Feeling: Okay

Finally beat The Binding of Isaac last night after getting really lucky with treasure rooms.

Rather than let our citizens vote, Michigan Republicans passed a new law making it harder for women to make choices about their pregnancy. Their web site explains the law, but of course, it's not very truthful.

Just as New Mexico legalizes same-sex marriage, Uganda, backed by Christians, increases the punishment for being gay.

Since Florida's state capitol wants to keep their nativity scene, and since they don't want a lawsuit for favoring a particular religion, they've had to accept other religious decorations as well, like a Flying Spaghetti Monster and a Festivus pole of beer cans. However, they have decided to exclude one religion in particular, Satanism. Oklahoma has taken a different approach, and has decided to not allow any further monuments, now that then ten commandments monument is safely in position. I look forward to their future lawsuit losses.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Grand Valley lecture in five parts.

Betty Bowers talks about America's biggest freeloader.

Are cats really attached to their owners?

How climate change works in one minute.

Women in the media of 2013.

Dark Matter 2525 teaches us how to create a universe.

Feeling: Okay

Oh Bill Donahue, when will you learn? Archbishop John Nienstedt is just another in a long line of Catholics accused of sexually abusing children. Naturally, the parents of the child want to remain anonymous in order to protect their child from a media storm, but that's not good enough for Mr. Donahue and the Catholic League. They're trying to uncover the identity of the little boy in order to publicly shame him for having the audacity of being molesed by Nienstedt! The local police chief also explained that the Minneapolis diocese is being uncooperative with the investigation. Big shock!

Thanks to the NSA spying on Brazil, the country's air force decided to ignore Boeing and go with Saab for a defense contract, preventing Boeing from winning a $4.5 billion contract. I hope they sue the NSA.

Men's Rights activists are generally awful people. Case in point, they recently flooded a college's anonymous rape website with a bunch of innocent student's names in an attempt to shut down the service.

Rebecca Watson discusses the top 5 misconceptions of Carl Sagan and, like me, is glad that Sylvia Browne is dead.

Jean Luke Picard sing Let It Snow.

Feeling: Okay

We've seen some amazing scientific discoveries in the past year.

China's lunar rover has landed and is sending back beautiful pictures of the moon. Even Iran is making successful space flights! The US is rapidly losing its place in the space market.

Another panel of physicians are in agreement, taking vitamin supplements doesn't help you, and it probably hurts you.

In an effort to distance itself from allegations of bribery, GlaxoSmithKline is trying to be less evil.

Despite Republicans claiming that Welfare Queens are bleeding us dry, it turns out that they are barely scraping by with their frugal lifestyles.

Religion and superstition is losing on all fronts and people are less trusting of clergy.

Florida is learning just how silly it is to allow religious displays in the Capitol. There is now a display for the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and banner for atheism, and a Festivus Pole of beer cans.

A satirical online "news" site makes up a story about an atheist teacher at a fake school suspending a student for wishing him a merry Christmas, and the religious right starts bombarding a real school with cries to have the fake teacher fired.

Republican Andrew Lanza is so outraged at an atheist billboard that he says the billboard is like the first steps toward the Holocaust!

Feeling: Blah

Still sick. The dry air of Las Vegas and the smoke of the casinos didn't help one bit. Seeing a doctor in two days. While in Vegas, I stayed on the 13th floor of the Fremont, and on Friday the 13th, I hiked through Death Valley. I don't know it yet, but I'm dead from terrible hexes.

Asked a Chinese exchange student if she was impressed by American Chinese food, and she pointed out that Panda Express most certainly does not have proper Chinese food. I agreed, and said that their meat wasn't even made from real panda. She freaked out! We may not get their food right, but they don't get our sarcasm right!

Awesome science comic!

Progress! A federal judge has ruled that the NSA is most likely violating the US Constitution by spying on citizens!

Measles, which nearly eliminated in the US, is fast becoming a major problem as another 175 cases have shown up in the states thanks to the antivaxers. Although the year isn't over yet, it probably won't break the record of 222 from 2011, the highest it's been since the 1960s!

Pakistani Muslims execute other Pakistani Muslims because they read from the Koran, and they're not the correct kind of Pakistani Muslims.

William Lane Craig tries his tired old arguments on Fox News, and PZ Myers makes short work of them.

Here's a great reason to be ashamed of my state, women now have to purchase abortion insurance.

What's the most important political topic in Texas? Is it addressing climate change causing the extremely expensive drought? Is it dealing with the Mexican drug cartels? No, it's education reform! Hey, that sounds like a good idea... NOPE! Texas wants to make dame sure that every student knows that Jesus rode dinosaurs!

Fox News's Megyn Kelly points out that Jesus (who even if he did exist was born of Middle Eastern parents) was certainly white. She's also very upset that people are depicting Santa as a non-white man (pro tip: Santa isn't real). She also Jon Stewart asks, "Who are you talking to? Children who are sophisticated enough to be watching a news channel at 10 o'clock at night, yet innocent enough to still believe Santa Claus is real, yet racist enough to be freaked out if he isn't white?"

Russian actor and Orthodox Christian priest Ivan Okhlobystin wants all gays to be burned alive. What a nice chap from a nice country. He's even better than Republican Loren Sandford who thinks school shootings are the result of people not loving God enough.

Jesus Huerta was arrested, frisked, locked in the back of a police car, and handcuffed behind his back, so the the police in Duram, North Carolina are having a heck of a time trying to explain how he was able to shoot himself in the head! Police Chief Jose Lopez assures the press that this sort of thing is rare, but possible, and a medical examiner agrees with the assessment!

Australia had a chance to legalize same-sex marriage, and hey blew it.

The longest running state-church case in American legal history is nearing its end, with the secularists on top. A cross on public land must come down.

Christian Preacher Simon Tatton-Brown told a classroom full of children that Santa isn't real, and that he's based on a story of a butcher murdering children and selling their bodies as meat! Actually, not too different from the bible's depiction of God and Jesus.

Feeling: Okay

India's supreme court has overturned the lower court ruling, and now homosexual acts are illegal once again in the country. Kind of an embarrassment on the global stage.

Oh look, the NSA is using another method for spying on US citizens, cookie tracking.

Woah! Mormons officially state that their racist rules boycotting blacks were indeed due to racism, and that the revelations from their god that prevented blacks and reinstated them were not divinely inspired after all! Kudos to them for admitting their mistakes! Now if only they could say the same about same-sex marriage!

Cats kidnap baby Jesus!

JT Eberhard explains why the arguments for gods fail.

After a recent census, the religious majority in New Zealand is No Religion.

Richard Carrier asks and answers the question, "Is philosophy stupid?"

Every time a Libertarian tells me we need to eliminate mandatory screening of drugs and treatments, I'm reminded of people like James Arthur Ray.

Oklahoma decided that they were going to keep their Ten Commandments memorial on state land, but in order to get around that pesky First Amendment, they used the weasel tactic of "it was donated." Since it wasn't paid for with tax payer dollars, it remains. In an obvious case of foot-shooting, a Satanic Temple immediately requested to donate a monument to be displayed at the Capitol, and now a Hindu group wants to donate their monument. I'm looking forward to the upcoming atheist monument, the Muslim monument, the Scientology monument, and of course, the Raëlism monument.

Leaving for Las Vegas tomorrow morning! I'll be back Monday, unless I die while hiking Death Valley. It's safe to hike unmarked trails in Death Valley, right?

Feeling: Blah

While driving out of my apartment parking lot, a car began backing out of its parking spot oblivious to my approach. I swerved considerably to avoid it, but the driver continued to back up and I heard that tell tale crunch of body damage! I was a little pissed at this person's inability to use their mirrors, or even turn their head slightly, but I composed myself, got out, and asked the driver if he was okay. The driver, an older man, was fine, it was a very mild fender bender after all. But rather than reciprocate the concern, the old man asked if I was backing out as well, I presume hoping to absolve his fault. I told him no, that I was just driving straight. He glanced at my car and said that he didn't see any damage, which made me get my hopes up, but, no, there was a small dent on both sides of the wheel well and the wheel rim where his bumper tagged me. I pointed it out, and he acknowledged it with a nod. Quickly turning to his own car, he pointed out that he had some damage too, but since he hit the side of my car with his bumper, it was only scuffed paint and rubber from my tire. He mentioned something about his keys falling between the seats for the reason he wasn't paying attention, and then asked if we could do "this" later since he was late for a appointment. I said, sure, let me just get your info, and went to get a pen, but before I could even open my car door, he explained that he lived right, rattled off his apartment number, and got back into his car--he didn't seem too eager to remain at the scene! I wasn't about to get into a fist fight over some minor dents, so I asked for his phone number at least. He reluctantly gave it to me, said his name was Gene, and drove off without so much as an apology. What a fun afternoon.

The NSA has been buddying up to Canada because we share a lot of air space, so Canada can help the US spy on its citizens.

What it's like to be a woman reporting sexual assault.

It's best not to take mathematics lessons from a mathematician who uses math to prove the bible.

A little past due, but here are 25 little known facts about Thanksgiving.

The Friendly Atheist explains why people prefer magic over evolution and why so few women have positions of power in the church.

Sarah Silverman is such a diva.

A nice visualization of gravity, orbiting, and dark matter.

Julia Galef talks about being too rational is just a straw Vulcan.

Taking a vacation from The Blasphemer's Bible for awhile.

Feeling: Happy

The pope has decided to put a ring of child rapists in charge of stopping child rape among child rapists. Speaking of which, when you're creating a legal defense to protect those who run a child rape ring, it's probably best not to have in your opening statement a quote from the bible which reads, Let the little children come to me.

Here are 100,000,000 reasons to like vaccinations.

The Friendly Atheist talks about proof of Heaven and atheists who are pro life.

Luxembourg's prime minister wants to replace religious classes with ethics classes!

Republican Louie Gohmert suggests atheists promote Christianity because, nations that honor God never fail. Just look at the success of Nazi Germany!

Rebecca Watson talks about using humor as a tool for social change.

More boring verses in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Some awesome photos of the Earth from space.

Republicans finally realize that they need sensitivity training when it comes to talking about women. Of course, they won't actually become more sensitive, they'll just learn to disguise their insensitive thoughts better. Essentially, they're going to lying practice.

Pseudo Historian David Barton continues to lie. This time he's claiming that Obama doesn't include God in the Thanksgiving proclamations. And while I would love for that to be true, the reality is, Obama has included references to God in the past four Thanksgiving proclamations.

