So it seems that scuba-diving archaeologists were looking for remains of Napoleon’s defeat at the hands of Lord Nelson, when they accidentally discovered the sunken city of Heracleion instead. This was the Egyptian city where Herodotus said that Helen had fled with her Trojan love, Paris. OK so maybe it’s no quite proof of the […]
The Blind Faith Virus Vaccine
On a Saturday evening on the 16th of November, predominantly Southern Baptist television viewers in Atlanta Georgia got to see a pair of Buddhists trying to direct an argument with me juxtaposed against a Biblical literalist from Liberty University. That was great fun! www.BlindFaithVirusVaccine.TV The host, Mark Gura described himself as a spiritual non-theist, and […]
The re-recording of my Skepticon speech
I thought I was getting over my laryngitis in time for my presentation at Skepticon, but as I approached the mic, my voice gave out again. There I was on stage in a Civic Center, doing an impression of Vin Deisel playing the Iron Giant. I talked for 45 minutes like that. I didn’t have a choice. But […]
Ho ho HO!
Looks like it’s that season again. http://comicbooked.comicbookedllc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/lobobird.jpg
Asian Cultural Sensitivity 101: Why is Katy Perry’s “Geisha” performance considered racist?
I know no one asked me to weigh in on this, but what the heck. I am the resident East Eurasian here. Seriously though my social media is awash in East Asian outrage and also cultural insensitivity over Perry’s performance yesterday at the AMAs dressed in modified,sexy geisha apparel. There are a number of comments […]
Do we live in a post-racial society in the secular community?
People of Color Beyond Belief is hosting a webcast to debunk the notion that we live in a post-racial society. It is starting right now, and is moderated by Sikivu Hutchinson. The panelists are Kimberly Veal, Black Freethinkers & Black Skeptics Chicago Donald Wright, Houston Black Non-Believers Raina Roades: Black Freethinkers – The RSS Feed & Rhoades to Reality. […]
Thanks to, and from, the Texas Freedom Network
Tonight I received an email from Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network. It is titled, ‘A Victory for Science in Texas’. It reads (in part) as follows: Dear Aron, WE WON! Moments ago the Texas State Board of Education cast a final vote to approve science textbooks based on established science. This is […]
We finally pulled in to Skepticon
Only to be told we have been bumped from The University Plaza to the Holiday Inn because the event hotel is overbooked. It is 2:00 AM local time here, and Aron is still fussing over his speech about Pterosaurs for tomorrow at 10:00 AM. Normally freethinking events are a respite for me from problems that […]
Pseudo-Fame & sour grapes
It figures, don’t it? When I saw this photo (taken of me during an argument at the Reason Rally) I thought, “this is the worst picture that has ever been taken of me.” So of course that’s the one that gets shown on CNN. It’s not like I was really on CNN. If I […]
To the critics of my comments on feminism…
The idea behind the ‘Sexy Secular Conference’ at the University of Akron was apparently to present progressive concepts on non-traditional courtships, romantic expression, bending gender roles, and so on. This was not my usual choice of topics, and it’s not going to become one either. But I took that opportunity to express an opinion, and […]