Hello, Southern California!
I'm going to be on radio station KPFK, 90.7 FM in LA, at 12:15 California time. You can also listen in via the web. This is a left-wing Pacifica station, so I'm sure they'll be piping it into all the California shopping malls in place of Muzak, so if you're out shopping, maybe you'll hear me too. Read the comments on this post...

An Australian double standard
In March, there's going to be a massive atheist conference in Melbourne, Australia. It's going to be excellent, with speakers being brought in from around the world, and with mobs of delighted godless Aussies gathering to celebrate and discuss secularism (I know some of my readers here will be there!) Reasonably enough, the Atheist Organization of Australia has asked the government to chip in and help them do it right with a request for about a quarter million dollars. The government has been dragging its feet, though, punting the request about and making no promises. Now you might say that times are tough, the econo

A wicked twist
Michael Young was a nasty old Christian bigot who lived a long life and left his fortune to his relatives. Apparently,though, fundamentalist hate isn't necessarily heritable, and one of those relatives, who I think is named Anthony Perry, established the Michael Young Fund, and is handing out the money to…well, follow the link. Let's just say it's a good thing there is no afterlife, or he'd be seething in even greater torment. Just to forestall the usual whines, what if this happened to me, and I left money to my kids and one of them used the capital to hand out cash to organizations I disliked? I'

Darn it, I didn't even know these were on the market
Or I would have roasted one yesterday. I wonder if you can get free-range turctopus? Read the comments on this post...

Friday Cephalopod: Black Friday
Vampyroteuthis infernalis Read the comments on this post...