In Daniel Radosh's funny and memorable book "Rapture Ready", the author talks extensively about Christian literature and the willingness of evangelicals to buy their specialty products, no matter how shoddy or terrible they are. Hilariously enough, retailers that cater to Christian pop culture seem to be fully aware of just how tacky and terrible their own products are, so much so that they refer to the vas ...

Hey parents, can I ask you something? Do you ever fear that the degree to which you wish to protect your children from any kind of harm makes you absolutely batshit insane sometimes? The rest of us childless folks have to wonder what kind of effect having offspring has on your brain, because your behavior can often be described as utterly mental. Take this story involving parents banning the 6th edition of ...

I just finished helping my mom move, so you'll all have to wait until tomorrow for the podcast and blog posts to go up. I'm exhausted and all I want to do is chill the fuck out. Enjoy your Tuesday everybody! NOTE: I'm actually sick as a dog today, and it's taken me everything just to put up a notice that I need another day of rest before I am better. Two days without content; hopefully none of you go mad... ...

I hate football. I know that's not a popular opinion to have, especially when about 70% of my visitors are Americans, but considering the average 3 hour game only has a total of about 11 minutes of actual play time, I find it both incredibly dull and utterly pointless. I can't, however, deny that there is something about the way it's put together. They've even managed to make showing commercials something t ...

Looks like John Travolta is a man of his word; a few days ago he was talking about flying a bunch of his weirdos in yellow shirts to the devastated country, and a news report has come out stating that a "private donor" has sent 80 volunteer (along with 50 real doctors) down there. The problem right now is that the huge influx of volunteers in the country has actually slowed down aid relief. Some are just sh ...

If you're not a regular visitor to randi.org (that's famous skeptic James Randi's website), you might not know about their fight against dangerous quackery; more specifically, their attempts to expose bogus "bomb detectors" that are nothing more than dowsing devices. The device in question, called the ADE-651, has no electronic components to speak of and has a rather unimpressive looking antenna on it. This ...

About 3 years late, the people over at Vanity Fair decided it was time to visit this mosoleum of ignorance, a testament to the strong desire of the faithfully ignorant to have their beliefs strengthened by any means necessary. The pictures in the article, strangely enough, were taken by actor Paul Bettany, the atheist actor who portrayed Charles Darwin in the movie "Creation". Watching it is on my to-do lis ...

It's nice to know that the American military hasn't completely lost their minds; they've  successfully pressured the morons at Trijicon into removing Biblical references on their scopes. I guess the whole "Jesus Rifles" moniker actually caught on, and there was no doubt in everyone with half a brain that this kind of practice would be putting soldiers lives at risk for no good reason. Now you just need to r ...

Ok, so I'm finishing up the new Good Atheist logo, and I'd like to hear what you guys think; after all, I'm planning on putting this sucker on all kinds of fun swag that will become available in the coming months. I've hear some of you asking for mugs, shirts and other trinkets, but if you have any other additional ideas for things to sell, I'm all ears. Technically, you're the one buying it, so I'd be a fo ...

Nothing cures your crippling importance like a bunch of pointy needles inserted in random parts of your body. Now I'm no scientist, but if you're suffering from asthma and a possible hernia, do you really think your first stop should an acupuncturist? Are you on fucking crack? (via HeyOk) ...