Small joys, Big questions, Thinky Gregory

I needed work today.
It was a mistake, this morning, to even get on the Intertubes. All it gave me was a stomach ache as I seethed in anger at stupidity and injustice. At the very least, there are days in which I should probably be careful about what I read in the morning hours. Sometimes [...]

Okay, a happy place: celebrate a life

So yeah, stuff had me steaming mad this morning. But I’ve cooled down now, and partly because I read something that countered it with an example of a person fighting the good fight (and winning quite a bit, actually).
I could actually be mad that this isn’t front page news around the world, but screw that. [...]

Sick of the silence

Why Weren’t Atheists Invited to the Democratic National Committee’s Interfaith Gathering? | Friendly Atheist.
This post was one of several things I’ve read this morning that succeeded in pissing me off. I’ve read of several outrageous bits of anti-nonbeliever prejudice (Hemant’s post contains one of those), anti-gay stuff, you name it. And as I stewed over [...]

I dream of Star Trek, but it’s a long way off

I’m not really sure when I fell in love with Star Trek. It wasn’t always like that. My sister will vouch for this — when we were little, Star Trek was, well, the enemy. It was the enemy because of this pattern that developed in our house. We’d be sitting in front of the TV, [...]