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A million million slimy things

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 17, 2013 • 6 comments

  May the ghost of Samuel Taylor Coleridge have mercy on my soul for such shameless quote mining: The very…

Civility and Its Discontents

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 15, 2013 • 8 comments

On Wednesday, Dan Fincke of Camels with Hammers posted his proposed civility pledge. I signed on almost immediately, despite some…

The Camels With Hammers Civility Pledge

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 13, 2013 • 14 comments

The following pledge is reproduced in full, with permission, from Dan Ficke’s blog. I’m pretty sure that I can get…

Secular NOMA?

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 11, 2013 • No comments

Earlier today, my brother-in-law and podcast co-producer posted to the AOK blog about our chat with DJ Grothe last week,…

Blocking, banning, and blacklisting (Part 1)

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 10, 2013 • 29 comments

  Fairly recently, James Billingham lashed up a Twitter bot to automate the process of blocking undesirable people: The Block…

Complimentary Earplugs (Part 11 of 100)

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 9, 2013 • No comments

Every weekend, I reload my iPhone with a fresh batch of podcasts and videos for the long commutes ahead. Sometimes,…

Loopy Laws Looming Large (SJR 31)

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 6, 2013 • 2 comments

Today’s novel attempt at writing religious faith into civil law is designated SJR 31, an attempt at “prohibiting discrimination or…

Loopy Laws Looming Large (SB 175)

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 5, 2013 • 5 comments

Every year, I make a point of combing through Oklahoma’s steaming fresh pile of proposed legislation to try to find…

Ceasefire Terms (Part 2)

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 3, 2013 • 15 comments

  Adam Lee isn’t the only one laying down terms, we also have this much shorter set of conditions from…

Ceasefire Terms (Part 1)

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 3, 2013 • 17 comments

Last July, I changed the background on my phone to remind me to stop being such a dick online, in…

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