Time Magazine, in their section called "Science and Space," explains that you can't be faced with something as awe inspiring as the Grand Canyon and remain an atheist.

Christian churches in Africa are taking a cue from the churches in America by telling people with life-threatening illnesses to throw away their medicine and pray for a cure.

Just in case you needed a reason to hate Dick Santorum even more, he is using the death of Nelson Mandela, and his fight to end racial segregation to the Republican fight against the Affordable Care Act.

God murders countless Israelites for eating the meat he gave them in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Excited

Republicans are trying to penalize people who put solar panels on their houses.

Since the state of Oklahoma has set a precedence for allowing donated religious monuments to be placed on state land, a Satanic temple is now wanting the state to display their monument. While I'm sure the state will deny them approval, rest assured that a lawsuit will come out of this, which is always a win for non-Christians.

Google won their ridiculous case against Oracle, who wanted $6 billion because Google used 9 lines of code from Oracle to do something as trivial as array checking. For those of you not computer language savvy, it would be like Burger King suing McDonald's for $6 billion in damages because they copied their bathroom hand-washing poster. Thanks to a computer-competent judge, Goggle won, but now Microsoft, EMC, and Netapp are backing Oracle for an appeal.

A wonderfully illustrated version of Sam Harris' Morality and the Christian God speech.

The NSA is currently tracking your cell phone meta data, which means they know everywhere you've been in the past couple years, and everyone you've spoken to, and the the criminal record of everyone you've spoken to, even if you do not.

The evidence for the HPV vaccine is wonderfully positive, but ignorance continues to find its way into the media.

Vsauce explains why bad words are bad.

A new Muslim Fatwa: The Arabic word for "sea" is masculine, and when women swim, their genitals are touched by the sea, therefore, women who swim are sluts and should be punished.

Senator Mark Pryor, a Democrat from Arkansas, thinks he should be re-elected, not because he's qualified or plans to work hard or wants to help the country, but because he adores the bible.

I'm so envious of this questioning teen. I wish I had such a handle on religion at his age!

Joshua is accused of envy for no reason in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management tried to shut up scientist Charles Monnett for pointing out numerous drowned polar bears due to global warming, but it only led to more exposure and a big settlement. Makes you wonder why they wanted him to keep quiet. Big oil, anyone?

What's your citizenship score? I got a 47!

Emily Graslie talks about women in science and what they have to deal with.

Short-sighted government officials want to sell the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts to help pay the city's debt. They don't realize that a one-time cash influx will not solve the city's long-term problems, and in fact, crippling an important part of the city's tourism would only hurt it!

Computerphile explains how to avoid cross-site request forgery.

Alabama Republican wants to eliminate over-time pay in her state so that to incentive of overtime is taken away from the workers and given to the employers!

Three black high school students were standing on the side of the road in Rochester, New York on Wednesday, November 27th. A police officer saw them and demanded that they disperse because they were blocking foot traffic on the sidewalk. The boys insisted that they were waiting for a bus to take them to their school's basketball game, but the police officer refused to believe them. An argument ensued and the officer arrested all three. But even after their coach and parents spoke on the teens' behalf and assured the police that they were indeed waiting for a bus, the police refused to let them go. Obviously, they missed their game, and they were even going to miss their family's Thanksgiving holiday, but their parents paid $200 in bail to get them out. And now the million dollar question, would the cop have responded in such a manner if the teen boys were white?

Richard Carrier explains why he believes Jesus was a myth.

Fox News gets it wrong again.

I think schadenfreude is intrinsically good when directed at Rick Santorum.

The bible can't get its story straight in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Pretty much healthy again! That only took a month! :-(

Catholics love treating women like shit.

Why substance dualism doesn't mesh with reality: part 1, part 2.

The wonderful things we can attribute to religion last month.

Honest Trailers covers Home Alone, and an atheist covers Heaven Is Real.

God intends to feed the Israelites meat until it comes out their noses in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Okay

Normally, if your baby is injured in a car crash, you take them to the hospital, but not if you're Christian! Then, you take them to church!

Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, and Massimo Pigliucci discuss the limits of science.

Dave Ramsey is a financial adviser who suggests donating money to churches will help you get rich, but also offers a list of things rich people do that poor people don't, like eat right, exercise, and read more books. Several commentators point out that rich people have more money to eat better food and hire personal trainers, and more free time to read more. Much like tithing, did that make them rich, or are they able to do these things because they're rich?

Christmas is coming early. First the grief-leech Sylvia Browne died, and now, multi-millionaire television Evangelical Paul Crouch has croaked. These are just terrible people, and I hope this is the beginning of a trend!

The Friendly Atheist discusses an atheist-only nation, and how to deal with atheism on Thanksgiving.

SciShow talks about PAIN!

God prepares to violate the free will of 70 people in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Blah

Can I be done with being sick now?

Remember when the US was a nation of pioneers? Now China is heading to the moon, and we're cutting NASA's budget.

Barney gets eviscerated.

The U.K. makes it clear to their citizens that they can't discriminate against people based on their sexual preference.

Republican Rick Saccone is trying to make a law to force Pennsylvannian public schools to display the message "In God We Trust" to all their students. The money being spent on forcing his religion down the throat of students could be used on text books or better equipment, but that's a Republican for you. Saccone even had a chat with an honors-level politics class and the local news reported that the students were in favor of the bill. Except that a lot of the students have been saying just the opposite! That the majority of them disagree with the bill and that Saccone wouldn't give straight-forward answers any of their important questions. This becoming big as a Pennsylvania transit company loses a lawsuit due to discriminating against a secular group.

SciShow discusses burning metal and being scared to death.

Moses is a crybaby in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Blah

Throat's acting up again. Might need to see one of those evil doctors with their unnatural medicine that actually cures people!

Pastors in South Carolina are very disappointed that their churches will no longer get preferential treatment, as the law that bars can't open within 500 feet of churches is set to be eliminated.

Republican Frank Lucas' Wikipedia page was been scrubbed of his statements regarding his disbelief of evolution or climate change, and after tracing the IP address of the person who made the change, it turns out it was someone at the House of Representatives, probably one of his underlings!

It wasn't enough that the Supreme Court said that corporations are people, now they might say that they can have religious beliefs as well!

Pope Francis may be trying to woo the less-religious by being more tolerant toward homosexuals and atheists, but is it bringing more people into the church? According to the Pew Research Center... No.

The administrators of Northwest Rankin High School in Mississippi forced their students to attend a Christian sermon which naturally led to complaints. Without a letter of how they won't let this happen again, or even an apology, a lawsuit was filed against the school board. With the long history of precedence against schools forcing religion on students, the school lost and must now pay $15,000 in legal fees. But since they're a school, they're not paying with their own money, they're paying with the local taxpayer's money. Hopefully, the voters in Rankin will remember that during the next voting cycle. Hopefully, a similar outcome will occur at Fayette High School in Missouri where a teacher has been telling students they'll be punished by God, and using the school's facilities to have prayer meetings on campus, but to Fox News, she's a martyr.

God burns people alive for complaining in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Celebrities read their mean tweets. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Neutrinos, subatomic neutrally-charged particles that rarely interact with normal matter, have finally been captured by using a cubic kilometer of ice! This is after 40 years of trying.

I Love Last Gen is a pretty cool videogame show.

Betty Bowers gives the perfect Thanksgiving Prayer.

A song about how videogames make children psychopaths.

Theramin Trees discusses the science of the gaps.

God likes incantations in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Are you taking vitamins to try and stay healthy? Not only will they probably not do any good, but there's a good chance they may be slowly killing you.

Why you'll never see a female sushi chef, and other ridiculous bigotry.

Australian courts aren't letting the Australian Vaccination Network off the hook. Despite the organization's positive sounding name, they're actually severely antivax, and the government wasn't about to let their fraud go challenged.

Want to get a custom license plate featuring your religion? No problem. Want to get one featuring your lack of religion? Sorry, that's objectionable.

Feminist Frequency takes a few more (justifiable) digs into the videogame industry.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has won a major court battle. No longer will just churches be allowed to offer tax exempt housing to their parishioners (assuming all the appeals fail).

This YouTube channel is hilarious. Actors reading Christian posts with all the melodrama you've come to expect from them.

Many people in Sioux Falls have received death threats after Fox News reported that the school board had eliminated the Pledge of Allegiance from all meetings. The reality, it seems, is that the school board actually made the Pledge mandatory for all school meetings! It seems a local news agency had flubbed a headline, and Fox didn't bother to ask a single person on the school board to confirm the ruling.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers some impressive questions from a little boy.

Moses needs a non-godly guide in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

The sun is all set to flip its magnetic polarity sometime this week, but there's no cause for alarm.

Time-lapses from space are fascinating. You can watch city grow up and an environment be annihilated.

As many of you already know, the horrific excuse for a human being, Sylvia Browne, is now dead. She predicted she would die at 88, but years of chain smoking cut that short. Browne made a career out of pretending to hear messages from dead people (who later turned out to be alive), and had just set up a book tour before kicking the bucket. Just another failed prediction in a long line of failed predictions. Gosh, you'd think at least one of those alive dead people would have warned her.

Gotta love Lindsey Stirling.

Catholics know the best way to help typhoon victims, free rosaries and bibles!

The videogame love song.

Christian movies are so bad even Christians don't watch them. Case in point, God's NOT Dead! Kevin Sorbo (There's an A-list celebrity for you) plays a caricature atheist who gets knocked down a few pegs by a faith-believing young student with everything to prove!

God bless the GIF.

How to fake a before and after photo.

The Israelite slaves are suddenly military men in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

The website of the Affordable Care Act may be junk, but it is working in a few states, and the ones who use it are quite pleased with it and Planned Parenthood gives some helpful advice about it.

The governmental Church of England is finally bowing to the political climate and allowing female bishops. Will this prevent them from their extinction expected by the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Oklahoma's Republican governor, Mary Fallin, wanted to prevent same-sex couples from receiving military benefits. However, she changed her mind when the Pentagon reminded her that, even if her bigoted state doesn't recognize same-sex couples, the US military does, and she's not allowed to discriminate against them. Of course, like any good Christian, she changed her mind in the wrong direction. Fallin decided that, if she can't discriminate against same-sex couples, she would rather cancel all military benefits to everyone!

