Archive | August, 2009

The Atheist Blogroll Photo Contest Ends Soon

by on August 31, 2009 in Links, News


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The Atheist Blogroll Photo Contest Ends Soon

The Atheist Blogroll Photography Contest ends September 15! If you have not entered yet, you still have some time. Via Deep Thoughts: I am pleased to announce the 2009  Atheist Blogroll photography contest. This year’s contest is open to any member of the Atheist Blogroll, their family, friends or significant others. By request, I’ve also [...]

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Oh my Saturn!

by on August 31, 2009 in Images, Personal

I mentioned my father passed away and that my hubby and I moved to Miami from LA to aid my mother for a bit. We stopped in Vegas for two days to break up the trip. We flew and shipped the car. As you can see below, my Saturn is no more: The truck’s hydraulic [...]

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The Friendly Atheist is under attack! Oh noes!

by on August 19, 2009 in News

Our neighborhood Friendly Atheist is under attack by a hateful Christian extremist group.

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Medicine? Can’t the Rabbis just fight off the swine flu with a Shofar?

by on August 12, 2009 in Links, News


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Medicine? Can’t the Rabbis just fight off the swine flu with a Shofar?

Rabbis attempt to fight off swine flu by blowing shofars. Accompanied by prayer, of course. Thanks to BBC for this gem I can’t unsee.

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Move Over Evolution, Texas Board of Education Has Other Enemies

by on August 12, 2009 in News


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Move Over Evolution, Texas Board of Education Has Other Enemies

Evolution smevolution. That’s just a piece; there’s a whole lot of recent history the Texas Board of Education would like to remove and alter.

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Atheist Rapper Charlie Check’m doesn’t care what atheists or gays think

by on August 7, 2009 in News, Rants


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Atheist Rapper Charlie Check’m doesn’t care what atheists or gays think

This story has been brewing a bit over at Atheist Nexus. Trina Hoaks does a nice writeup at Atheism Examiner: There has been quite a bit of hubbub surrounding atheist rapper, Charlie Check’m, over at Atheist Nexus. The hubbub has resulted not only in the rapper’s banning from Atheist Nexus but in the revoking of [...]

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Results from a Survey of the Nonreligious

by on August 5, 2009 in Links, News


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Results from a Survey of the Nonreligious

Via CFI News: Luke Galen, an associate professor at Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, Mich.), reported on the Non-Religious Identification Survey (NRIS), which he conducted in conjunction with the Center for Inquiry, a secular think tank. “NRIS is the first study of its type to direct a full range of sociological survey questions to [...]

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