I’ve met author and WaPo columnist Paula Kirby I think twice around various conferences, and I have spoken to her only once, very briefly, last year in Dublin. We disagreed on the difficulties, the misogyny, sexism and potential harassment faced by females trying to get involved in the atheist and skeptic movements. Vehemently, IIRC. Continue reading
- "If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men."-- Baron d'Holbach
- What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens
- None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me. -- Rorschach
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