British artist Sarah Graham is enjoying critical acclaim as her photorealistic paintings continue to amaze.
Fans of Sarah Graham prints can be forgiven for salivating over her paintings of cupcakes, …
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First, and most important, Roger Scott Jackson (AKA Brother Sam Singleton: Atheist Evangelist) and his wife Cari need your help. Sam Singleton, in case you don’t already know, is a traveling Atheist Evangelist (stand-up comedian) who roams across our great nation spreading the bad news. He is a fictional persona of Roger Scott’s. Consequently, he is not a terribly rich man. Persona’s rarely are.
Just days ago, his wife Cari had a bad accident and broke, cracked, sprained, punctured and cut what sounded to me like god damn near everything in her body. Right now she’s stable, but is still in the ICU.
Because his wife is in the hospital, Roger Scott can’t tour, which means he can’t make money, which means he can’t pay the jillion dollars in medical bills he’s about to have rammed up his ass.
This is where the Atheist News Posse comes to the rescue.
We have to help Roger Scott. He’s not only a good man, he’s one of our own. If his alter ego was a religious preacher, rather than an areligious preacher, his house would already be filled with pies and flowers and his community would rally around him. There is no reason at all we can’t rally around Roger. There is no excuse not to!
That’s what I want from you. I want you to click below and PayPal or use your credit card to kick down $10 to Brother Sam, because Brother Sam is royally fucked. Optionally, buy some of his swag over here. This is what I am buying from you guys and gals this year with the karma I have saved up from doing this show. You do this, you don’t have to do anything else I ask for for the rest of the year…
…Except vote during the podcast awards, but we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
(The name on the account is the name of his Agency, by the way.)
But don’t stop there. Tell your friends, post this around on the sites you frequent. Let’s help Sam! Go go go!
If you want to put this button on your site, you can do so with the following mess of code:
<form style="margin: 0pt;" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_xclick" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="loveofferings@samsingleton.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Save Our Sam!" /> <input name="return" type="hidden" /> <input name="cancel_return" type="hidden" /> <input name="image_url" type="hidden" /> <input name="bn" type="hidden" value="yahoo-sitebuilder" /> <input name="pal" type="hidden" value="C3MGKKUCCAB9J" /> <input name="mrb" type="hidden" value="R-5AJ59462NH120001H" /> <input src="http://www.atheistnews.org/img/sos.png" type="image" /> </form>
Or, just put a link to his site, he has a donate button on the right hand side.
http://www.samsingleton.com/
Thanks guys!
As for the show: we talk more about Israel and I dig my hole even deeper whilst Richard plays the sensible one. During this conversation, I promise a link to this:
Richard talks about Death, dying and Daniel Dennett: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett06/dennett06_index.html
And here we have a video of Woodruff, SC City Council meeting defying the warning from FFRF about prayer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xmxwdGNfpI
We go over a bunch of listener mail and eventually get to the news (now with 100% more doot doot doot goodness!)
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Psychology and Philosophy – Uneasy Siblings
Most people who work in some side of philosophy have had the expertise of attempting to clarify to someone that philosophy is not psychology. To those…
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Alan Watts interviews Bertrand Russell on the topic of philosophy and religion.
Only recently I was asked by a student at one of my lectures extraordinaires at the Ecole Normale Superieur de la Vache Qui Rit: “What do you think about the reception of post-mo…
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Lately, in large part due to this post, I’ve heard from a couple different Christians who insist that while they may believe that homosexuality is a sin, they do love gay people and they think gay people deserve to be treated equally — the includes the right to marry even if their own church wouldn’t marry them.
While it’s not perfect, I don’t mind it. If you’re for equal rights for all people, I don’t really care what you personally believe about homosexuality. It’s a secondary issue, anyway.
But here’s a clear case of bigotry.
In Hawaii, the state legislature had approved same-sex civil unions back in April. Not marriage. Just equal rights. Yesterday, Republican Governor Linda Lingle vetoed that bill.
She explains how she came to her decision in the video below.
