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September 2012

September 05, 2012

Ave atque vale, Jen McCreight

After enduring a coordinated, relentless campaign of harassment, Jen McCreight of Blag Hag is done....

August 2012

August 20, 2012

This Atheist Activism Failure Might Actually be a Win for Skepticism

Over at Friendly Atheist, Paul Fidalgo of the Center for Inquiry has posted an open...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Head to Head with Hemant Mehta

Last week, I got to do an interview/argument with fellow Patheos blogger and Friendly Atheist...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Camels with Hammers has a rebuttal

He's a writer at FreeThought Blogs and has been engaging pretty respectfully (without sacrificing aggression!)...

June 25, 2012

Too Simple Skepticism

Over at Bitchspot, a blogger named Cephus has been fisking my About Me section (which...

June 12, 2012

2012 Queer Blogathon [Index Post]

In June of 2012, I took one leg of the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon, promising...

June 10, 2012

Why would Christians support the Secular Student Alliance?

Tomorrow, I'm going to be participating in the Blogathon for Secular Student Alliance Week. This...

May 2012

May 12, 2012

Which Apologetics Need Answers?

JT Eberhard of Freethought Blogs has some as-of-yet unspecified project in the works, and he's put...

May 09, 2012

Telling Better Deconversion Stories

A while ago, Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist had a post contrasting atheist deconversion stories with Christian...

May 04, 2012

Scared of Darwin for All the Wrong Reasons

UPDATE: I've expanded a response to a commenter in a new post: "Have Humans 'Won'...

April 2012

April 28, 2012

Krauss Defines Philosophy Down

Previously on this blog, I was really teed off by Laurence Krauss contemptuous comments about...

April 26, 2012

This Doesn’t Look Like a Victory to Me

Over in Patheos's Catholic channel, Thomas McDonald of God and the Machine has run into...

April 17, 2012

More Beating Up on Lazy Humanism

There was a link to the definition from Webster's that the Council for Secular Humanism...

April 17, 2012

Atheist vs Humanist

As you've noticed, Patheos has rolled out a site-wide redesign, and the best changes have...

April 16, 2012

Should Atheism Be A ‘Comfortable’ Belief?

Greta Christina put up a really thought-provoking post today at FreeThought Blogs ("Will Atheism Become...

April 10, 2012

Well, you asked for me to blockquote things I agreed with…

People who commented on this post last week might want to be careful what they...

April 08, 2012

Reason Rally/American Atheists Conference [Index Post]

The weekend of March 24th 2012, a disputed number of thousands of people gathered in...

April 06, 2012

Reason Rally Wrap-Up

Since it's been two weeks since the event, I'm collapsing some of my other experiences...

April 03, 2012

Heaven Can Wait (in your debate arsenal)

Greta Christina and a different Christina at Freethought Blogs both recently came to the conclusion...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

How Much Good Does Atheism Do?

In one of my Reason Rally posts, I talked about why atheists feel such an...

March 27, 2012

Though this be Contempt, Yet there is Method in it

The Reason Rally didn't have a clear 'ask.' We weren't calling on Congress to pass...

March 26, 2012

Daylight Atheism Guestblogging [Index Post]

In May of 2011, I did a stint guestblogging at Daylight Atheism, while Adam Lee...

March 25, 2012

Snapshots from the Reason Rally

I was really hoping to get more pictures of signs, but it was so rainy...

March 24, 2012

Is There a Good Ideological Echo Chamber?

This is the second part of a discussion about the rhetoric I use on this...

March 21, 2012

Must we fight about fighting?

Today is the LAST day to vote in the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

March 19, 2012

Now You See Me. Now I… what?