Bay of Fundie

Photograph by Melanie Einzig The On the Media blog has an interesting article by PJ Vogt. He writes that he considers the above image to be one of the most memorable photos shot on the morning of Sept. 11. I agree. The incongruity of the mundane with the horrific is riveting. The photograph also contradicts [...]

“There is a Growing Tendency to Think of Man as a Rationally Thinking Being… Which is Absurd. There is simply no evidence of any intelligence on the Earth.” (YouTube page is here) When I was growing up, my family would sometimes go back to my grandfather’s farm in South Dakota for a couple of weeks [...]

One link leads to another, and the next thing you know you’ve landed someplace strange. Tonight I ended up at My First Dictionary. They only had crappy picture dictionaries when I was a kid. If this one had existed, I probably would have learned to read even earlier than I did. And I would have [...]

The iPad has suddenly made the Kindle appear long in the tooth, but I had no idea just how antiquated the Kindle actually was. Yesterday, I was searching for books by George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley linguist with some intriguing yet controversial ideas on the differences between how liberals and conservatives think. This is one [...]

Last Saturday, I went to the San Francisco Green Festival. This is my story. The experience actually began as I was walking from BART to the Concourse Exhibition Center. I saw this spray-painted onto an overpass support: Why do people do that? Is their message so important that they have to deface public property? Do [...]

I came across the website of some philosopher named James Spiegel, who has written a book called The Making of an Atheist. The opening paragraph on his web page caught my attention: Sigmund Freud famously dismissed belief in God as a psychological projection caused by wishful thinking. Today many of the “new atheists”—including Richard Dawkins, [...]

(Click image to embiggen) Long-time Bay of Fundie readers are familiar with crackpot creatard Kevin Wirth, his crackpot creatard buddy Jerry Bergman, and Kevin’s endless shilling of Bergman’s book Slaughter of the Dissidents. As bad as books such as The Secret and Going Rogue are, at least they’re from reputable publishers who nominally go through [...]

(From The Daily Irritant) [Update: Welcome to everyone coming over from Crooks and Liars! Why is it every time I write about dildos I get more traffic?] Yesterday, I got a quick mention in Sadly, No! about an old wetsuit/dildo mishap. If you’re one of those readers, welcome! If you then came to this article [...]