According to the NYT it seems with issue #500 MAD Magazine will be going quarterly. According to editor John Ficarra: The feedback we’ve gotten from readers is that only every third issue of Mad is funny, so we decided to just publish those. I haven’t read much of the magazine lately but I do pop [...]
Now Reading
Planned books:
- Coincidance : A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson
- Atheism: The Case Against God (Skeptic’s Bookshelf) by George H. Smith
- Why I Am Not A Christian And Other Essays On Religion And Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
- The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
- Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg
Current books:
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
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Programming Android by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
Recent books:
- Free Will by Sam Harris
- The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (Little Books of Wisdom) by Thomas Jefferson
- Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All- —and What We Can Do About It by Sean Faircloth
- Children of the Reckoning: Firewall by Kimberly Beyer-Nelson
- Under the Stained Glass Ceiling: Atheists’ Precarious Place in Modern American Politics by Paul Fidalgo
Why I am boycotting “The Simpsons” and you should too!
So I find out today that Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, has lent her voice recording to a robo-call for a scientology event. I can’t for the life of me figure out why she would do such a thing. So she is a Scientologist. Big deal. I can only think of 3 possible [...]