Random Asides
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Is there porn in your library?
No, not your personal library, but your public library: Woman finds porn in library; Shocked. Shocked! “You would think the last place your child would be exposed to graphic sex is your local library. Roberta Maddox, a local mother, feels the same way. She is still mad over what she found when her 16-year-old daughter brought some books back from…
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Mailbag Monday!
I’m having a busy day, so let’s go straight to the mailbag! Hello Rebecca, Just thought you’d find this funny… http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Statistics Look at the stats for the conservative on-line encyclopedia. And then, when you’re done laughing, check out their definition of evolution… Lies and logical fallacies galore! http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution Keep up the good work, Benoit Méthot Montreal, Quebec Wow, in case…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Good morning! The turkey is stuffed and in the oven, the pumpkin pie is chilling in the fridge, and I am ready to clean my house and do the laundry. That’s my routine every year. Then the rest of the weekend is free. I’d like to thank some people who have made a difference in the world for good this…
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FSM Xmas Tree Ornaments
Well, perhaps you don’t know it, but my two encompassing passions or obsessions lately are knitting and atheism. Mostly I write about knitting on my personal blog, with a few diversions into politics or other things that are on my mind. Today I’d like to talk about my other passion, with a slight diversion into fiber arts. (It’s not often…
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The Dogs Must Be Crazy
I am beset with crazy people, as usual. Either here in Georgia with their gods or over in India with their dogs. To crib from one of the corniest jokes around, this is a dyslexic’s nightmare. I bet she looked fetching… A dude in India married a dog. MY India. He did it to try to make up for the…
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Skepticism in stories …
A couple of weeks ago, I was in New York for work. I found out before I went, that I was going to be there at the same time that The Wolves in the Walls was playing in New York. For those of you who don’t know, The Wolves in the Walls is a children’s book, written by the most…
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Observing the process will change it
It’s not all in your mind (ha ha, see what I did there, Built to Spill fans?), there are changes afoot. The buggy, spam-attacked Skepchick forum has transformed into a fresh new Drupal-powered butterfly. The new address is: http://skepchick.org/drupal/?q=forum There are more changes to come, like with the layout and colors and all that, but we wanted to get this…
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Woo from around the world
Did you know that in Iceland people actually believe in elves? And in Korea, so many people believe that if you leave a fan on for too long it will suck the oxygen out of you, that fans are sold with timers so they can shut themselves off after you fall asleep? (I learned these tasty facts from deconversion.org.) In…
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