"Sometimes I can feel the world trying to strip me of my sense of humor."

That might be one way to look at it. Another is that the prior information you have about your sense of humor isn't as informative as you think it is - :)

While I very much respect you, the authors, and understand that this is your bully-pulpit - the propaganda is getting fairly tiresome. Is there anyway we can steer the conversation back to pragmatic rationalism rather than the same tired faith/non-faith debate?

I (mistakenly?)read this blog for something more than reddit and digg.