hmmm... well, in that vein, there is always SJG, too. Tons and tons of essays that are almost all entertaining and enlightening. Especially good are "Wonderful Life" and "The Mismeasure of Man." And all from a guy who studied snails...

dude, your god sucks.

He's not omnipotent, omniscient or even benign. He's a friggin' unsupervised 6-year-old with a magnifing glass, an ant-hill and a sunny-day. Bitter, jealous, cruel, capricious, mean-spirited, unfair, misogynistic, indecisive and generally not the kind of person you'd want running the DMV, let alone the whole universe. Pretty much the definition of a closet misanthrope.

What good is there to find in "If God stepped in every time that someone wanted to do evil and stopped him, that being never really could be guilty of doing evil could they? God is allowing the tares to grow along side the wheat. At the end of time, God will throw the tares into the furnace."

Believe whatever drivel you want, but keep it to yourself, for fuck's sake.

...feels that he isn't required to license/attribute the photographic material that he "pirated" to make his web site? AFAIK, those images are copyright to the studio that released Pirates of the Carribean...