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Darkest Before the Dawn

There has been a lot of great pro-atheist/secular press lately. Among the good news is a recent study showing a vast increase in the number of people calling themselves non-religious, and the decreasing numbers calling themselves religious. While I am heartened by this news and proud that the admitted non-religious now make up the third largest religious demographic, something in this report raised my eyebrow.

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You Do Have a Right to Remain Silent

You hear a lot about free speech lately. Usually it's someone complaining about some business or some person infringing on their right to exercise that free speech. Something I've noted about most of these complaints has always bugged me. Allow me to quote the actual First Amendment so we all start at the same place:

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Failure IS an Option

Over the last few months, the concept of "bailing out" failing businesses and industries has become pervasive. First it's the banks failing due to their own greed and an excess of government intervention in the lending process. Next is the auto industry staggering under its own weight and failure to innovate. Most recently it's the newspapers, finally falling prey to the inevitable death of the old media from the unstoppable pressure of the internet. The concept of the bailout is not a new one. For decades we've been sustaining, in what essentially is a long term bailout, the entire farming industry. The problem with bailouts, however is that they are simply not American.

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What Next, SciFi?

As the end of Battlestar Galactica still works it's way through out mental digestive systems, what do us sci-fi geeks have to look forward to?

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Stick that in your Valentines Day and Smoke It.

Why does Valentines day suck for so many? It sucks because you people suck and are letting it suck. Suckers. I have some advice to help stop that and you really, really want to read it!

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Sandpaper goes…Where?!

You know what I love? I love shoving glued bits of sand on a piece of paper all over my damn legs. YES. UNF. SIGN ME UP. And ladies, if you're anything like me? You know you love it too! Come read about how awesome sand is!

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