(Excerpt from a blog post about my childhood)

M*A*S*H: The Communist Leftist Threat to American Democracy

One evening, I cannot remember how, I was sitting upstairs and the conversation went to television.  Then somehow I ended up…

Anita Sarkeesian's website is located here:

http://www.feministfrequency.com/

Feminist Frequency: Conversations with Pop Culture

Playlist

Trope 1

Alleee

Al Hirt * Java

String Quartet * The Great Gig in the Sky

Trope 2

Christian Bruhn * Ford Capri II

F Le Mur * Believe it or Kill Me 1

The Swingle…

Things have been busy over at my blog.  Here's a roundup of my most recent posts.

Toronto transit authorities refuse to take down Muslim ad

Well, it's the war of the subway signs again, this…

This week, Jello Biafra discusses issues of import around the Columbine shootings.

Playlist

Hellburbia 1

Alleee 1

Andy Loore * Drummer Bells

David Lynch * Crazy Clown Time

Hellburbia 2

April Orchestra * Gellatine

Hellburbia 3

Ariel Kalma * Trompe Vie

Roy Baker and the Gospel Tones * The Tornado Disasters

Hellburbia 4

Bernard Lubat * Perdido…

A brief addendum to my previous post Creeping Canadian Theocrats (Are Creeping Me Out).  Here's a rather excellent opinion piece at the Tyee:

Understanding Harper's Evangelical…

"Personally, do you consider yourself to be a religious person? (Total % YES)"

This last weekend I was at the pharmacy waiting for a…

I'll start off by admitting that I don't know how "new" this trend is, hence the reason I did not give it that qualifier in my title; however, it is something that has recently begun to stand out to me.

I've noticed a disturbing trend in politics of restating or informing people that alternate opinions or concerns exist, while at the same time saying and doing absolutely nothing to actually address them.

Example:  Fill out, create or sign any given petition on Whitehouse.gov…

A “True” Story Posted by My Grandfather to Facebook, or What Older Generations Really Think of Young People

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. 

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's…

I started a new blog a few weeks ago, not really sure how I am doing.  I started it more as reason to express myself, turns out other people are interested as well.  Who knew? 

I am excited to have stumbled across this site.  It looks like a cool place.

Anywhere you can find my post here:…

As a Broncos fan and atheist, my take on Tim Tebow: Disrespecting the uniform

The Orange Crush defense of 1977. I was five years old, and I remember it well.

After all, I had the entire Orange...…

http://natehevens.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/%E2%80%9Ccommemorating%E2%80%9D-911/

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Besides my joys of being skeptical of religion, I get much pleasure in applying the same skepticism to politics. Both are fundamental sets of beliefs with herds trying to justify their side and win people over by using those beliefs. They both use fear of "the others" and try to make themselves superior in all ways. So, why would an atheist leave one set of beliefs and pick up another set from a political party? (One that promotes a sense of superiority of all other parties and can save the…

This may be less than timely, but whatever.

How many times does Texas Gov. Perry have to be snubbed by "the Lord" before he gets it?

April 2011, Texas is starting to suffer widespread drought for which there is no impending meteorological relief. Rick Perry organizes a "prayer" holiday for rain and the drought gets worse, continuing to this very day. Any good witch doctor knows you need to see the clouds building in the west before you schedule the rain dance.…

I have been, in the past, accused of endlessly whining about religion generally and Christianity specifically and not doing more about it. I respond usually that my activism has included going on marches and writing to my MP.

Here is an example of a recent exchange between me and my MP on the reform of the house of lords which proposes an increase in the religious representation and not as I would prefer the removal of this anachronistic oddity and the advance of a secular…

It just gets loonier and loonier.

But hey, it's 'lection season!

Michelle Our Belle

House Bill 368 passed on April 7, now watch out for Senate Bill 0893.  This bill is disguised as promoting critical thinking and scrutinizing scientific evidence, but in actuality is a classic creationist "Teach the Controversy" bill.  Just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of this.

The bill, or at least I believe it to be the current version:http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB0893.pdf

A…