Two more victories for separation between church and state. The Pierce County Council will not be spending $7,000 of tax-payer's money on "non-religious" Evangelizing to children and the teacher who gave extra credit to students who watched Christian movies and burned a cross into the arm of one of his students has lost his appeal on his dismissal.

Eugenie Scott explains who Creationism is still crazy after all these years.

Magic trumpets don't actually keep you safe in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the firing of John Freshwater who refused to remove Creationist religious materials from his classroom in a public school, which is great, but the court said they were upholding his firing, not based on his teaching religion as science, but because he was insubordinate. What might have been.

That Muslim president of ours omitted "under God" from the Gettysburg Address, is the cry of many dishonest Conservatives! Of course, the original Gettysburg Address, much like the original Pledge of Allegiance, did not contain the phrase "under God," and Obama is a Christian who attends a Christian church regularly, and has encouraged several pro-Christian policies to be made. And even if he were a Muslim, Muslims believe in God too!

The Friendly Atheist is asked, do you feel sorry for religious people?

God loves the vuvuzela in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Bill Watterson gives an interview to Mental Floss of all people!

Sent to prison for being an atheist? Is this Iran? Saudi Arabia? No, right here in the USA, a man was convicted of violating his parole because he wouldn't acknowledge the existence of a god!

Boston police officers will now have constant monitoring of their squad cars through GPS, and they're not too happy about it. Can't say I blame them, this is the equivalent of having someone looking over your shoulder all day.

To the parents who won't vaccinate their children from chicken pox, and instead purposely infect them, you may be causing your child to have a stroke, encephalitis, or death!

Real doctors talk about quack medicine including fake cancer treatments.

The long-term evolutionary study of E. coli shows that, even when you eliminate nearly every selective pressure in the wild, life still evolves.

Speaking of evolution, what is it like to debate a creationist?

Trumpets solve all problems in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

One step closer to quantum computers at room temperature!

The Supreme Court refuses to rule on the NSA spying on US citizens via phone metadata, and refuses to explain why. They suck.

Same-sex marriage is now legal in Vietnam. VIETNAM PEOPLE! What the hell is wrong with the USA? Or worse, Israel.

Catholic hospital Mercy Regional in Colorado has trying to censor its doctors from even mentioning abortion to patients, even if their lives are in danger due to pregnancy complications. A practice which is quite illegal, and the hospital knows it.

Want to spend a lot of money on a really strange college class? Mental Floss has a list.

Christians claim that 100,000 of their ranks are killed as martyrs each year worldwide, but in reality, most Christians are killed by other Christians!

Alfred Russell Wallace is also an awesome evolutionist.

Using $7,000 of tax-payer money on childhood Christian Evangelism doesn't count as a religious expense to Jim McCune of the Pierce County City Council of Washington.

The Friendly Atheist talks about people who trust faith over evidence.

Nothing's changed since Exodus in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Okay

Really cool animal species you may not have seen.

Illinois is just about the sign into law their marriage equality bill, and Bishop Thomas Paprocki is preparing a governmental exorcism to rid the state of the demons of same-sex marriage. Good luck with that.

Fraud historian David Barton explains how teachers can sneak the bible into the classroom without getting fired.

The Christian response to children who come out as being gay... surely they must have been molested!

It's amazing, when you point out that a school is violating their student's constitutional rights and threaten a lawsuit, they actually stop violating their student's constitutional rights!

The Friendly Atheist answers the question, can atheists believe in ghosts, and explains why mission trips don't help.

Vsauce explains what the Earth looks like.

A lecture about the future of programming based on the forgotten programming languages of the 1970s.

Even these religious leaders understand that global climate change is an important issue that must be dealt with.

A talk about the sexual shame that comes from religion.

Morticians can't celebrate Passover in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Okay

Throat is almost healed from an opportunistic fungal infection I got after the cold cleared up. Ugh! I'm such a mess these past weeks!

Another reason we still need feminism. And if police failing to do anything about Joseph Levall Parker and Beraiah Hales admitting to rape doesn't bother you, how about attorney Keith Jefferies who argued that if a woman didn't want to be raped, she should have closed her legs. Or what about Justin Lookadoo who says that date-able girls are the ones who shut-up and aren't independent.

Ovella Andreas knows how to solve the problem of murder in Detroit. She's gathering as much money from her church friends as possible to buy a whole bunch of advertising space to broadcast the message, " Thou shalt not kill!" If that doesn't solve the city's crime problem, I don't know what will!

And now the UK is surpassing our space program.

Christian doctor (there's an oxymoron for you!) Jereth Kok admits to violating Australian law by trying to convince his patients not to get an abortion, even when they may die from the pregnancy. When someone pointed out that by not sending a woman to a doctor who can safely perform her abortion, she may end up trying to get a back-alley abortion, and Kok said, "That’s exactly what she deserved for trying to kill her own child."

Christians and kid's toys.

How easy is it to pick someone's pocket?

The Friendly Atheists comments on people who claim to hate religion but love Jesus and people who claim bad Christians don't invalidate Christianity, but bad atheists invalidate atheism.

God's favorite get early retirement in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Okay

Despite Facebook claiming that it took no part in the NSA's massive and illegal spying campaign, they actually patented software that streamlines handing over your personal information to law enforcement agencies.

Child rape seems pretty rampant among Jewish communities as well.

What it's like when adults get whooping cough, thanks to the antivaxers.

A wonderful poetry reading of childhood nostalgia.

NonStampCollector comments on Internet drama about Atheism+.

An interesting animation that explains the difficulties of a microorganism moving through water.

The Friendly Atheist talks about questions that atheists struggle with and how standing up (or sitting down) for what is right can cost you.

Top 10 signs you don't understand evolution.

A collection of really smart people talk about gods.

God's favorite get early retirement in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Okay

In an effort to make people hate them even more, the recording industry has issued cease and desist orders to the Internet's top 50 lyrics web sites.

Russia returns to Cold War Era handling of dissenters.

Texas Christians suggest kidnapping women in order to prevent them from having abortions.

Nermin Spahic, a Muslim Imam in Iowa is very disappointed that his religious rights are being violated! All he was doing was sexually assaulting rubbing women with oil to heal their demons.

Israelites are the property of God in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Okay

The Catholic Diocese of Illinois has issued an ultimatum to the YMCA. If the young men's club wants to continue receiving $60,000 a year from the church, they must sever all ties with groups that want to treat homosexuals like human beings. The YMCA has bravely told the Catholics to piss off, but they are really hoping that other caring people will pick up the slack. The Catholics, of course, may do what they want with their money, but this isn't exactly helping the public image of a cartel of child rapists. Case in point, Father Ireneusz Bochynski of Poland recently went on the record saying he knows of 10-year-old children who "went to bed with adults, wanting to be fulfilled, and it was the choice of the child."

Church officials at Salem Baptist Church in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania tried to weasel their way out of paying for a a new church building, and they even convinced two corrupt county officials, Oscar Vance and Garrett Page, to help them abuse the judicial system and have the builder they scammed arrested. Thankfully, a higher judge saw what was going on. I hope there will be an inquiry.

Bohemian Rhapsody on the ukelele.

When a new soldier swears their oath to defend the nation, Republican Sam Johnson wants to make sure that all of them, be they Hindu, Buddhist, or atheist, must say, "so help me God."

Kids React to same-sex marriage.

CFI explains why millions of people are happy without religion.

Sins are not all the same to God in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Blah

Looking forward to the day when I don't wake up with bloody boogers and a raw throat.

Microscopes just makes things look terrifying.

Republicans are trying to drastically alter how science is conducted in this country. Rather than allow scientists free-reign to answer the ultimate questions of the universe, they want scientists to only work on projects that can be shown to directly help the country. The problem with this approach, of course, is that scientific discoveries rarely have any obvious positive impact. Einstein wasn't looking for a way to make more accurate GPS systems, he just wanted to understand the strangeness of speed of light. Orsted wasn't trying to make an electric motor, he was just trying to understand magnets and electricity. The most impressive scientific discoveries that have had the most impact on us have always been about understanding, not trying to make one country better than another.

Wendy Davis, the politician who did an 11-hour filibuster to protect abortion rights, pisses off Conservatives when she calls herself pro-life because she cares about living things.

Anne Daigle-McDonald assaulted a fourth grader who wouldn't stand for the pledge of allegiance.

Moms get misty-eyed when they hear what their kids think of them.

Shit's going down at Vinelife Church in Colorado where pastor Jason Allen Robertson has been arrested for coercing a 15-year-old girl into having a 7-year sexual relationship with him. But the rest of the church elders aren't off the hook either, as they helped keep his case of statutory rape hidden from authorities.

Know your movie franchise lexicon.

The Friendly Atheist wonders if religion is a product of evolution.

The wonderful things that religion has contributed to the world recently.

The numbers of Numbers are pretty unbelievable in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Blah

Pastor is still too stupid to know that the first amendment's anti-government religion clause has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to extend to the states. And David Silverman mocks Bill Donohue.

Disney princesses, with beards.

The US Supreme Court is ruling on the Constitutionality of prayers at governmental council meetings.

Bus driver who wouldn't stop praying for the students on his bus can't understand why he was fired.

It turns out that ghosts can play Portal.

The Friendly Atheist covers some of the more gruesome bible stories.

Star Wars bloopers.

In order to get back at those evil atheists who are demanding that a public school follow the law and remove a ten commandments monument from their property, this Christian group is spending their money to make even more ten commandment monuments to be placed on privately owned church grounds. They don't seem to realize that atheists don't care if they want to put stuff up on their own property.

Mental Floss explains the origins of several superstitions.

True facts about the owl and the sea pig.

Time is an illusion in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Blah

A kid reacts to Darth Vader's reveal in Empire.

A really good 3-part video series about why this person doesn't believe in God. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

The Christian couple who starved and abused their daughter until she died will thankfully be sent to prison for a very long time.

True Facts about the frog and the mantis shrimp.

A Christian runner refuses to run in a race because she was given the number 666. She said she didn't want to risk her relationship with God by wearing such a number. I'm sure the opposing team's players are all saying, "God bless superstitious people!"

More Super Mario Did You Know.

The Levites get more treasure in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Blah

Quick update to the High Resolution Flag Database. I'm almost ready to put my professional package up for sale.

