Rich White Men of The GOP Gone Wild

Facebook Privacy

Responding to the ridiculous status updates everyone is doing on Facebook to "Protect their privacy and intellectual property".

Thanksgiving

I had a lovely day with family. I'm full of food and now getting into a warm bed. Tomorrow I will enjoy my day off. Right now I'm thankful not to work in retail or to otherwise be forced to have anything to do with this Black Friday nonsense that is embarrassing to me as an American and as a member of the working class. I wish everyone would stay home, enjoying their families and their dignity, and allowing the retail workers to do the same.

Christmas Loving Atheist Cover Model

I am on the cover of The Sacramento News and Review this week. Thats pretty cool.

I have an article inside, but like most writers, I prefer my original to the edited version. So, here is said original. Enjoy:  

Merry Christmas.

You were just wished a Merry Christmas by an atheist.


This atheist LOVES Christmas. See a conflict? I do not. We atheists don't reject ALL of the bible. There are parts of the bible that I for one like quite a bit, like the part about going into the woods and choosing a tree to drag into your home and decorate in astrological symbols. Where in the bible is that again? Was that the gospel according to St. Nick?


My favorite Christmas tradition is when the rich folks go wild with the lights and decorations and then let us poor folks come look at their houses. My daughter saw a nativity on one of these viewings but baby Jesus hadn't been placed yet.

“Daddy, who are those two ladies and why is that nest empty?”

“Honey, thats Mary and Josephine and the nest is empty because its hard to find a white baby in the Middle East.”

I like celebrating with all of my friends and neighbors and since Sacramento is so wonderfully diverse that means celebrating all of the holidays, including a few we made up. Try Something New Day anyone? Diwalli is a great excuse to eat Indian food and watch some Bollywood. Ramadan is fun to celebrate. I skip the fasting all day part but I'm totally down for the nighttime food and visiting with family and friends. Hanukkah is when we sing along with Adam Sandler. Conspiracy theorists celebrate their new holiday, September 11th. I participate by watching a great documentary, like The Matrix.


Its now a holiday tradition to accuse us atheists and other non-Christians of trying to steal Christmas, you know, because we've forced the stores to say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, at gun point if memory serves. Too bad we weren't as effective in trying to get their red, white and blue "We love a good war" decor down during the rest of the year. I caught wind of the story on the evening news. Amazing whats considered newsworthy. There's a war on for Chrissakes, oops, sorry, already mentioned the war, guess I'm being redundant.

Say Merry Christmas if you'd like. Nobody's stopping you. If a store says Happy Holidays, thereby wishing Christians a Merry Christmas, Jews a Happy Hanukkah, Muslims a solemn Ramadan, beautiful idealists a Happy Kwanza, and Hindus a festive Diwali in the most efficient way, how on earth could you find a problem with this? I'm much more concerned with Halloween being called Harvest Festival! WTF? No. Keep Satan in Halloween! Stop the war on Samhain!


I amuse myself by seeing how satisfied many Christians are with my wishing them Yuletide greetings. If you don't get this, you may want to research Yule. Yule be surprised. (I celebrate Bad Pun Day everyday.)

Rest assured, I will not insist that stores put up "Happy cold, noisy, crappy music, consumer-hell season!" to earn my business. I'll just assume that this is one of the sentiments they intended to cover when they say, Happy Holidays.


Happy Holidays!

Thou Shall Not Be A Douchebag

Patriot

Also amazing that the people who seem most keen on spreading "American democracy" around the globe, seem to have the least faith in it here at home.

Buy my new album the 1st week it comes out!

Amazing Album Art by Elf Quest creator Wendy Pini

So, here is the deal, my album will come out in early December. Exact date soon. I want it on Amazon and iTune's top comedy album charts the week it comes out.

Here is what I'm gonna do... Free Video! I have a 30 minute bootleg style video of me just fucking KILLING that was recorded a month or more after the album recording so it has lots of new bits not on the CD. If you buy the CD in the 1st week, I'm gonna give you a code to get that video online, streaming or download, for free.

 But wait, there's more! For every day that I'm in the top 5 on iTunes AND for every day I'm in the top 5 on Amazon in the comedy category, I will shave my mustache off for a whole month. This isn't limited to the first week either. If I chart for 8 days, no 'stache for 8 months. And just so we're clear, if I chart on iTunes for 3 days and Amazon for 4, that's 7 months of no 'stache.
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