Skepticism and Religion

Yes, I have my laptop, yes, I will post more about that bit of awesomeness later.

RIght now, I want to talk about Roger Ebert, Ben Stein, and a travesty of crappy propaganda called Expelled.

Roger Ebert takes Stein and the shitty little movie he was in to task with a degree of contempt that warms my heart. Go ahead, read it here. It's really quite amusing!

Ok, not really, but it's cool to see some of my old sketches take on a life of their own. This one sort of got some attention earlier this year, and now it's come around and made the rounds and wound up getting a mention on one of the few blogs I actually read (Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy site).

I are amused. :D

ETA: It looks like PZ Myers has decided he likes my illustration too! Very cool!

Now I'm curious what other odd places this has shown up...

Lots to talk about for once!

First of all: D&D co-creator Gary Gygax passed away on March 4th; he is now beyond the scope of healing spells.

I've had a miserable cold all week, but I finally got this sucker colored in and completed. It's not great, but it does have the nice benefit of hitting two groups of superstitious whackos in one single shot.

So I've been reading up and arguing about evolution with creationist idiots again. Why would I do something so futile you ask?

I recently took a fairly long hiatus from arguing with religious people, creationists, and other kooks on the internet. It really is a pretty major waste of time. Part of it was all the internet drama around the Internet Infidels forum and what a wasteland it's turned into, but that's a whole different topic.

Anyway, There is some value in arguing with shitheads on the internet: you get the chance to try all of your own beliefs, concepts, and morals by fire.

Continuing on with my super-dork-geek habits, I've been doing all sort of sketches for the D&D game I've been running for a few buddies of mine. This here ghoul ninja is just one among a cast of villains.

I've had to go back and 'hit the books' again to figure out how to draw legs and ankles and feet all over again.

Did this little number as an homage to some of the blithering idiots I run across on the internet. Actually, to one specific blithering idiot by the name of Donald Baker, who's a classic example of the following quote:

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. ~ Blaise Pascal

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This one's for you. Now sod off.

I stumbled across an MSNBC article about Chiropractors Inducing Strokes with their cervical neck manipulations.

Dr. Kazmi examined her only a few minutes before he escorted her across the street to Montefiore Medical Center, where doctors took scans of her neck and brain.