Why Create New Drama When You Can Simply Move Your Performance to a Different Venue?
Yes, I apologize, but I’m going there. Yesterday, thanks to the wise words of a commenter on one of my...
Yes, I apologize, but I’m going there. Yesterday, thanks to the wise words of a commenter on one of my...
You know why? Because we all have them; the only problem is that we don’t realize which ones they are....
To save you brutes the effort of having to decipher a bunch of letters on a screen, I’m posting this...
The lovely and inspirational Miss Guy talks about being bullied when he was younger. But for a lot of us it...
Unless you’re talking online to someone you already know, you cannot make accurate assumptions about...
I used to live in a world where music, movie, book, and art critics reigned supreme. Their words mattered....
This is going to be very short. I agree with Greta Christina on a lot of issues, and I disagree with her on...
The comments on Skeptically Left are being migrated to the Disqus system, so in the meantime only some...
In the wake of a certain female blogger’s protest over pro-equality t-shirts, another feminist...
Lately, I’ve seen a spate of books and blog posts on our moral obligations to animals. Some of these...
Is atheism a religion? It shouldn’t be, and I was hoping it wouldn’t be, but for some people it...
Jean Kazez recently wrote a blog post on guilt by association, quoted in full below: “Recently...
But why isn’t it? Let’s examine the possible reasons: 1. I could be wrong; 2. You could be...
Man created god in his own image, and this is important to remember when we ponder why god is cruel and...
I’m sure you don’t need me to answer this question for you, but with all the gossip and...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. —...
A few years ago I asked this exact question on my Facebook page. At that point, I was almost convinced that...
I’m not going to go into an explanation of why homeopathy is bunk — if you don’t know,...
Wikipedia, along with the sources cited therein, broadly defines feminist theory as the philosophical...
Dear Friends and Colleagues: Recently, I’ve heard a lot of concern and conjecture over why the old and...
More than that, I no longer want to be associated with the term “feminism” at all. It’s...
What exactly is the purpose of blogging? So far, at least in the atheist/skeptic/secular online community,...
On my Facebook page I opened a thread for suggestions as to what I should be writing about next. Some of the...
In atheist circles, accommodationism is the position that some sort of “common ground” can be...
So far, the only serious criticism I’ve seen about this blog is my choice of links to include in my...
Are all skeptics atheists? No. Absolutely not. The problem with skeptics and atheists is that we like to...
In response to the Atheism + movement let me propose an alternative. Let’s call it S+B (Skepticism...
I am writing this post as a quick response to John Loftus’s recent entry, Agnostics, You Should be...
One of the reasons there are fewer women involved in the secular movement is the constant attack...
OK, I went a little too far, they’re not always wrong. The statement would be more accurately phrased...
I was too tired to write what I intended tonight, so here’s an old Facebook note instead. Despite...
Before I get into the substance of this post, I have to admit, I hate it when people apply...
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I’m not sure when it happened. It must’ve been a secret ceremony; perhaps an elopement, but...
Do you believe that reverse discrimination is possible? When I was younger, I thought that everything should...
I used to think that religion caused undesirable behavior until I started looking more carefully at pagan...
What follows is a Facebook note I wrote a few years ago. I’m not sure I agree with everything I said...
One of the rights that Americans and Western Europeans often forget is the right to disagree. This ability...
A little over an hour ago, an acquaintance brought the above question to my attention, and it gave me slight...
In the traditional sense, freedom of thought largely meant freedom from the belief in god. It was a brave...
