A friend of mine just started a Free Thought group on Facebook. It’s secret, so it doesn’t show up on any of our pages. While I’m dismayed that he thinks it’s necessary to meet in secret (rather than meet in a room at the school, an undisclosed location in public is noted on the group [...]

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Post updated 2009-10-25 1:55PM Pacific Time: My contribution follows this introduction and the participant links. Thanks again to everyone who participated in the 18-hr comic event, either by contributing or by encouraging us along. CatGirl is the only one who achieved the main goal of 18-pages in 18 hours, and hopefully she will post them [...]

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[Final Update: Here is the link to my final creation, which also has links to other participants' works: You Are Here: A Photographic Journey Thru Heaven & Hell ] I will be updating this throughout the day. 6:16 am: GameBoy wakes me up and reminds me I need to take him to his all day [...]

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Previous 18-hour comic day announcements: John: You’re Invited to 18-Hour Comic Day. Galen: Invitation to 18 hr Comic Day!! Galen: 18 hr comic details… Just a reminder that tomorrow is 18-hour comic day, which is Galen and my softcore response to the more insane 24-hour comic day. You are all invited to join us, and [...]

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Because I am a wild man, I like doing crazy things. Next month, I am going to try to crank out a novel. Fortunately, I will not suffer this madness in isolation. This November, at least 100,000 insane folks from around the world will try to accomplish the same. This sorry lot will suffer unbearable [...]

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I spent about 2-3 hours over the past couple of days writing a point by point rebuttal to LDS apostle Dallin Oaks’ recent talk in which he compares recent violence and harassment against Prop 8 supporters to the violence and intimidation tactics of opponents of the Civil Rights Movement. For the past hour I’ve been [...]

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I apologize for the music video, this appears to be the only one available for this song. Although it seems to promote the fallacy that people need sex, I listen to it and think that it actually promotes the fact that sex is more than just physical “I’ve got to find another way to get [...]

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Over the past few years, I’ve started to see myself more and more as a creative being. I think the seeds for this were planted when a) I submitted my first short story to a contest and won, and b) I received kudos from graphic designers for the first incarnation of this blog. So I’ve [...]

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There is a refrain I encountered over and over across the Internet and in the media today: it says that President Obama has offered nothing more than speeches and vision in the cause of peace. Now, I’m not arguing that he has done enough to merit the Nobel Peace Prize, but his administration has *taken [...]

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“Wow!” was my initial, unbridled reaction when I read about the Nobel committee’s selection of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was in bed, reading the news on my iPhone, and leapt out to share it with the kids. Before I could say anything, I was greeted with, “Yeah, Dad, Obama won the [...]

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