Some people are using their February 29th to do something exotic--maybe hot air ballooning in the desert or visiting sea turtles on the bl...

You have to admit, this is a brilliant project.   I converted someone by the name of Donna Thomson this morning. It's touching how i...

 Beautiful. Excruciating. Beautiful and excruciating.

... this funny business in the land of philosophy. I s'pose I shouldn't be laughing quite so hard, what with the specter of total p...

"Victims of rape?  Who cares?  Religion is under assault in this country!  Wahhhhh!" (loose paraphrase of both Romney and Santor...

A couple of nights ago I gave a talk about love and death at SMU's secular humanist club, with many in attendance from the Dallas Fellow...

A student in my Animal Rights class asked me several years ago whether I thought humanity would ever be 100% vegan.  Over the years, I...

Best thing, this Chipotle commercial. If a big restaurant chain wants to run commercials decrying factory farming, I'm all for it.  What...

So--the Obama administration is struggling to explain why it's reasonable to require Catholic hospitals and schools to cover contrace...

I hope democrats aren't going to let Mitt Romney get away with this.  It seems he finds it a terrible assault on freedom of conscience t...

Julian Baggini traveled around the US interviewing atheists for this article in the Financial Times .  The general picture: not pleasant. ...

So good, so weird, so beautiful.... The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , V...

I would very much like it to be the case that I am free.  But what (I've been wondering) is it that I want? I don't just want to h...

Haley "drunk drivers are my friends" Barbour When Mississippi governor Haley Barbour left office last month, he created a furo...

This looks like a tower in which you'd imprison a princess for 100 years, but it's supposed to be a temple to atheism--or more pre...

And I thought my classes were pretty fun and innovative.  Here's Emrys Westacott talking about one of his classes-- I teach a course ...

This may help you sleep better tonight.  From Real Clear Politics--

I haven't read it yet, but this post by Rhys Southan on whether animals have inherent value looks interesting. Also on my things-to-r...

This is fun!  From a book called Favorite Wife , by Susan Ray Schmidt. She was one of 10 wives of a man who had a total of 58 children befor...

The innumerable Santorums Update:  Mark Oppenheimer talks about the large families of the Republican candidates in today's New Yor...

Should this man get paid for his songs?  (Yes.) Update (1/19):  I was happy to see this from Brian Leiter today :  "it seems to me ...

Julian Baggini acknowledges the value of prayer , despite being a non-believer: I do think that prayer, like many rituals, is something th...

I've made a surprising number of discoveries already in 2012 - apparently it's going to be a great year.  Without further ado: (1)...

Next time I teach my course on the meaning of life I will have to discuss the lyrics of "Everlasting Everything," a (swoon) fantas...

It looks like Rick Santorum is going to be around for a while.  In fact a horrible thought has entered my mind: he's eventually goin...