The Grand Moff Is Off— To The Caymans.
Dressing up like the Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars has nothing to do with Harold’s errant biblical predictions calling for the destruction of the entire planet.
Category: atheism
Atlas Mugged: Making The World Safe For Sociopaths
What do Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, the Teabaggers, and Lucifer have in common? (If you want to feel the backward, you must click it.) In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel and current movie, Atlas Shrugged, the ideological template for those wishing to usher in a new Gilded Age run by billionaire plutocrats like the Koch Brothers, Atlas is meant to symbolize …
X-MAS Is For Atheists Too
• “I’ve seen things you ‘people’ wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those… moments… lost in time… like… tears… in rain…” “I want more life, fucker!” • In a film widely regarded as one of the best movies ever made, a humanoid creature …
EVOLUTION IS A MYTH, OR: RETROGRADE STUPID
One half the world is grasping eagerly for the light of truth and the facts of scientific discovery, while the other half languishes in the arms of ancient superstition and but thinly disguised magic.
The Perils Of HypoChrissy
We can hope, can’t we? Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware, running as a member of the Republican Party. Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …
What Happens When We Die?
Most of us, if we think about our inevitable death at all, usually only think of one kind of death: the physical cessation of life. But there are really three kinds of death: Physical (body and mind) death; Intellectual (mind) death; and Spiritual (soul) death.
