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I finally put my Facebook profile to rest today. I’ve already had people ask me what that’s all about. Which is sort of funny. I’d been warning about its demise for weeks. Shows you how much attention folks pay to anything I say, huh? From here on out, I’ll only be using the Facebook page [...]

And there she was. Radiant light cascaded down upon her skin. There was no shame or embarrassment in her nakedness. It was not that she was above such things, or had transcended childish notions of propriety. Those human conceits had never occurred to her. Simple as that. They were alien concepts. She was born into [...]

I realized today that I’m getting old. Okay, look. I’m 28. I know I’m a long way from old. But it’s beginning to sink in that I’m closer to 30 than to 20. Now, I could care less about age. It’s just a number. But in some ways I think my perception of myself has [...]

I’ve been thinking that the time may have come to hand over the reigns of PaganCentric to someone else. There are a lot of reasons for it. But mostly, I’m just tired. Increasingly, what I’m trying to do with my students in the real world has little to do with PaganCentric and its web site. [...]

I posted a question and answer to the PaganCentric web site, and immediately regretted it. While our local “gang” has its own identity in the real world, the web site has taken on a life and character all its own. It seems that whenever I stray from that, we start losing people. So I’m faced [...]

It looks like Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) will become America’s first openly bisexual member of Congress (and only the second openly non-theist member in its history). I couldn’t really tell you why this pleases me. Maybe because whenever you hear “openly gay Senator” it’s always some greasy man who looks more like your pedophile uncle than [...]

I was given a tongue-in-cheek challenge by one of my students. Accidentally, for the most part. But it came from an interesting question during a discussion about the relative merits of offensive art and the subjective definition of how one defines what is “offensive”. I was asked for an example of a piece of art [...]

I have a meeting tomorrow morning with someone affiliated with my recent enemies at Ergo On Air. Seems they want to hire me to do some consulting work concerning another Internet radio station they’re starting. Needless to say, I’m a bit wary of the whole thing. But let’s face it, money is money. And as [...]

It kind of sucks to be all excited about your security clearance being upgraded, only to get into a fight with your girlfriend over it (because you can’t tell her why you needed one). As in “what do you do that requires a security clearance?” and, ”You don’t trust me enough to tell me what you [...]

I was surprised to discover over the weekend that a post I wrote in 2009 about Pagans and my personal take on Saint Patrick’s Day got a big response this year. It always spikes a bit, but this year the article received around 6,000 unique visits (that means 6,000 different people, not 6 people refreshing [...]