“…and then it vanished and was gone” (goodbye Lou)
I’ll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says “it’s hard to give a shit these days”. Manhattan’s sinking like a rock into the filthy Hudson, what a shock. They wrote a book...
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I’ll be discussing Catholicism live tonight
I’ll be the guest on tonight’s episode of Brave Hero Radio (Saturday, November 16th) at 8 p.m. EST (which is 5 p.m. PST/1 a.m. GMT, etc.) I’m really looking forward to it. It’s an interesting,...
View ArticleMy brief video commentary on Pope Francis that aired on tonight’s episode of...
Tonight’s episode of Al Jazeera America’s The Stream was about the so-called “Pope Francis Effect“. I was asked to record a 30 second video comment about Pope Francis for the show. I’ve embedded the...
View ArticleReading Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “25″
“But then right in the middle of it…” Reading one of my favorite poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti‘s “25” …if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven...
View ArticleThe 3rd Annual International Day of Protest Against Hereditary Religion...
Although the serious consequences of childhood religious indoctrination (specifically of the Catholic variety) is a topic that I’ve written a great deal about and have discussed in various interviews,...
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A Lolzy Tale of Hemingway and a Polydactyl Cat
Yesterday, a friend sent me a hilarious & adorable LOLPolydactylCat picture (see below), which made me think of Ernest Hemingway and his beloved bevy of polydactyl cats. In my reply to my friend’s...
View ArticleThe U.N.’s impotent yet vitally important report on the Vatican’s crimes
In January, for the first time, the Vatican was forced to publicly defend its handling (or, more accurately, its mishandling) of the clergy sexual abuse epidemic that has long pervaded the Catholic...
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My TAM2013 interview with the RDFRS (videos & audio)
Below, I’ve embedded parts one and two of my TAM2013 interview with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (the RDFRS). The interview was filmed in Las Vegas in July 2013, during the...
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Happy birthday, David Attenborough
Happy 88th birthday to David Attenborough, who has taught so many of us so much about this wonderful world: (And a bonus video of him comforting a blind baby rhinoceros (a clip from the BBC series...
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Peter Medawar & the vice of obfuscation
While working on some research and writing today, I was suddenly reminded of this brilliant passage from Peter Medawar‘s 1968 lecture “Science and Literature”, (reprinted in his Pluto’s Republic). It...
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