Douglas Berger
- Location
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Birthday
- January 14
- Bio
- Living in the Midwest watching TV and noodling on the computer. This is also a narcissistic attempt to create a cult following to hide my lack of talent and intelligence about a wide range of topics.
MY RECENT POSTS
- New And Fresh: Famous
Findlayians Page
May 19, 2012 01:32AM - Girls Guide To Depravity? Not
So Much…
May 16, 2012 12:54AM - Day Of Prayer Proclamations
Unconstitutional In Colorado
May 12, 2012 11:38PM - Even A Celebrity Tabloid Show
Can Be A Prude: Show Censors
Time Cover
May 12, 2012 02:56PM - The End Of The 2011-2012 TV
Season – What I Liked And
What I Didn’t Like
May 12, 2012 03:03AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Yes people like Lotz and
Bush Sr. have a "right" to
make
bigoted
remark…”
April 16, 2012 11:36AM - “If you agree with a
majority of Humanist beliefs
but not the
non-theism part
then…”
April 08, 2012 04:04PM - “LOL Hope you don't have
to sit through each
showing???
If the
film was from
Hamit…”
March 29, 2012 04:33AM - “No skypixie0 I don't
think that any elected
official needs to
be perfectly
pure (…”
March 19, 2012 01:46PM - “Thanks for the comment
Mr. Norman.
It is
obvious that we have a
different
definiti…”
March 13, 2012 05:03PM
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- Secular Left
New And Fresh: Famous Findlayians Page
I wanted to do something to celebrate the bicentennial of
my hometown Findlay, Ohio. I decided to totally redo my Famous
Findlayian web page. I gutted it and rebuilt it with fresh css, a
splash of color, replacing some images with better ones, a new
masthead image, and a couple of… Read full post »
Girls Guide To Depravity? Not So Much…

Sally Golan & Rebecca Blumhagen – stars of The Girl’s Guide to Depravity
The other day I watched a few episodes of the Cinemax After Dark series ‘The Girl’s Guide to Depravity’, based on a Internet blog. While the premise was interesting and the two leads are attractive, the show/… Read full post »
Day Of Prayer Proclamations Unconstitutional In Colorado
A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals
ruled unanimously, on May 10th, that Day of Prayer proclamations by
the Governor are unconstitutional. The court didn’t address
the National Day of Prayer but the reasoning can be applied to that
law: “A reasonable observer would… Read full post »
Even A Celebrity Tabloid Show Can Be A Prude: Show Censors Time Cover
This week Time magazine created a storm by having a
nursing mother on its cover to highlight a story about attachment
parenting. Some people lost their minds over the picture that was
not obscene unless you think a mother nursing their child is
obscene. A celebrity tabloid TV show, not known… Read full post »
The End Of The 2011-2012 TV Season – What I Liked And What I Didn’t Like

Some of the TV shows I liked during the 2011-2012 season
This month ends the regular 2011-2012 TV season. Most shows are showing their season or series finales and I wanted to mention my thoughts on the season for specific shows that I mentioned in previous posts. Overall many of the… Read full post »
My Favorite Year – 1976
Everyone has a special time of year in their lives that
they remember. It’s almost like it happened
yesterday and leaves one with such good feelings that you want to
relive that one year over and over if you could. For me 1976 is
that year. Not just because it was… Read full post »
Who To Vote For? The Answer Is Clear Even Six Months Out

President Obama in Ohio May 2012
It’s six months before the 2012 Presidential election here in the US. Six months of droning pundits, rallies, and millions of dollars spent on advertising. For me it is all a waste of time and effort. I’m ready to vote now – the person to… Read full post »
Secular Coalition hired a Republican as Executive Director? What????

Edwina Rogers – new Exec Dir Secular Coalition of America
On this National Day of Reason, it was announced that Edwina Rogers, whose previous experience is as a Republican DC lobbyist, who also had worked for President George W Bush and former Senator Trent Lott, was hired as the new Exe… Read full post »
National Day of Reason 2012
Thursday May 3rd is the National Day of Reason in the
United States. The day is a secular celebration for humanists,
atheists, and other secularists and freethinkers in response to the
National Day of Prayer, that is unfortunately a legal holiday in
the United States. This country has many iss… Read full post »
This May Day Thank A Union Member
In many locations, around the world, May 1st (May Day) is
also International Worker’s Day
– which commemorates the Haymarket riot in
Chicago in May of 1886. Although labor activists and police were
killed in the violence, the riot helped lead to the 8 hour work day
even non-union workers e… Read full post »
Access To Health Care Is Like Driving A Car Or Owning A Cell Phone ???

