Alright, so our friends Jerry DeWitt and Teresa MacBain of the The Clergy Project are continuing to bring important points and a lot of visibility to our happy movement.  Most importantly, they’ve hit the big leagues:  attention from the Westboro Baptist Church, the dank brain rendering plant in the otherwise friendly town of Topeka. Yeah, […]

I received a personal email from blogger Ophelia Benson around 5 pm on Tuesday: Hi again Becky, I want to ask you a direct question, since you’re the one who named me as one of the too-dogmatic and other bad things feminists on your podcast – can you quote something too-dogmatic etc that I’ve written […]

Blogs and podcasts are afire! We’ve seen hedging and hard–lining, demands and ultimatums, compromises, questions, excuses, and judgment all around one issue: the treatment of women in the atheist community. I can’t say I’ve been hesitant to join the conversation. I can say I’ve been repulsed. I am so uncomfortable with the tone of the […]

I love when people pour more than one flavor of crazy into a stew pot and stir them thoroughly.  What’s that? You want to cross nutball 9/11 conspiracy theories with psychic powers? A Bigfoot  mash-up with the theory of Atlantis? The ghosts of Civil War soldiers haunting my homeopathic medicine? Yes! Buy me a ticket. […]

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