- venom, vitriol...and violence?
- just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower...
- day of celebrations
- the GOP's snake oil solution
- is it too early to order one of these?
- No on Prop 8
- Lapham's Quarterly: Ways of Learning
- political link-fest
- Obama and Odinga: there you go again
- McCain's campaign: smear & fear
- has McCain ever been to a planetarium?
- debate 3 of 4
- make-believe maverick
- greed...not so good, after all
- Keating Economics
- Wynton Marsalis: Moving to Higher Ground
- economic crisis odds and ends
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Leonard Bernstein: The Joy of Music
- even more debatable
- change Texans can believe in
- Biden's debate prep
- NASA at 50
- hyper-partisan hackwork
- Obama and the Constitution
- debatable
- good idea, poor execution
- some interesting (and infuriating) information about last night's WaMu seizure
- maverick McCain and his heroic hubris
- why I support Barack Obama
- speaking of elitism...
- electoral elitism
- Limbaugh lies
- Alex Ross wins MacArthur "genius" grant
- conservative economics
- the $1.8 trillion bailout
- the (not so) great conversation
- Pastafarians 1, Phelps 0
- Obama's economic advisers
- the world's best pie chart
- Harris responds to Haidt
- impervious to reason?
- a chain email worth reading
- Constitution Day
- The Dark McCain Returns
- a bibliophile's dream
- counting McCain's lies
- it's about time
- the Right's problems with the ninth commandment
- falling scales
- Palin's animus toward books
- Obama buried by McCain/Palin "blizzard of lies"
- Republican rumors
- "I'm a Constitution voter."
- a new Maurice Sendak book?
- imagine
- overheard in the hallway
- Palin's "most disturbing beliefs"
- a Greek trilogy
- drill, baby, drill!
- big experiment
- has it really been that long?
- Republicans stole Democrats' flags, then lied about it
- who's afraid of President Palin?
- McCain's mendacity
- Greek columns
- the many scandals of "Pitbull" Palin
- 2008=1968
- ignorance-only sex education
- Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
- Forrest Church: Lifecraft and Love & Death
- believe in this
- the speech
- RIP, Del Martin
- slouching toward Crawford
- "fuck Fox News"
- progress, not perfection
- John Carlin: Masters of American Comics
- well, that didn't take long...
- yes, it's Biden
- will Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) become our next VP?
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- McCain wasn't tortured in Vietnam
- amen
- new baby shampoo
- this one's for all you Internet addicts...
- "Everywhere we look, the visible spectrum is rainbows...this cannot be natural."
- fighting the Swift Boat Liars for McCain
- Obama a socialist?
- Watchmen posters
- "Sorry, John...your wife can't buy you this house."
- don't buy another SUV just yet...
- in defense of the French horn
- Julius Jacobson: The Classical Music Experience
- a Christianist nation?
- Frank Miller & Jim Lee: All-Star Batman and Robin, Volume 1
- never again
- game on!
- Aaron Copland: What to Listen for in Music
- not a Christian nation, part n
- Swift-Boat Liars for McCain
- RIP: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- faith-based murder
- Coulterism
- Mickey Hart: Spirit into Sound
- Alan Moore & Brian Bolland: Batman - The Killing Joke
- quotes of the day
- e-cards
- Randy Pausch, Unitarian
- (right-wing) terrorist attacks (left-wing) church
- Pikachu always seemed just a little *too* happy...
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture
- Kurt Vonnegut: Armageddon in Retrospect
- high crimes
- RIP: Randy Pausch
- Lapham's Quarterly: Book of Nature
- Watchmen trailer
- Firefox world record
- computers and civility
- Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson: Two Men with the Blues
- not worth it
- Wil Wheaton: The Happiest Days of Our Lives
- George Lakoff: Whose Freedom?
- liberalism: something that one grows into, not out of
- hope and disappointment
- damn it!
- worried about nothing?
- yeah, I did it too...
- Bush's "monkish ignorance and superstition"
- remembering Jesse Helms
- "As Slow as Possible"
- top liberal quotes
- no funeral for Carlin
- Ten Commandments
- AT&T whistleblower: "the infrastructure for a police state"
- anti-marriage "family values"
- best books of the last 25 years
- write in Bush 2008
- Westboro Baptist douchebags
- Robert Price: The Reason-Driven Life
- Wordle
- shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits
- data visualization
- hope/nope/pope
- "pre-9/11 mindset" rebuttal
- great t-shirts
- progressive books
- I'm Voting Republican
- Firefox Download Day
- wedding belles
- fighting smears the smart way
- what does "cognitive dissident" mean?
- William Martin: What Liberals Believe
- chart porn!