Jesse Kelly – Human?
If you agree with Jesse Kelly, the Republican nominee in Arizona’s 8th congressional district, that access to health care should be treated like being allowed to drive a car or own a cell phone then we are in some serious trouble in this country. Health care should… Read full post »
Pageant Mother Misses Irony After Child’s Photo Shows Up On Adult Website

Pagent mother upset her child exploited
On Tuesday the local news had a story about a mother who found out a photo of her young daughter, that had been posted on a reality television show website, showed up on a adult website. She called law enforcement and was told the posting… Read full post »
Wonderful Would Be Good Word For Our Theme

Adam Ant in Wonderful video
To introduce Review Geek’s new blog theme I wanted to highlight a song I because reacquainted with while watching a rerun of the CBS show ‘Cold Case’ that was set in 1995. I’ve loved ‘Wonderful’ since the 1990′s – one of the few from that decade… Read full post »
Anne Graham Lotz Shameful Statement On Atheists Shows We Need Separation Of Church And State

Anne Graham Lotz on Meet the Press 04-08-2012
This past Easter Sunday (April 8th), NBC’s “Meet the Press” had a panel discussion about religion’s place in politics, a panel that didn’t include any atheist voices. Rev Billy Graham’s daughter Anne Graham Lotz… Read full post »
Why Strident Atheists Don’t Bother Me
In
the decades I’ve been involved in the atheist
and Humanist movements, I’ve seen many
“inner-party†battles over policy,
plans, and actions. Many atheists I know are very vocal to the
point they piss off many of my Humanist friends. So-called strident
atheists never bothered me becau… Read full post »
Putting Reagan’s Church & State Quote In Context Shows A Hypocrisy
I had
a Facebook friend post the image quote to the right of this text. I
like to check these kinds of things out because I don’t want
to pass on a false quote. When I found where the quote came from,
the story is a lot bigger than this small… Read full post »
The Hunger Games: A Young Adult Film That Is Actually Good
I was
concerned before seeing The Hunger Games movie
if I would actually enjoy it since the film
isn’t for me. I was worried too, not having read
the books, and hearing about the plot, if young people should be
seeing a film with violence as a primary plot device.
Luckily… Read full post »
Why Are Republicans So Against A Pro-Business Policy Like The Individual Mandate?
The
US Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Specifically 26 states are
challenging the individual mandate which requires all people to buy
health insurance. The largest voice against the mandate are
Republicans. Why are Republicans so… Read full post »
Catholic Church Members Look Silly Protesting New Contraceptive Mandate
Saw in the news on Friday (3/23), in various cities
across the country, the Catholic church organized members to
protest the upcoming contraception coverage mandate that is part of
the Affordable Care Act. Under the guise of religious freedom,
Bishops, nuns, and others – mostly men R… Read full post »
Now This Is The Kind Of Duke I Wouldn’t Mind Following
I
remember the day I brought home a cassette copy of
‘Duke’ by the band Genesis.
Ever since the album was released in 1980 I had loved it. My
college roommates at the time (this was in 1986) told me that they
didn’t care for it since it was sooooo
different… Read full post »
Previously Unknown Criminal Record Haunts Findlay City Councilman Collette

Councilman K. C. Collette
K. C. Collette (3rd Ward) never thought crap would hit the fan when he recently applied for a new job in Florida. It seems that the 7 term Findlay City councilman and assistant Hancock county prosecutor was arrested twice in the 1990′s for soliciting a prostitute in… Read full post »
Arlington Ohio Girls Basketball State Champs!
The
Arlington Ohio Girls Basketball team, making its first
appearance in the Ohio High School
Athletic Association (OHSAA) tournament, won the Division IV
state girls basketball title on Saturday (3/17). They dominated
Berlin Hiland from the start and never trailed. Congrats to the Red
Devils… Read full post »
Framing Humanism Is Okay But Not At The Expense Of Honesty
Humanism is a strange
collection of individuals in a stew of rationality, all of us
looking for the truth for our world view. We, as Humanists, know we
must work with believers and other theists to find common ground
with the goal of bettering the human condition. Andy Norman,
writing for… Read full post »
As A Random Netflix Pick, Cashback Is A Nice Surprise
I was
bored the other night. The usual TV shows I watch were in repeats
so I did what I usually do and pick a film to stream on Netflix.
“Cashbackâ€,
written and directed by Sean Ellis was my pick,
just based on the blurb, but by the end of the… Read full post »
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