[My guest on Lateral Truth is Ed Rybicki, the guy whose very short story resulted in a fair typhoon of…
Category Atheism
What a difference a year makes. Twelve short months ago, I was an admirer of PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula, and…
No matter how they dress themselves up – saffron dhotis, long white robes, business suits or mufti – organizations built…
Yes, morning has broken, and today is the universe’s birthday – though technically it started last night at about 6…
This weekend sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two weeks in 1962 when the…
The scene: a generic deathbed. For the purposes of this exercise, you are an atheist. You are present at this…
Today’s offering is my take on the iconic Just-So story of the building of the Tower of Babel. And,…
Maybe I was lucky. My childhood as a secret atheist in a Fundamentalist family had many awkward moments and roughly…