This morning I fly out to Buffalo, and then ride on to Amherst, New York, home to the Center for Inquiry -- the hub of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, Free Inquiry, and much else, including the Point of Inquiry radio show and podcast. This is the place I worked, for my very first job out of college, along with Matthew Nisbet in the summer of 1999. Also present back then: Derek Araujo, now Vice President and General Counsel of the Center for Inquiry, director of CFI’s legal programs, and CFI’s Representative to the United Nations; and Austin Dacey, a writer in New York and author of The Secular Conscience. The occasion is the Center for Inquiry On Campus Leadership Conference -- and, well, I'm reminiscing. It is hard to believe that ten years ago, I was in a secular humanist rock band with Araujo, Dacey, and a few other young skeptic\/freethinkers called the House Judiciary Committee (it was the time of impeachment). I was the rhythm guitar player, though I didn't have any rhythm. One of our hits? An instrumental called \"Hook, Quine, and Pinker.\" My goals in Amherst are several. First, I'm going to give a talk to the young freethought advocates. ...<\/p>
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