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Arguments that don't make it
Continued from
Why I am an Infidel
I recently had a conversation with a friend about religious beliefs. This friend brought up some of the re...
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2007-1-2
The male privilege checklist
You might have seen this list floating around:
The male privilege checklist. It attempts to show all the privileges that males in the western world have over females. Let's have a gander, s...
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2005-11-20
Why I am an Infidel
I often use the label "atheist" to describe myself, and even though some tend to
add meanings at will, most people have a general i...
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2005-11-13
Things that aren't funny: Part I
Jokes about how white people are just so darn white.
Jokes about how black people are just so darn black.
Prank phone calls.
Tom Green.
MTV's Jackass.
MTV's Wildboyz.
MTV.
Jay ...
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2005-9-23
The Americans
Hi there Mr Über-liberal/Foreign Editorialist. I'm an American. I know you've heard (and said) a lot about me, but let me introduce myself anyway:
Hi, I'm Tom. How are you? ... Good. ... About...
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2005-9-21
Military recruitment woes
Something strange is afoot: There are two overseas wars happening, and the various branches of the military are having problems meeting their recruitment goals.
That may not seem strange at fir...
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2005-9-20
Help Rebuild New Orleans
When I heard of the plans to rebuild the destroyed parts of New Orleans, I was overcome with the warm fuzzies. Here were people determined to rebuild their lives and houses no matter what the cur...
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2005-9-17
Evolution in Kansas II
(Continued from Evolution in Kansas.)
From my personal experience, most people "questioning" evolution have only the vag...
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2005-9-9
Why doesn't somebody help?
I built my home in a river bed. It was dry at the time of course. People said I was crazy for living there, but what do scientists know?
It was just such a cool place to live. It was kind of sm...
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2005-9-5
Pain at the pump
You there. Yes, you in the Navigator. Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Quit complaining. Your "pain at the pump" is your own doing. You made a bad decision.
Not everybody is feeling such tremen...
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2005-8-24
The Paparazzi
You want to stop the paparazzi? It's very simple to do: stop buying any news source that publishes paparazzi-style news or pictures.
There's the obvious supermarket tabloid crap like Sun ...
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2005-8-24
Evolution in Kansas
Dear Scientific Illiterates,
This is not the first time this has been said, and it won't be the last, but the more times this is repeated the better:
Contrary to what you may have heard from...
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2005-8-10
Viruses and Worms and Trojans, Oh My
Let's just say this up front: I use nothing but GNU/Linux at home (Gentoo if you must know).
Now that we have that out of the way: there are multitudes of zealots out there who believe with all ...
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2005-7-6
Hey there rapper
Hey there rapper, why not tell us a little bit about yourself?
Just the other day I was wondering: Who's the best rapper? Who's the best MC? I think most people want to know.
Why not write...
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2005-6-25
Supersize yourself
I finally watched
Supersize Me. It taught me so many things, I can see why people love it so much.
Here's a short list of facts I gathered from this piece of art:
1) Say you're abo...
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2005-6-11
The problem you don't talk about
I'll just get right to it: You poop, and sometimes you poop funny.
Funny poop? What, like clowns or something? Nope. While a pooping clown is funny, that's not it. The big secret is that...
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2005-5-25
Nearly vegetarian
As the title notes, I am not a vegetarian, but I'm close. What's "close"? Anywhere from once a week to once every few months I eat a small amount of fish. The rest of the time it's the usual veg...
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2005-5-23
Fat people vs skinny people
First, the fat people:
You are fat. You are fat for one reason only: you consume more calories than you expend. That's it. It is not true that no matter what you eat you gain weight. ...
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2005-4-26
What words mean: "atheist"
"I am an atheist." If I make that declaration to you, what could you say about me? Can you determine my morality? How about my favorite authors? Does it imply a particular political affiliatio...
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2005-3-13
Attention SUV Drivers
Please stop doing the following:
1) Parking in spots which are too small.
Your ass-end is either sticking out into the parking lot, or you are angling over into the next spot because...
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2005-3-4
Please, Kansas, help me protect my marriage!
Please help me! My marriage is in deep peril! Every day that gay marriage is not officially banned is a day closer to the destruction of my wonderful wedded bliss!
In April, a gay marriage ban...
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2005-2-27
Is that a toe on your head?
For someone who tries to live as myth-free as possible, it can be fairly rough going sometimes. As an exercise, pretend someone told you he believed that all humans have a toe growing out of the ...
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2005-2-26