our precious bodily fluids

The commies are out to impurify them! Man the guns!
Oh, wait, that’s not my topic.
As I’ve noted in several posts, one of my biggest bugaboos with religions of the Abrahamic variety is the mind/body split. It’s hard to top as an intellectual blunder in human history, and is an idea that has been the cause, [...]

The Thing About Muhammad Is

It seems only fair that, given my The Thing About Jesus Is post, I take the time to address some of the other great religious founders/leaders. So this time we’ll get the biggy out of the way, shall we?
Jesus bores me:  Muhammad disgusts me. Frankly, he has ever since I first read the Quran and [...]

Literary Influences: Walt Whitman

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil,
this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and
their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
– “Song of Myself”
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Oh, do I have to explain why Walt Whitman is, for me, the poet of [...]