I self-publish as a means to teach myself new skills and topics. The following is an expansion on one section of that mission statement, organized around the mistakes I made and how I fixed them. My self-publishing began in 1979. Most of those items are lost. My mistake with the work from 1979 to the beginning [...]
Here is what is to be done in the United States: Subject religious organizations to the same requirements as secular non-profit organizations: demonstrate they perform a quantifiable public good to receive tax-exempt status. Do not donate any funds, labor or resources to Islamic organizations: there are secular equivalents to any Islamic organization for those who [...]
“Cutting,” “abrasive,” “sarcastic,” offensive” … These are just some of the words used to describe the Freethinker magazine, which was launched in Britain in 1881 and has continued publishing without a break ever since. But it was the word “blasphemous,” dropped from the lips of a hostile judge, that that got its founder and first [...]
Image c/o Retronaut. Thanks to the following for linking to OVO. Eithin links to Liberating Wednesday. Monday Vatican links to The Concordant Story. Financial Advices Blog links to The Bonus Army. Rambone at Indiana Gun Owners links to The Bonus Army. The American Book of the Dead links to Unspeakable Horrors.
Alayna May Wyland of Clackamas, Oregon. This young girl was burdened with a mass of blood vessels called a hemangioma at birth. Usually a minor surgery corrects this problem. But Alayna has parents that believe an invisible monster in the sky caused her to be born with a hemangioma, and only incantations and spells to [...]
