I'm irritated that the Mormon Church has so much money that they can do a massive ad buy(featuring the twelve hip/diverse/sciencey Mormons) that I have to hear about it six times a day in primetime. Anybody else, or is Phoenix just super-duper-special. Wish I had money for "I'm Erika...I'm secular," but besides that, it does seem a misplaced priority, especially given that Mitt is the "fetch!" of perennial candidates(stop trying to make him happen!)

Mostly the stuff that scares me is shit I shouldn't care about. Like the sun becoming a red giant, turning the earth into vapor and dust, and everything that ever happened being snuffed out, with no one to ever know we were even here. In 4.5 billion years. It freaks me out.

Right there with you, Allyson. Heat death of the universe keeps me up at night. The earth being destroyed, I can at least hope we'll get to somewhere else before then.

I can't help but think those millions spent on ads saying that Mormons are the cool people and they even include people of color now are designed to soften up the resistance to a Mormon president.

From Press--Erin, that's my fault--she sent it to me, and I didn't fill it in yet. I will do so now

Job rant that hardly anyone else will understand: I HATE how some otherwise intelligent techies will turn into drooling idiots when you try to explain to them how ssh keys and public-key cryptography works.

The stuff that really scares me is the Republican candidates. I'll worry about the heat death of the universe later.

Atheism never asks you to tithe.

Does tithe money go to the church, or to charity? Because if it's the latter, [link]

(Stats show that atheists give less to charity than churchgoers. This is frequently used as "proof" that atheists have no morals. However, if you correct for how often each group is asked to give, the differences vanish. Foundation Beyond Belief was set up to correct this imbalance.)

Mostly the stuff that scares me is shit I shouldn't care about. Like the sun becoming a red giant, turning the earth into vapor and dust, and everything that ever happened being snuffed out, with no one to ever know we were even here. In 4.5 billion years. It freaks me out.

That is the kind of thing that I actually find reassuring. That there is this amazing cycle to things.

In a world where (until a month ago) my sister wouldn't recycle even her plastic water bottles, eventually the Earth will recycle itself.

Ginger, that's probably the intent, sure. I'm just hoping it will work like the massive overplaying of Hootie and The Blowfish singles and break up the band. And does anybody think of science...animatronics doesn't count, or parasailing when they look at Mitt Romney?Guy Smiley, maybe. (if my life had worked out more like I wanted in college, I might have had to work for the firm on the Cool Mormon Hunt. Guess God does answer prayers after all

Stepford Mormons?