The Gideons were out on the streets today, politely trying to hand out copies of the New Testament to passers by. Apparently I have some sort of mark on my head that allows me to buy and sell things, but I can’t be offered a free bible. I bet I could buy one, though thanks [...]
Read more →The poster in the above image appeared one evening, and it was proving popular with the students in the area. “Wait a minute, 4 hours of drinking free alcohol and the YOU are going to pay ME? No cover or anything?” Can I get science credit for this? Participate in Research We are currently looking [...]
Read more →What is truth in film? Where does the lie start, and how can the viewer tell? I queued up William Greaves’ 1968 experimental film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and the 2005 revisit Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 from zip.ca some time ago. I didn’t really know anything about the film, but I was adding a series of [...]
Read more →I love posting public comments and then finding that someone’s taken a dump in my inbox not ten minutes later. It all started on the Wall at the Protest Ben Stein’s Expelled Facebook group where I’ve been discussing evolution and playing with small minds. With the private message he sent me being what appeared to [...]
Read more →With hit documentary Super Size Me, and three seasons of 30 Days behind him, Morgan Spurlock apparently had to think of something bigger to put his girlfriend through. What could be better than heading off to the Middle East, ostensibly looking for Osama Bin Laden? Enter Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? Morgan [...]
Read more →A mycologist / atheist / fan of reason writing under the pseudonym Mike O’Risal at Hyphoid Logic has been conducting a scientific experiment in evaluating the quality and quantity of divine intervention. I’m a relatively empirically-minded individual, so I think an experiment is in order. While Twyman is praying to the Invisible Man in the [...]
Read more →I received a bit of mail yesterday that brightened my day in so many ways, and it’s end of the world prophecy in all its self-published glory. You better hurry if you want to get your own copy because it’s nearly over. The postal system’s oath says nothing about Apocalypse, rivers of blood, or seal [...]
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