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Category: Godlessness
Posted on: September 7, 2008 5:03 AM, by PZ Myers
At 9am Sunday on Atheists Talk radio, it's me! I'll be telling you all about My Summer Vacation, my trip to the Galápagos. Tune in and call in!
Afterwards, at 11, we'll be meeting for brunch at Q. Cumbers — stop by if you're in the area and say hello.
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Comments
Posted by: clinteas | September 7, 2008 6:59 AM
PZ,
think of your readers around the world,give us those times in GMT !
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | September 7, 2008 7:52 AM
0900 in whatever weird time you slugabeds keep in Minnesota, okay. What is that in real money? Oh I'll just have to guess. About teatime.
Posted by: SC | September 7, 2008 8:16 AM
Please see here for times:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/08/radio_reminder_23.php#comment-1066305
- SC, fulfilling your time-conversion needs since 2008
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | September 7, 2008 8:28 AM
With 24.5 time zones around the world, why would it be important for PZ to accommodate all of his readers around the world? GMT is no longer relevant as Minnesota is now the center of the Atheist World, and the world needs to synch to us not the other way around.
For streaming live, if you need a zip code you can borrow mine. "55112."
Please return it in the condition you found it.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | September 7, 2008 8:52 AM
Good questions for callers are:
Just how sick were you when you came back?
How much did you evolve while on the islands?
How are the animals able to cohabitate without street preachers telling them what they should do?
Posted by: JoJo | September 7, 2008 9:31 AM
OT
As part of the Sunday morning ritual, we should read the comics. Here's 9 Chickweed Lane for today.
Posted by: Mena | September 7, 2008 10:32 AM
If I were to guess that Ron Reagan is an atheist, would I be correct? This seems to indicate that but perhaps he's one of the "but god is directing it" people?
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6879
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | September 7, 2008 11:07 AM
Thing about Ron Reagan (the son) is that he remembers back to a time before the current wave of extreme anti-intellectualism hit the Republican Party. He's about the same age as me and PZ, so he would have been in his late teens during the Nixon administration. By modern standards, Nixon was a "big government" President, what the right would call a liberal. He called for universal health insurance, introduced wage and price controls, all the things that the Reagan years later took off the electoral map. During his presidency religion was not as much an issue in politics, and beyond a tag saying the he was a Quaker there is nothing about religion or God or any of the social hot topics of later years.
Unlike later Presidents, he didn't have to pretend to be sympathetic to the religious loonies or share their views.
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | September 7, 2008 11:15 AM
#8 addendum
beyond a tag saying the he was a Quaker there is nothing about religion or God or any of the social hot topics of later years
... in his Wikipedia article.
Posted by: JoJo | September 7, 2008 11:35 AM
Considering that Nixon was a naval officer during World War II, he wore his Quakerism rather lightly.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | September 7, 2008 11:48 AM
Plus, Nixon was not a crook. I heard him say so.
Posted by: Rob | September 7, 2008 11:52 AM
I came here to post JoJo's link, ya beat me to it.
Here's the same link that'll work for two weeks instead of just today
Posted by: Mena | September 7, 2008 12:07 PM
Thanks for the clarification, Tony Sidaway. I barely remember the Nixon presidency, other than watching the resignation and I remember hearing the term "Watergate" but never really understood what it meant since I was all of 5 years old when that happened.
Posted by: Scott | September 7, 2008 12:10 PM
Evangelical Palin poll, anyone?
Posted by: Maureen Lycaon | September 7, 2008 12:26 PM
Apropos of nothing, really, but I wanted to share this:
A Note to All by Anne Kilkenny
It's firsthand opinion of Sarah Palin, by a woman who lives in the city that Palin was mayor of for six years.
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | September 7, 2008 12:33 PM
I got a stack trace from the poll. They must have left their debug flag set to true.
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | September 7, 2008 1:37 PM
Quick! There are only five more hours to vote for "Black Hole" in The Guardian's End of the World poll!
Poll: Is the end nigh?
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | September 7, 2008 3:52 PM
O/T: Sarah Palin's church is tied to not just "Jews for Jesus", but Joel's Army/"Third Wave" nuts as well -- guys so nutty even the Assemblies of God have disowned them.
Check it out:
http://www.atheists.org/nogodblog/index.php/2008/09/07/palin_and_joel_s_army
Posted by: woody, tokin librul | September 7, 2008 6:30 PM
Did any of you get to The General's Page today? If not, get thee hence, thereupon to learn why, in fact, despite what certain deluded romantics seem to think, No, no puedes ustedes!" No, You Can't!, and where ever it was you thought you could, the sky wasn't EVER blue...A sobering read...The Ginr'l nails it in his customary, straightforward way.
A taste:
It's their utter contempt for even the niceties of simply pretending to be trying to conceal their depredations that worries me the most. They just do not give a fuck, anymore.Posted by: Bill Dauphin | September 7, 2008 8:35 PM
Podcast? I don't have Rachel to listen to on Mondays; I need you guys!