* -or Danish newspaper machines, the poorer areas of Western European capitals, or your garden variety Arab/Persian street.
Consider this not so much as a unified, streamlined congruity but, rather, as potpourri or miscellania, debris gathered to a comet on it’s journey through space, the dog hair drawn to a half-eaten lifesaver. Basically, a bunch of [...]

I’m back! Did ya’ll miss me?
After a week in Virginia, I feel like I need to be “sanitized” and to go through some kind of quarantine process even though I took regular showers while there. Don’t get me wrong…Virginia is a beautiful state, full of magnolia trees which fill the air with a perfumy scent [...]

Just a couple of links off of Brent’s cool site…
Atheist in Massachusetts? Enjoy Your Prison Time
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or [...]

As much as I hate religion- and I do, it really sticks in my craw, I find myself more and more leaning towards embracing the moderate faction of U.S. Xians as a means to negating the influence of the Dominionists, the Ron Luces, and the plain vanilla fundies that have brought us twelve years of [...]

I can’t say I’m surprised that our boy Michael Newdow has lost the current round in his suit to get “In Gawd we trust” taken off of U.S. currency (Atheist Loses ‘In God We Trust’ Suit). But we still love him for trying; and the next stop for the case is the U.S. 9th [...]

Since we tend to be fans of both Julia (see the earlier post Julia Sweeney’s loss of faith) and Mike (see many posts here) around here, I thought I’d pass along the new press release from The Secular Coalition for America:
Atheist Activist Newdow and Humorist Sweeney Join Secular Lobby
Washington, DC — The Secular Coalition for [...]

Newdow is at it again. Of course, he’s absolutely right.
Atheist plans lawsuit challenging motto on U.S. currency
Michael Newdow said Sunday that he planned to file a federal lawsuit this week asking for the removal of the national motto, “In God We Trust,” from U.S. coins and dollar bills. He claims it’s an [...]

The pledge. It’s back. A little more on what Sean mentioned earlier: Judge Backs Case Seeking End of School Pledge.
A federal judge in California declared today, in a ruling that virtually guarantees another long and emotional battle in the courts, that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional. [...]