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2013 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Sasha’s Born & Paul’s Not Dead, Ryan Meili Loses and the Riders Win

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Well, since Pace was born by caesarean section, this year I got to see my wife give birth (I mean, *really* give birth!) which is the type of thing that, as a husband, makes you less likely to complain about anything ever again! […]

Posted 31 December 2013 § Meme § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Christmas 2013: By The Numbers

I haven’t blogged for a few days as I got overwhelmed and busy with that “real life” thing as Shea’s folks and mine joined us from the 27th until the 29th to have a belated Christmas together.  Here are a few numbers from the past week… 0 – number of times I’ve left the house […]

Posted 29 December 2013 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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 […]

Posted 24 December 2013 § Censorship § Family § Humour § PopCulture § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , ,

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, […]

Posted 23 December 2013 § Censorship § Family § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

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

Or on a similar note…   Or this…

Posted 19 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

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

Posted 16 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

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 […]

Posted 09 December 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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; […]

Posted 08 December 2013 § PopCulture § UK § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 7 – Is “Faith” Just Another Way To Say “Pretending Really Hard”?

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Posted 07 December 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 6 – Are Religions Unfair To Women?

It’s a long documentary so let’s just say the short answer (at least in my view) is: yes! Given what day it is today, I can’t help but think about the fourteen female engineering students killed twenty-four years ago today. They weren’t murdered for religious reasons. But as part of my thoughts on this sad day […]

Posted 06 December 2013 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sasha § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,