For those of us who can’t make it (work :/), will they be posting videos of the talk online afterwards, or will there be a DVD?

Welcome to Missouri!

how incredibly fitting to have an atheist conference in an uber-conservative churchified part of the state.  it’s absolutely gorgeous out there though.  i usually end up stopping through there a couple times a year.

Stay out of elevators?

Anyways.

I’m in Springfield right now looking for a place to park. This afternoon there’s a field trip to the local Creation Museum of the Ozarks with PZ Myers. I am psyyyyyyched.

It’ll be raining there possibly by tomorrow, so bring some rain gear, Amanda, a collapsible umbrella would probably a good idea at the very least. 

OT, but, hey you friends of the People’s Library:

http://peopleslibrary.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/irony-of-what-bloombergs-done-threw-out-fahrenheit-451/

But be careful if you bring your umbrella to East Carolina University!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/higher-education/officials-at-east-carolina-university-lift-lockdown-say-report-of-gunman-was-unfounded/2011/11/16/gIQATDNhRN_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop

What P. Maximus said.

Have fun,
SP.

“Going to Missouri” sounds like a euphemism for… something.

Not to rain on anybody’s parade but isn’t technically the conference/convention misnamed?  It’s not skeptical to completely disavowal, it’s simple disagreement wrapped in a slightly less offensive package.  I’m a believer and could care less one way or the other, but I do find these sorts of semantics annoying simply because they aren’t skeptics, they don’t doubt it’s existence, they are firmly sure it is incorrect….

That being said, sock it to the conservative religious nuts in their home area.  Unlatch the buckle on the bible belt.

Jake—probably for meth.

I’m sure you’re having a great time, but may it be even better than you expected. And thnx for the Ann Peebles link, what a classic tune.

i don’t think about the rainy day, but bringing some rain gear is good.

Jake—probably for meth.

Sad but true.

Springfield is in the most Redneckistan part of the state, but the meth capital of the United States is actually Jefferson County, Missouri. It’s just south of St. Louis County and a growing exurban part of the St. Louis Metropolitan area. The meth problem in this state is so bad that you actually have to show your driver’s license just to buy Sudafed, and there’s a legislative push to require prescriptions for any drugs containing pseudoephedrine. There was a pretty good movie last year - Winter’s Bone - about rural meth culture in the Missouri Ozarks. It’s depressing as hell.

Anyway, not that there are a whole lot of liberal areas in Missouri (KC and STL are pretty much the only Democratic strongholds in the state - Obama won St. Louis City with 83% of the vote in 2008), it’s kind of amusing that Skepticon is being held in what is easily the most conservative part of the state. It’s where Roy Blunt served as a Congressman since forever before the douchebag got elected to the U.S. Senate last year.

Re: DTGslu2K #15

Illinois and many other states also have the requirement to show ID and they log it when you buy OTC medicine containing pseudo-ephedrine.  I know I have to when I get Mucinex.

a little Friday for fun. so, every weekend is with itunes.