This is what the man himself had to say about my last blog post: “An obvious ad hominem attack in lieu of a real RATIONAL argument. Truth isn’t contextual, it either is or it isn’t. Obscurantists attempt to cloud the clarity of my logic.” Let me say right up front: …
When Richard Dawkins makes me wicked mad, I like to watch this clip. It was cooler when they used to growl it metal style, but I guess people couldn’t understand. Oh well. Source: PronounciationManual, YouTube Richard Dawkins, biologist and one of the so-called four horsemen of the new atheism has …
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Now that a little time has passed since the school shooting in Sandy Hook and we’ve been distracted by other pressing issues like the economy and the sun glinting off shiny things, the gun law reform issue has, as predicted, fallen back onto the national Yeah-Yeah-I’ll-Get-to-That list. And you know …
I generally feel like a pretty liberated person. I’ve spent a lot of time (some might say too much) thinking about what I believe, what I like, how I feel, that’s going on in the world around me. I recognize when my brain is going off the rails, when I’m …
So Beyonce totally killed at the Superbowl, amirite? I don’t know, I didn’t watch it, but based on the responses I saw floating around the internet, it sure seemed like it. Plus, Beyonce just kills it in general. She’s sexy, a great singer, an awesome dancer, obviously business savvy, and …
Last year at this time I was reflecting on taking control of and responsibility for my own happiness, something I’d believed in for most of my life, but which I’d only recognized as practicable in that year. I stand by everything I had to say last year, and it’s still …
While I still dislike the way culture pressures us to view loving, long-term relationships as legitimate only in the context of marriage, and feel similarly uncomfortable with the subtextual corollary that gay people are made legitimate via the right to marry, I’m glad that there is marriage equality in Maine. …
My friend Ray is homeless and proud. In the few years that I’ve known him, he’s accepted the occasional cup of coffee when the machine in the lobby at work is on the fritz, but he also likes to buy me a coffee from the machine when I don’t have …
It’s come to my attention that I am not doing as well as I like to think I’m doing. After opening a fairly jumbo-size can of emotional worms yesterday evening, I spent the day trying with varying levels of success to fend off a crushing sadness, feeling small and sad …