When It’s Time to Quit
One of the best parts of student-run conferences is that they often put new faces in front of the audience. SkepTech was particularly good at this. Brendan Murphy isn’t a stranger to secular students,...
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Satire, or Some Gun Control, Please!
I’m largely away from the internet this week, and I’m running a series of guest posts to introduce you to other bloggers and give some people without a blog home some space to be heard. Ariel has only...
View ArticleWhat “Dialogue” Does
Rebecca posted a Twitter rant from Jeff Sharlet at Skepchick yesterday. Sharlet’s topic? This idea that dialogue is always something for which we should strive. He doesn’t exactly mince his words...
View ArticleThe Appeal to the Naive Observer
I get rather a remarkable number of comments like this one about a letter I sent to CFI regarding Justin Vacula’s attendance at the Women in Secularism conference this weekend. Attempting to have him...
View ArticleNow I’m a Nazi Sniper
Here’s an adorable little bit of propaganda that’s being passed around on one of the harasser hashtags. [View the story "Whom Will They Target Next?" on Storify] (Link to Storify for browsers where...
View ArticleFeedback for American Atheists
So I kept reading the transcript of the chat room during yesterday’s “Brave Hero” radio show. I know. I know. But that sort of thing is hard to look away from once you’ve looked, like any traffic...
View ArticleFuck Your Civility
Well, here it is a day later, and still no one had told Steve Snyder that it his comment at JT’s was unacceptably sexist. So I did. Well, Steve Snyder/SocraticGadfly, since no one else can be assed to...
View ArticleRepost: Sam and Max Rules
This post is ancient, but I still think about it when people tell me I have give someone the benefit of the doubt, to be more charitable. I’ve been thinking about it now as well as Ive been working on...
View ArticleAbout That Opinion…
This is one of the essays I delivered to my patrons last month. If you want to support more work like this, and see it earlier, you can sign up here.I have a dirty little secret. It’s the kind of thing...
View ArticleNo Debate
They don’t actually want to debate us.These people–mostly men, mostly white–claiming that we’re destroying the world by shutting down debate? These people claiming that blocking someone instead of...
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View ArticleIf You Don’t Want Us Speaking Ill of the Dead
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View ArticleOn the Weakness of Slurs
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