Guy in his late 20s, blue t-shirt, scruffy. A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson.

I actually saw someone reading at the gym!

Dragonflight--Anne McCaffrey.

It's almost as if people don't read in public ( Read more... )

  In an effort to explain why exactly I've bounced from concentration to concentration, I've written this...thing. It's very messy since I'm thinking as I'm writing, and I've made no effort to edit it. That said, I'd like to mention that recall bias is a very real thing, and that I am "the easiest person to fool".  One of my mother’s favorite ( Read more... )

I've just picked up a copy of Greta Cristina's recent book, Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and I was somewhat relieved just to read about religion and harm rather than the social justice stuff the online atheist community has been focused on lately. Not to say that it isn't important, because it is, but it's the ( Read more... )

        An honest skeptic tries to hold hir beliefs based on evidence or at the very least reason. The key word there, though, is ‘try’. It’s entirely fallacious to assume that someone will never act irrationally; will never hold a belief based on no or bad interpretations of evidence.

But there’s a tendency for people to expect a skeptic to ( Read more... )

There are posts all over my Facebook from my libertarian friends decrying the very recent decision that the Affordable Care Act is not unconstitutional, mostly along the lines of "but freedom ( Read more... )

Probably the second thing I do every day after class is check freethoughtblogs, a blogging network for atheists, for the latest posts. What I usually find is a mix of science blogging and topics that make me feel angry, horrified, and sad ( Read more... )

Well fuck me running ( Read more... )

So here it is, about 5:30 in the morning,and I have to be up in half an hour (yes, on a Saturday) for work, because I was sick yesterday. And because there's really no point in going back to sleep for a whole half hour, I'm staring at an empty post box on Livejournal, wondering why on earth I'm planning a fairly detailed set of posts when they will ( Read more... )