The body lay sprawled under the high school bleachers on a Sunday morning. Time of death, roughly midnight. A teenaged boy. Just some idiot kid.
Cause of death? The coroner would have to do some tests, but I was pretty sure I already knew. I could see ashes on his upper lip, and around his nose. Nearby was an upended oil drum, and on the surface some bits of paper and ashes.
The kid was a Bible snorter. Continue reading “Cop Story”
Kick up your heels occasionally.
Take each day as it comes.
Watch for gopher holes along the way.
Don’t eat too much rich food.
Everybody farts.
Sometimes you have to take the bit in your teeth.
Graze whenever possible.
Friends can come in any color.
There’s no shame in natural functions. Continue reading “Things I Learned from My Horses”
Hmm. Late September, huh? Let’s see … pre-Halloween, pre-fall-colors. Still, not too early, is it?
Yeah, baby! Let me fire the first volley in this year’s Evil Atheist War on Christmas™.
I make up words all the time. Silly things like “farfoculation” – which I KNOW is original, because Google doesn’t have it (but then again, I guess it will now; wish I knew what it was supposed to mean) – but also useful words I continue to privately use. Continue reading “Making Language”
From Facebook friend Elliot C. Myrick:
One of the little things you get with the WordPress blogging package is a statistics page that tells you all sorts of little things about how many people are reading your site, what specific articles they’re reading, what they clicked on while here, etc. And my favorite, a list of the search terms people used that led them to your site.
For instance, if you Google “blue collar atheist,” you’ll get several links to this blog, but also to stories elsewhere that reference it. In that same vein, someone Googled “clint eastwood gays” in the past week and got here, obviously, because I had a recent post about Clint Eastwood’s opinion of gay marriage. Continue reading “Getting here from there”
Just out of curiosity … can anyone tell me why the best female candidates the GOP can offer are Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann?
Surely there’s an American Margaret Thatcher, a Corazon Aquino or Indira Gandhi? Where is she?
But then again, maybe there are thousands of them out there. They’re just too smart to jump into the viper pit of current-day GOP politics.
Slightly annoying Fark headline:
If that’s too small to read, it says “Columnist attempts to debunk 10 myths about atheists, manages to prove 9 of them are true.”
Got my back hair up for a minute or so, and I rushed over to read the article.
Then I remembered “Oh. Fark headline. It’s humor.”
Suddenly I *GET* zombie movies. Zombies are religious people. Atheists and rationalists are the normal ones. The horror of the metaphorical “zombie takeover” is what you experience when you wake up from religion and discover that everybody around you is still a zombie. AND THEY WANT YOUR BRAIN. Continue reading “Short Takes from Facebook 1”
