ZachsCast

I thought I'd take a crack at some reader's theater. I like how Michael Shermer's "Genesis Revisited (http://www.michaelshermer.com/2001/12/genesis-revisited)" reads, so I decided to play with it a bit. My apologies to Mr. Shermer. I didn't mean anything bad. I was trying to do justice with the wor...

I was talking to SkinnySlim (http://twitter.com/SkinnySlim_) on Twitter about the Big Bang and he said this (http://www.twitlonger.com/show/652nps) so I replied with this (http://www.twitlonger.com/show/0ad578afeadb3c50304682f06fb14ce8) and after I wrote all that out as a twitlonger piece I decided...

I know you're gonna find this hard to believe, but when I was a kid, I was a wimp. I got bullied all the time. Y'know what? The more things change the more they stay the same. I don't get bullied myself personally anymore, but the country that I love, that I call home, is being bullied, AND it's bul...

The audio version of this rambling diatribe is at the end, if you'd rather hear me ramble as opposed to read this. It's not word for word I just used this as a starting point.

I make no apologies for how I behave now that I'm an atheist. I made no apologies for how I behaved back when I was a Belie...

"There's room for everybody if you just open your minds."

- Da Maniacs (http://www.facebook.com/MavsManiAACs)

I was reading about Sakineh Ashtiani (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html) this morning. She's almost my age. They were gonna stone her but now they're talking ab...

If you have a family doctor AND you go to church? You're a hypocrite. You don't really believe in your god and should abandon theology because you know deep down that science actually works and prayer does not. Otherwise, you wouldn't realize you need a doctor...

This just in: The "Obama Is Hitler" meme is very dead. It actually died before Obama was elected, back when ppl accused Dubya of being Hitler (http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html). Thank you drive through...

Recently discovered that the Library of Congress discovered something cool about the Declaration of Independence that gives us a glimpse into the mind of Thomas Jefferson. He used 'subjects' in an early draft of the document and changed it to citizens. The rest, as they say, is history. That led me...

I was going to recite the original 1776 Declaration of Independence for the fourth of July, but decided instead at the last minute to read John Perry Barlow's virtual version from 1996. Hopefully he won't mind too much. Happy Independence Day, everybody!...

The North Carolina Secular Organization (http://ncsecular.org) put up some billboards this summer that make a point to remove "under god" from the pledge of allegiance by putting in very big and bold letters "one nation indivisible." I happen to agree with the sentiment, even tho I'm in Dallas Texas...