Year of Dead Celebrities: Will the New Year Be Bad for Your Health Too?

Miracle Girl: Year of Dead Celebrities: Will the New Year Be Bad for Your Health Too?

2016 has been a bad year for celebrity deaths. But 2017 may be even worse for 'ordinary people.' The repeal of Obamacare will kill thousands more than the celebrities who died in 2016.

Seeking a New Year's Evolution

Miracle Girl: Seeking a New Year's Evolution

Will humanity ever evolve away the need to believe in an all-powerful god? Well, I believe religion isn't hard-wired in the human brain. That's a hopeful sign for the future.

Myth-Taken by Santa

Miracle Girl: Myth-Taken by Santa

"Santa is a fake! And all those Santas, in all those malls, they’re all fake too!" I was only 4, but a little skeptic in the making. Does the Santa myth remind you of something else?

My Personal War on Christmas

Miracle Girl: My Personal War on Christmas

Ambivalent about the Christmas season? Take this satire and don't tell me Merry Christmas in the morning.

Survival Manifesto: Life is the Universe…and Everything

Miracle Girl: Survival Manifesto: Life is the Universe…and Everything

If there's one thing I've learned during my coma recovery, coping mechanisms are survival mechanisms too.

All Aboard the Good Ship Nonreligious!

Miracle Girl: All Aboard the Good Ship Nonreligious!

Instead of nailing up a Keep Out sign, Patheos Nonreligious is putting out the boarding platform. Nones of all stripes will be needed if atheists hope to fight Republican attempts to breach the wall of separation between Church and State.

Trumpcare Should Be Called Trumpscare

Miracle Girl: Trumpcare Should Be Called Trumpscare

The Trump administration and the Republican congressional majority will throw the health of millions under their ideological bus. For millions of Americans, Trumpcare will mean no care. 

I should know.

My Secular-Raised Bias: Religion’s Got Cooties!

Miracle Girl: My Secular-Raised Bias: Religion's Got Cooties!

Being raised an agnostic has heightened my immune reaction to religion.

Non-Abrahamic Atheism: A Match Made in Heathen

Miracle Girl: Non-Abrahamic Atheism: A Match Made in Heathen

Atheism exists everywhere there is theism. For every superstition, there are people who say, “Are you kidding me?” And for non-Abrahamic atheists, theirs is a match not made in Heaven.

The Patheos School of Christian Perversity

Miracle Girl: The Patheos School of Christian Perversity

My eyes have been opened to what it's like to grow up Christian from my fellow Patheos Atheist bloggers. I guess you can say that I've been attending the Patheos Atheist school for Christian Indoctrination Studies.

Under the Evil Eye

Miracle Girl: Under the Evil Eye

The "unlucky" unconsciously feel that they're under the Evil Eye. Even skeptics. Yet, 

I wasn't unlucky before my strokes and coma, and I'm not lucky now. The Evil Eye was nothing more than a personification of random chance.

Thankful for What?

Miracle Girl: Thankful for What?

We can be thankful that we have the strength within ourselves to take on whatever life decides to throw at us. If I was able to relearn how to walk, you will find the strength to face your family on Thanksgiving...and fight the destructive actions of President Trump.

Scrooge McDonald’s Ghost of Health Insurance Past

Miracle Girl: Scrooge McDonald’s Ghost of Health Insurance Past

Trump wants to sound like the hero, saving people with pre-existing conditions. But that is yet another lie. People with health conditions will soon find they're the goose being cooked by Scrooge McDonald.

Obamacare(s); Trump Won’t

Miracle Girl: Obamacare(s); Trump Won’t

I was shown the door of my nursing home. That's the future of healthcare for those with pre-existing conditions, post-Obamacare.

This story will be familiar to regular readers of this blog!

The Breitbartization of the White House

Miracle Girl: The Breitbartization of the White House

I was worried what the election of Donald Trump would mean for those labeled "The Other," but I never realized that I might be one of them. To Stephen Bannon, I'm The Other too.

Taking It to the Streets

Miracle Girl: Taking It to the Streets

We the people have the power to resist an authoritarian without subverting the system that elected him. Instead of subverting our system, we should use our democratic rights to resist an authoritarian.

Still Stronger Together

Miracle Girl: Still Stronger Together

It’s going to be a painfully dispiriting four-year journey in the wilderness. But we can bring light to the path because hope will always trump hate.

Nightmare on Election Street

Miracle Girl: Nightmare on Election Street

The sleep of reason produces monsters. Let's hope election night doesn't bring another nightmare. #PatheosVotes2016

Election: Tenterhooks Tweeting Tonight

Miracle Girl: Election: Tenterhooks Tweeting Tonight

Join me as I attempt to tweet election night while biting my fingernails! #PatheosVotes2016

Comey Over to My Election

Miracle Girl: Comey Over to My Election

Comey has succumbed to the blindness of those who consider themselves to be upright and morally superior. Sound familiar? Though Comey's unconscious bias may well be at work, I think the real culprit is a syndrome that will be all too familiar to atheists.

