I am sorry to report that there is no post show gathering this week!   You might think that it’s because of the upcoming holiday, but unfortunately it is something much more sinister practical: Sam and Becky are moving! Sure enough, we’re going to get help and make a thing out of it, but helping […]

Alber Saber, the 27 year-old computer science graduate and online atheist activist has been convicted on blasphemy charges in Egypt. On Wednesday. he was sentenced in a Cairo court to three years in prison for Facebook posts where he promoted atheism, insulting Islam and Christianity and criticizing religious belief.

As we spoke about on our show this week, Sam is talking about Blasphemy, rather than talking blasphemously, though it’s quite possible that both will occur.

Meet up with us at Last Word Books & Press at 211 4th Avenue East, Olympia, WA.

Last month, a 27 year-old atheism activist and computer science graduate named Alber Saber was arrested in Cairo for doing what we do on Ask an Atheist every week. He disrespected and criticized religious beliefs and their political influence. He posted the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” video on his Egyptian Atheists Facebook page along with […]

The Tacoma server (which houses everything but podcasts) was down for about four hours today. From my administration blog: Looks like I had a strange cascading failure today that began with a switch freaking out, which took the router offline and caused the main virtualization server’s ethernet driver to crap the bed. We’re back now. […]