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- Sex Sometimes Sells
I remember reading about the so-called vegan strip club here in Portland weeks ago. And the NYT is just now running a story on it. Way to be about two months late to a story, you old gray lady (if that even qualifies as news).
So, let’s just be clear about this. The [...]
- Five Long Years
I haven’t written anything about the recent five-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion, as this is not really much of a current events kind of website, and there’s been plenty of good commentary and deliberation around the web. Also, I feel largely inadequate giving more than a brief opinion on events happening thousands of [...]
- Groupthink For Good
Call me an atheist fundamentalist curmudgeonly loner (no, really, go ahead), but I have a big problem with this: a roomful of people chanting in a bland monotone that they will “not comply” with killing, or empire, or greed, or other bad things. Not the Borg, but the anti-Borg, the alternate universe good twin Borg [...]
- Hello Is There Anybody Out There?
I sent an email to all of you $1.00-per-month subscribers earlier this week, but it appears as if some of you didn’t get it. So, if you are contributing $1.00 per month and did not receive an email from me already this week (check your spam folders), please send me an email - satisfythemind[at]gmail.com - [...]
- I Still Don’t Have Obama-Mania
Yes, I think we can all agree it was a brilliant speech. Yes, I agree with Jon Stewart that it was perhaps the first time a politician spoke about racial issues to the American people as if we are all adults. And, if you didn’t see it last night, you should also watch this brilliant [...]
- New Site, New Look, New Contributors-Only Podcast
Hope you like the new site. Gone are the two separate pages for the blog or the podcast. Now they both reside on the same page and in the same feed (more on that later). I’m really not a fan of clutter and big, distracting graphics on websites, as you might tell from the new [...]
- 023 - God Off The Cuff
My unscripted, unrehearsed, only slightly edited thoughts about religion. Not too shabby for a bad public speaker and, surprisingly, not too tangential, either.
Some of the songs used:
Something about Allah and sins
Awesome God
Ribono Shel Olam
Final song:
Matter and Energy
Bill Maher on religion
- It’s Only Theft When Someone Else Does It
Bear is convicted of stealing honey.
Talk about a kangaroo court. When a human “beekeeper” steals honey from bees, it’s commerce. When a bear does it, it’s a crime.
I think the bigger crime here is the huge insult to all of the “Serbian turbo-folk” musicians out there. I’m sure their music is perfectly pleasant [...]
- Believe In Yourself
I couldn’t resist saying something about Chris Hedges’ new book, I Don’t Believe In Atheists. I haven’t read it, but I did read [...]