On prayer in school. 27 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm

If you really think we need school-led prayer, then consider the fact that to be legal it would require your kids to participate in prayers by any religion that wishes to be included. Imagine your kid...

On Sunday I will turn 46 years old… 23 Aug 2013 | 07:20 am

… and, for the first time in my life, I finally feel like an adult. At least partially. I’ve written many times about the various ways in which I don’t feel like a real adult. Be it because of my lac...

The hidden messages under our desks. 20 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm

My cubemate has been sitting at the same desk for the past 4 years. Today while reaching for something under his desk his hand brushed up against a flat magnet adhered to the side up near the center d...

Is it too early to talk about Christmas lights? 19 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm

Probably, but I’m going to do it anyway. Yeah I know it’s August still, but after last Christmas we decided to toss our old artificial tree because it was looking worse for wear after years of having...

English is hard, but it used to be a lot worse. 14 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm

Most of us native English speakers don’t think too much about how fucked up a language it is because we’ve been speaking it — more or less — all our lives, but it’s definitely one of the hardest langu...

‘Angel’ priest at car crash turns out just to be a normal priest. 14 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am

I had a crapload of people email me this link to an article titled: ‘Angel’ priest visits Missouri accident scene. It tells the story of 19-year-old Katie Lentz’s horrific accident that left her trapp...

If you’re not watching “Your Bleeped Up Brain” then you should be. 11 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm

I’m a big advocate for skeptical thinking. It’s one of the best tools you can have in life for determining truth claims and avoiding being scammed. We can’t be experts in everything so being skeptical...

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Stamping Out The Devil. 6 Aug 2013 | 11:13 pm

In a continuing effort to answer the question of “what’s the harm if someone thinks gods are real” I’ll often argue that accepting that idea implies accepting all the other baggage that goes with it s...

And now, a musical interlude. 3 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm

A small update on my health. 2 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm

I’ve had a couple of folks ask me for an update on my health so I thought I should post an entry about it. Here’s the short version: We’re not 100% sure what the hell the problem was, but it appears ...