ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (First of Four), February 2008: Michel Onfray’s Atheist Manifesto
Religious people have no evidence whatsoever to point to in support of their beliefs (the distinctly supernatural ones, that is, as opposed to some affiliated historical claims that are no different from the ones secular people would make). Often, then, […]
NOTE: For reasons having nothing to do with the failure of all my favored candidates, I’m exhausted and will have to get to that Atheist Manifesto review early tomorrow morning. We apologize for the inconvenience.
With the Mormon guy suspending his candidacy, allow me one look back. In chronological order and in the (approximate) […]
While collecting my thoughts about Michel Onfray’s Atheist Manifesto, it crossed my mind that, given his undisguised animosity toward religion, he probably wasn’t surprised to hear about the recent al Qaeda bombings that employed mentally retarded or Down Syndrome suicide bombers.
Al Qaeda is built in the first place upon a recruitment drive to attract those […]
Meanwhile, in France, things are different among the political elites.
Whereas here, in the U.S., politicians on both sides of the aisle — and even this year’s most prominent libertarian — now bend over backwards to say nice things about religion and faith, in France, the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has co-written at least one article of […]
One last Ron Paul note: the February issue of Reason, which had Ron Paul on the cover, also had an article about another somewhat Ron Paul-like U.S. congressman, though he’s more religious-conservative than libertarian. Still willing to vote against any government activity not outlined in the Constitution, though, which is cool.
All the same, let’s […]
The celebrity who sounds the most like a Ron Paulista in the past couple weeks, by the way, happens to be a black man, despite Paul’s past racial insensitivity: Wesley Snipes, who apparently believes (or at least was taken in by) some Biblically-influenced arguments for the illegality of taxation, leading to his IRS troubles.
I’m pleased […]
In between writing increasingly-frequent blog posts, I am of course supposed to be writing a book, and as we sort out the Super Duper Tuesday results and ask what they mean for the direction of both parties, it’s worth noting a phrase that sums up the real message of that book and that […]
I’m too lazy to go back and look up the polls, but if my previous examination of them was correct, the Dem who fared best in general-election surveys was actually…Edwards! Can we draw any possible conclusion from this other than that moderate-and-conservative voters, who weren’t voting in the Dem primaries, like white guys more […]
…on this potentially-decisive Super Duper Tuesday, I should not let my glowing post about John Derbyshire’s dog be today’s only entry (he is only one of our two, politically-balanced speakers tomorrow night at Lolita Bar, the other being Seth Colter Walls). So, here are a few notes to make things a little less right-wing […]
Tomorrow (Feb. 6 at 8pm) at Lolita Bar (266 Broome St.), we hear John Derbyshire and Seth Colter Walls react to the previous day’s Super Duper Tuesday results. But there’s far more to our speakers than just politics, of course — and one reminder of that is Derb’s charming webpage dedicated to his late, […]
All right, I haven’t yet delved too directly into the atheism topic in this “Month Without God.” Let me start by saying that (like the most rational of atheists) I do not have any special grievance against religion that I do not have against all the other irrational and fanciful beliefs that plague humanity. Like […]
The top story on the cover of the January/February Brown Alumni Magazine is an account by David Klinghoffer (a National Review editor — not unlike one of our speakers at Lolita Bar this coming Wednesday, remember) of how Brown turned him into a conservative — fulla revelations like him being adopted and born of Gentiles, […]
While looking for a picture of a bear to put with my prior blog entry about DC Comics, I found a picture of a DC character whose name makes her sound like a bear but isn’t one: Ursa, the Kryptonian villain played in Superman II by Sarah Douglas. And the thing is: I remember […]
The little contributor profile of me in the front of the Reason issue that I mentioned in my prior blog entry almost makes it sound like I was on staff at DC Comics (whereas I merely wrote three freelance scripts for them). Some lingering guilt over this probably caused the dream I just had.
In the […]
The March issue of Reason, out now, contains my cover story about nanotech — and I’m pleased it’s a cover illustrated by cartoonist Pete Bagge, whose comic books such as Hate I loved back when I was in college, never suspecting we were ideological kin. The first indication I had of his non-leftist political […]
