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This is short notice, but hey, it's not like the residents of North Dakota could have anything else planned*: August Berkshire, that other atheist in Minnesota, will be speaking in Fargo on Tuesday evening.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7:00 pm - August Berkshire, past vice president of Atheist Alliance International, will do his one-hour presentation "Exploring Atheism" for a meeting hosted by Atheists, Agnostics & Secular Humanists (AASH) in the Rose Room of Memorial Union, North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, ND. Free and open to the public.
*After that opening potshot, the North Dakotans will be snarling at me…it's OK, of the two noisy atheists in Minnesota, August is the nice one. Go see him and find out.
Comments
Posted by: Abstruseoddity
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December 8, 2009 1:11 AM
Doesn't Greg Laden live in Minnesota? He counts as an atheist, doesn't he?
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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December 8, 2009 1:16 AM
pffft...
Posted by: blf | December 8, 2009 1:35 AM
There's a whole two atheists in Minnesota? Egads, the clown-nailed-to-a-tree cult is, amazingly, right: It's a dogless wasteland, overlorded by commie liberal fascist Teh Gay baby-eating slaveholding daemons from the deepest hottest shitfull netherhells (near where earthquakes and porn are made).
Are there any beer volcanoes there? 'Cept for the snow (and presumably a few other things) almost sounds like paradise!
Posted by: Bob O'H | December 8, 2009 2:31 AM
Abstruseoddity - I'll let you into a secret. PZed doesn't exist - he's actually a character made up by a committee of three baptists, two mormons and Bora.
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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December 8, 2009 2:42 AM
I'd love to go, but Fargo is a ways from my bit of ND and it's during the week...can't make it.
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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December 8, 2009 2:49 AM
Go away, Mabus.
Posted by: Gyeong Hwa Pak | December 8, 2009 2:50 AM
I had no idea that you were Incan, Mabus.
Posted by: F
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December 8, 2009 3:35 AM
Low-rent graffiti-bot returns. It's good to have a hobby.
Posted by: Janine, She Wolf Of Pharyngula, OM | December 8, 2009 4:02 AM
It is pointless to engage with a troll with the reasoning abilies of a mocking bird.
Posted by: raven | December 8, 2009 4:17 AM
Doesn't look like that time in the mental hospital helped much.
He will be back there soon enough. Soon the month long incarcerations will turn into years, then decades.
Posted by: Darren | December 8, 2009 4:25 AM
Just watch out for the wood chipper.
Posted by: Fish | December 8, 2009 4:49 AM
Why is the crazy person linking to James Randi and Rational Response Squad?
Posted by: devnulljp
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December 8, 2009 5:41 AM
Fucking hell, someone's off their meds again? Hey, pzfool@mail.com, pzdimmy, dmab88, drma55, go back to masturbating in your own faeces will you, there's a good chap. Adults are talking here. Nursie will be along in a minute to help you into your jacket...you now the nice one with the really long arms.
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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December 8, 2009 5:58 AM
Fish @ 17:
Because Mabus is crazy. Delusional obsessive crazy. Spam spam spam spam spam crazy. Annoying too.
Posted by: kiki | December 8, 2009 6:19 AM
That Mabus is kinda funny-lookin'. Just in a general sorta way.
Posted by: madbull | December 8, 2009 6:54 AM
Sometimes I think speciation will occur without geographic isolation and just thought isolation.
The loonies will breed with loonies , the rational with the rational. .
I know its an absurdity, but watching the piles of rubbish posted here.. its a recurring thought.
Posted by: Joe Zamecki | December 8, 2009 7:28 AM
August Berkshire is great! He's really done a lot of good work for the movement. I'd love to see him speak, if I wasn't way down south.
Posted by: MikeTheInfidel
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December 8, 2009 8:01 AM
On another note, CNN currently has a phenomenally stupid poll up on its front page:
Sigh.
Posted by: PZ Myers
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December 8, 2009 8:48 AM
I was joking. Minnesota is swarming with atheists. Mabus has his work cut out for him if he really expects to exterminate us all by wandering about to Montreal internet cafe's to post whining screeds to the web.
Posted by: negentropyeater | December 8, 2009 9:16 AM
Evidence #2010-A-1438 for "religion is evil" :
New Ugandan anti_homosexuality bill:
• People who test positive for HIV may be executed
• Homosexuals who have sex with a minor, or engage in homosexual sex more than once, may also receive the death penalty
• The bill forbids the "promotion of homosexuality," which in effect bans organizations working in HIV and AIDS prevention
• Anyone who knows of homosexual activity taking place but does not report it would risk up to three years in prison
Of course, it has the blessing of many religious leaders -- Muslim and Christian :
Who will go to HIV testing if he knows that he will suffer the death sentence?
Posted by: erp | December 8, 2009 9:40 AM
Strictly speaking there have been a few religious leaders against the bill (very few in Uganda (I'm not sure about Minnesota or North Dakota), notably Canon Gideon Byamugisha who has called it "state-legislated genocide").
Posted by: xebecs | December 8, 2009 1:09 PM
Do you mean Borat? That idea actually tickles me rather nicely.
Posted by: Tyler Almquist
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December 8, 2009 4:23 PM
No snarling from me PZ!....it's true, there really is nothing else to do in ND. Anyway, chalk down one Fargo atheist going to the talk :)
Posted by: Onion | December 8, 2009 11:23 PM
Two noisy atheists? Aside August, who's the other one?
Posted by: MAJeff, OM
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December 8, 2009 11:25 PM
I had to bake cookies for a student bake sale taking place tomorrow. I hope folks down south in Fargo had a good evening.