A caller into the library today was asking for quotes related to atheism. She said she was trying to provide a variety of perspectives in the workplace after seeing tract after Christian tract, platitude after Christian platitude, posted on the walls at her job ( Read more... )

The glbtqq community center here is starting something called the "Lavender University". (Flower-stink name, I know; they have trouble ever naming anything with shame.) It's supposed to be a forum for queers to continue their education on varying topics. They put out a call for teachers and I have proposed teaching several classes ( Read more... )

After a til-6 a.m. conversation with Joe about political and economic issues (a conversation that, oddly enough, began with Bonzai kitties and slid-crashed into management of free speech), I went to a few sites that I used to check in with regularly and started to feel -- again -- much more politically "at home". These are the sites ( Read more... )

I have definitely entered a phase where the entries here will be trickles rather than dam-breakers. (Well, seeing as I have a consummately incontinent mouth, I guess that is relative ( Read more... )