You remember the 2008 financial crisis when Wall Street bankrupted the nation due to lending to people who couldn't possibly pay? Well, after having the American tax-payers foot a several billion dollar bill, the government allowed the banks to create new restrictions for themselves (always a great idea), and the minor change that they made was to say that tax-payers will no longer be held responsible for financial companies who default on derivatives. Not exactly reform, but it was a step in the right direction. Well, our good buddies the Republicans just eliminated that restriction, and we're back to where we were in 2008!

By the today is a voting day, go out and make a difference. If you live in Michigan, go here for info.

Here's a story about some New Mexico cops who just don't know when to stop... checking a man's butt. After performing several anal exams on David Eckert, including multiple x-rays, multiple digital examinations, multiple enemas, and a colonoscopy, New Mexican police officers then tried to get David Eckert to pay for all of the medical exams! Naturally, there is a lawsuit.

India now has a better space program than the USA.

What's that? Christian organizations that create a boycott list for Christmas are not to be trusted? They hate EB Games because they only had 14 references to Christmas, but they're okay with Chick-fil-A who asked its customers to spread cheer during the "holiday" season.

This Virginia mother, just can't understand why people are so upset that she dressed her 7-year-old son up as a member of the KKK for Halloween. Coincidentally, the mother's name is Jessica Black.

George M. Allred, mayor of Colorado City, Arizona, has written several letters to convicted child rapist and cult leader, Warren Jeffs, asking him for advice on who he should hire into governmental positions.

How to deal with the philosophical arguments made by cherry-picking Christian apologists like William Lane Craig.

SciShow discusses the new evidence about the evolution of humans and how we starve.

The Friendly Atheist discusses deism.

The second episode of Stephen Fry's series on homophobia, Out There.

Kohath gets screwed in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Sick

I took Friday off due to a cold, and I'm mostly back to normal now. Pseudoephedrine is my hero. I also added two new games to my list of beaten games, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two.

Who wants to change American history to remove slavery as a primary cause for the civil war? Southern white Conservative Christian men, that's who.

A Saudi Arabian sheikh has issued a fatwa against anyone traveling to Mars, as if they're anti-science culture could even get them to low-Earth orbit. What do you expect from a country that makes it a crime for women to drive. Come on ladies, haven't you seen this video?

Zach Kopplin talks about his activism in stopping Creationism bills.

15 sorting algorithms with visual and audio representation.

Why you should always sanitize your inputs!

If Pacific Rim had an honest trailer.

Lee Lemon asks, is child rape okay in Islam? Strangely, the answer seems to be, yes.

True facts about the cuttlefish.

More free stuff for the Levites in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Nothing's better than starting to get sick before the weekend. Ugh. I hope it's just a cold. I shouldn't have waited so long to get my flu shot.

There is a church in Dixion, IL that is shaped like a, well, dick. They have since censored their aerial photo with a fig leaf.

Mario is actually an sociopath, parts 1 and 2.

Christians don't like science no matter which country you live in.

A rather interesting lecture of our preconceived notions about a person's identity.

Mental Floss shows us how to cook the perfect steak.

Why Islam is perfectly content allowing rape.

Seth Andrews' interview of Richard Dawkins.

Making designer people in Photo-shop.

What did religion give us last month?

It's even a sin to be holy in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Every time I think we don't need all these laws and rules, I start to remember that 70% of Americans still believe there is a devil running around in the shadows making us do evil, 38% of American think they have performed a task that God specifically told them to do. There are also thousands that listen to this guy

The Sultan of Brunei has announced that his kingdom will now follow Sharia law in stoning adulterers, chopping off limbs for theft, and public beatings for drinking alcohol, but everything is cool, because these laws only applies to Muslims.

Aron Ra's awesome lecture about reconsidering norms.

Richard Dawkins's talk with Peter Boghossian and the follow up Q&A.

Sanal Edamaruku and his battle with Indian gurus.

A straight man finds out what it's like to lose friends over homosexuality.

Vsauce talks about our narrow slice of time in the world.

You've seen it before, but it's always fun to watch paint on a speaker in slow motion.

The turtle/turtledove conspiracy in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Despite Texas trying to rid itself of abortion, a federal judge has ruled much of their new laws unconstitutional. They are still banning all abortions after 20 weeks, but a lot of their other more insane restrictions have been blocked.

Obama might be calling for a review of the NSA's spying on foreign heads of allied states? Heaven forbid!

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently told us that climate changes is definitely real, definitely getting worse, and more likely than not, our fault. The Heartland Institute, the same Libertarian think tank that told everyone second hand smoke isn't bad for you, has created a panel with a very similar name, and has mass-mailed some teaching instructions to teachers all over the country. Of course, those instructions include teaching students that global climate change is not our fault, and probably doesn't exist anyway.

Minecraft themed music video! I would love if someday someone loved a project of mine enough to make a music video about it.

Pennsylvania is now one step closer to putting "In God We Trust" in every public school classroom in the state. That's for more important than giving them better textbooks.

At what point is a corporation responsible for its neglegence, and when is a person just sue-happy?

The Friendly Atheist talks about Christian treating men as superiors and if he cares if other people are religious.

Gambit also gets the axe from the X-Men.

The Nazirite vow isn't very different from everyone else in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Kevin Trudeau, the conman behind the "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About," is back in jail. After defrauding countless people with his scam products and services, and fleeing the country, Trudeau is being held until he can cough up several million in fines. Hopefully he will stay there for a long time.

Mental Floss shows us lots of really strange animals and facts about candy.

Muslim cultures have a lot to answer for, like why did this man burn his 15-year-old daughter to death? For talking to her fiance over the phone. Why were these two 20-somethings beheaded by an angry mob? For making love.

Sorry Wolverine, you're just not very helpful to the X-Men.

Naming your son "Messiah" is becoming more popular, despite a Tennessee judge trying to ban the name. And that judge is now under investigation.

The US Air Force no longer requires atheists to swear to a God they don't believe in, and those Fox people are sooo pissed!

Is it possible to survive the sun's death?

Yet another study shows that the more religious someone is, the more likely they are to lie for financial gains.

The Friendly Atheists explains why it's okay to criticize religion without being a theologian and why the existence of Jesus doesn't matter.

A new public service announcement: don't not have sex.

Vow of the Nazirite in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Robert Louis Rosseau, one of the teachers at the Christian Academy of San Antonio, was arrested after he was shown to be trying to get under-aged girls to be parts of his his sex cult where he would sexually assault them while reading from the bible.

What if all of Tom Hanks' movies were a single story?

C0nc0rdance discusses his evidence for the extremely high amount of rape among college women.

Stephen Fry's first episode of his documentary "Out There" is quite insightful.

The Friendly Atheist asks, how religious can atheists be?

God causes abortions in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

An old white Texas judge finds out what it's like to be accused of voter fraud.

Thanks to Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer claim that a woman who was abused by her husband is a pre-existing condition.

The Vatican has suspended one of its bishops. I know what you're thinking, just a suspension? For raping a child? No no no, you should know by now that the Vatican doesn't punish child-rapists. No, instead, they're suspending him because his home renovations, suddenly jumped to 43 million dollars, which was way above the mere 7.8 million dollars it was expected to cost. Pro Tip: If your house costs more than a private island, you're not taking the vow of poverty very seriously.

Christian preacher caught lying on camera, and his followers are shocked. Why? As a preacher, lying is his job.

Some atheists attempted to volunteer at the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen in South Carolina, only to be kicked out because, according to the Christian organizers, they had the devil with them.

Magic potions reveal infidelity in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Sean Hannity claimed that Consumer Reports told people to stay away from the Affordable Care Act web site, and then Consumer Reports told people to stop listening to Sean Hannity.

Astronomers have now catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets!

Who is the most likely to lie among Canadian college students? First, business majors, second children of divorced parents, third, people who say religion is important in their lives.

Send a little shame to the Assholes Outside Planned Parenthood.

Every year around 14 million girls are forced to marry, many of them as young as 8-years-old, and surprisingly, many of these marriages occur in civilized countries like Australia!

Saudi Arabian clerics are blaming the United States for the recent demand by women to be allowed to drive. We should be honored to take the blame!

The church who didn't want to release the video of their debate with Dr. David Marshall because, "It just didn't go the way we wanted it to go," has relented and released the video after pressure from the secular movement.

What if people in horror movies weren't stupid?

A really awesome rap battle between Smeagol and Gollum.

DarkMatter2525 addresses the moronic claim that atheists just want to sin.

Priests get even more money in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

A rather eye-opening and frightening explanation for why privacy is important.

The study of the evolution of herpes coincides accurately with the out of Africa hypothesis of human evolution and distribution.

Rick Scarborough and Peter LaBarbera, officials in the Tea Party, want to have a huge class-action lawsuit and sue all homosexuals. Because that's exactly what George Washington would have wanted.

Bill Maher comments on Scalia's interview about believing in the devil.

David Silverman on Fox News with a couple religious men demanding that the government give them special rights.

An interesting lecture about how and why people are dishonest.

The Friendly Atheist gives 8 reasons for why your religion may be harmful.

Mental Floss tests several life hacks.

Try and meet someone new on Satanic Mingle.

God hates the sick in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Back from Chicago. Greyhound buses almost ruined the trip, both going and returning, never going to ride them again, but the city more than made up for it. I'll go into more detail tomorrow.

New Jersey has legalized same-sex marriage. NEW JERSEY, people! Us remaining pathetic states no longer have an excuse.

Big shocker, Sean Hannity's special on the Affordable Care Act on Fox News was just a bunch of lies. And Rand Paul has told plenty of lies about it himself.

The Catholic reasoning to ban same-sex marriage is that, marriages where people can't procreate don't count. Thus, if you marry an infertile or impotent spouse, your marriage doesn't count.

After losing their debate, this church has decided not to post the video of their debate because, "it didn't go the way we wanted it to go." Instead, they trimmed out all of the secularist's talking points, and only posted the Christian rebuttals!

Google's automatic search completion shows why we still need feminism.

Suck it, Texas!

It used to be that Catholics could at least count on the booming Hispanics to keep their numbers from tanking, but now even that's not looking so good.

Charge Tea-Party Republicans with sedition? Yes, I'd like to see this.

Strange population groups in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Off to Chicago tomorrow and for the weekend. This time I'm going with my beau rather than my Beau. See you folks on Monday!

16 days and billions of dollars later, the Republican have ended their pathetic attempt to end the Affordable Care Act and accepted defeat. The economic damage can be recovered, already world markets are back on the rise, but the damage Republicans caused to their party will probably prevent them from even having a shot in the next presidential elections, and hopefully, it will be so bad they'll lose the House as well.

