December 2010
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Ricky Gervais and a defense of Athesism
So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say ‘Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…’ If they say ‘Just God. I only believe in the one God,’ I’ll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don’t believe in 2,870 gods, and they don’t believe in 2,869.
— Ricky Gervais’s Op-Ed in the WSJ.
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After many years of wanting to explore the Pacific Northwest, we finally hopped a plane to Seattle to visit our friends before their year-long adventure to Bali and points east.
We got in a good day of touring yesterday before the rain — we visited the Olympic Sculpture Park and then ate our way through Pike Place Market. We had a delicious heaping bowl of crab cocktail, oysters so big we...