Coming Up

The 94th Carnival Of The Godless is posted over at Hank's place - Earthman's Notebook. Check it out!

Also - I need hosts, people. There are only two more hosts in the queue, which means that a month from now the COTG could end, before it even gets to the 100th edition.

There are plenty of atheist blogs out there now. If you have a new or new-ish atheist blog, and you are looking to get some great exposure and bump your hit count through the roof, volunteer to host the COTG. I'll put you on the hosting list and get you set up. Email me at brent.rasmussen@gmail.com and request a hosting slot. If you want a specific date, let me know that as well. Remember we have Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas coming up!

The 88th COTG has been posted over at Atheist FAQ!

Oh, and I need hosts, people! Send me an email if you would like to host a future COTG. Riches beyond the dreams of avarice, fame, fortune, and godlessness can be yours. Well, godlessness, anyway.

Hi Folks - The newest COTG has been posted over at Tangled Up In Blue Guy. Check out the COTG Peer Reviewed Journal Of The Godless!

And a side note - I need hosts, people. If you have hosted the COTG in the past and you'd like to do it again, or if you have a brand new godless, skeptical, scientific, freethought, atheist, etc. blog and you'd like to drive some serious traffic through it for a day, send me an email and offer to host!

Here are the guidelines.

Thanks!

Carnival Of The Godless Guidelines

1. The post you send in must be from a godless perspective and address something such as godlessness, atheism, church/state separation, the evolution/creation debate, theodicy, philosophy of religion as it relates to godlessness, etc. There is a huge amount of wiggle room in the post subject and we will consider every submission carefully for inclusion.

2. You may only submit one post per carnival. More may be accepted at the host's discretion. If you submit a post that you really think ought to be included from another blog, and the author of that blog also submits a post, we'll use their post. This should be considered a great way to get one of your excellent, but (for whatever reason) unknown or underrated posts in front of a potentially huge audience. Grab the bull by the horns!

Time frame

The Carnival Of The Godless will be posted every two weeks on Sunday. The cutoff date for submissions will be the preceding Friday. If we get the submissions chosen and sorted out before Sunday, it will be posted earlier.

Submissions

Send your submissions to the COTG Submissions page at Blogcarnival.com. Make sure you include:

• The name of the blog where the post is from
• The post title.
• The post author's name or handle.
• The post's permanent link.
• A short description of the post.

Attention Internet Infidels

Forum posts may also be submitted. Have you written something on the boards that you think needs a wider audience than II? Submit it!

Hosting

If you run a godless blog and if you would like to host the Carnival Of The Godless, send your hosting request to cotg-host@brentrasmussen.com.

The 79th COTG is up over at the Sexy Secularist. And it's got scansion and meter!

I set up the Carnival Of The Godless to accept submissions via the very handy blogcarnival.com service a while back. for the longest time I hand-processed the submissions every two weeks. The blogcarnival.com site does all of that for me now. (Kudos to them, by the way!)

However, my email address was out there for a long, long time, so I still get the occasional COTG submission sent to it. So, I set up a filter in Thunderbird to reply to these submission emails with a polite little response that basically asks them to please re-submit using the proper form URL over at blogcarnival.com.

One submitter with the handle "owlafaye" sent me a bare submission. That is to say, it was just the text of the submission, not hosted anywhere. (If you'd like to read the full text of his submission - and you think your sanity can handle it - click here.) My Thunderbird filter replied with my polite auto-response, and I thought nothing of it - until this morning when I received yet another email from our intrepid submitter.

[owlafaye] Your submission form asks for a URL...haven't one on hand...pretty stupid requests piss me off.

Take it or leave it...also there is a bug that keeps your site on my computer and I can't get rid of it.

Get your shit together.

So, I replied to his little foot-stomping tantrum.

More below the fold...

The 75th edition of the Carnival Of the Godless is up over at Ain't Christian. Check it out!

Submit your writing for the next one, to be held September 30, 2007 over at A Load Of Bright, at the BlogCarnival.com submission page here.

The ride had been long, but coming back to the town of Skeptic's Circle after being away for nearly two years felt good.