Christians really want to be able to discriminate against minorities, just as Jesus intended.

Finally! A sure-fire way to get men to stop raping women! Stop men from drinking alcohol! In response to a horribly sexist and completely stupid article telling women they should stop getting drunk to prevent rape.

Ireland has a long history of mixing religion with their government, which is why I'm so pleased to hear that several top politicians are trying to end the oath to serve God as part of the induction ritual.

Private Christian schools are notorious for expelling students who are gay, but why is it they're receiving tax-payer money to do this?

Gershons are cloth movers in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

The surface of Mars in indeed an alien world.

Muslim politicians in Malaysia have are now legally preventing any other non-Muslims from even saying the word Allah.

Computerphile takes a look at the birthplace of the Internet.

Kohaths are hired movers in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

I always love when I get phone books because it give me practice at tearing them in half.

Just in case listening to your phone calls and reading your email wasn't enough, the NSA has now been exposed as reading your online chats, your address books, and even your buddy lists.

In Kansas City, Missouri two high school seniors, Matthew Barnett and an unnamed boy, got two younger girls (ages 14 and 13) drunk and raped even as the girl begged them to stop. A third buddy filmed part of the encounter, and afterward, they dumped one of the girl's on her parent's porch, where she almost froze to death over night. And yet, the men never got punished. The county prosecutor, Robert Rice, who has ties to grandfather of one of the rapists, state senator Rex Barnett, dropped the case without even consulting the family due to "lack of evidence." Even though the boys admitted to giving the under-aged girls alcohol and then having sex with them, even though the girls underwear was found in the boy's basement, even though they FILMED IT! In fact, the small town even ganged up on the families of the rape victims, and prosecutor Rice says the families of the rape victims owe the rapists an apology! Finally, a recent online post by the rapist Matthew Barnett shows that he hasn't learned a single thing from this fiasco, the post read "If her name begins with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, she wants the D." A protest has been planned for October 22nd to try and bring a wider audience to this crime and not let it go unsettled.

Several things that were invented or discovered by women, for which men get credit.

Christian Apologist Josh McDowell explains how having sex eventually turns people into child-raping sex-traffickers.

God makes the Israelites pay in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

According to a poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC, the American public blames the Republicans for the government shutdown by a 22-point-margin, and a Gallup poll shows that the Republican Party has sunk to the lowest favorable rating of any political party in the history of Gallup polling! Of course, the highly religious Republicans still think they're on the verge of victory because Jesus won't let them fail. After all, God wanted Ted Cruz to shutdown the government. While I'm not pleased at how much damage this is causing to America, it makes me happy that the greater of the two evils is killing itself.

Canadian schools offer free HPV vaccinations, except in the schools run by Catholics. Those students will just have to die of cervical cancer.

A 16-year-old boy in Thailand is dead after being forced to drink 18 liters of holy water during an exorcism.

The Russian government pays people to write online comments in favor of the government.

The Friendly Atheist comments on banning religion,

An interesting cover of Portal 2's Want You Gone.

God specifies the tents of the Levites in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

I'm in a wedding tomorrow! Not my own, but some friends of mine are tying the knot, and I get to wear a snazzy tux!

Dr. Alice Roberts did a wonderful three-part series on the evolution of human anatomy. Part 1 - Bones, Part 2 - Guts, Part 3 - Brains.

What can you expect from the police and FBI when someone creates a web site all about wanting to murder you?

I certainly don't trust companies like Monsanto to have my best interests in mind, but I do trust thousands of scientific research papers saying genetically modified crops are safe.

Paul Thornton, an editor at the LA Times, responded to the science-denier bloggers who wanted to know why the newspaper wasn't publishing any anti-climate change letters. His response was, because they contain factual errors, and he won't publish something that is demonstrably false. Good on you, mate!

The best Vines of September, 2013.

PBS explains how to be creative.

Mental Floss has created a wonderful, How to Be More Interesting series.

Another census in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Christopher Columbus was an asshole.

You Bionic Commando fans can now play the fully translated Japanese version.

Lost planets, those that are just free-floating in space without orbiting a star, have been estimated in the hundreds of billions, and we get a look at the very first one we've discovered.

Aron Ra's latest lecture, Show Me the Truth of It.

What happens when a non-believer becomes an ordained minister through a web site just to deliver the invocation at a city council meeting?

Mental Floss explains the origins of idioms, and Vsauce explains how people disappear.

C0nc0rdance covers several of the more popular anti gun control arguments.

Computerphile explains the origin and beauty of Unicode.

Republican Allen West wants you to know, if you're not a Christian, you're not happy. Oh sure, you may think your happy, and there may be evidence that you're happy, but believe him, you ain't happy!

A video showing the land battles of World War II, one day at a time for the entire war.

Other Levites become the property of Aaron's family in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

What it's like having to live off of the hand-me-downs of rich white children.

Christians beat, and starve a teenage girl because she was obviously posessed by demons!

The Boy Scouts of American still won't allow atheists to join, but the Scouts in the UK now make exceptions.

Roy Zimmerman sings a song to the NSA, and the House of Representatives.

Scishow covers the UN's climate change report and bringing animals back from extinction.

Sixty Symbols covers water balloon science and maximum bandwidth.

With the US government still shutdown Americans are looking for someone to blame, and 72% of us are in agreement, it's the Republicans. In fact, some Republicans have even bragged about shutting it down like Harry Reid and Rand Paul.

The Friendly Atheist responds to the question is Barack Obama an atheist, and Ken Ham's comment that atheists secretly believe in his god.

Other Levites become the property of Aaron's family in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Nuclear fusion has passed the break-even point, and is now producing more energy than it needs to start the reaction!

Should you be taking vitamins? No, probably not!

In Texas, football trumps grades because a football player can make millions while an education is only going to get you thousands. But it's not just football, any education-free past time is more important than learning. Just ask Ally Batista, a cheerleader at Hendrickson High School in Pflugerville, Texas. She will be suspended from the squad if she doesn't show up for the next cheering event. Why might she not show up? Because she'll be busy taking her SATs.

Christopher Hitchens speaking and answering questions at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

The Friendly Atheist cover things you shouldn't say to an atheist and talks about the pope excommunicating a priest for caring about women.

My Congressman Dan Kildee talks about the government shutdown.

Scishow talks about pigeons and getting to Alpha Centauri.

Rebecca Watson is back on You Tube! Her latest videos talk about supporting cancer research and mocking Phil Mason's terrible rape apologist video.

When a person creates a Facebook page called "Should [feminist] Jamie Bernstein be murdered?" and in the description advocate getting a law passed to legally execute the woman, you would think that Facebook would recognize that this is obvious harassment, which violates Facebook's code of conduct. Furthermore, what with Facebook declaring October as Bullying Awareness Month, they would actually do something about this, right? No. According to Facebook, a site that advocates murdering a woman for being a feminist, and also takes swipes at her sexuality, doesn't count as harassment. The page is now down, but Facebook made no mention of it breaking their rules, it just disappeared.

Remember when God burned Aaron's sons alive in The Blasphemer's Bible?

Feeling: Happy

Enjoyed a wonderful night out to partake in Matt's bachelor party. We raced go karts, ate steaks, and took a party bus to the club!

The police department in Cincinnati, Ohio is so inept at their job that they decided to stop trying to fight crime, and resorted to walking about Sunday mornings praying for crime to go away.

Some very moving photographs.

An Australian chiropractor broke an infant's neck while manipulating the its spine. For a treatment that has quite a bit of risk with no demonstrable benefits, why is this even allowed? And speaking of governments not regulating health care that have adverse side-effects with no measurable benefit, the FDA is trying to get vitamin manufacturers to demonstrate their safety and effectiveness(heaven forbid!), but they're fighting the FDA, and thanks to having Congressional support, they're winning. Part of me wants to blame the ignorant consumer, but we all succumbs to clever marketing strategies, especially if we're unfamiliar with the product in question. And how many people really understand how vitamins work? This is why we need a watch-dog group to protect us. However, when the watch-dog is setup and controlled by politicians who have no medical background, it's unlikely that they'll have the authority to actually protect us properly. Why isn't the FDA controlled by medical researchers? Why do we continue to let MBAs, CEOs, and lawyers control the FDA?

Anton Scalia, one of the most powerful people in the United States, is batshit crazy!

Anti-gay de-conversion camps are still alive and well in the USA, and undercover reporters continue to expose them.

The Garden of Eden now falls under the category of "science" to the Texas state Board of Education. And nobody is surprised.

AXE Body Spray is holding a competition to send a brave man into space, and a woman is currently in the lead. Naturally, she has received death-threats from men.

A Saudi Arabian court had sentenced a 19-year-old woman to 90 lashes because she was raped, but once her lawyer made international headline complaining about the verdict, her punishment was increased to 200 lashes for being raped.

Churches have been known to create their own pension plans, but unlike the business world, where safe-guards must be put in place to ensure people don't lose their pensions, churches don't have to follow such rules and people often lose all their money without any legal recourse.

God micro-manages tent positions in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Probably not a shock to anyone reading this, but if you believe that vaccinations are dangerous, you're also a lot more likely to believe the moon landing was faked, Bigfoot is real, and aliens are totally probing us in the butt.

News has surfaced that the Vatican branch in Australia has tried, on multiple occasions, to strike a deal with the local police department to stop their investigation into the Vatican's child-raping priests.

Islam is a religion of peace, except when they stone you to death for using a cell phone.

Hobby Lobby doesn't just hate Muslims and Atheists, they also hate Jews. In fact, when asked why they don't sell Hanukkah merchandise, an employee said, " We don't cater to you people."

City Council members Michelle Mosby and Cynthia Newbille of Richmond, Virginia have a solution to the city's crime problem: use their government position and tax-payer money to promote praying to Jesus. How did get such an idea? They believe that God himself told them to do it! Which makes one wonder why God would ask them to break the law? Well, the ACLU seems determined to find out.

