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Friday Fun Link – Happy Black Friday!

All-Time Black Friday Death & Injury Count. Also this…    

Posted 27 November 2015 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § PopCulture § Technology § United States § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

One Month ‘Til Christmas!

May your resident librarian recommend a book to help you pass the next few weeks? 😉

Posted 25 November 2015 § Humour § PopCulture § UK § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – When Do You Put Up Your Christmas Tree? (Nov 2008)

Because Pace dad was so excited, we put it up in mid-November a few years ago!

Posted 12 November 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – O Chips!

A visually impaired Liberian street musician named Weesay makes up a song about chips on the spot using a very unique guitar… After the video goes viral, he is given a real guitar from supporters in the US. Now there’s even an IndieGogo campaign to raise funds to fly him to the US for surgery to […]

Posted 23 March 2015 § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ 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 22 – The “War” on Christmas: One Atheist’s Perspective

Every December, the stories about “The War on Christmas” pop up once again, like mole heads in a fair game – how various people in society – the politically correct, civil libertarians, atheists – are oppressing Christians by trying to neuter Christmas, make everyone say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”, and forego the holiday’s religious elements for commercial/secular ones (read […]

Posted 22 December 2013 § Humour § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 21 – What Could Possibly Go Wrong

Posted 21 December 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 20 – The Greatest Bullshit Story Ever Told: God Loves You. He Loves You and He Needs Money!

Posted 20 December 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 18 – Indoctrination Summarized in Three Short Lines

It’s been said that if there was a law making it illegal to introduce religion to a child, the same as our society does with other things children aren’t capable of handling such as alcohol, driving and gambling, religion would disappear within a single generation. I agree.

Posted 18 December 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,