Pull Out The Awesome Sauce File, Please

Let's file this one under awesome sauce. Let's file this one under that's one for the good fight. Are things getting better or worse in this insane world that we live in...this time it's getting better. This young piece of super awesomeness named, Jessica Ahlquist, schooled her, err, school and the adults on the schoolboard in her district. At age 16 she obviously has a black belt in badd-ass-ed-ness. Yea buddy...

That document The New Atheist keep talking about..and secularists...and the ACLU...and ...

Here's the short of it...Her school violated that separation of church and state that the mighty atheist blogosphere keeps talking about by putting up a banner with a prayer on it (oopsie). Seemingly she was the only one that has read the constitution because she didn't get support from any of her peers or the so called adult leaders in her school. In fact...

Hey baby, we should live on this street. Just sayin'.

Someone identified as "person of faith" said, "...start every game with a prayer with the team...obligation to protect and defend moral values of our students with this banner (1)." OooooKaaaayyy, incriminate your self much. So stupid...sheez. Any who...

This is covered all over the blogoshpere so I'm not going to go into the people can have morals without God and First Amendment, we all know that (it's "them" that doesn't know that). What I wanna talk about is a lesson that I learned from a Buddhism that I used to practice years ago...pre Nu Kriss let's say.

Buddha rulez, assholes.

There was this great sayin' that we used to use all of the time and it goes like..."It takes one to stand for the rest to follow" and that is just what our teen-inspirer did. Oh...oh kind gentle and very goodlooking readers, as you know I really really really hearted me some Christopher Hitchens-my hero. when he recently passed I had super weirdo thoughts like, gee I dunno...now the New Atheists are gonna fail...we are going to fade away...WTF is gonna happen now.

I'm absolutely inspire by Ms. Ahlquist. This article says...

"This girl stood up to not just peers but politicians to fight for the values of separation of church and state. In doing so, she gave her friends a lesson in civic responsibility and gave her school board a lesson in constitutional values. At a time with separation principles under attack, Jessica added a case in the win column for a society where faith is a personal not a public priority (link)."

This is one for the good guys. This is one for those that want and believe in a religion free public square. This is one for the good guys.

Thanks Jess...(got any older sister or aunts around age 35-ish, I'm Kriss)...(maybe green eyes, OK).


(1) I'm going to go out on a limb and say "person of faith" is one of the coaches at the school...probably the football coach. Just sayin'..

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The Most Awesome Thing You Will See Today

Be prepared for the most awesome thing you will see today. I wanna say it's pareidolia, but technically, it is not.  Kind gentle and very good looking readers I present to you...The Jesus toaster. Yes, the Jesus toaster. that is two things...in one. Jesus. Toaster. Put them together and you have...The Jesus toaster.

Burnt Impressions is the idea of an absolute genius; genius I tell you. Galen Dively already had his successful ( a couple of hundred, total) toaster business that sold toasters that could burn a peace sign or pot leaf onto you bread product; but when he busted out with the Divenly inspired Jesus toast, sales really took off (100 a day).

Sales have been so good Dively has branched out with an Obama toaster, dog paw and, of course, The Virgin Marry toaster. But of course sales are so good, check out this epic advertising...

"Normal toasters are tame and subdued by unfortunate limitations; but great toasters rise above them and become Burnt Impression toasters."

Before this endeavor, Dively sold tye-dye tee-shirts. Go figure.

* Article

* Beyond ordinary toast. Buy here.

Memo To The Pope...Kettle-Black

Man oh man, God has it soooo easy. Dude is totally powerful, all knowing and responsible for everything. He loves all creatures and is totally all about love...except for when not. Sure the claim is God is responsibie for everything, well, that is except for when it is bad and wrong (ie that 9/11 thingy). Gawd is the ultimate hippie lover (once my title), except for when he goes sexism on the ladies, prejudices against GLBT peeps, enslaved people throughout history etc etc etc...

To say that God is innocent is the definition of wrong. The loophole that they use is that God didn't do it, it was a weirdo human believer that misinterpreted and misrepresented God; kinda along the lines of hate the sin, not the sinner. Well, I call bullshit on that. God is guilty. The weirdo believer was acting in the name of God and The New Atheists call bullshit on that. Pre 9/11 and pre-Nuevo Ateismo, sure I will grant that religion had the privilege of being exempt from criticism (for no other reason than 'they' said that we could not do it), but those days are over, buddy. Apparently Pope B-dog XVI didn't get the memo.