The FBI demanded the encryption key of the email used at Lavabit, the email provider that American hero, Edward Snowden used to leak the NSA's highly-illegal national wire tapping program. The FBI tried to gag Lavabit from even telling anyone that the FBI was investigating the company. The owner of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, tried to fight the FBI's gag and demand for their encryption key, which, if given, would allow the FBI complete access, not just to Snowden's emails, but the email of every client of Lavabit! The FBI, of course, doesn't care about the 4th Amendment any more than the NSA, so they had no problem violating the privacy of innocent American citizens. Without legal recourse, Ladar Levison took a final stand and sent the FBI the encryption key, but in the form of an 11-page print out using unreadable 4 point font. After the US courts ordered a $5,000-a-day fine until he gave up a digital form of the key, Levison finally relented. This means that the FBI can now read every single email that was ever sent from Lavabit, including all of the emails for which they never procured a warrant. Levison shut down his business, after the ordeal, not wanting to, "become complicit in crimes against the American people." I hear you, buddy! Why does the FBI and the NSA have the authority to read my emails, when the FDA and the FTC can't even put a stop to homeopathy or acupuncture?

The Exodus is even larger than you thought in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

Christian Pastor David Love was in love with one of his church congregants, Teresa Stone. The only problem was, Teresa Stone was married to her husband Randy Stone who just happened to be the pastor's best friend! This sounds like the plot of a kooky romantic comedy, but rather than end with a cheerful lesson learned by all, it ends with David Love and Teresa stone plotting to, and carrying out, the murder of Randy Stone. It didn't take long for the police to figure out what happened, and sure enough, both the pastor and his mistress are behind bars.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is awesome! Here she is berating the Republicans just before they shut down the government because they don't want women to have birth control (even though the Republican's insurance program covers it), and here she is grilling restaurant owners over their abysmal employee pay.

In a conference which promises to have a wonderful stink around it, the Values Voter Summit will feature the ignorant Michele Bachmann, the insane Glenn Beck, the hate-monger Ted Crux, and the santorum Rick Santorum. The organizers are already showing just how trustworthy the speakers will be by promoting a false quote by president James Madison where he says the country was founded on the Ten Commandments, when in fact, Madison worked diligently to ensure the separate church and state.

It's too late for this now, but here's how Star Wars could have been made better.

The Friendly Atheist talks about being an atheist when it comes to healing, coaches preaching to their students, and why Jessica Ahlquist wasn't invited to the new school banner that she made possible.

It's good idea to study and learn Arabic. Not only are Arab-speakers immigrating all over the world, but our country's leaders feel it necessary to remain locked in the military occupation of the Middle East, so a fluent speaker will have little trouble finding work in the Military. A school in Alabama decided to offer Arabic as a foreign language in their school, and as expected, the public was outraged. In their eyes, the Arabic language is not a language of a culture, but the language of a religion! In fact, they fear that by learning the language, their children will begin to follow Sharia law! Now, if only Christianity had a language!

Fermat's last theorem has an interesting history behind it.

Bowser wannabe gets oversold.

Moses and Aaron get special treatment in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Happy

California is experiencing its worse pertussis outbreak in 60 years. Over 9,000 infants have contracted the disease, and 10 have died from it, despite the fact that it's entirely preventable. The California Department of Health has tracked down the source of the outbreak, and has found that the culprit is none other than anti-vax parents. Their scientific ignorance has literally killed other people's children.

Leaked emails of Republican Speaker John Boehner reveal just how corrupt he is.

Nine warning signs that your religion is actually harmful.

Republican Will Weatherford really wants public school coaches to preach to their players about Jesus, even if it's currently illegal.

Jaclyn Green rewrites Amazing Grace to Amazing Science.

Numbers continues to bore us in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Feeling: Festive

Republican message of the day: You know how all us politicians already enjoy universal health care provided by the US government? Well, we don't want the rest of you to have that too, and we're willing to shut down the Departments of Energy, Defense, Commerce, and Transportation to make sure you ">don't get it! In a special form of irony, today's Google doodle exists to celebrate Yosemite National Park's 123rd year in existence, but it will be closed until the Republican quit pouting.

Christians don't want to know anything about evolution, and they want to make sure that nobody else knows anything about it either!

People who steal baseballs from children are just awful people.

I'm already bored of Numbers in The Blasphemer's Bible.

Want to watch a creepy Christian movie about masturbation? If you can make it through the trialer, maybe you can stomach the entire movie.

DarkMatter2525 covers the baby mama drama of Genesis.

Brian May talks about the studio process behind making Bohemian Rhapsody.

The Friendly Atheist talks about the god of the gaps.

Feeling: Happy

The Blasphemer's Bible is back to regular comics today! Now we start The Book of Numbers.

Like Oprah, Dr. Oz never bothers to do any real research before promoting something to his millions of non-thinking fans. Recently he gave a list of 15 super foods that will help you lose weight and become healthy, but the reality is there is no evidence to back up his claims. Translation, he is being dishonest to his followers in order to make more money.

Some Muslims, like Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaydan, tell women that if they drive a vehicle, they'll have children with birth defects. Those Muslims are ass-hats. Then, some Muslims, like English born Nazir Afzal, prosecute those who would try and treat women like the first. They both have incorrect worldviews, but I would certainly take the latter over the former.

Michael Enright, a white male Christian in a country mostly controlled by other white male Christians, doesn't quite understand what it's like to be a minority. He wrote an essay which basically said, we listen to atheists, and we accept that they exist, but we're sick of having to hear them complain about being persecuted, because they're not! Okay quick, name three atheists who are political figures! What? You couldn't think of a single one? Okay, name ten completely at random and without even looking, I will guarantee you that they are Christian. Atheists are among the least likely to be incarcerated, divorced, or abuse children, but we are viewed as the least moral demographic. Also, despite being in the top demographic for education, atheists are hardly ever trusted to school boards which are usually populated by science denying Christians. Why won't atheists shut up? Because of people like Enright who just don't understand how wrong they are.

Want another example? Citizens of Madison, New Jersey wanted to use the public school's team and logo to endorse Christianity, and threw a fit when the mayor told them they had to stop.

Want another example? The Montgomery, Alabama police department decided to use tax-payer money to hire Christian preachers to comfort crime scene witnesses and survivors, and also try can convert them to Christianity.

This happened awhile ago, but it is still a cool read. A Cannonball Run style race across the USA at a highly-illegal, highly-dangerous average speed of over 90 MPH, but often peaking at over 150! This story records the most recent record breaker.

Feeling: Happy

Skeptics In the Pub tonight, Adopt-a-Highway clean up tomorrow! Then, the rest of the weekend dedicated to coding my dungeon crawler!

Slavery in the USA? Well, yes, but you have to be extremely wealthy to get away with it.

Turns out that there is about 1 liter of water per cubic foot of Martian soil. This means two things, one, setting up a Martian colony has become easier, two, life on Mars is a little bit more likely than we thought.

A report by the United Nations's climate panel just came out. They're 100% sure that the Earth is warming, and 95% sure that humans are to blame.

A rather important point to bring up. Ex-pope, Joseph Ratzinger, recently wrote an open letter where he clearly stated that he never tried to shield any child-raping priests from justice during the 24 years he worked at the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's department which investigated such matters. However, as the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests points out, during the 24 years that he worked there, and even the several years where he acted as head of the organization, not a single child-raping priest was ever brought to justice! And it wasn't for lack of child-rapists! This was during the Vatican's prime child-raping years, when the most monstrous of all rapists were at large. How can it be that he wasn't able to catch a single child-rapist in 24 years? The answer, of course, is that many cases of child rape came across his desk, but he simply swept them under the rug. He is a filthy liar who deserves prison.

The Kansas state school board is being sued because bunch of Christians think they're promoting atheism. What is their evidence that they are convincing children that there are no gods? They're teaching them science!

Feeling: Happy

I've been working on a retro-style 3D dungeon crawler program. Should have a pre-alpha up in a day or two.

In honor of banned book week, here is a list of some of the most frequently banned books in public school libraries.

Ex-pope Ratzinger tells an atheist that Richard Dawkins's book "The Selfish Gene" is science fiction, because, as a man with a theology degree, he's totally qualified to make that call. He also is quite proud of how quickly he responded to the massive child rape ring in the Vatican, so that should tell you something about the value of his opinion.

Despite having the US Supreme Court rule that student-led prayer at football games was a violation of the US Constitution back in 2000, the Liberal, Kansas school board has decided that student-led prayers at football games are totally legal. The district's superintendent told them they should contact the school board's attorney first, but the board wasn't interested in any of that legal mumbo jumbo, and they all agreed that every single one of their students, even the Muslims and atheists, need a good dose of Jesus in their lives. Cue massive lawsuit at the taxpayer's expense.

Feeling: Happy

Should parents be forced to vaccinate their children for public schools? Yes!

Once again Republicans are threatening to shutdown the government if they don't get their way. This time, they won't vote to increase the debt ceiling unless the Affordable Health Care Act is defunded. It doesn't matter that the majority of Americans want the Affordable Health Care Act (AKA Obamacare), and it doesn't matter that the Republicans designed it, all that matters is that the Republicans don't matter. Even retired Republicans are mocking the new Tea Party politicians. The truth is, the Affordable Health Care act will cost Americans even less than originally anticipated.

It comes out that yet another Catholic priest was a know child rapist, yet protected by the church.

When you don't understand irony, you become an Ayn Rand follower begging thousands of people for money so you can produce a movie about how important it is to always be selfish and never give money to anyone.

35% of Americans believe that you can simply pray away mental illnesses. Of course, most of those mental illnesses probably sprung up from child abuse brought on by religious behavior.

Saudi Arabian police are now warning their roving bands of thugs to stop persecuting female drivers, because it is now legal for them to drive!

Scishow explains why we have body hair.

Feeling: Happy

Jessica Ahlquist wasn't invited to her old high school's unveiling of the new secular banner to replace the public school's Christian prayer banner, and there are many Christians who are showing her just how well they follow the teachings of Jesus.

A large table of the possible outcomes of your religion, and the outcome of other various religions in Pascal's Wager.

Women, if you get raped, it's your fault!

You've heard that the universe is expanding, but does this mean that we are expanding with it?

A supercut of falling in the movies.

Richard Garriott talks about his new company and tells some tales about his previous games.

The Friendly Atheist talks about the pope's less-Conservative comments and a brief talk about the cosmological argument.

Feeling: Festive

While standing in line for lunch, I overheard the conversation of the women in front of me. One woman was complaining about her disobedient teen. She said that he refused to take out the trash, and wanted her to hurry up and drive him to school. When she refused to take him to school until he took out the trash, he said, "fine, I won't go to school," and went back in the house. So he stayed home while she went to work. There's some stern parenting for you! I missed some of the conversation after that, but then I heard one more line where the other woman said, "That's like Doctor Phil 101," and I wanted to smack them both upside the head and shout, "STUPID!"

