What Are You Doing Here?

Camels With Hammers used to be accessible at both http://www.camelswithhammers.com and the http://www.camelswithhammers.wordpress.com address you just used.  But now we are exclusively at http://www.camelswithhammers.com and camelswithhammers.wordpress.com is now a ghost blog.

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The End Of The Camels With Hammers Dark Ages

No new posts today as I have been and will be bogged down with preparations for the blog’s formal move to our new host.  There are a lot of things to take care of before tomorrow. Tomorrow ends the “dark ages” at Camels With Hammers as we abandon our black and orange scheme entirely for […]

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Camels With Hammers Turns 1 Year Old Today

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of you who keep reading and who commenting on Camels With Hammers and who keep sharing links with your friends and with all sorts of social media sites.  Running this blog over this past year and watching your support and enthusiasm for the blog grow has been […]

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Camels With Hammers Solicits Your Design Help!

So, here’s the deal. We’re in the process of upgrading the site to improve the blog in a number of ways, hopefully by our year anniversary as “Camels With Hammers” (June 22). The most visible and obvious change coming is a total aesthetic redesign. Essentially, we’ll be turning on the lights and ditching all the […]

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Facebook With Camels With Hammers!

We’re in the process of setting up the Camels With Hammers Facebook page to be a vibrant, regularly updating platform from which you can keep track of the new posts on the blog, get news and other messages specifically for fans, post links and photos which you think other Camels With Hammers readers might enjoy, interact with […]

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Regular Philosophy, Ethics, and Atheism Blogging To Resume In April

Last week I submitted my dissertation to my adviser and my readers.  This weekend I am tying up some remaining loose ends and preparing a 25 page summary version of the dissertation to submit to my examiner, a member of my committee who reads only this abbreviated version of the dissertation rather than the entire […]

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Regular Blogging Topics To Return Valentine’s Day

Hi everyone, I just want to take a quick moment to explain why we’re only running the top 366 favorite bands list of late and for the near future instead of dealing with the variety of topics and types of posts I normally do.  Simply put, the dissertation is almost done and it needs my […]

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Camels With Hammers 2010: A Focus On Ethics, Rationalism, And My Favorite 366 Recording Artists

I want to take this moment to say thank you to everyone who has visited Camels With Hammers in 2009 and especially those of you who have made this site part of your regular internet reading.  Your support has been extraordinarily appreciated.   Seeing readership grow throughout the summer and fall months was a really gratifying […]

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Daily Hilarity: Taylor Swift’s Saturday Night Live Monologue Song: “Monologue (lalalala)”

So on Saturday night, Taylor Swift went on SNL and performed this funny song.  I was really impressed with her comic delivery in numerous respects.   She really squeezes all the comedic juice out of a fairly by-the-numbers bit of writing: I love the great little touch at the end where she says they’re going […]

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Back In Blog

Hey everyone!   Sorry for doing much less original writing and letting some valuable reader comments pile up unaddressed over the last week.  About this time last week I was overcome with lethargy which by the next day revealed itself to be the first onset of sickness.  So, I blogged it easy last week while […]

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Happy Birthday Dave!!!

Camels With Hammers‘s webmaster extraordinaire and occasional contributor, Dave Smith, turns 32 today.  My previous forays into blogging were so fundamentally inhibited by my programming illiteracy that I can honestly say that this blog, in so many of its most successful features would simply not be possible without Dave’s volunteered efforts.  He has really made […]

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Thanks!

In the week that just ended we broke some milestones for readership at Camels With Hammers as we continue to steadily grow and I want to take just a moment here to say thanks, because without your visits and your willingness to support this blog with your attention, we’d be going nowhere: Thanks!

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Camels With Hammers Philosophy

After this introductory paragraph, every sentence in this post will summarize and link a different post expressing my views, primarily on topics related to atheism, philosophy, and ethics—which are the primary preoccupations of this blog. I am organizing all of these links into this one summary statement of “Camels With Hammers’ Philosophy.”  This post will […]

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Are We In The Midst Of A Literacy Revolution Unseen Since The Greeks?

Clive Thompson reports that Stanford’s Andrea Lunsford thinks so: It’s almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they’d leave school […]

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Introducing Sendai Anonymous

We’re incredibly excited to have our first guest contributors to join Dave and I posting on Camels With Hammers.  Earlier we saw Robert’s guest contribution on his observations at the Creation Museum.  And now we’re excited to announce that in the near future we will feature guest posts from Sara, the witty, passionate, and intellectually […]

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Introducing Robert B

On August 7, 2009, PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance led a field trip of a few hundred atheists and other secularists through Ken Ham’s infamous Creation Museum, a “museum” dedicated to promulgating the idea that a certain reading of the Bible should guide scientific investigation and understanding. Past Camels With Hammers coverage of […]

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Catch Up Day

I might not blog at all today as I’ll be concentrating on my dissertation pretty heavily.  I’ve bumped many of my more substantive posts to the front page for you to peruse and consider catching up on.  I also encourage you to find more pieces in the right hand column’s “recommended posts” list as well […]

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A Catch Up Day

I’ll be spending the rest of the day working on my dissertation and teaching.  I’ve moved many of the recent days’ posts to the front page in case you missed them during my flurry of constant posting during the last 4 days.  Also there is a long list of blog posts in the right hand […]

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Did You Know You Could Blog From The Airport?

I never dreamed of such a thing—but here I am doing it. Now if only I had something urgent to say that I could make a real post out of this. Nope, nothing’s coming to me.  So, I’ll just take this chance to thank everyone who reads this blog.  It’s been a blast seeing the […]

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Carnival Of The Godless And The Atheist Blogroll

Camels With Hammers is honored to be included in the current “Carnival of the Godless”–a blog carnival which features atheism blogs. Thanks to StateofProtest for running the carnival!  I highly recommend you peruse some of the blogs profiled there. We also have been remiss in not mentioning sooner that we are now on The Atheist […]

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Hey Everybody

Sorry to have been posting infrequently. I’ve become a regular poster at http://www.rottentomatoes.com again in the last few weeks. But even more distracting has been my work to get my dissertation proposal complete. I’m elated to report that it’s done! In two weeks, I defend it. Assuming all goes well, from there I am cleared […]

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Update

Thanks to those of you who have taken the time to stop by and briefly or not so briefly peruse the new blog. In the coming weeks, I will start to provide more discussion of the Mets and philosophy and movies (particularly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) as promised. I hope to continue to […]

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It Feels Like A Sitcom Spinoff

This blogging thing begins for me shortly following the demise of a website that was a sort of procrastination home to me for over four years. I was among the top ten most frequent posters for much of those four years, which I guess is something of a dubious distinction. So, now, after a long […]

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Daybreak

Okay, I have finally decided to use this forum. Thankfully there is good news for my many loyal readers who must be very worried that since I was not writing out ideas for my dissertation here that I wasn’t writing them out at all. The good news is that I have been writing them out […]

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Ecce Homo

I’m a philosophy graduate student/teacher developing my dissertation. My natural tendency is to talk all my ideas out before writing—except if it is writing to people who are reading. So, in order to do the painstaking work of brainstorming and honing my ideas for my dissertation, I am deciding to blog them because it will […]

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