- a classic Toles cartoon
- George Will: wrong again
- every time I see this, it cracks me up...
- melamine and mendacity
- George Will's ANWR fixation
- Madalyn O'Hair: Why I Am an Atheist
- more mockery
- Jack Kirby's legacy
- atheism, not diamonds
- awful drinks, great reviews
- genital symbolism
- Wil Wheaton: Dancing Barefoot & Just a Geek
- John Berger, et al: War with No End
- more on Obama's great uncle and the Auschwitz/Buchenwald story
- Sima Vaisman: A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz
- glass houses
- Alex Ross: Uncle Sam
- starry night
- why they'll say "I do"
- lend a hand to the cause
- Family Circus
- funny money
- Lapham's Quarterly: About Money
- the illogical corollaries of the anti-marriage backlash
- A. G. Sertillanges: The Intellectual Life
- biblical marriage
- atheist blogroll
- this is not enlightenment
- California marriage update
- California dreaming
- I have to say...
- Edwards' endorsement
- public intellectuals who blog
- 4500 propaganda events
- Matt Taibbi: The Great Derangement
- Pentagon propaganda: all the news that's fit to bury
- what's a subtitle worth?
- Hitchens on the "public intellectuals" list
- right-wing rumor-mongering
- primaries & polls
- 43 years too late
- Loving for All
- Eric Alterman: Why We're Liberals
- top 100 public intellectuals
- Free Comic Book Day
- McCain dodges the c*** question
- Methodists reject Bush Library
- I can't take it any more...
- Myers on NDoP
- list of global-warming deniers is full of hot air
- National Day of Reason
- O'Reilly's revisionism
- persecution complexes
- irony alert: "Free Tibet" flags made in China
- Eric Groves: The Anti-War Quote Book
- an internal moral compass
- mark your calendar
- the atheist spot
- it can't die quickly enough to suit me
- Lenni Brenner: Jefferson & Madison on Separation of Church and State
- happy Earth Day!
- worst. disapproval rating. ever.
- Pastor Byrd proves Obama right
- speak for yourself, Newt!
- I always knew Bush was an asshole...
- liberal values
- "I'll give you any job you want!"
- Irvin Mayfield: Love Songs, Ballads and Standards
- Pope Ratz snubs Bush
- crayon art
- Obama and the gay press
- red shirts DO die more often!
- John "McNasty" McCain
- "What?"
- the quote to sink McCain's campaign
- too soon?
- John Yoo's tortured logic
- W: still the worst
- Henry Grimes: More Call
- even better...
- retort to the "National Atheists' Day" joke
- say it loud: I'm liberal and I'm proud!
- as delusional as D'Souza
- professor Obama
- pure awesomeness
- quote of the day...week...month...
- if Hillary is the Democratic nominee...
- Obama's Wright stuff
- blog against theocracy
- have a blasphemous Easter
- White House email evidence destroyed
- a great MT plugin
- expelled from Expelled
- atheism's power
- Iraq War II: five years
- RIP, Arthur C. Clarke
- Dionne on the Bear Stearns bailout
- Pentagon: "no direct connection between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda"
- conservatism is not dying
- atheist funerals
- no more torture
- Ralph Nader: The Seventeen Traditions
- P. Craig Russell: Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
- your phone calls, Verizon's network, the FBI's ears
- I miss Molly Ivins, but I love Amanda Marcotte
- it's going to be a long year...
- finding a balance between reading, writing, and blogging
- attention: White House press corps
- Star Wars + Saul Bass = funny
- FDR is the greatest modern president, Bush is the worst
- Buckley's notorious bigotry
- Obama: "equality is a moral imperative"
- the lying professor
- RIP, WFBjr
- John Dean: Broken Government
- once more into the breach
- I take requests: Congressional criminals
- did the Earth move for you, too?
- someone is wrong on the Internet
- WikiLeaks censored by US court
- 9/11 Commission Report data tainted by torture
- fisking the anti-gay fundies
- FISA humor
- feeling fisky
- "myths" and "facts" in the FISA debate
- FISA follow-up
- a "fisk-it-yourself" challenge
- furious about FISA
- why do Christianists lie about atheists?
- Congressional Democrats: "chicken doves"
- Obama's failing
- Lapham's Quarterly
- is Obama the "most liberal" senator?
- auto music
- Romney out
- "a little smudge there on your forehead"
- "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
- "fruitful" torture
- bizarre biblical tales
- Michel Onfray: Atheist Manifesto
- LOL theist
- Andre Comte-Sponville: The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
- Bush's final SOTU
- Sam Harris: Letter to a Christian Nation
- Bill Moyers: Moyers on America
- Dinesh D'Souza is wrong about his own deity
- Chris Rodda on HR 888
- a smooth-talking horse thief fleeing a lynch mob
- artists do not have "too much time on their hands!"
