Who stood with the prophet?
This is the conference I meant to attend, the one where they refunded my ticket after it was sold out. Organizers assured me it was just a problem with the computer system, and I believe that, since they never had an opportunity to look me up. I still don’t know if I would have gotten […]
Stand with the Prophet?
Today in Garland Texas there was a Muslim conference to ‘Stand With the Prophet‘. If you know someone who attended this conference, I would like to talk to them. I meant to go myself. I bought a ticket online, and got a receipt for it, but there was some problem with the web page such […]
Tonight on Age of Reason
Tonight Lilandra and I will be talking about the Religious Right’s corruption of Texas textbooks.
Darwin’s view of the ‘races’ of men
In the following video, I said that Darwin had contested his peers by arguing that all humans were the same species and the same race. One of my critics said that I had “completely misrepresented Darwin’s views on human racial variation”, because Darwin said that “[Man] has diverged into distinct races, or as they may […]
Keeping some perspective
I think it ironic that my critics so often accuse me of demanding that everyone in this movement must agree on every point. Because I’ve never said anything like that. Quite the reverse in fact. For example, I’m constantly accused of having said that “you’re either feminist or you’re sexist”, even though that’s not what I […]
Whether black lives matter against Police force
Tonight the Ra-Men talk to Bria Crutchfield, president of Black Nonbelievers of Detroit – on how racism is disproportionately imposed by police, prosecution, and imprisonment. We’ll also talk to her associate, Evette Stanton who lives in Ferguson Missouri. And we’ll talk to James Croft, who was actually involved in the most recent riots there. You […]
Tune in live: Texas Textbook Wars with Zack Kopplin
Zack Kopplin, wonderkind of the creationism textbook wars, is livetweeting the the Social Studies textbook hearings. He is enduring the inanity like a champ, so you don’t have to. Aron couldn’t make it as he is on the last leg of his journey on his motorcycle across the deserts of West Texas. This part in […]
Turnout!
Do NOT tell me that your vote doesn’t count. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be getting automated phone calls from the Republican party every single fucking day to tell us what godless baby-eating commies their opposition is, and “somebody please fear for our children”.Why do you think they do all that gerrymandering? Why did they […]
The Religious Wrong
So Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal, irreversible, and inoperable brain cancer. She suffered increasingly frequent and longer seizures, and increasingly severe head and neck pain, and even stroke-like symptoms. So she made the wholly understandable decision to bypass the otherwise inevitable agony to herself and to her helpless loved ones. She chose to end […]