The Human Gateway to God recently said that it is a "no no" to commit violence in the name of God. This is the same pope that at one time said of his competitor, Islam, and their boy Muhammad's teachings, that they are "evil and inhumane" esp "command to spread by the sword of faith." This is the part where I go...WTF. So Benedict, I can call ya by your first name right, yea, so, anyways...hypocrite much, point the finger much, kettle-black, rubber glue, I know what you are, but what am I...much.

C'mon now. If God is responsible for everything, then dude is responsible for everything (or not). Same with the being all powerful thingy. Someone tell the pope that the conversation has evolved (thanks New Atheists) and yes...we can criticize religion (we have always been able to do that). And tell him to stop being all black-kettle-ish. Here's a quote from the pope's boy Jesus "Missing Years" Christ.

"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" (Gospel of Matthew 10:34)

The pope called out Islam for spreading their faith by the sword. OM(nonexistent)GAwd, that is so rich. I have one word for the pope and other evangelical Christians that point the finger at other religions...dominionism. Hello.

The Pope also recently called on Islam to fight the infidels, err, secularist. Dude said that they have a common enemy in those that want a religion free public square for everyone, which if you ask me, is totally fair-to everyone. The thingy about that is that Christianity and Islam are cats and dogs, they will never get along. Back in the day for both religions to be an infidel just meant that one does not practice their religion: an infidel to an old school Christian v Islam, or visa versa, just meant others not on your team. Both religions use the sword to spread their faith, and both admonish the other when they do so. And ya know what...

Both are responsible for 9/11.

* Ya never hear "Dam, those atheists blew up that government building," or "That atheist went on a shooting spree in the name of atheism," "Those atheist and their stupid atheist wars." Only religion does that.

* SF Gate

The Ultimate Cockblock

Only a nerdy goober gets excited about a book and only a member of Team Atheist gets excited about a book about the sex lives of insects. I have not had this much excitement since I read Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice For All Creation (which I'm sure I reviewed, but I can't find it. le sigh).  This new book from Marlene Zuk is everything you wanted to know about the sex lives of insects, but ya  didn't ask because ya really didn't want to know. Any Who...

I haven't read it, yet, but I did listen to the interview on NPR. What is it about the sex lives of nonhumans that intrigues us. I remember when Sex Advice came out and all the water cooler talk was about those bottle nose dolphins and what sexual freeks they are. Sex On Six Legs looks like it will give us much to talk about in the days, weeks, months to come. Like...

Damsel flys do the ultimate cockblock. I thought the average bro dude downtown at the Friday Summer Concert Series was pretty petty and testosterone-y, but the Damsel fly puts the human counterpart to shame. Fly bro literally scoops out the sperm of the previous fly bro from his pretty lady. This is called sperm competition. Dude scoops out your sperm and replaces it with his own, thus ensuring that your genes go on to the next generation.

Some species of male insect give a protein pack to their lovely ladies to munch on. I see spermatophylax (the protein pack) is similar to me hanging a piece of chocolate from my neck when I go to a party-to attract the downtown fashionista species of Sacramento ladies. While the pretty lady insect is munching on the protein pack, the bro insect is, err...ya know.

If I said it a million times, I've said it....anyways. I'm a-gonna save up for this book. If it is anything like Sex Advice, then it will be well worth it.

Asweoemenss.

* NPR article Sex on six legs.

* Dr Tatiana (helllloooo) Sex Advice. Check it out, ya know you want to.

File Under Progress: Secular

I'm not a scholar, I'm just a  run of the mill badass nor-cal dude that can rock till the break of dawn, that happens to be and atheist and skeptic. I doubt that anyone will learn anything here like at some of the philosophical big hitter atheist blogs, all I can do is share my humanity and my belief and desire that if we can make the public square secular, then world peace can happen. Well, ladies and grems, it looks like were are moving in the correct direction.

Earlier this year the man, AC "The Silver Fox" Grayling published the atheist bible, The Good Book. I haven't seen it, but I sure want it. If you missed AC and Dawkins killin' the theist team on Intense Debate II check out team brainiac win one for the good guys. Oh yea, and get that book.

Pitzer college is now offering a degree in secularism. This is made of awesome. At two colleges here in Sac-Town there is an atheist 101 course, but as far as I know, they do not offer an entire degree. Hopefully soon this kind of enlightenment will spread, remember we are up against entire Christian colleges and entire radio and TV stations. Good luck Pitzer.

Finally a new journal is coming out and the topic...secularism. It will be called Secularism and Nonrelligion.

“Articles will explore the ideology and philosophy of the secular, secularism, nonreligion and atheism,” the release continued.

Can't beat that. Have a great weekend kiddies.

* Journal link

* Atheist bible.

* Secular degree