Thoughts

The 3rd of November… Yeah, I know that’s not how it goes, but I’m pretty sure that after the votes are counted, parts of the US are going to light up like the gunpowder treason Guy Fawkes planned for all […]

Growing up, I saw society as two-sided. On one side you had the straight-laced, traditional-minded people who believed in restrictions, rules, and ‘moral decency.’ On the other, you had the happy, freedom-minded people who threw off their chains of oppression […]

Sometimes, the silence that comes with a lack of popularity can be a blessing, especially when people you’ve known or followed on social media for years show their true colors and turn out to be people with whom you disagree. […]

I joined the atheist ‘movement’ right around the time of the schism between what an atheist is and what some people though an atheist should be. A group of folks – some of them intellectuals – proposed the concept of […]

I’m nearly finished Jordan Peterson’s book ’12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos’ and I have to admit, for a guy like me who’s older, a bit wiser and set in his ways, this book still had a lot […]

Every week on Holy Crap, Shujin talks about how people on Facebook say the darndest things. Yes, I’m keeping it PC for the most part. He’s right though; there are some grade A idiots out there on social media, and […]

I read George Orwell’s ‘1984’ back in school, and the world it portrayed seemed so ridiculously different from the world I was in that I found it absurd. I also read ‘Brave New World’ by Aldus Huxley, which really drove […]

I got the notice on Sunday just as I was waking up. It took a couple of hours for it to sink in but there it was: my friend, Heretic Woman, died on Jan 20. To say she was outspoken […]

Another year has gone by. It’s now New Year’s Day evening of 2019, and I wish I could stand atop some kind of mountain to look down at the past year. It would be nice to see it all as […]

I’m beginning to lose interest in this fight. Back when I chose to become an activist for atheism, critical thought, and truth in advertising, it was a righteous thing. It’s no secret that organized religious institutions are basically fleecing the […]