Category Archives: PopCulture

About That Future…

Man, we live in amazing times… 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year 10 Best Gadgets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show The Future of Technology (Infographic) A Day with Google Glass… …and for a reminder of how far we’ve come…  10 Most Influential Software Packages of All-Time

Wringing Out A Towel in Space

I got Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” as a Christmas gift and just finished it.  That inspired me to revisit some of the videos he made on the International Space Station. How cool is this one?  (And am I the only one who wonders how they ensure the little bubbles of […]

Music Monday – “Yeah, when we met I was sold/Yeah, but nothing is colder than you.”

I know this song isn’t really about the weather.  But if nothing else, the title of this song by a popular Saskatchewan band from back in the day seemed appropriate for the winter in this province so far and especially for the last few days in particular… “Colder Than You” – The Waltons

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 24 – Keep Christ in Christmas (aka Another Fictional Superhero On Our Van)

I had a few ideas of how to wrap up this series of Atheist Advent posts – a look at how politics and religion intersect, a review of my theories of why people (really) are religious, a disclaimer about the nature of offense in general. I will spend some time on that last point.  My […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 23 – Music Monday – “I really like Christmas/It’s sentimental I know/But I just really like it/I’m hardly religious/I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest”

There was a method to my madness in posting a Tim Minchin song as my Music Monday selection for each of the past few weeks during my “Atheist Advent” series. It was all to lead up to Minchin’s ultimate achievement and one of the best non-traditional Christmas songs I’ve ever heard – funny, insightful, wistful, […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 19 – Charlie Brown Explains The (Real) Meaning of Christmas

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Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 16 – Music Monday – “Which suggests that God’s omniscience/Is nullified by His ambivalence/Unless it turns out that He’s impotent/And if God can’t get a boner/I guess that explains the plethora/Of huge erections in His honour”

Nothing controversial here… 😉 “Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins” – Tim Minchin

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 9 – Music Monday – “You only need to pray in a particular spot/To a particular version of a particular god/And if you pull that off without a hitch/He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch”

This story of Sam’s has but a single explanation: a surgical God who digs on magic explanations. It couldn’t be mistaken attribution of causation, born of a coincidental temporal correlation, exacerbated by a general lack of education vis-a-vis physics in Sam’s parish congregation. And it couldn’t be that all these pious people are liars. It […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 8 – John Lennon, The World’s Most Famous Atheist?

John Lennon was murdered 33 years ago today.  He is perhaps the most famous atheist to have ever lived. While still a member of the Beatles, he caused an enormous controversy by stating a view shared by all of the group’s members: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; […]

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 2 – Music Monday – “I know the Good Book’s good/Because the Good Book says it’s good/I know the Good Book knows it’s good/Because a really good book would”

I suspect Tim Minchin will be making up the content of all my Music Monday posts for Atheist Advent! 😉 “The Good Book” – Tim Minchin