YouTube – Barack Obama on Community Organizing

YouTube – Barack Obama on Community Organizing.
So the Republicans offer up snide personal insults that betray a pathetic, school-yard bully mentality.
Obama responds by becoming the fan to their mean-spirited shit.

Navel gazing

This is not a week in which I feel particularly smart, or able to opine with most excellent verbage upon Big Issues and Important Shit. I’m either at work, or at home watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu.com and writing in my journal. It’s just one of those weird, introspective times, trying to corral [...]

A morning thought

Reading Ryan Kerian’s article at the Huffington Post got me thinking about something about what the struggle for LGBT rights can teach all of us. If you face discrimination, if you face hatred, what can you do?
This:
Demand to be seen. Demand to be recognized. Keep demanding. Demand to be seen as human. Demand your rights. [...]

Earth vs. Soup

So, how was your day? Want to hear about mine? I splashed hyperhot black bean soup on my face.
Yeah.
My recommendation: don’t. ever. do. this. Black bean soup is the napalm of the soup world.
I also have an ouchy burn on my thumb. Luckily, that’s the worst burn. The spot right next to my friggin’ eye [...]

The Beasts, aka “Brute creation”

For me, one result of being a vegan has been an increased interest in a complex and weird issue — how humans perceive their relations with the rest of the animal kingdom. Gregory the Vegan and Gregory the Atheist converge, in particular, on the effect of Christianity and its conflicting attitude towards animals, which has [...]

To love, to art, to live

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
– Anais Nin
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Starting this blog has led to a lot of introspection. As I feel my way into this journey, this look at one aspect of my being, the thoughts take form, erupt in thought storms, shake out into little moments [...]

The insanity surrounding a few measly billboard signs

Austin Cline points out that CBS Outdoor has some strange notions regarding the Imagine No Religion billboards being put up by the Freedom from Religion Foundation: they can’t be placed near schools or churches. The school bit, by the way, basically means that they are equating the promotion of freethinking as tantamount to promoting alcohol.
I’ll [...]

Autumn: the inevitability of change

Humans seem to spend a lot of time looking for permanence.
Our religions are filled with it — they show a longing for an unchanging world without pain or death. God’s greatest asset, if you listen to many a Christian closely, is his permanence. Jesus was there from the beginning, he’ll never go away, you can [...]

The magic of covers

xJane of Mind on Fire shares three versions of one song: Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus,” with their version and the versions by Johnny Cash and Marilyn Manson. Each version gives a different spin on the song just by how its played.
It probably won’t surprise you to know that of the covers, I prefer Manson’s wicked [...]

Joel’s Army. I wish that were an MST3K thing

From alternet and a billion blogs over the weekend: Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon.
I read this kind of thing and think that a good part of the radical fringes, especially in religion, is devoted to exploiting the out of control testosterone of young men. It’s Masculinity as Warrior, Fight fight fight. Hell, Bentley’s idea [...]