Today, I got an email from Tina Jane. I did not recognize the address, or the mailer, but, after doing a quick McAfee scan, I clicked. Then I clicked over to a Google document. And I realized that I was being witnessed via billytheatheist (at) gmail.com as I read: Read the rest of this entry »
Another Christian Thinks Laws Don’t Apply to Christians
12 August, 2009A Western Florida high school is learning an important lesson. Well, the principal (Frank Lay) and the athletic director (Robert Freeman) are learning a lesson. And it is a lesson with which certain Christianist dominionist fundamentalists have a great deal of trouble.
For the past 20 or so years, (from Americans United)
under Lay’s leadership, Pace High School became known as “the Baptist Academy.” Teachers and staff delivered prayers and invited students or outside leaders to lead prayers during school activities. Teachers read from the Bible and discussed church attendance with students. Students were encouraged to attend religious clubs and incorporate religion into their schoolwork. Read the rest of this entry »
Bishop allows villagers to notice ‘reality of nature’
10 August, 2009A small village in Switzerland has, collectively, spent the last 331 or so years praying for one thing. Now they are petitioning the Vatican to reverse their prayers (from Yahoo News (via the AP)):
Since the vow was established in 1678, the deal was simple: the citizens of the isolated mountain hamlets of Fiesch and Fieschertal would pledge to lead virtuous lives. In exchange, God would spare their homes and livelihoods from being swallowed by Europe’s largest glacier as it expanded toward the valley with heavy winter snows. Read the rest of this entry »
Atheists Really Do Exist.
7 August, 2009As I was leaving work today, I noticed an older woman sitting alone. She sat on one of those walker/stools which have become quite popular. I thought it odd as the park was closed. So I stopped to ask, “Are you waiting for a ride?”
She smiled at me and, in a beautiful North Carolina Piedmont accent, replied. “Oh, yes. My husband and I parked at the mall and he just walked over to get the car. So I hope he’s picking me up.”
I thought for a moment and realized that there may be a problem. The walkway to the mall is usually locked right at 5:00pm. So it may already be locked, in which case this could get difficult. I explained the situation and told her that I would check an make sure he made it all the way up the ramp, and would also make sure that the main gate was still open so he could get back in.
She beamed at me and said, “Oh, you are so wonderful. You are a good Christian and one of God’s people.” Read the rest of this entry »
The Thursday Gourmet: Uncle Bill’s Chicken
6 August, 2009I like garlic. Hell, in our house, garlic is considered a vegetable. I’ve been known to go through as many as 10 bulbs of garlic in a month. Not cloves of garlic. Bulbs.
This recipe comes (in a roundabout way) from a garlic cookbook (a collection of recipes from the Gilroy Garlic Festival) in which it is listed as ‘Uncle Hugo’s Chicken.’ My name is not Hugo. I have no uncle, much less an uncle by the name of Hugo. I am an uncle, though, so to her I am Uncle Bill. Thus, my altered version of the recipe is called:
Uncle Bill’s Chicken
A Wandering Mind is a Strange Mind
5 August, 2009So I’m driving home from work (my first day back after a nice 9-day staycation at Frontporchville) and, on my Zen Mozaic, this came up: Read the rest of this entry »
15 Book Meme
2 August, 2009Sucked in (I blame Julia (who blamed Christopher (who blamed Greg Laden)))…
Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
I’m not going to attempt chronological order, I will just list them as they occur to me: Read the rest of this entry »
You are doing it wrong.
31 July, 2009I know that I should not laugh at the surfers who visit my blog. I know I shouldn’t. But I do. Case in point: Read the rest of this entry »