My appy mare smelled the fresh hay layed in next to the livery about a mile out of town and I let her prance a bit. I looked to my left and grinned. This time the UTI brand was represented well. Jim Downey, my ranch manager, trotted his horse alongside mine, his Sharps 50 rifle riding high in it's scabbard, the vernier sights packed away in their own leather pouch. Rick Ulrey, a former soldier, rode slightly behind us, his eyes scanning our backtrail for sign. Hank Fox, a grizzled veteran of many skeptical campaigns, rode ahead. Eric Lorson, brought up the rear, his oiled-leather guitar case strapped where a long rifle scabbard would normally go, his crossed pistols secured with leather.

My old partner DS, who had been with me two years ago when we came in to town, had started working for the Kos brand a while back, and from what I'd heard was doing good work there. Not that I ever doubted it. DS was a hell of a hard worker.

As we got closer I noticed that the town of Skeptic's Circle was...

(This one ran a lot longer than I thought it would, folks. There were a lot of submissions! If you want to skip reading the story, and instead just have a plain-jane list of links, you can find them here. Thanks for reading! -Brent)

UTI is hosting the 69th edition of the Skeptic's Circle on September 13, 2007, and I need submissions! You'll find the guidelines for submission here.

Send your submissions to me at brent@brentrasmussen.com, and make sure that you have the words "Skeptic's Circle" in the subject line.

Thanks in advance!

Shazam! The 74th Carnival of the Godless is up over at Atheist FAQ. Check it out!

More than two years ago UTI had the distinct privilege of hosting the 12th edition of the then-brand-new Skeptic's Circle. Unfortunately at the time my web host had gone down hard and I had to host it over at the UTI Annex. You can check it out here.

Well, St. Nate, the legendary founder of the Circle, has moved on and Orac from Respectful Insolence rides herd on the Circle now.

UTI will be hosting the 69th edition of the Skeptic's Circle on September 13. Send your submissions to me at brent@brentrasmussen.com. The rules and guidelines for submission are located here.

See you in the Circle!

It's up over at The Defence Of Reason.

Woo hoo! Quixotic quests, lost secrets, stone tablets, and Oasis' 'Wonderwall'. What more could you ask from an early Carnival Of the Godless?

Check out the gobs of godless goodness available in the 68th edition of the COTG over at Action Skeptics!

Carnival of The Godless has been posted over at Letter From A Broad. Check it out!

The 62nd COTG has been posted at Black Sun Journal. It's a St. Patty's Day edition, so check it out and get yer godless Irish on.

The 61st Carnival Of The Godless is up over at Hell's Handmaiden!

Welcome to the February 18, 2007 edition of Carnival Of The Godless. My host for this date seems to have gone AWOL, so here's a quick and dirty COTG:

Alon Levy presents Freedom from Religion posted at Abstract Nonsense.

Stephen Littau presents Ayn Rand in Her Own Words posted at Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds.

Michael Bains presents It's Religion -v- Reality posted at Michael Bains.

exapologist presents A Quick and Dirty Refutation of Divine Command Theories posted at exapologist.

LolaLondon presents 12. A Rose by Any Other Name posted at L'undone.

J-Bar presents Don't Fear the Reaper posted at Lord J-Bar For Democracy, Not Theocracy.

Dikkii presents Paley's Rock posted at Dikkii's Diatribe.

Hemant presents 20 Things That Christians Do in Church That Annoy Me posted at Friendly Atheist.

Barry Leiba presents Reality-based government posted at Staring At Empty Pages.

Clark Bartram presents Was He Stuck In Traffic?..... posted at Unintelligent Design.

Austin Atheist presents Godless YouTubers Unite! posted at AUSTIN ATHEIST ANØNYMØUS.

Doug Humphries presents With Charity Like That, Who Needs Enemas? posted at Doug Humphries.

Hell's Handmaiden presents God's Laws posted at Hell's Handmaiden.

Greg Lammers presents Nail That Deity Down posted at Free Mind Joe.

Ebonmuse presents Footprints posted at Daylight Atheism.

Blane Conklin presents God Impertinent* (part 2) posted at do not read this blog.

Tim Jones presents Jesus in the Morning, Voodoo in the Evening posted at remote central.

The Ridger presents The question she didn't answer posted at The Greenbelt.

vjack presents "Then What Do You Believe?" posted at Atheist Revolution.

Steve Snyder/SocraticGadfly presents Karma: The greatest religious evil ever perpetuated? posted at The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival Of The Godless using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Check it out - The Carnival Of The Godless is being featured at Blogcarnival.com! Cool!

The 59th Carnival Of The Godless is up over at Aardvarchaeology! Yay!

Superbowl Sunday indeed. Hmph.