Author: Adam Lee

Wedding bells will soon be ringing in New York, thanks to the legislature’s historic passage of marriage equality which goes into effect on July 24. And the echoes of that victory are still being heard. Soon after the passage of the NY bill, Rhode Island legalized civil unions, joining the several other states that have…

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I’m happy to announce that new translations have been posted for several of my articles on Ebon Musings, representing not one, not two, but three languages. My devious plan for world conquest is proceeding exactly on schedule! First up, a Greek translation of “Unmoved Mover“, complementing the previously posted translation of “A Ghost in the…

Earlier this week, I got a lengthy letter whose author gave me permission to share it with you: Dear Ebonmusings: I gave a glimpse to your musing about the carrot and the stick – I didn’t expect it to talk about morality, mainly because I realized that the latest part of my life as a…

You know, I was going to write about the Pastafarian who won the right to wear a metal colander on his head for his driver’s license photo – but by the time I got home from work yesterday, half a dozen other atheist bloggers had already posted about it, so never mind. Here’s something a…

Well, a kindly person (thanks, Jayson!) sent me an invite to Google Plus, so I’ve signed up. I don’t really know what this is going to be useful for just yet, but if you’re also there and want to send me a friend request (or whatever the heck it’s called), go right ahead.

I’m pleased to announce that my second column for AlterNet, 6 Ways Atheists Can Band Together to Fight Religious Fundamentalism, has now been posted. My first column, asking why nonbelievers haven’t become a political force, drew rejoinders from a lot of people saying that it’s impossible for atheists to organize because we don’t agree about…

In a 2008 post on the apocalyptic Millerite sect, I mentioned how several modern Christian denominations were formed from the Millerites’ ruin, and how the infamous Branch Davidians originated as a splinter group from one of these. That story, I think, is already well-known: the way a charismatic preacher born as Vernon Wayne Howell changed…

In May 1987, astronomers witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime event: a supernova, the explosive death of a supergiant star, in the Large Magellanic Cloud approximately 170,000 light-years from Earth. SN 1987A, as it was named, was the first supernova to be studied using the instruments of modern astronomy (although not the first supernova witnessed by humanity), and…

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