Anniversary Posts
Here’s a list of the most popular blog posts from our first year; I hope you all enjoy!
Tim Minchin and a few words about the Pope
Ignoramus Award: The Shy Anti-Atheist Author
“No God” inspires some good Christian language
Carrie Prejean, the Christian Right’s Hope for America
Today we turn 1
Attempts at Rational Behavior celebrates its first anniversary today. That calls for some serious non-believer cake. Last year on this day AatRB began with this simple little Facebook status:
_______ is feeling better this morning...had a nice talk with God at 2am while washing dishes. Guess I should get to packing.
This status, called “God is a night-owl”, was from an old friend (um, random acquaintance?) I had reconnected with on Facebook. I was constantly in awe of the way she and several other FB friends could casually talk of their religion with no questions from anyone, whereas the moment I posted something even remotely non-religious I had dozens of comments from angry Christians. After bitching about this for several months, Attempts at Rational Behavior was born.
Since then the blog has become its own entity, acquiring it’s own Twitter account and Facebook profile. I’ve also been lucky enough to get regular readers and dozens of reader submissions which are always welcome.
Thanks everyone for a great year and I hope there are many more to come!
Keyword Searches
One of my favorite things to monitor on this blog are the keyword searches. Sometimes I see some really funny or unusual ones, so I thought I’d share the latest since I’ve moved over to WordPress.
The top few searches I see consistently are lester g. moyer almanac writer (for the The farmer’s almanac was wrong? post), glenn beck liberty university (for the Glenn Beck & Liberty University: perfect together? post), jamie hyneman atheist (probably leading to the Adam Savage: Food for the Eagle post), and some variation of tim minchin pope song lyrics (we all know what this is about). Theses few phrases are apparently what my blog is most popular for.
But there are some who come to Attempts at Rational Behavior searching for the answers to life’s hard questions. For example, people have landed here asking the following questions,
should you give god an ultimatium?
why was bc changed to bce and ad changed to ce?
why havent i read the bible?
why did glenn beck become a mormon?
who is the bloated bigot?
where is america mentioned in the bible?
what’s up with trails in sky?
what is fema?
what is adam savage’s religion?
what exactly is a dictatorship?
what does it mean’ what an exciting life you lead’?
what did carl sagan invent?
is shepard smith gay?
how could dictatorship be avoided?
Then of course there are the fetish seekers and the relationship challenged…
fellatio and catholicism
christians fisting
christianity and erotica
aarb sex
never knew about kissing
judaism and necrophilia
giving up after the first date
And then, the just plain bizarre ones…
five senses conspiricy
benjamin franklin versus sarah palin
allergic to rocks
adam savage hitler
ufo exorcism
translate
sylvia browne and glenn beck
stomping on the floor
stick to god
shit
newfangled ideas
nazi biodynamics
justin bieber praying
jamie hyneman abortion
illumunati behavior
three earthquakes in 2010 is proof christ is coming back
serving god and needing money
I truly hope they all found what they were looking for.
A new blog feature
Believe it or not, while searching for all these humorous and pathetic tweets and facebook statuses I do come across some items I would want to retweet with a #FTW hashtag. I thought it might be fun (and refreshing) to post some of those as well. Here are a couple I found today.
sarah palin and michelle bachman should go skydiving without parachutes and see if god saves them
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
And of course, the pièce de résistance,
To everyone praying for #hcr to fail: if prayer worked, we wouldn't need healthcare in the first place.
Comment Trouble
Several of my regular readers were having issues commenting at the new site, and with all the problems we’ve had with IntenseDebate I’m guessing it has a little something to do with them. I’ve uninstalled the plugin and have gone back to basic WordPress comments for a few days to see how it works. So comment away, my lovelies!
We’ve moved in!
If you’ve just been to the old blog over at blogger, you’ve noticed some exciting news. Attempts at Rational Behavior moved this weekend to its new home on WordPress. Not only do we have a nicer cleaner way of posting, we also have a brand new domain name, AatRB.com, and obviously a sweet new logo (although that’s not entirely finished yet).
So far the only hiccup has been IntenseDebate. We’re waiting for someone in support to give us a hand. Basically the code they wrote for bringing over all the IntenseDebate comments on blogger into WordPress doesn’t work, so until we can sort that minor issue out I’ve temporarily lost all comments on older blog posts. The old posts are here if anyone wants to look at them, just commentless 
Going forward commenting should not be an issue, and is already working as I see some of you have found the new site. Everything else should be a seamless transition, aside from everyone having to update their favorites/bookmarks. The RSS feed should transfer over, so no need to update your readers. The tweet feed on Twitter is already working, and the Facebook page has been updated.
Thanks to all who have helped make the blog a success this past year, and I look forward to bringing you countless more attempts at rational behavior! 
Please excuse the mess…
…while AatRB works on relaunching in WordPress this week.
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