secular

Tim Minchin’s ‘White Wine’ Christmas Song Unwanted By Charity Critics

by podblack on November 21, 2010

So, what’s the story? SMH: A Chrismas CD aiming to raise funds for a Christian charity has been slammed for featuring an anti-Christian song. Faith and family groups have labelled the song, which includes the lyrics “I get freaked out by churches,” and “I’m not expecting a visit from Jesus”, as “disrespectful” and a “sick [...]

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Kittez Need Charity Too! Top Secular Choices For The Season

by podblack on December 19, 2009

I’ve been passing on a few tips (as demonstrated by this Twitter conversation with Dave the Happy Singer — of Davethehappysinger.com) about supporting charities during this month and beyond. Sign up to be a long-term benefactor, grab a few shirts, buy some books, get your 2010 calendars from them and know that unlike others, it’s [...]

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Little Kitten – Tim Minchin’s Christmas Song In The UK Charts And Climbing

by podblack on December 15, 2009

After posting Help Get Tim Minchin’s White Wine In The Sun Into The Top Forty This Season – some news! Tim is at NUMBER 29 on the overall UK downloads charts! Hopefully this continues to improve. The iTunes link for Tim Minchin’s Single ‘White Wine in the Sun’ is here. Don’t forget to check out [...]

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Skeptic Zone Party With Pope For Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras

by podblack on March 8, 2009

Whoot! Spot Dr Rachie with a lovely feather boa (I mean, feathers are just de rigueur when it comes to us performing…)

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Plugging The Pope-Mobile Protest

by podblack on December 1, 2008

As you may have heard in the interview featured on the last episode of the Skeptic Zone podcast, there’s protests going on to avoid being prosecuted for protesting World Youth day — by using a fake “Pope-mobile” — thanks to http://worldtruthday.org/ If you didn’t see it in action around the streets of Sydney, it looked [...]

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Getting Game, Parenting And Role-Playing

by podblack on October 2, 2008

Domestic Father blog wants to let everyone know that he’s setting up a new blog carnival for skeptical parenting blogs. As he writes himself: ‘Hopefully, it’s not just the skeptical parenting bloggers who will contribute, but some of the less parent focused, and more skep/secular/humanist generalists.‘ I think that’s wonderful and very inclusive. So, without [...]

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Superstition Gets Your Goat And Podblack Does Perth Atheist Meetup!

by podblack on May 7, 2008

Sheesh, here I am researching superstitions for my thesis from the past to now… and even today another item pops up – NY Times: The goat option was tested at Katmandu Airport in September to propitiate Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. Officials of Nepal Airlines told Reuters that they had sacrificed two goats in [...]

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