Who else can resurrect your dead childhood pet, shoot you with a proton ray for having safe sex, and transform abusive fathers into turtles? I’m in a weird dream-state where Devo is singing in Spanish about Futurama’s Robot Santa. Or is it Jesus?

Sam neglected to mention this awesome SSA affiliate (and their amazing t-shirt) on the show when we talked about H.P. Lovecraft. This will now be rectified.

We’d like to make sure that the changes we have in mind will be positively received by our listeners. To that end, we’ve established a listener poll to help us figure out what people would like to see.

Also, we’re skeptical about the Pope. Or we aren’t. There is contention!

As atheists and skeptics, we like to talk about how skepticism can serve us personally, like saving us from bad arguments, cults, and the occasional huckster. But what fewer people realize is that skepticism in the broad form has saved us from having to actually live out the plot to the Fallout video games. Or Threads, if we’re less lucky.

Let’s think about September 26th, 1983.

Meet us at Doyle’s Public House at 3:00 PM tomorrow for drinks and conversation! Facebook event is here.

Children around our state and across the nation aren’t being vaccinated because of parents’ religious beliefs and personal objections. Our immunity helps minimize epidemics in our community! You can easily obtain shots for preventable disease, often at low cost.

Join Ask an Atheist as we record an episode in front of an audience this Wednesday, January 30^th at 4:00 PM in the Theater at Tacoma Community College!

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.