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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »