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By Eric Jayne
One week after 2013 arrived, my dad called and said he began receiving hospice care for congestive heart failure. I went to Iowa to visit him two days later. When I got there he was lying in his bed, struggling to breathe because his heart was having trouble pumping oxygenated blood. We talked a little about his health and how the weather was during my 4-hour drive, and then we reminisced about some distant shared memories. When dinner time came Dad took me up on my offer to bring him a beer and an enchilada from one of our favorite local restaurants. After enjoying our feast the nurses and staff came in to administer pain meds and adjust his large, heavy body the way he requested. He thanked me for dinner then proceeded to fall sleep. I gave him a hug and began my journey back home. I received a call from my stepmother just after midnight the next night. She tearfully reported that Dad died a few minutes ago.
A personal long-term goal has been to persuade enough members of each group that Minnesota Atheists should merge with the Humanists of Minnesota.
In honor of Charles Darwin's birth month, our February speaker will be Sehoya Cotner, who will discuss "Fun Myths About Evolution Explored." 
2014 Atheist Game and All Star Conference (July 11-12, 2014)
While Minneapolis gets ready for the MLB All-Star game at Target Field, atheists will be secularizing the neighboring city of St. Paul starting with the city's minor league baseball team at Midway Stadium. For the third year in a row the St. Paul Saints will become the Mr. Paul Aints. There will again be atheist-themed entertainment and player-worn Mr. Paul Aints jerseys which will be auctioned during the game. The winless Aints will be going for their first ever win against the Kansas City T-Bones. Game time is 7pm on Friday, July 11. Tailgating begins at 4pm in the parking lot. Ticket packages for our group are available at 
Susan Jacoby - Best-selling author, scholar, and former Washington Post reporter. Her work has explored law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, and political dissent. Her most recent book about Robert Ingersoll was made available in paperback in February.
Rebecca Watson - Skeptical female activist and founder of the Skepchick blog. She is a popular speaker around the world on topics about atheism, feminism, skepticism, and science.
PZ Myers - Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota in Morris. He is the author of the world-famous science-atheist blog Pharyngula, which can be found on Freethought Blogs and Science Blogs. His recently published book is titled The Happy Atheist.
Debbie Goddard - Director of African Americans for Humanism, a program of the Council for Secular Humanism, and the director of Outreach at the Center for Inquiry–Transnational in Amherst, NY. She has participated in local freethought and LGBT groups in the Philadelphia area and helped organize and support campus groups internationally as a student volunteer. 
Dan Barker - Dan served as an associate pastor in three churches, and was a protestant missionary in Mexico. He preached the Christian religion for 19 years before he publicly came out as an atheist in 1984. Dan has been a strong advocate of church/state separation ever since. He’s the author of several freethought books and is currently the co-president of Freedom From Religion Foundation. 
Elizabeth Ess - After dropping out of assassin school, Elizabeth Ess started doing standup comedy. She's brought her fun, punchy & sometimes dark humor all over the Midwest and the West Coast. She's performed at the San Diego Comedy Festival, Laughfest, and events hosted by Twin Cities Public Television and the Out Twin Cities Film Festival. She writes sketch comedy for Fearless Comedy Productions and has acted in comedy shows at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. She also contributed to the 
