CNN appearances, dubious interview questions, death threats … it’s just another day at #SSAweek

I gotta reblog this one from Freethought Blogger Al Stefanelli. Yesterday, Jesse Galef was a guest on CNN talking about the Secular Student Alliance.

The clip and Al’s post can be found here, as I can’t embed this kind of video here at Le Café.

Make sure you read JT Eberhard’s death threat experience here, as well.

Let’s raise some cash and awareness for the Secular Student Alliance #SSAWeek

Remember that time when you were staring into the night sky, and you said aloud to your audience of croaking frogs, buzzing mosquitos and blinking lightning bugs, “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, see Le Café Witteveen post every 30 minutes for eighteen straight hours one day really soon.”

Remember?

Well, your Disney Dreams have come true.

I’ve signed up to post even more than I do already for one day, in an effort to promote, the Secular Student Alliance, an organization so powerful, they’ve reaching down to the power of the blogs to assist them in their plight for world domination.

And by world domination I mean, giving secular kids a place to meet, talk about atheist, agnostic and freethinking topics whilst drinking pop and finger foods in a college atmosphere.

Apparently, this is a big deal … this posting every 30 minutes to promote the cause. Other bloggers have done it and lost their minds in the process.

But I’m going to do it, with lost mind already. I mean, who the hell agrees to a post every 30 gee dee minutes?

Idiots, that’s who.

Check out the list below to see the other folks who are ripping off their straight jackets for a chance to raise money for the cause (click here to view the list on the SSA web site).

Read more about the blogathan here.

Be sure to stop by the sites to follow along. Throw some bucks at it if you can. I know I will.

I wished I had an SSA at the little, Christian college I went to. It would have been sweet to see all the lightning.

Be prepared to help me with my donated time. I’ll need submissions and ideas for blogs. I’ll need pictures of your navel piercings. Nothing says, Raise money and awareness like a good navel piercing.

JT Eberhard Skepticon 4 Mental Illness and Why The Skeptic Community Should Give a Shit

 

Here is an interesting talk from Skepticon 4 about how mental illness needs to be normalized — in a sense. And by normalized, the idea that being crazy is a stigma preventing people from getting help needs to change.

And we, as skeptics, need to lead the way to do this.

It’s a good talk.

The speaker talks about managing anorexia. Mental disorders are more common than you think.

Check out the video.

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