend Mark Carper took me to an anti-rock & roll preacher sideshow at his church, the … Continue reading

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You Are Here/Pale Blue Dot

I put together this YouTube playlist of Carl Sagan’s “You Are Here”/”Pale Blue Dot” speech. I highly recommend checking it out. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, … Continue reading

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Nucular Maverick comin’ atcha, gosh darn it!

(I posted this as a response to some angry and unpleasant conservative’s blog post comment, and figured if i was going to do any research at all, i may as well reap the benefit of publishing it here as well, … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin: unevolved

So… if Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in evolution… can we call her unevolved?? And nobody even gets upset??? Really?!

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God’s big flaw

To my mind, there is nothing better than the idea that THIS is all there is, that there is no afterlife and no ultra-benevolent (yet strangely, fiercely jealous) Super-Grampa waiting to scoop us up in His arms when we die; … Continue reading

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