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Al Stefanelli A Professionally Charming Curmudgeon

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Al Stefanelli · 1M ago

Jennifer Summer – Telling Stories In Pictures

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen Jennifer Summer takes pictures. Actually, that’s an unfair statement. It’s like saying William Shakespeare writes stories. To be more accurate, Jennifer Summer is more like a hunter whose...
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Al Stefanelli · 1M ago

Just Checking in With Some Random Thoughts

I haven’t written anything here in a while, as I keep this place around for guest writers, bloggers, ranters, etc. But I figured I’d stop in just in case any of my old readers hadn’t realized I’ve been at Freethought Blogs for quite a while now.  So, with that, and the urge t...
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Al Stefanelli · 2M ago

A Rant From A Proud Slut

by Lauren Ely, Guest Columnist I have been reading all about that fat windbag Rush’s statements regarding birth control, as well as all of the other right-wing misogynist attacks on women lately, and yes, it pisses me off to no end. The conservative right, who, ironically enough, claim to want...
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Al Stefanelli · 3M ago

J’Accuse! | by Dave the Sandman, Guest Columnist

“The road to Hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops” – St. John Chrysostom “J’accuse” (“I accuse”) was an open letter published on January 13, 1898, in the newspaper L’Aurore by the influential French writer Émile Zola. In the letter, Zola addr...
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Al Stefanelli · 3M ago

Holier Than Thou Redux

by Dave the Sandman, guest columnist In an earlier article which you can find here, at  I sought to expose the pathetic hypocrisy and contra-Roman Catholic Church doctrine stances of the supposed “Jesus Candidate” Rick Santorum[1]. Despite the fact that even articles in the mainstream Catholic press...
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Al Stefanelli · 3M ago

A Call To Arms, by Dave the Sandman (Guest Blogger)

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” – Voltaire Welcome again my friends across the Great Sanity Divide that separates your United States from the rest of the sane and secular West. Tonight I thought we could discuss a topic that has been simmering on low heat ...
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Al Stefanelli · 3M ago

Tear Down That Big Tent

by Dave the Sandman, Guest columnist A society can best be judged by how it cares for its weakest citizens. I find US politics fascinating, but in that same way you just cant seem to avoid sneaking a look at the crumpled wrecks in a crash as you slowly creep by in your car. I [...]
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Al Stefanelli · 4M ago

Kicking Out The King Pole

by Dave the Sandman – Guest Columnist. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan “What can be asserted without proof can also be dismissed without proof.” – Christopher Hitchens If there is a tenant of fundamentalist Christianity that is guaranteed to have me spitting...
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Al Stefanelli · 4M ago

Holier Than Thou

by Dave the Sandman, guest columnist First a little background. Till the age of 18 I attended what was, back in my day at least, a strict single sex Catholic school (Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton, Lancs, UK).  Now back then you had to be a good practicing Catholic just to get in, I was taught ...
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Al Stefanelli · 6M ago

You’re Not Being Persecuted!

by Steve Martin, Guest Columnist All across the United States (but particularly in the South) public schools are violating the Constitution by sponsoring prayers in schools or before athletic events.  Thankfully, groups like American Atheists and the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) are tryin...
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