- Libertards?
- open shelves and open minds
- Matt Drudge: Drudge Manifesto
- who's the fool?
- Bush's big lies
- the comedo-political spectrum
- Ann Coulter: Godless
- anti-tracts
- happy 17th birthday, EFF
- atheist aphorisms
- Gitmo redux
- silent challenge
- Ted Rall: Generalissimo El Busho
- Gitmo follow-up
- The Onion does Jimmy Carter
- yes, it's orange...just like Gitmo garb
- what do you think?
- "the end of Ron Paul?"
- don't feed the trolls!
- McGovern: Bush is (still) worse than Nixon
- Ted Rall: Wake Up, You're Liberal!
- another addiction
- best comment about the GOP debate
- generation O
- P. Craig Russell: Isolation and Illusion
- only ten more months until the election
- Bush's surveillance state
- P. Craig Russell: The Art of P. Craig Russell
- integrity, principle, decency, and honor
- Paul Starr: Freedom's Power
- I want my tree back!
- "the emotion was just overwhelming"
- Led Zeppelin reviews
- al Qaeda assassinates Bhutto
- what are they trying to hide?
- Athens, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem
- Neil Jumonville & Kevin Mattson: Liberalism for a New Century
- John McGowan: American Liberalism
- solstice celebration
- defending Gore
- power and money? how about accuracy and honesty?
- ...and this is why I'll never get hired by DHS
- this is why I'm not allowed to put up Xmas decorations
- the war on Saturnalia
- quotes, quotes, everywhere...
- through the conservative looking glass
- analyzing the mortgage meltdown
- raisins and nails
- beware Windows Vista SP1
- Wil Wheaton is a writer
- why can't conservatives stop lying about Al Gore?
- Douglas Massey: Return of the "L" Word
- Hanukkah: "That's the day that the Jews killed Jesus"
- David Barash: The L Word
- torture under the GOP's big tent (part two)
- torture under the GOP's big tent (part one)
- MT: now open source!
- Romney needs a dictionary
- best. holiday card. ever.
- Louis Hartz: The Liberal Tradition in America
- atheist quotes
- "Mitt, you're no JFK"
- 18%
- will Kindle become an eBrain?
- angry atheists, again
- illiberal irreligion?
- Hitchens on Hanukkah
- Golden Compass reviews
- unconvincing arguments for god
- Paul Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal
- persecution fantasy gets fisked
- Christianity Today interviews Philip Pullman
- economic consequences of Bushism
- "not the true Church"
- "to read or not to read"
- Republicans boo gay veteran
- buy nothing day
- happy holidays!
- "we are hopeful that he will restore the constitution and get the country back to that path to democracy"
- Möbius transformations made easy
- quote of the day
- "an idiot or just shameless?"
- atheism rocks
- the emerging progressive majority?
- timing is everything
- for what it's worth
- D'Souza on the gay/atheist comparison
- too much irony
- the spectre of another pro-torture AG
- the perfect description
- done with D'Souza?
- what's so wrong about D'Souza
- shades of Pinochet…
- the Right's new smears
- a non-bright theist
- Ben Stein's "martyr complex"
- "stupid is as stupid does"
- in case you're wondering…
- D'Souza on the "atheism indoctrination project"
- Gore derangement syndrome
- "too far-left"
- coming out…of Christianity
- Sullivan on sacrifice
- Medved's mendacity
- Democratic complicity in Bush's lawlessness
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust”
- more Christian persecution complex
- Willfully wrong
- Iranian typography
- Sam Harris on "The Problem with Atheism"
- finding fascism
- atrocious parenting
- Banned Books Week and the soft bigotry of low comprehension
- secret approval of torture
- William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- "Christian nation" McCain
- Jason Schinder: The Poem That Changed America
- amoral atheists
- free lunches vs. free wars
- most Americans don't understand American history
- "…and swallow while you're at it"
- GOP opposes "basic principle of Western civilization" (again)
- quote of the day
- kevlar vests vs. prayer beads
- conservative op-eds
- "suck it, Jesus!"
- soundtrack similarities
- neuroscience and nuance
- where's Osama?
- Dawkins on Hitchens
- CIA: "Bush didn't give a fuck about the intelligence. He had his mind made up."
- jazz and democracy
- best wishes to the newlyweds!