All Hallow’s Eve of the Election

Miracle Girl: All Hallow’s Eve of the Election

Every election, people say this is the most important election in our lifetime. This time, it’s really true...and you're right to be afraid. The real night of horrors could be November 8.

Halloween Election Scarefest

Miracle Girl: Halloween Election Scarefest

Don't look now! Around every corner is a new reason to quake. Halloween is scary enough without the election looming. It's enough to haunt any voter's nightmares.

Good Brain/Bad Brain: Of Two Political Minds

Miracle Girl: Good Brain/Bad Brain: Of Two Political Minds

I know I shouldn't be hoping for Republicans to stay home on November 8. But I still am. Bad brain. Bad!

Top 5 Trumpster Fire Debate Moments

Miracle Girl: Top 5 Trumpster Fire Debate Moments

The top five worst Trump debate moments. The final debate was a Trumpster fire that will consume the Republican Party.

Fight Night Tonight: The Final Showdown

Miracle Girl: Fight Night Tonight: The Final Showdown

It hardly takes a psychic to see that the last presidential debate will be a slimefest of historic proportions. It's safe to say that tonight's debate will be the nastiest in history.

Presidential Politics: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Miracle Girl: Presidential Politics: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Geraldine Ferraro paved the way and Bill Clinton predicted it. We're well on track for the first female president to be elected on the heels of the first African-American one.

Circus Circus: Live Blogging the Vegas Debate

Miracle Girl: Circus Circus: Live Blogging the Vegas Debate

Join me at 9:00 EST/6:00 PST for a Las Vegas live blogging extravaganza. And bring a towel--you'll need it for the Clinton/Trump slimefest!

Michelle Obama for...Anything

Miracle Girl: Michelle Obama for...Anything

The Obamas say, when they go low, we go high. Michelle Obama embodies that motto. 

I for one will be sad to see Michelle go.

Through a Crystal Ball Darkly: The Future After the Election

Miracle Girl: Through a Crystal Ball Darkly: The Future After the Election

I see a storm ahead in American democracy's future. 

We may be headed for a landslide election. But the next deluge may wash our democracy away.

Donald Trump: Flooded Debasement

Miracle Girl: Donald Trump: Flooded Debasement

Think Sunday’s debate was tawdry? You should hear Trump's original plan. 

The decimation of the GOP edifice is already underway, destroyed by a builder named Trump. 

The Final Nail…Finally

Miracle Girl: The Final Nail…Finally

October 7 will go down in history as the day Hillary Clinton clinched the presidency. Though Donald 

Trump probably thinks he could grab a woman's crotch on 5th avenue and still get elected.

Why Trump May Fail Bigly at Sunday’s Debate

Miracle Girl: Why Trump May Fail Bigly at Sunday’s Debate

Donald Trump won't be able to evade a second debate failure. It won't be long before the Wizard of Id peeks out from behind the curtain.

Vice Presidential Debate: Drinking Game Edition

Miracle Girl: Vice Presidential Debate: Drinking Game Edition

Every time Mike Pence "interprets" one of his running mate's comments or policies in a way that is actually the exact opposite, take a slug. You'll be sloshed by the halfway point.

But save some of that booze for after the election. You'll need it if the Trump/Pence campaign wins.

5 Things You Didn’t Want to Think About Thanks to Donald Trump

Miracle Girl: 5 Things You Didn’t Want to Think About Thanks to Donald Trump

I'd be happy if the word trump were banished from the English language after November 8. But until then, here are f

ive categories of thoughts we we would like to unthink courtesy of The Donald.

Pride Goeth Before the Fall…Election

Miracle Girl: Pride Goeth Before the Fall…Election

Hubris, thy name is Donald Trump. 

Though it takes balls to put yourself forward for the leader of the free world, Donald Trump cranks the ego level up to 11.

Or maybe 1100.

Applauding the Punditocracy Pile-On

Miracle Girl: Applauding the Punditocracy Pile-On

I was right that the pundits would pile on after the debate. But I was wrong about which candidate would be under the stack.

I say, pile on to your hearts content. I’ll bring the popcorn.

The Pixel is Mightier Than the Debate

Miracle Girl: The Pixel is Mightier Than the Debate

The press reaction will create the reality for tonight's debate for years to come.  My prediction: If Trump doesn't piss himself, he'll be declared the winner of tonight's debate.

Hitchhiking Savior’s Guide to Redeeming the Galaxy

Miracle Girl: Hitchhiking Savior’s Guide to Redeeming the Galaxy

Did Jesus have to boldly go where no redeemer had gone before, dying over and over again to save the souls of exterrestrials? And did he skip Vogshpere to spare himself from being Vogon poetried to death?

These would once have been considered serious theological questions.