I'm Rebecca Lando.
I'm an award-winning writer, producer, and editor and upcoming cookbook author based in New York City.
In 2009 I launched Working Class Foodies, a cooking show that creates affordable meals from local, seasonal, and/or sustainable ingredients. Working Class Foodies is a part of YouTube Next Chef and airs on NBC New York's Nonstop Foodies.
I wrote, produced, and edited FilmFan, an award-winning weekly movie review show, for MSN from 2010-2011.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
(Source: saboma)
On the center of the universe.
I’d think that the idea that one is at the center of the universe is a far worse delusion than belief in a supernatural deity.
In a universe as infinitely vast as the one in which we live, the irrational belief that any supernatural deity would give the slightest fuck about your pathetic existence is the very essence of putting oneself at the center of it.
Contradictions in the bible
I saw Sam Harris in a conference yesterday talking about this and decided to check it out. It’s a comprehensive graphic summary of the contradictions in the bible. Each arc marks a connection between two contradictory statements. Here is the link for the pdf file from
source (project-reason.org)
Awesome and pretty.
The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a spec of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star … would look up at the sky and declare, ‘It was all made so that I could exist!
Peter Walker (via friendlyatheist) (via vruz) (via rafer) (via evangotlib)
ericmortensen: abcsoupdot: devilduck:
“I’ve begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It’s there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There’s no mystery, no one asks for money, I don’t have to dress up, and there’s no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to “God” are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate.”
—George Carlin
“offensive” dinosaur sticker that prompted this reaction
nom nom nom
that’s fucking fantastic
Fuck yes Darwinism. Fuck yes dinosaurs.
Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in North Carolina.
Cecil Bothwell was recently sworn in as an Asheville City Councilman in direct contravention of the North Carolina constitution. Councilor Bothwell happens to be an atheist and the North Carolina state constitution disqualifies officeholders “who shall deny the being of Almighty God.”
As you’d expect the conservative religious nuts are up in arms over this turn of events and are threatening to take the city to the courts. Their chance of success is about as close to zero as you can get, since the North Carolina constitution violates the US Constitution, which requires that there be no religious test for any public office; apparently the US founding fathers had this thing about the separation of Church and State.
NC is not the only US state to have such discriminatory rules in its law books. Arkansas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, also have similar unenforceable laws barring atheists from holding public office.
Part of me would really like to see the ultra-religious councilmembers take this further only to have their illegal constitution ripped up and redrafted to our country’s legal requirements.
Part of me is more than a little concerned that, instead of the North Carolina constitution being reformed to the specifications of the US Constitution, somehow, North Carolina will be allowed to carry on with their religious requirements for public officeholders.
Evolution
(via evangotlib)
