I left my apartment and stepped outside and it was cold, but the more important thing was that there was this beeping, coming from who knows where but it seemed like the sky. And I stared up at the apartment buildings around me and suddenly everything shifted and there was this awareness that the man walking his pug across the street didn't know me ( Read more... )

My five-year-old, Gavin, is SO my child.

I'd secretly purchased five "Science Readers" books from the Scholastic Book Club back in May and set them aside to give him one periodically throughout the summer. Today I grabbed the Tropical Fish one. (mightydoll may remember that he was carrying around the Undersea Creatures book during our trip to the ROM ( Read more... )

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I made a comment yesterday to the effect of "[person] isn't stupid enough to be religious" and this apparently caused some hackle-raising, which makes sense because I didn't go into any detail as to why I would associate stupidity and religion. So I probably should ( Read more... )

"It's 3AM, she won't put out, let's go make out with her friends, make out with her friends' friends... excuse me, do you want to screw?" Heh. I love MSI. They make me giggle ( Read more... )

There was a post today in the atheism community with the transcript for Penn Jillette's essay for NPR's "This I Believe" series. (Audio clip is here.) It's the most lovely description I've ever read of why an atheistic worldview provides hope and contentment with one's life, so I wanted to repost it here ( Read more... )