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February 2009

February 21, 2009

What Others Might Think: Reason #3 Women Stay in Bad Relationships

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

February 19, 2009

Women In Bad Relationships: Eve’s Curse Isn’t Yours, Pt. 2

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

February 19, 2009

Why Have People Started Using the Word “Tribe” So Much?

Dear John, It seems like everywhere I turn these days, someone is talking or writing...

February 18, 2009

Who Was Timothy Leary?

Dear John, Who was Timothy Leary?---Curious and Totally Not Trying to Get You to Do...

February 16, 2009

Presidents Day: Don’t Work; Don’t Imagine George Washington in Drag

Is it just me, or is Presidents Day easily the least emotionally inspiring of our...

February 12, 2009

No Fair Heeding Paul on Gays, But Not Jesus on Wealth

The reason conservative Christians invariably give for asserting that homosexuality is an egregious sin against...

February 12, 2009

Women in Bad Relationships Need Not Fear Fear

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

February 10, 2009

Ten Ways Christians Tend to Fail at Being Christian

The essay is found in: Kindle Nook  

February 09, 2009

The Fear Factor: Reason #2 Women Stay in Bad Relationships

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

February 06, 2009

From Selflessness to Selfishness: Go, Xena, Go!

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

February 05, 2009

How To Dial a Rotary Telephone

In response to a few notes I got in from younger readers of yesterday's Why...

February 05, 2009

From Selfless to Selfish: 1 Reason Women Remain in Bad Relationships

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

February 05, 2009

Up Next: 7 Reasons Women Stay in Bad Relationships

(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons...

January 2009

January 30, 2009

Christian Actor in Upcoming Super Bowl Commercial Reveals Desire to Play Satan!

  (Part 1 of this interview is Interview with an Actor in an Upcoming Bud Super...

January 29, 2009

Interview with an Actor in an Upcoming Bud Super Bowl Commerical (Part 1)

This interview is long---so lemme keep this intro short. A little while back I met...

January 26, 2009

Atheists: Admit That You Believe, Too

Atheists, to be fair, should more often admit that the belief that there is no...

January 24, 2009

NuNu’s Cocktail Lounge

Okay, this is so stupid. In the piece I put up yesterday (Kickin' It Karaoke...

January 22, 2009

Guy Who Blogged About Me Being a Heretic Apologizes!

  Remember the guy I wrote about last week in I'm Shallow, Untrustyworthy, Un-Christian, and Devil-Duped....

January 21, 2009

Atheists: To Whom (If Anyone) Are You Ultimately Grateful?

A while ago I posted An Honest Question: Atheists, How Do You Process Your Guilt?. The...

January 21, 2009

How To Make a tinyURL in a Tiny Moment

In order to transform a long and unwieldy url/website address (such as wonderful/extremelybrilliant adp p.x=300&tdork.y=75&nolife=%252b...

January 20, 2009

Did Rick Warren’s Invocation Sound Off To Anyone Else?

This is hardly a big deal, but did anyone else think that Rick Warren's invocation...

January 20, 2009

Join Me as I Blog Live During the Inauguration!

Blogging dead is lame. So I'm gonna blog live! Me. My TV. My couch. My...

January 20, 2009

10 Things I’m Sure I’ll Mumble to Myself While Watching the Inauguration

As I'm watching the inauguration today I expect to at least once have each of...

January 19, 2009

Oh, What a Tangled Web I Weave

To continue the fascinating saga of deciding what I'm gonna do online. (Man, is this...

January 19, 2009

My Bloggy Schizophrenia

Some of you were wondering why for a bit there I changed the name of...

January 17, 2009

I Feel Pretty …

... oh, so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty, and ... Okay, anyway. Right. A...

January 16, 2009

Enter Satan

  Here's the next bit following Satan's Ministers Await Satan's Arrival:   (SATAN enters. The...

January 12, 2009

My Weird Fixation On What People Read at Night

When it comes to people, I'm Joe Extremely Nosey; the only superpower I've ever craved...

January 10, 2009

I’m Shallow, Untrustyworthy, Un-Christian, and Devil-Duped. Mark Me Well!

  So lately we've been having some fun discovering fellow Christians out there who've decided...

January 09, 2009

What? Me, a Heretic?

Someone asked if I wrote my last post, You're Not a Real Christian, in response...

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