What happens when you remove sports from public school and use the money on teachers and educational equipment? Would you believe that the students are better behaved and score higher on tests.

Amazing photos of space.

The Friendly Atheist talks about atheist extremists.

Yet another Republican wants to have a legal right to discriminate against people based on their sexual preference.

Ah, Republican scare tactics! Imagine, ladies, the idea of Uncle Sam inspecting your vagina! Because nor being able to afford a gynecologist is much better than having a competent doctor who is receiving tax money as payment, right? Of course, the reality of this is, it's the Republicans who are forcing women to get unnecessary trans-vaginal ultrasounds that real doctors claim they don't need before they can exercise their right to choice.

Vaccines. Allowing your children to live!

A lot of Catholics are thrilled at the more liberal leanings of their new pope who isn't nearly as concerned about homosexuals, atheists, and abortion as his predecessors, but don't kid yourself, the Vatican is still the home of awful bigots who have a hard time kicking out child rapists, but will cheerfully excommunicate priests who think that women should be ordained.

Feeling: Cheery

If the Liberal Media was actually Liberal, here's what you'd actually know.

Able-bodied Christian writer tells her readers that disabled people shouldn't be allowed to have surrogate children because God only made baby making for people who have working bodies. Oh yes, and Jesus invented high school football so that we may proselytize to the children of other people's families.

Carl Sciortino's father is very disappointed in him.

I hate it when Chinese demons possess teenage girls who are starved for attention and they need to call several other teenage girls who are starved for attention to come and perform an exorcism on camera. And while their bad acting and bumbling may be hilarious to the rest of us, let's not forget what religion is really capable of.

Lots of new updates to the Videogame Music Preservation Foundation, if you haven't visited in awhile.

Feeling: Loved

After Snowden blew the whistle and let everyone know that the NSA has been illegally spying on US citizens, thousands of requests were made via the Freedom of Information Act. Of course, in order to make these requests, you have to fax the request to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Yes, fax, as in technology from the beginning of the 1900s. That right there should be enough to make you lose faith in the government, but it gets better. According to the OSD, their fax machine is broken, so all of those thousands of FIA requests cannot be filed or processed, and since the NSA has spent all of their money on spying equipment, it will be a few -months- before they can replace their fax machine.

When you see so-called psychics on their own shows they film a couple hours and then edit it down to about a half hour to make it seem like they're right all the time. Here is what a psychic is like when they don't get to edit out all their failures. Nearly everything he says is returned with a quizzical look.

Ohio courts have ruled that businesses will still have to cover birth control despite their owners religious objections. Well done Ohio!

Recent graduate Sara Elizabeth Sheppard talks about what it was like to be preached to by her public high school teacher.

The President has an "Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge" which asks places of higher education to commit to community service projects for a year. The title is a little sketchy, why not just call it the "Community Service Campus Challenge"? I don't have faith, yet I still take part in community service projects. Well, as it turns out, despite the name, non-religious people are welcome to take part in the project, and take part they have! When you look at the younger crowd, one-third of the under 30 crowd declares themselves as unaffiliated to any religion! And even more impressive, the latest planning meeting will have non-religious people involved.

And that's how you rip a phone book in half.

Feeling: Sad

My, but the Earth is amazing!.

Republican Governor Rick Snyder's attorneys are arguing that same-sex marriage must remain illegal in the state in order to encourage population growth, as if the planet is just hurting for more people. Here's an idea, if you want more people to move to Michigan, stop trying to pass laws that allow the state's religious people special exceptions in discrimination against homosexuals.

Charter schools have over-all been a failure in the US. In general, they pump out less-educated graduates than their public school counterparts, and they cost parents more money. Even worse, they are not as restrictive when it comes to following the first amendment to the US Constitution, which means that they often promote specific religious agendas (AKA nonsense). New Zealand also uses charter schools, but they've at least decided that you can't teach Creationism in them anymore. Well done!

Want to win at Mario Party 9? do nothing!

The Gastonguay family, who tried to sail to Kiribati in order to escape the tyranny of the USA because the country doesn't even allow citizens to stone homosexuals anymore? Remember they ended up getting stranded at sea because none of them knew anything about ocean navigation and needed the US to airlift them back to the states? Well, after declaring the US helicopter a miracle from God, they're trying for Kiribati again! They also hate that the USA has an income tax, and in the unlikely event that they reach Kiribati, they'll probably be very upset to learn that the country has a 35% income tax rate, and is well-versed in climate change politics.

Bill Nye appears on Bill Maher.

Christians often display billboards that people find highly offensive. Some slogans include, "Why do atheists hate America?" "Anti-God is anti-American, anti-American is treason, traitors lead to civil war," and, "If God doesn't matter to him, do you?" with a picture of a gunman. Keep in mind, these billboards were approved as "not too offensive" by the billboard companies who posted them. Now, let's look at an atheist ad that was considered too controversial to display... it reads, "Atheists," and has a web address. That's it! But the transit authorities in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania just couldn't possibly post such an incendery ad! In fact, rather than ever be forced put an anti-religious ad on their buses ever, the transit authority made a rule that will ban all further religious and anti-religious ads, ever! Suits me just fine.

More Donkey Kong Did You Know Gaming.

Feeling: Anxious

When you put the timeline of the universe into perspective, suddenly everything seems a bit more impressive.

Mental Floss covers names of things you didn't know had names (although, I knew about 25% of them!).

Texas public school teacher tells her students that just like the lungs reject smoking, the mind rejects atheism.

Why don't Christians ever realize how incredibly creepy they are? A creepy man who invites teenage boys over late at night to sit in a circle and talk about masturbation?

Even in this day, teenage girls, and in many cases, pre-teen girls are married off to men 10, 20, 30, sometimes even 40 years their senior. Why? Because religion, that's why.

What happens when you talk to some Tea Party protesters? You realize that they don't know jack shit about politics, they still think Obama is a Muslim, and they only watch Glenn Beck to learn about the world.

Scishow covers, why we laugh.

The Friendly Atheist covers drawing the line for religion tolerance and Florida Republicans postponing an execution for a party.

Feeling: Frustrated

On Saturday Adam and I went to a birthday/house-warming party that turned into an engagement party. We had a wonderful time playing games, talking to friends, and imbibing a goodly amount of alcohol. We ended up staying the night in order to drive responsibly and got home safe and sound. We both had a blast up until end.

This is why we can't have nice things. According to a Christian polling group, 32% of Americans think that our government's desire to bomb Syria is a sign of the End Times.

Thanks to the work of a whole bunch of ignorant parents, the US is seeing its worst measles outbreak in 17 years.

Here's the joys of Abrahamic religions. In India, a forty-year-old man has been convicted of raping a six-year-old girl multiple times. Rather than throw his ass in jail, the people are invoking the Abrahamic practice of forcing the little girl to marry her rapist, or in this case, the rapist's eight-year-old son. That's right, the rapist is now the little girl's father-in-law. What could possible go wrong?

Another person is poisoned to death after taking ancient Chinese natural remedies, better known in the West as arsenic sulfide.

After a large-scale survey of the sex lives of 10,000 non-believers, a lot of interesting theories come to light, most importantly, non-believers have much better sex lives.

God helped this man prove that same-sex marriage is wrong because magnets.

Holy water? More like toilet water! Amiright?!

The Friendly Atheist talks about an upcoming Supreme Court case on the Constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Feeling: Happy

This is a fun Phoenix Wright style game where you debate with philosophers on the true nature of morality.

Kristen Ostendorf had been a teacher at Totino-Grace Catholic High School for the past 18 years until she mentioned that she was gay. She was promptly fired the next day. And while we're bashing Catholicism, take a look at Fix the Family, an organization whose thinks the primary goal of a good family is making sure the mother doesn't have an education. That's right, even more than having wives submit to their husbands, is making sure a woman stays out of college!

What if Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail was a serious film?

Scishow talks about the history of our numbers.

When will public schools learn? You're not allowed to lead students in prayer, you're certainly not allowed to have multiple prayers in a single event, and you're definitely not allowed to pray specifically to Jesus! Lawsuit has already been filed.

Did You Know Gaming covers Donkey Kong.

Constant vigilence is still required because school boards continue to try and eliminate science from their textbooks and replace everything with Goddidit! Sorry Christians, evolution and global climate change are facts. Also, why do we let ignorant morons on the school board? Why isn't it run by teachers and scientists?

The Friendly Atheist talks about the Internet destroying religion and the new Jewish textbooks that censor female anatomy diagrams.

If you're looking for a fun way to spend your weekend, why not watch this long series of videos where atheist Steve Shives reads Josh McDowell's Christian Apologist book, "Evidence That Demands a Verdict." Start with the introduction and move on from there.

Feeling: Happy

Pray the Gay Away is so last year, now Christians are trying the new method, Rape the Gay Away! That's right, youth pastor Brent Girouex had been trying to fix gay Christian boys by praying for them, while at the same time putting his penis inside of them. He admitted to raping four boys, but another another eight have come forward with similar claims. If that weren't enough, the judge who heard the case decided that the poor Christian man shouldn't have to spend a day in prison, and instead put him on parole and told him to attend counseling.

The Friendly Atheist talks about atheists hating gods and what atheists think happens when we die.

Johan van Putten, school board chairman of Christian private school, decided that the school's planners were evil because they had a tiny peace sign on them. According to Putten, the peace sign is a symbol of the Anti-Christ, so he ordered all of the planners to be destroyed and replaced, costing the school about $20,000. Of course, the peace sign is actually a modern symbol and depicts an overlay of the semaphore signals of N and D, which stand for nuclear disarmament. However, Putten, no doubt, got his education from sites created by uneducated Christians with persecution complexes that create sites like this.

Aron Ra's talk on Truth vs. Make Believe.

Victory in Florida. The city of DeLand will have to remove the cross from its seal, thanks to the hard work of Americans United.

An act of terrorism took place in Coos Bay, Oregon. There was an explosion on a Vietnam memorial, and while it didn't injure anyone, it did damage a cross. Fox News immediately brought on someone to point the finger at the Freedom From Religion Foundation and said that they are "crazies" who "will stop at nothing to intimidate communities." Bold statements, but of course, untrue. Fox News didn't even bother to do the tiniest bit of journalism before accusing an innocent group. The FFRF condemns violent acts and points out that it is religious people who make the bombs. Furthermore, someone sent a letter to the city council members and a local newspaper claiming responsibility for the explosion. For my own personal take, violence only begets more violence and has no place in civilized society. Whoever made the bomb is a criminal and should be punished.

