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I Am an Empatheist
Atheist biologist Jerry Coyne asked his blog readers today to coin one word that could be used for atheists who are accomodating—rather than combative—in their attitudes toward religion. H… more →
Prometheus Unbound
This Is One Of The Signs Of The Apocalypse, We Swear
aroundthesphere wrote 1 month ago: Hugh Hewitt interviewed Richard Dawkins. Yes, you read that right. Hewitt interviewed Dawkins. Stock … more →
The Evolution Of A Blogginghead; Or The Ballad Of Jim And Jerry
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aroundthesphere wrote 2 months ago: Earlier, we updated “B-head On The G-head” to include Jim Manzi’s post at Sully … more →
I Am an Empatheist
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santitafarella wrote 4 months ago: Atheist biologist Jerry Coyne asked his blog readers today to coin one word that could be used for a … more →
Mental Health Break: Neil Diamond Sings "Suzanne"
santitafarella wrote 6 months ago: This song has all the disjunctures and ambiguities of a great poem: I always assumed that Neil Diamo … more →
"H1N1": A Poem by Santi Tafarella
santitafarella wrote 6 months ago: I guess evolution’s true. It started as a pig virus, but then the swine flew. Bit pig, bit bir … more →
"An Outing in Nature": A YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella
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Mental Health Break: My Uncle Writing Jokes at a Kitchen Table
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My Uncle on Television with Woody Allen---and Forty Years Later
santitafarella wrote 8 months ago: In February of 1967, Marty Allen and Steve Rossi were on the television show, What’s My Line? … more →
Walt Whitman and Barack Obama are Large and Contain Multitudes?
santitafarella wrote 9 months ago: I saw Walt Whitman in Obama here. Today I discovered that novelist Zadie Smith made the same connect … more →
"The Vampire" (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
santitafarella wrote 9 months ago: She calls it love at first sight, so I’ll play with her cliche, let it … more →
Negative Capability Defined: Walking in Mysteries---and the Shoes of Others---with Keats, Shakespeare, Whitman---and Barack Obama!
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santitafarella wrote 9 months ago: In a letter dated 22 December, 1817, the poet John Keats coined the term “negative capability … more →
Seeing the Decline of Religion with the Wide Lens
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santitafarella wrote 10 months ago: Heather Mac Donald of SecularRight.org looks past the up and down ticks of contemporary Gallup polls … more →
Should Parents Have Substantial Freedom in the Religious Education of Their Children?
santitafarella wrote 10 months ago: As a liberal agnostic, whenever I hear illiberal agnostics or atheists hint that maybe the State sho … more →
Yin-Yang Fish (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
santitafarella wrote 11 months ago: The highest cloud blocking the sun moved and the clouds below it, and the boat sails, and th … more →
"Nothing Staged Can Stay" (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
santitafarella wrote 12 months ago: before the night’s glittering black curtain the Father of dung beatles moves the moon … more →
Obamageddon Cancelled: Rush Limbaugh's and Sean Hannity's Chicken Little Hysteria Act Over What an Obama Cabinet Would Look Like Proves Utterly Divorced from Reality
santitafarella wrote 1 year ago: All through 2008, the far-right cried like Chicken Little about Obama being a secret Muslim, communi … more →
"Lot's Wife" (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
santitafarella wrote 1 year ago: I am the salty sea your once amphibious daughters called home, and all my vital organs are h … more →
Dr. McStrangelove?: In Debate #3, John McCain Seems to Channel Dr. Strangelove, Having Trouble Not Jumping Out of His Chair With Anger
santitafarella wrote 1 year ago: Dreher: McCain was two tics away from a vein-popping “You can’t handle the truth!” … more →
McCain's "Terrorist," "Traitor," and "Secret Muslim" Inuendos Yield Their Fruit: Angry Hysterics Now Flocking to McCain's Rallies
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