… to katecohen.com April 2002: “The Catholic Church taught me how to deal with sin. Every day — every school day, weekend day, holiday and summer day — from September 3, 1965 to August 13, 1973, I prayed the Act of Contrition and The Confietor. The church taught me that these prayers were necessary because […]

We just saw a piece on the news about Jeff Deck, a guy who’s traveling around the country correcting misspellings, including misplaced apostrophes, in storefront signs. His route is plotted on the Typo Eradication Action League site.
Here’s his post from New Orleans; he’s in LA right now!
I’m glad someone took up the challenge to […]

I got my new book on Epicurus today and a new word for 2008, ataraxia. Ataraxia is the goal of Epicurean thought: peace of mind.
No advocate of 21st-century-style hedonism — as is the popular idea of Epicurean philosophy — Epicurus advocated friendship, freedom, thought, prudence and just living. He is one of the great […]

What?! Disbelievers like piney goodness too! So of course we have our holiday tree. We celebrate the turning of the year at Winter Solstice — hooray, this year’s darkest day is behind us and it’s time for fresh starts! And although we are not pagans, we borrow from worldwide solstice traditions and decorate our tree […]

The days are so short now, you can turn on your holiday lights at 5 p.m.! It’s Solstice time, the year is long in the tooth, the new year is coming. Hooray. Here is our beautiful and big Solstice wreath — made from our own vine! What a warm reminder that the days will grow […]

I made this hat today. And other stuff too!

Because it’s time to stand up for reason, I’ve started declareyourdisbelief.com. Please check it out. And, if you too want to stand up, you can visit the Disbelief Boutique — to pick up some “House of Reason” goods. Or … read your way to reasonability by visiting the Declare Your Disbelief Media Store (beta) at […]

You know who you are:
• Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan
• The inked Canadian idiot laptop thief gets LOLed. Check it out.
• The illusion of blogger anonymity: A federally-funded artificial intelligence lab is figuring out how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write.
• Several Dem answers […]

So the other day I went over to godaddy and bought declareyourdisbelief.com. [no link yet, it’s parked for now] When I get my zipity new machine, I’m going to design some new disbelief tees and I thought I might put up a little disbelievers blog where I could muse, ponder and carp about all the […]

L’Shanah Tova. Happy New Year. If you count time on the Hebrew calendar, it is the the year 5768. On this day, at the beginning of the Jewish reckoning of time, God created Adam and gave him a soul.
If — like me — you do not reckon time from this day or even the […]

That’s because of the 16 tons of web juiciness I’ve got going on up in here. What with super-cool embedded personalized live google maps and nifty flash slideshows, it takes a page a little while to load. But you can put this moment to good use. Try this meditation from the Sutra on the Full […]

Declare your disbelief! Stand up for Reason — and cool typography — with nifty House of Reason merch! Get yours now.

Inspired by this morning’s missionaries: A door sign to decrease those unwanted Evangelical intrusions! Click here to download the .pdf file and print your own. (Made with love by Cohens.)

Click “more” to see a picture of my sign on my door.  

God knows this isn’t what I thought I’d be doing with this painting, but after a long time studying the problem (See The painting I want, below) I realized that the mid-ground of the painting had grown too light — had lost all traces of its orange underpainting. The lightness of the area was pushing […]

Friend and scholar Ed Humes writes about Belief Addiction for the Huffington Post:
Belief untempered by reason, however, has not served us well, bringing crusades, the KKK, Nazism, jihad and, yes, an Iraq war launched against the wrong adversary for the wrong reasons with the wrong expectations (remember the cakewalk? the roses that would be tossed […]

with the new painting. See what he has to say.

The Wall Street Journal ran a weekend review of Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul — a new book on the Dover, PA creationism trial by friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes — but the paper neglected to mention the “reviewer” is a long-time Intelligent Design advocate with a […]

Summer solstice traditions ancient and modern.