- we need more clowns like these
- [insert joke here]
- a more dangerous book
- another rat deserts the ship…
- reading habits
- "elite, effete snobs" vs. "middle America"
- black sites
- out of the mouths of babes…
- Merv Griffin is “The Mogul”
- more D'Souza distortions
- quote of the day
- saint Dubya
- under the weather, under the gun
- FISA capitulation
- ignorance isn't blissful, it's sad
- come out, come out…
- another Snow job
- …pants on fire
- unitary lawlessness
- the problem is ignorance, not intolerance
- intellectual inferiority
- filibustering Bush's war in Iraq
- D'Souza D'Bigot
- asked and answered
- privacy is not a purely selfish good
- most dishonest WSJ editorial ever?
- Ganesha and the GOP
- an oath to protect the Constitution
- atheist books
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
- Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved
- Sullivan on Scooter's commutation
- all about Dick
- assault on reality
- supreme injustices
- what a Dick
- NSA: No Such Amperage
- Andrew Sullivan: The Conservative Soul
- more GOP scandals
- conservatism
- is the latest "great awakening" falling into a coma?
- assigning blame
- our "global oil-protection service"
- another win for marriage
- John Dean: Conservatives Without Conscience
- progressive majority
- are "evangelical atheists" threatening to Christians?
- new atheist website
- "Take, eat; this is my body…"
- go Bork yourself
- creation museum
- new atheism
- what price bigotry?
- a little Hitchens
- the GOP's god
- Greenwald on Bush
- Prager's delicate sensibilities
- tiny man in the big chair
- the Hitchens brothers
- more shoring up needed
- blogging the Koran
- trisecting an angle
- "I went to the Creation Museum…"
- Will’s weak case for conservatism
- a distorted view of religion
- what he said: disappointment and anger
- hatemongers^3
- whiskey. tango. foxtrot.
- Newt's "great possibility"
- more Hitchens on Falwell
- illegal spying imbroglio
- Hitchens on Falwell
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Man without a Country
- Jerry Falwell is dead
- dissing disbelievers
- the GOP and vote fraud
- I know it’s early…
- political graphics
- does Frank Pastore write book reviews for Publishers Weekly?
- a fight in the shade: analyzing 300's history and homophobia
- this is rich
- anti-atheist bias?
- great advice
- 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
- Sullivan ends debate with Harris
- "the commander guy"
- atheists "still thinking about it"
- "christian nation" rebuttal in cartoon form
- Bush's message to our troops
- conservatives for Clinton
- happy "mission accomplished" anniversary
- proud to be an atheist
- Fun Home at Pandagon book club
- correction to conservative caricature
- Rostropovich, RIP
- terrorist IED defused
- Moyers is back!
- 10 steps to a fascist America
- "mere contradictions, dressed up in velvet"
- O'Reilly vs. Dawkins
- D'Souza lies about atheists (again and again)
- Swift Boat Liars rise again
- a few corrections
- the big con
- Pascal's Wager debunked (again)
- D'Souza: still clueless
- the customer is always right(-wing)
- is this a joke?
- thoughts on taxation
- subpoenas
- so it goes: Kurt Vonnegut is up in heaven now
- Einstein on religion
- 2007 Muzzle awards
- CEO pay, corporate profits, and our paychecks
- preaching evil
- American Freedom Agenda
- nothing to fear…
- Coulter on evolution
- Beinhart on Bush's "library"
- quote of the day
- First Freedom First's "Blog Against Theocracy"
- almost-president Pelosi?
- jesus cottontail
- nun of the above
- Dionne's "answers to atheists"
- "epic collapse"
- Sam Harris vs. Rick Warren
- recovery? what recovery?
- Fukuyama on the end of neo-con history
- 300 remix
- former Bushie admits that Kerry was right
- hyperbole, histrionics, or honesty?
- best. headline. ever.
- Sullivan on Brooks
- hiatus? vacation?
- exiled from reason
- queer 101
- Medved: full of merde
- deflating the Gore pseudo-scandal
- déjà vu all over again?
- Paul Kurtz on "evangelical atheists"
- William Martin: The Best Liberal Quotes Ever
- Olbermann takes Rice to school
- Rob Boston responds to Jim Wallis
- conservative comedy
- "one giant, whining windbag"
- not the only book
- emulating the enemy
- the most honest man in news
- the religious left's in-fighting
- wonder
- Wesley Clark tries to prevent war with Iran
- when will the firings happen?
- Harris responds to Sullivan
- gays and the GOP
- Texas Monthly on Dubya's legacy
- closeted theists?
- "secularism is not the solution"
- Dubya wants to have anal sex with bin Laden
- stupid atheist?
- brights
- flat-earth wingnuts
- sad but true
- conservative crusades
- art in the face of tragedy
- why they resigned
- atheists in foxholes
- Sullivan disappoints
- Pelosi and "Planegate"
- the Edwards Two v. the CAPS LOCK CRETINS
- restoring the Constitution