Tonight there will be two fewer testicles in the house than there were last night. Just sayin’.

Pat Robertson, as you probably already know, decided to rant about Haiti making a deal with the devil to get free of the French which, according to Robertson, is why Haiti has such problems… like earthquakes. Nevermind that Haiti didn’t make a deal with the devil (or that the devil doesn’t exist) or that devil-deals are [...]

Looking for an exceptionally worthwhile charity to support this year? Check out the Foundation Beyond Belief, which is officially launching today. Founder Dale McGowan, the author of Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, started Foundation Beyond belief with the following goals. To demonstrate humanism at its best by supporting efforts to improve this world and [...]

(This was written back in November of 2001, about 7 months after my daughter was born.) Becoming the father of my daughter was a pretty big moment in my life. Ok, that’s an understatement. It was the big moment in my life, and the great thing about it is that it continues to be the [...]

This evening, I was waiting for my new laptop to get through all its updates and my wife and I were watching NCIS while waiting, which allowed my eight-year-old daughter to stay up a little later than usual because… you know… we didn’t want to miss any of the NCIS episode to go tuck her [...]

I returned from the Atheist Alliance International Convention in LA last night and I’m struggling to get back into the groove of my East Coast time zone. I wanted to post my impressions of the convention, including my highlights and disappointments. Overall, I’d have to say that I loved the entire event. There were some technical [...]

Some people wonder why evolution isn’t more accepted than it is. Despite the monumental amount of evidence in multiple fields of scientific inquiry, those pesky creationists, bringing up the same tired arguments, sometimes seem like B-movie zombies. No matter how many times they get smacked down, they keep coming back to torment scientifically-minded, rational [...]

Almost everyone laughs at Flat-Earthers, people who actually believe that the Earth is flat despite all evidence to the contrary. Most people also laugh at the Moon-Hoaxers, the folks who think that we never landed on the moon and that it’s all just a conspiracy with elaborately faked footage, photos, and reports. Conspiracy theorists [...]

To augment my disgust with anti-vaxxers like Jenny McCarthy, I’d like to provide this link to JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com. Not only does it highlight the vaccine-preventable illnesses and deaths, but includes information and links about both vaccinations and the anti-vax movement. Give it a visit and help show anti-vaxxers that their dangerous and ignorant actions are unacceptable.

I just used Windows Update to get the latest Windows Live tools and one tool was Windows Live Writer which gives you an editing interface for your desktop that can automatically publish your content to your blog (I’m using it to write this). It’s somewhat like a mini-version of Microsoft Word, but it has some sidebars [...]

Today I started my goal to weigh 200 pounds by December 31st, 2009. That’s a weight loss of 54 pounds and it’s a reasonable, healthy rate of weight loss. Healthy food in smaller amounts combined with moderate exercise should get me there. I’ll post my progress here from time to time.

This Monday was a sad day for me. I had to take Pokey, my cat, to the vet to get put down. He was 18 years old and had been getting weaker and losing some weight over the past week, but Sunday night, he fell on the stairs and hurt himself to the point where [...]