Tell you a coupla stories:
When I was about 16, I worked part-time as a stock boy and gofer at the central office of a chain of health clubs in Houston.
One of my not-quite-co-workers was Bobby, a big black guy who was the right-hand man of the distribution director. The performance of our duties would normally almost never put Bobby and I in the same room together, but I saw him everyday anyway. Continue reading “The Funny Thing About Sexual Harassment. And Then the Unfunny Thing.”
This is a SHORT short stack, focused on a single subject that played out today in Facebook.
Mitt Romney is so boring that …
(I came up with a few:) Continue reading “Short Stack # 15 — Mitt Romney”
You’ll probably see this all over Freethought Blogs, but …
Big news these days is the subject of policies addressing harassment, sexual and otherwise, at atheist/freethought conventions. In this Google Hangout video, Freethought bloggers discuss a controversy surrounding TAM, The Amazing Meeting.
What better way to brainwash people than to stress them, exhaust them, force them to go without food and sleep? And THEN jump in with your message, the thing you want to force into their unresisting minds, when they’re at their most vulnerable?
I’m describing the brainwashing tactics of Stalin, or Mao Tse Tung, right?
No. I’m talking about U.S. Military chaplains. I’m talking about the brainwashing of U.S. soldiers to become Christians, and Christian evangelists. All of it paid for, by their own proud admission, by our government. Continue reading “Brainwashing, Jesus … and Fascistic Creep”
Okay, here’s where I shock and dismay many of you. The part where you’ll say “I don’t agree! My experience is different! You’re just wrong!”
But I want you to think about this. It’s something that’s bothered me for years and years, something I think matters — a little detail of compassion that few of us ever think about, but that disturbs me greatly. Continue reading “13: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!”
The End.
Except it’s not yet 2 p.m. is it? Seems my math, from my original promise to blog from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., was faulty. I figured on 12 posts, but that span of time actually requires 13.
While I’m thinking about that, look at this picture. It was taken right here in Upstate New York, near Schenectady. Click to embiggen. (BTW, there are more Hank Fox photos on my Flickr site.) Continue reading “12: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!”
Non-Readers
I have old friends in Texas who have never read a whole book in their entire lives. I’m not kidding. And it sort of horrifies me, you know?
I’m not whacking at them, particularly, but … the type. Continue reading “11: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!”
Note to a Young Atheist
If you’re on the journey of freethought and you’re “out” about it, in full view of your religious family and peers, it’s likely you’re going to go through a fairly rough road at some point. Continue reading “10: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!”
Bring Out Your Dead!
As you get older, there’s a catalog that starts to form in your head – the roster of your beloved dead.
I have Ranger the Valiant Warrior, Tito the Mighty Hunter, my old cowboy friend Tom and now my Dad, Dan Farris. And man, for me that’s a long list. Even one would be too much. Continue reading “9: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!”
Dad and Self Worth
I can definitely say that my dad, Dan Farris, helped teach me that I mattered.
That each of us individuals matter. No matter what other people say, you’re not nothing. Continue reading “8: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!”
