No shame if you don’t. I’d almost forgotten him. Monsarrat was part of Edwina Rogers’ attempts to stay relevant in the secular movement after being fired from the Secular Coalition for America (SCA). Specifically, he was the part that got rude and abrasive with local group leaders who didn’t want to sign up for Rogers’ new organization, parts of the website of which bore a marked resemblance to materials produced for the SCA. Some excerpts:| Almost Diamonds
When the results come in that lopsided, it is fair to ask: Why do we keep writing Get Out the Vote postcards to ruby red areas?| Greta Christina's Blog
Hermit crabs are not the only crustacean that takes another animal’s shell for its own. This behaviour isn’t even particularly rare, technically; several species of assassin bugs decorate their spiky bodies with the remains of their prey and octopuses use whatever they can find, including discarded shells, as mobile shelters. One crustacean, however, takes its borrowed shell one step farther, and that is Phronima sedentaria, the barrel shrimp.| The Perfumed Void
In a world where it can be tricky for nonmonogamous people to find each other, or find enough of each other, and where some people figure out their nonmonogamous nature while already in relationships, it’s natural that sometimes, nonmonogamous and monogamous individuals end up in intimate connection with one another. The results, “mono-poly relationships,” are the subject of extensive discourse, to the point of getting an entire chapter to themselves in More Than Two Second Edition. And...| The Perfumed Void
Thomas the Tank Engine becomes a Hell-Machine, thanks to the Forces of Chaos in Warhammer 40K. Is this really that implausible?| The Orbit full network feed
I try to turn my head but there is nothing to see. In fact I’m not even sure I can feel my body or tell it what to do anymore. There is only darkness and the voices inside my head have drowned out the ones outside.| The Orbit full network feed
I'm too busy being angry about Nicole Arteaga, an Arizona woman who was refused emergency contraception, to bother with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.| The Orbit full network feed
Sometimes I wonder how life might have gone differently if I’d refused. But once you’ve made a decision, there’s not much use in guessing what the other might have brought you.| The Orbit full network feed
Sometimes, when the nights are quiet and still, and the illusion of safety creeps into my bed, I still dream about The Last Known Date. Because everything before that has become elusive as its relevance disappears. A story I recite like a prayer, but not one which I can truly say I faithfully remember anymore.| The Orbit full network feed
Harriet the Spy is ultimately a story of learning how to be true to oneself while also bending your overly rigid moral code. But it is not Harriet’s development as a child that brought me back as a thirty-something reader. Rather, it is her own unfiltered take on other girls, women, and femininity itself.| The Orbit full network feed
Backs glisten as they wrestle each other to the ground over a football, rubbing grass and dirt into their knees and chests. The smallest boy has long black bangs he constantly pushes from his face as it drips with sweat. I like watching him the most.| The Orbit full network feed
The Black Skeptics Scholarship Committee is now accepting applications for our First in Family and Catherine Fahringer Memorial scholarships.The First in Family Humanist Scholarship: Four $1,000 scholarships are awarded to high school youth to assist with their tuition, room and board, books, and other academic resources. This award is available to anyone who attends the Los Angeles Unified School District and are accepted into two or four-year colleges regardless of if they are religions...| Black Skeptics
