I don’t think it would be exaggerating to say that Obama kicked ass in the Potomac Primaries yesterday: we’re talking about a frickin’ 50% lead in DC. When was the last time you saw a 50% lead? If you’ll forgive me a little apples and oranges comparison here, two hundred years ago, James Madison beat [...]

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An Atheist’s Prayer is back! I started this podcast with Jana’s help about a year and a half ago, and people had many kind things to say about it. When we stopped producing them, we would receive occasional queries about when the next one would come out. I’ve made a couple of changes to the [...]

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this was just shared with me today: my sister’s mother-in-law wishes everyone happy birthday for everyone’s birthday. This may either be a Dutch tradition, an Indonesian tradition, a Dutch-Indonesian tradition, or just the mother-in-law in question. So she calls my sister on her husband’s birthday and says “Happy your husband’s birthday!” I think this is [...]

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Every student should be able to design their own classes.  Think about how many freakin’ Einsteins we’d have if teenage boys could create classes like “The Chemistry of Blowing Stuff Up” and “The Physics of Breast Movement in 3D Gaming Worlds.” I’m not saying that there wouldn’t be some *negative repercussions.  (We desperately need more [...]

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Courtesy of icanhascheezburger. (Thanks, Joe!) Three more links, in case the “celing cat” reference went over your head. Also, we’ve messed around a bit with lolReligion in the past, here at Mind on Fire.

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When my husband went to Tibet with his father for his (the father’s) 60th birthday, they each brought me back a priceless gift. My husband brought a jewelry set that is precious to me because it signifies the moment that we both knew we would get married. My father-in-law brought back a Buddhist mala made [...]

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In catching up on the news today, I came across a pagan article titled “Who Would the Goddess Vote For?” Because I think it’s a little closer to our collective cultural understanding, I’d like to change the question to How Would Jesus Vote? The CA primaries are over, so I’m a little more interested in [...]

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or, How Walkable is Your Neighborhood? I’ve been walking to the local grocery store recently. Mostly because I think it’s a waste to get into my car after having driven home simply because I don’t have any ideas about what dinner should be. And because my favorite grocery store, TJ’s is not too far, just [...]

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Note: This is the latest installment of “Leaving the Garden,” a weekly series in which we ask someone to reflect on their journey from religious conviction to uncertainty, from dogmatism to doubt. Religion is filled with stories of faith; here we will collect narratives of unbelief. Some are lifelong atheists who have flirted with religion; [...]

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I just saw the first episode of Eli Stone, a new show on ABC (if you follow that link, let me know if they fixed it; the last time I was there, it proclaimed itself to be the site for “LI STONE”, Eli’s lesser known younger brother-cum-fibber). Can I just say? Awesome! [insert my nephew [...]

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