There was one part in there that disgusted me the most:
After listening to those both for and against House Bill 444, I have gained a new appreciation for just how deeply people of all ages and backgrounds feel on this matter and how significantly they believe the issues will affect their lives.
Few could be unmoved by the poignant story told to me in my office by a young big island man who recounted the journey he had taken to bring himself to tell his very traditional parents that he was gay. I was similarly touched by the mother who in the same office expressed anguish at the prospect of the public schools teaching her children that a same-gender marriage was equivalent to their mother and father’s marriage.
So this man’s coming out to his parents — and perhaps ultimately wanting to be in a legal marriage with someone he loves — carried the same weight as some mother who couldn’t handle her daughter knowing that straight people and gay people can all get married.
Oh, cry me a river.
Lingle is saying she doesn’t want to give gay people equal rights because some irrational mother is too afraid to teach her child to love and respect other people? Ugh…
She goes on to explain why she vetoed this particular bill when it wasn’t even about gay marriage (which she had openly opposed):
“It is essentially marriage by another name… because it has the same rights, benefits, responsibilities and protections.”
Which of those four things is she against gay people having…?
All this from a woman who loves marriage so much, she got married (and divorced) twice.
The alternative newspaper, Maui Time, had two covers prepared to run based on what Lingle decided:
Take a wild guess which one they’re going with now.
Joe. My. God. has a lot more information about all this, including the fact that the ACLU and Lambda Legal are planning to sue.
I want to see any Christian who finds this despicable to say so. Blog about it. Tell your Facebook friends. Tell your church members. Call out anyone who disagrees.
If you don’t, you’re part of the problem.
Don’t tell me you love gay people and think this was the wrong decision… and then sit back and say/do nothing in response. I don’t care for your apologies if you’re not backing it up with action.
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A group that calls itself humanist terrorists was apprehended by the FBI in a preemptive strike in Miami. The terrorist cell, which claims affiliation with the Middle Atlantic terror group all-Librari…
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Richard and I had a lot of fun making this episode, though we did a fair bit of ranting and digressing. Consequently, I put up a new poll about show subject matter that you can check out on the Atheist News website. It seems unlikely that we’ll ever stop rambling, but we could constrain our topics of focus if you cats dig it. Or we could go off about damn near anything.
We’re wild like that.
We did start the show off with some pretty big news: I will no longer be co-hosting the Chariots of Iron podcast. This is probably actually not news to most of you as the guys announced it a couple of weeks ago much better than I could have, but just in case you hadn’t heard, I’m going to stick to doing just one podcast for a while and Eli and Lamar are going to keep the wheels turning over on Chariots of Iron. I hadn’t had a chance to listen to their last episode by the recording date of this show, so I had no idea that they threw me a wake! I only hope my actual funeral is as touching as it probably won’t be so well attended. Gracias amigos, salute!
Anyhow, it’s not too bad for you guys, there will still be two podcasts featuring overly-opinionated, under-qualified nerds floating around out there for your listening enjoyment. Besides, we have agreed to join forces once again if Oprah gives us a daytime talk-show.
It could happen.
Oh, and uh… IT IS ON.
At the next large atheist event Richard and I attend, we will conduct a foot race of indeterminate length for Charity. It is currently a personal bet of $100, but if anyone has any good ideas on how we could take pledges or work out some sort of matching system, let me know. It just seems rather anticlimactic for me to leaving Richard chewing on my dust in an epic display of athleticism and then hand one wrinkled, nasty $100 bill that’s been in his sweaty pocket to Noel as a donation to the Secular Center.
How can you contact me with your fantastic idea concerning the humiliation of Richard for charity, you ask? Why, over at the new Contact section!
That’s right, I have finally gotten off my ass and added a contact form. My email address is also listed there. It only took a year-and-a-half.
And finally, I leave you with the Sad Tale of the KillDozer.
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In 2002, the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe came up with a remarkable idea for locals and foreigners alike in Paris, to overcome the heat of summer as well as to truly celebrate summer.
This was in t…
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