Bill Zeller, a blogger and computer programmer, killed himself a couple days ago. He was sexually abused as a child and it clearly affected him the rest of his life. After living with the depression for so long, he just didn’t want to keep going. He left a heartbreaking suicide note before he died. Joel Johnson at Gizmodo prefaced his posting of the letter with these thoughts: I think a person has the right to live or end their life… Read more
I’m compiling a list… for those of you who visit the site, what would you like to see fixed? If someone mentions it in the comments already, rest assured you don’t need to say it again. I’ll see it. Heck, I’m sure our lists overlap. Hopefully, the problems will be fixed soon. ***Update***: I should’ve mentioned: I’m hoping for feedback on things outside of content. Like if the site isn’t working properly for you (“I can’t Like a post on… Read more
Marc Alan Di Martino drew this cartoon. It’s crudely drawn, yes, but it made me laugh: Well, the man does love his wine… Not to take anything away from Marc, but you could draw the Pope saying just about anything and it could be funny… Forget the Pope. All you need is a religious leader telling the truth (the *real* truth, not their Biblical version of it) and it’d be humorous (at least if it wasn’t so damn depressing): Why… Read more
Mainstream newspapers aren’t always friendly to atheists, but college newspaper and campus activists tend to have healthy relationships. At the University of California, Santa Barbara, three atheists have been writing an “Ask the Atheist” column for the Daily Nexus: Atheism is often maligned and misunderstood. In the spirit of openness, this column will attempt to respond to the many questions (and allegations) we, as atheists, receive. No two atheists are the same, and we attempt to represent no one but… Read more
Every now and then, there are some issues with this website on the operational end… and I don’t have the skills to take care of it. Maybe a plug-in doesn’t work correctly, or there’s an issue with the server, or MySQL is being weird, or there are error logs that need to be looked at, or [insert your own problem using tech jargon here]. It’d be really helpful to have someone I can go to who might be able to… Read more