I tend to watch the debates with Twitter and Facebook open. When both candidates are committed to not answering the question asked, my temper gets short, and I need the snarky tweets of Tristyn to be able to go on without hitting something. So I saw the memification of "binders full of women" play out in real time, and I was ticked off. If you care to pop over to The Huffington Post, I have a piece up praising the actual content of Romney's answer: There are a lot of things about Romney … [Read more...]
I’m at First Things today!
August 28, 2012 By 17 Comments
Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage? Well, I've expanded on some of those ideas and picked up a few new digressions in an essay for First Things's On the Square feature. My essay is titled "The Sad Secular Monks" and here's a teaser quote: After graduation from college, young adults lose their deadlines. We stop making transitions as a cohort, and are expected to figure out when new stages of life begin on our … [Read more...]
Daylight Atheism Guestblogging [Index Post]
March 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
In May of 2011, I did a stint guestblogging at Daylight Atheism, while Adam Lee went on vacation. The individual posts are listed below, and you can browse all of them here The Rapture of Charlie Sheen - As Howard Camping's predicted rapture approached, atheists made sport of his delusion. Is there any point where a belief so obviously false that mocking its adherents is abusive? At what point is a false belief and resistance to reason indistinguishable from mental … [Read more...]
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