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You are invited to join our monthly social gathering this Friday at The Bar @2132 E. Carson (South Side) for drinks and a swell time. Last month we had a ton of folks and 4 out of 4 Steel City Skeptics had an awesome time. (Polling sample of 4.) (Kidding! I didn’t ask anyone and [...]

I am late to the party on this one (mistakingly thought it was next week). I’m just pasting in the only info I have from an email I was forwarded. All online info I’ve been able to find on this comes from ID websites and is the same cut n’ paste job. (No link love [...]

This month’s Center for Inquiry discussion group offers a talk and Q&A with journalist and atheist activist, Rob Sherman.
You remember Mr. Sherman — Illinois Representative Monique Davis interrupted him while he testified before the Springfield House State Government Administration Committee to spectacularly flip her shit:
I don’t know what you have against God, but some of [...]

Oh hey! This Friday our friend Hemant Mehta1, The Friendly Atheist, will be speaking at Carnegie Mellon, hosted by CMU’s AHA group. Pasta will be served!
More deets at the AHA’s Facebook invite and also at Hemant’s site.
Oh hey Part Two: Internet podcast talk show host The Infidel Guy interviewed local “paranormal investigator” John Lewis2 who [...]

“It’s official: Ghosts Haunt Slippery Rock auditorium” reads the Post-Gazette’s headline from Friday, March 20th. There’s even a video. Here’s just a bit of this questionable article:
It’s official, folks. Miller Auditorium is haunted. But the good news is, they’re friendly ghosts.
“Almost everyone on our team had personal experience,” Mr. Lewis, owner of Titusville-based Baelfire Paranormal [...]

Small town attention/thrill seekers form a ghost hunting team, meet a theater professor with a flair for the dramatic and have a sleepover in a university theater. Will you find out about their hijinx and adventure in the next Goosebumps novel? Oh no, gather ’round children — this story is coming to you straight from [...]

I recommend the following review of ‘A Secular Age’
by Charles Taylor in the winter issue of Dissent. Kind of a dumb title, but the reviewer provides a thoughtful consideration of the dynamics, psychology and motivation of belief and non-belief.
Click to read review.
Also compare to William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience.
TSA

Wanted to pass along some links I’ve been sent this week of interest to those in and around Pittsburgh . . .

1000 Plaintiffs for Newdow v. Roberts — Friends of Mike Newdow, a group of PA Nonbelievers, has set up a website to assist Constitutional activist Mike Newdow “demonstrate that there is a lot of [...]

In an email this morning local CFI President, Chuck Bobich, updates us on last night’s monthly dinner meeting with special guest, David Campbell:
The recent high winds snapped a pole along Route 51 near Francesco’s Restaurant. This not only killed power to the restaurant, but created a hazard that forced the blockage and a detour [...]

Editor’s note: I was offline for the holiday and missed Skeptical Advocate’s awesome holiday recipe post. Please consider this an early 2009 Holiday Feast proposal for future holiday feasting! (This sounds like a delicious NYE menu too.) My sincerest apologies for my tardiness! — Eliza
No discourse on James Joyce for Christmas Eve. Instead, I’m offering [...]