Okay, slightly drunk, and went on Facebook (which I know I shouldn’t do when I've been drinking). Saw a post by a fella recounting the story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and repeating the tired old motif that “man shouldn't tamper in God’s domain.” I hate that sort of message, and although I had some whiskey in me I really like what I wrote in ( Read more... )

Hey everybody. A new video at last, with transcript following the embed, as usual.
A bit of context: a user named SamiZaatari published a video recently (well, several weeks ago, now, since it takes me so long to make these things) asking atheists what evidence would convince them that God exists. This is my reply. I must point out that the ( Read more... )

Well, it’s finally done. If I was billing someone for time worked, this one took upwards of 75 hours, because I’d decided to do one where every single image was one of my own drawings. As you’ll see if you watch it, I didn’t quite make it. But a few of the drawings did turn out well; I seem to be getting better at that. I especially love the “where ( Read more... )

So I had something I wanted to say about the uprisings taking place all over the Middle East, and I had this written several days ago, but I’ve been working a lot lately and it took forever to get this put together. I wish it could have been more prompt; if someone would like to support me so I can sit around doing this stuff all the time, I sure ( Read more... )

Of course everyone knows about the stupid things the new governor of Alabama said this week. I couldn’t be bothered to write an actual post about it, so I satisfied myself with a snarky comment via Facebook ( Read more... )

I haven’t written about the “Ground Zero Mosque” for a few reasons. First, I think I’m the only one who hasn’t. Second, most of what I would say is the obvious stuff that you’ve heard lots of reasonable people say already: it isn’t at Ground Zero, it isn’t a mosque, and anyone who calls it the “Ground Zero Mosque” is automatically signaling that ( Read more... )

There’s a big argument going on right now in the internet skeptic community, which can basically be boiled down to “Atheism vs. Agnosticism.” I don’t have very many readers, of course, and I am not going to influence this debate by writing here, but I’m gonna tell ya what I think anyway ( Read more... )

So a week or so ago I was cruising YouTube, which I always enjoy, and came across a video by a user named Oallos1 (“o allos” is Greek for “the other,” so we’ll call him “The Other One” or “TOO”) called Famous Atheists Last Words Before Dying. There’s an apostrophe missing, and the poster could probably have left out the words “Before Dying,” since ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago Mama bought me a book for Bogey Day. It was a new novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by someone who isn’t Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It wasn’t bad, but some liberties were taken with the character. The largest was actually the central motivator of the plot: Holmes had had an affair with a woman who featured in one of ( Read more... )

So, the first annual “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” was four days ago. I had my entry ready, but what I forgot was that I have no way to digitize it, so I had to wait ‘til I went out to Mama’s so I could use the scanner at her library. Also, I had no art supplies, because I’ve been broke for so long, and did it in twenty minutes with a four-for-69 ( Read more... )