Epic Rap Battles of History presents Gandhi vs. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Toxic Crusaders.

Feeling: Happy

Florida's Republican attorney general, Pam Bondi, convinced the state's Republican governor, Rick Scott, to postpone the execution of a criminal. Now see, that's what I like to hear. Two good Christian people realizing that if they are to claim that all life is prescious, then they should work diligently to keep all people from being killed, even if they are hardened criminals. Strange that they only postponed the execution for a single day though. Stranger still, that it turns out the only reason the execution was postponed was because it was the same day as Pam Bondi's re-election party. Yes, that's right, these "all life is sacred" dyed-in-th-wool Christians aren't trying to save the man's life, they just don't want his icky execution to interfere with their party. Could they be any more disgusting?

Doctor Andy Thomson talks about the psychology of belief.

Dan Barker explains what it's like to go from a charismatic Christian preacher having been steeped in religion his whole life, to an evangelical atheist and The Friendly Atheist talks about the process as well.

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Terminator games, part 1 and part 2.

Mental Floss covers regional slang words while Vsauce talks about the importance of last words and Scishow covers some hurdles with sending people to Mars.

Lawrence Krauss talks about the real Greatest Story Ever Told.

Feeling: Happy

I'd just like to inform everyone in Egypt that the Tea Party doesn't speak for the majority of Americans, only the stupid ones.

The building blocks of life are found, once again, in the center of meteorites, indicating that many of the compounds found in life exist elsewhere in the universe.

Eugenie Scott and PZ Myers answer some questions about the latest tactics of Creationists.

What happens when you allow blasphemy laws? People get sent to prison for a blog post.

Homeopathy doesn't work, which is no surprise because the only way it could work is by violating several known laws of physics. However, just because it's never been shown to be effective, doesn't mean that it isn't hyped up with impressive advertising and sold to the ill-informed. Canada allows vaccines made out of homeopathy (i.e., magic water), and wouldn't you know it, measles is making a huge come back in the country. Health Canada should know better.

Yet another child is dead because the parents followed the instructions found in the Christian book "How to Train a Child". Thankfully, both parents were found guilty and await sentencing. This is the third death that I'm aware of from this book.

Did You Know Gaming covers Final Fantasy games. Part 1 and Part 2.

Fox News anchors want atheists to leave the country rather than create a lawsuit to remove the phrase "under God" from the pledge. Funny, I was thinking the same thing about her. The funny thing is, none of them know when the phrase was added to the pledge to begin with (the 1950s), and their argument is, it doesn't matter, it's on our money (which also wasn't added to all money until the 1950s). Then one woman says that she hates how atheists use their children to make these lawsuits. Hm, a Christian telling people it's wrong to indoctrinate children?

Bishop John Shelby has some harsh words for the church.

It seems like the Vatican has been protecting child-rapists everywhere, Europe, North America, South America, well now even the Caribbean has a scandal!

Kudos to India for taking a step toward secularism. Their highest court has ruled that public schools can't force employees and students to take part in religious activities. Still needs work in order to prevent the government from endorsing religion, but they're making good progress.

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Milon's Secret Castle and Tiger electronic games.

Feeling: Happy

By refusing to integrate with the rest of society, Christians are continuing to marginalize themselves. Ever since the Boy Scouts of America decided to allow homosexual boys into the groups, many Christian parents have pulled their children out of the scouts, and are working to form a new scouting group. Some scouts may be taking their ball and going home, but the reality is that the vast majority of scouts will remain. Those few Christians who can't join modern society will outcast themselves and become just as forgotten as they deserve to be.

Fox News just can't understand how a religious scholar could write a book about Jesus, because the scholar is a Muslim.

Humans are getting to the point where we can grow a human brain in a lab, but doesn't that mean we're essentially growing a human? After all, what are you other than your brain?

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Superman games and of course Superman 64.

It never ceases to make me laugh when a religious person says they don't believe in evolution because they can't believe in myth or magic! Talking snake, zombie walk, parting the sea? Nah, those things aren't myth or magic!

Mental Floss reviews 50 science misconceptions.

A huge tree of world religions. Find your tiny twig through the many branches and remember that you're twig is the correct twig!

Some truly asinine questions for Ask a Slave!

The ebook editor who tried to sneak in Christian objections to an atheist's ebook has been rightly fired.

Emily Boyer gives a great talk on safe sex.

Dancing in the movies super cut.

Feeling: Happy

Showed Emily the movie Labyrinth for her first time.

In order to prove Christ's love, Christian radio host Kevin Swanson tells his listeners to go to same-sex weddings and tell everyone there that they should be executed. Though, I guess he's not as bad as this Christian who, after being teased about his belief in God, murdered his atheist friend.

Scishow talks about unexplained tree formations and cavies.

Both the US and UK governments are using their taxpayer's money, not just to spy on the citizens, but even to build supercomputers to crack the encryption their citizens use. Thank you Snowden for bringing this to light!

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Battletoads and Deadly Towers.

To paraphrase fake historian David Barton, when the US made it illegal to force children in public schools to pray to a god in which they don't believe, their literacy rate drastically fell. That's right folks, forcing children to pray when you could be teaching them English makes kids better at English!

Epic Rap Battles of History: Bruce Lee vs. Clint Eastwood and Napoleon vs Napoleon Dynamite.

Vsauce explains why we kiss and Mental Floss reveals the names of fictional characters.

The Friendly Atheist comments on 15 things you should never say to an atheist and the awful travel guide to Heaven for children.

Feeling: Happy

The 110-foot tall cross planned to be built next to I-20 in Mississippi has been canceled by the city planning commission. The church doesn't think it has anything to do with the fact that the city has an ordinance that auxillary structures can't be taller than 20 feet, no, to them the reason the cross can't be built is clear: MUSLIMS!

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews the Sega 32X and the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

We all know that being a Christian Republican means you're a virtuous person who is holier than all those heathens, right? Of course, right! Just take a look at Sheriff Mike Byrd, a devoute Christian who led the state of Mississippi's National Day of Prayer rally. He's a pieous man and strong supporter of the values of Jesus. Values like using his clout as a sheriff to attack people he viewed as political enemies, abusing his authority to harass a restaurant that wouldn't accept a person check, forcing an arrest for murder on a woman even when the detective on the case thought she was inoccent, and of course the holy sacraments of fraud, extortion, embezzlement, witness tampering, and perjury.

The Friendly Atheist has a talk with a Christian pastor at his church in front of his full congregation to tell them about atheism.

The Dawkins Foundation gives a nice talk about how religious indoctrination is child abuse.

Epic Rap Battles of History: Batman Vs. Sherlock Holmes and Columbus Vs. Captain Kirk.

When neurological problems are cured, it won't be from a god, it will be from a scientist.

Even other Christians are disappointed at Ray Comforts awful Evolution vs. God film.

DarkMatter2525 looks at what happens when God plays Minecraft.

Dawkins and Herb Silverman have a nice chat.

Feeling: Happy

Orwell's 1984 has nothing on the current situation in the USA.

This is a fun sandbox toy.

Did you know that half of the murders in the country are committed by gay people? Or that homosexuals wear special rings that can infect straight people with AIDS from a hand shake? Did you know that black people are slaves to the government plantation? Learn these things and more from the Republican Party!

The Abrahamic religions are fiercely anti-woman. Case in point, the men in charge of text books in Israel have censored all anatomical diagrams of anatomy of the sex organs... of females. That's right, all the diagrams of male anatomy are still present, but women shouldn't worry their pretty little heads about their naughty sin holes.

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and Silver Surfer.

Each year, Hobby Lobby takes out big full-page ads is a massive misinformation campaign to make it seem like the country was founded by bible-thumping Christians. The list quotations from the founding fathers that make them seem to support a particular religious agenda, when in fact, they're hugely dishonest and purposely taking the quotes out of context in order to mislead readers.

The Friendly Atheist talks about dating an atheist and his top 5 atheist books.

This excerpt from a Catholic documentary on Hell explains that even people like Hitler and Stalin might have made it into Heaven, but even really caring and good atheists are guaranteed a place in the fires Hell!

A CVS worker was told he couldn't wear religious neck ties to work anymore, and thousands of Christians are crying religious persecution, right on cue. But do they mean religious persecution, or Christian persecution? Do you think they would cry discrimination if the man was wearing a tie with Satanic symbols on it? They don't equal rights, they want superior rights. As it is, CVS is a private company and can set their own dress code provided it doesn't violate a person's reasonable religious convictions, and there is nothing in Christianity which requires a person to wear Christian ties.

Mental Floss looks at celebrity arrests and college mascots.

An old documentary on fractals.

Feeling: Happy

Finally caught up on my YouTube viewing over the weekend, and even had time to watch Strip Search.

You may think the jury is still out on several scientific issues, but a lot of it has been understood and agreed upon for a long time.

Pope Douchebag Francis has released his official words on the subject of non-believers, a group that the Vatican has been trying to woo back into the church. According to him, atheists believe in gods (by definition they cannot), have no moral compass (they're actually less likely to be incarcerated), can't understand love (tell that to a neuroscientist!), destroy families (just ask the Westboro Baptists), and worship themselves (guilty as charged). Somehow I don't think they're going to win any converts with this message.

Mandy Patinkin talks about Inigo Montoya.

An abridged version of Electronic Arts's Gamescom appearance.

New Jersey Christians aren't content with having their city council members reciting a prayer before each meeting, they want clergymen to come in and recite prayers, otherwise they're being discriminated against being able to violate the first amendment even more than usual.

The Angry Video Game Nerd rips on Die Hard and Transformers.

Bill Nye is just plain awesome.

Aron Ra and his wife review some racist hicks talking about their work.

In 1996, one of the families that attended the Church of the First Born in New Mexico refused treatment to their son who had a curable form of cancer. Instead, they watched him get sicker until he died. In 2012, another family from the same church watched their son die a horribly painful death when they refused to take him to the hospital after his appendix ruptured. And this year, a different family from the same church allowed their daughter to die from type 1 diabetes. All of these parents have been arrested, but the church continues to preach their message of letting God heal their sick children.

Mental Floss covers 28 foods named after people.