I was completely taken aback when I read Andy‘s comment on my Boycott Idiocracy post nominating me for this award, especially from someone as well written as he is. It’s my first, and I’m truly touched. I’m actually still surprised people even bother to read what I write! However, there’s a few guidelines…
Boycott Idiocracy
When was the last time you watched something so scary, cringe-worthy, or unbelievably tacky — in a movie, on TV, or in real life — you had to cover your eyes? Daily Prompt: Can’t Watch This Reality TV. Absolutely the worst thing to ever happen to television. From Keeping Up With The Kardashians to…
Suicide Isn’t Always a Selfish Act
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way…
Talkin’ Funny: Louisiana Style
Originally posted on KEN WHEATON:
“Mais, yall come see my new tricycle, cher!” I must have been 17 years old before I ever uttered the phrase “come here.” And I did so only to make myself understood to what I thought was a somewhat dense Northerner, a Long Islander who couldn’t understand basic English. In…
The Fifteen Questions
Originally posted on Charleston Humanist Community:
by Jim Spence I’m a wee bit older than your average atheist. By that I mean I’m older than most every other atheist I know, save for a small handful. I’ve been an atheist longer than most of my fellow secular humanists of the Charleston SHCC have even been…
Kinship With A Homeless Veteran
“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?” -Eleanor Roosevelt On March 2, 2009, a good friend and fellow soldier was killed in action by a rocket-propelled…
Do You Have the Courage?
“I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not…
Dr. Bentley, Procrastinator
Written for the Postaday, Now? Later!: “You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.” -Bill Watterson If you could earn a degree in procrastination, I’d have a doctorate by now. Just think, you’d have to call me Dr. Bentley, and…
Keep Religion in Your Pants
“If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of shit. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to…
Nothing Figured Out 