I have desperately missed the atheist board since the Fool took it away. Not because we always posted about atheist issues or religious outrages, but because it gave a place where we could discuss lots of things, sometimes with a mild political bent, without generating the vitriol that happened at so many others boards, not to mention Yahoo, Facebook, etc.

So while there have been multiple times when I've wished for the Atheist board to be reconstituted because of a specific issue or topic, today is not one of them. But I will say 'Hi there, and welcome, and a generous round of applause for Manlobbi for putting this together.'

[And not to diminish the effort, but it occurs to me that for all the Fool's bitching and carping about how hard it was to maintain the software and the spaghetti code and all the problems entailed with running the 'free boards', the fact that someone - on their own time, without compensation, without a cadre of workers to whip into a frenzy - could do something so reasonably similar in such a short amount of time makes me somewhat skeptical about all the Fool's wailing and gnashing of teeth lo these many years.]

Anyway, forward (into the past), for all you Firesign Theater types.