I can’t tell you how many times over the last couple of weeks I’ve read this or that regarding religion and I had a desire to blog about it, but was too weary about the topic to bother. I’m getting to the point where it’s too emotionally draining being an apostate. Even too intellectually draining. [...]
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Arcade Fire
My now Canadian ex-pat’ brother (whom I currently envy for various reasons) referred me to a band I want to share (with my two readers–one of which I think is him!) Arcade Fire. A Canadian (and Texan) “indie band” with a very polyphonic style. Their latest album, “Neon Bible,” at first reminded me a lot [...]
READ MORE »While Nero Fiddles. The World Burns
(Yeah, I know, that’s all myth. For one thing, fiddles weren’t invented until centuries after Nero lived.) While the neocons and capitalist government officials who got rich and get richer on earth-raping industry, the earth burns from global warming. The evidence is incontrovertible but all they want to do is put their hands over their [...]
READ MORE »What would Jesus really do?
CNN Commentary: What would Jesus really do? I may disagree with his religion, but kudos to this African-American pastor for saying something that matters! These so-called Christians need to get off the abortion/homosexuality train and start being concerned about poverty, social conditions that promote drug abuse, AIDS, rampant greed and corruption–often among their own!
READ MORE »Good to be a Gangsta
…er, Capitalist. While Ford car company makes 30,000 people jobless, they’re giving their exiting CEO $28million for four months of work. Work that was of such a high quality that the company posted huge losses necessitating the job cuts. You know, maybe I’m just crazy or something, but I think that if the guys at [...]
READ MORE »Cory Doctorow, Technology, and the Industry
I read BoingBoing.net a lot, so I see a lot of references to Cory Doctorow (not knowing before today that he was a co-creator of the site.) Cory Doctorow (not to be confused with author E.L. Doctorow) is a popular sci-fi author who also provides his books for free on the Internet (so he has [...]
READ MORE »Ah, the Pain and Trails of Being King
Oh poor poor Glenn Beck says he “can’t get a break.” Article: Beck on being a white Christian who “loves America”: “I just can’t win” Poor, sad, wealthy and successful Glenn Beck who has his own radio show and TV show and is a member of the privileged class. He’s such a victim and so [...]
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Religious Arrogance and Hell on Earth
So one of the authors of the whole religious porn Left Behind book series was on Glen Beck’s radio show the other day promoting the latest book. (Yeah, I listen to right-wing people now and then too, just to see what spin they’re putting on events,) and I was disgusted. The little bit I listened [...]
READ MORE »Everyone Can Be a Hero or Evil
The latest Skepticality podcast episode: http://skepticality.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=199743# has an interview with Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. He was in charge of the famous studies in the 1970′s that showed how any ordinary person can turn into “an evil person” and commit atrocities given the right circumstances. In fact, [...]
READ MORE »White House Terrorism and Lying Liars
It’s all become so soul-sappingly tiresome. I’m sick and tired of it all and I can’t stand to blog more than a few words on it, but I’m compelled to say something. So, just pointing it up: Hypocrite shrub: “With us or with the terrorists,” he’s sided with the terrorists. Seems the administration has been [...]
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