Introduction I can’t tell you how long I’ve been trying to write this. Weeks in draft-and-delete mode spawned the post…
From: Godlessness in Theory
A federal judge said Nope to another attempt to get evolution banned in Kansas public schools. Citizens for Objective Public…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
How do we draw the border between what we know and what we have learned from people who know? The…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
This is a partial transcript of the talk I gave at St. Charles Community College on December 2, 2014. Amazing…
From: The Atheist Experience
As the occurrence of vaccine-preventable diseases declines, the challenge of communicating the risk of not being immunized increases.Every situation is unique;…
From: A Million Gods
My friend Dan Linford has an article in Scientia Salon that answers an argument often heard from some of the…
[caption id="attachment_12463" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Bonnie Weinstein, middle-class mother of three, grandmother of one, and author of the new bestseller To…
From: The Zingularity
Abdisamad Sheikh Hussein was 15 when he died. He was run over by an SUV. On Purpose. On Thursday, Abdisamad…
From: A Million Gods
One of the amusing things in general about the anti-vax is their unwillingness to be able to do work. I…
From: A Million Gods
This is a partial transcript of the talk I gave at St. Charles Community College on December 2, 2014. Amazing…
From: The Atheist Experience
What was that about Bill Cosby now? Ten women? Fifteen? Make that thirty-three. A former Playboy Club waitress is the…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
Anna Merlan at Jezebel reports on a new porn series featuring rapes of women crossing the US-Mexico border. Rape is…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
Introduction I can’t tell you how long I’ve been trying to write this. Weeks in draft-and-delete mode spawned the post…
From: Godlessness in Theory
We are not pointing fingers. All we said is that we are under DDoS attack. Our host is working to…
From: A Million Gods
Oh, no. Ronin Shimizu, a 12-year-old boy in California, killed himself after he was bullied for being the only male cheerleader…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
I've been laughing about this since last night. The Storify is here if the embed doesn't work for you. [View…
From: Almost Diamonds
Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into one woman's claims that Bill Cosby molested her. Los Angeles police opened…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
Most Minnesota high schools have settled something well: there will be no further discrimination against transgender students in athletics. Capping…
From: Pharyngula
As things stand, we know virtually nothing about allegations of a gang rape at the University of Virginia. We know…
Tell us more about Abort67, you ask. Wikipedia has information. Abort67 is a pro-life protest group in the UK known…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
With seemingly perfect timing, the Department of Justice released the results of a longtime investigation of the police in Cleveland,…
The Michigan House of Representatives killed a bill that would have added sexual orientation and gender expression to the state's…
White allies may feel uneasy speaking with authority on the the spate of unjust decisions involving a mix of racist…
From: Ace of Clades
Saudi and Iran arrest bloggers for being rude about "the prophet"; Vietnam arrests bloggers for being rude about the government.…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
Ben Carson has made a name for himself in the right wing fever swamps with a seemingly endless stream of…
To call Ted Nugent fact-challenged would be the understatement of the century. The legendary rock star, famous as much for…
The seemingly endless negotiations between the US, Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Iran over Iran's nuclear program, due to…
From: Mano Singham
Congratulations to Dan Barker, Annie Laurie Gaylor and the rest of the folks at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It…
A group of 17 states led by Texas (of course) has filed a federal lawsuit in response to President Obama's…
An anti-abortion "activist" was found guilty of harassing the head of a Belfast clinic last month. One of Ireland’s most…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
A new piece of hateful cruelty and suppression out of Saudi Arabia, land of glorious life-giving oil. Via the Gulf…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
[caption id="attachment_12463" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Bonnie Weinstein, middle-class mother of three, grandmother of one, and author of the new bestseller To…
From: The Zingularity
It's the Jehovah's Witnesses' turn. Two people who say that as children they were sexually abused by a leader in…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
The Satanic Temple, seems to be expanding its sights yet again as they seek to counter every Christian encroachment in…
From: Mano Singham
After a two year fight, the Satanic Temple -- really just a group of atheists with a flair for the…
The Vatican actually has an observatory and actual astronomers working in it. The observatory apparently came about because of the…
From: Mano Singham
After sending two letters to Hall County School District in Gainesville, Georgia and getting no response, the American Humanist Association…
Whenever religious people in the US claim some privilege for themselves, unbelievers like us warn them that they would not…
From: Mano Singham
Human Rights Watch had things to say about Iran's proposed penal code in August 2012. The new provisions also expand…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
More news from Iran: On November 24, 2014, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling sentencing Soheil Arabi to…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
Oh dear god. Worse than ever. There's a second video of the killing of Eric Garner. The second video shows…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
Many thanks to those kind readers who have kicked in this holiday season! My Paypal account is at Darksydothemoon-at-aol and…
From: The Zingularity
The Daily Show looks at the extraordinary effort by those on the right to find something, anything, other than excessive…
From: Mano Singham
Black freethinkers and atheists are speaking NOW about Ferguson and the black experience with the US justice system. Speakers include Donald…
From: Biodork
White allies may feel uneasy speaking with authority on the the spate of unjust decisions involving a mix of racist…
From: Ace of Clades
A horrifying event in Kansas City, Missouri. Friends of a Muslim teenager who was run down and killed in a…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
[caption id="attachment_10315" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Use DarkSydOtheMoon@aol.com[/caption] Thanks again for the Christmas cheer, its helping a lot. If you can put…
From: The Zingularity
To call Ted Nugent fact-challenged would be the understatement of the century. The legendary rock star, famous as much for…
I don't like to write about what I don't know. But I need to talk about this, in part because I…
From: Biodork
(Note: the following contains references to racist, transphobic, and misogynistic violence.) In the face of unjust death—what can humanists say…
From: Greta Christina's Blog
Also, master of molluscan anatomy, and clever tool user. This paper, Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for…
From: Pharyngula
Oh crap, that's scary. An unidentified drone came close to hitting a plane as it landed at Heathrow, the Civil…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
An interesting post on The Trouble with Jim Watson. Watson and biology are victims of a successful paradigm -- you…
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes we forget things we take for granted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAcwZ61MbpE
From: A Million Gods
In films, the star is often replaced by a double in many situations, either because the task involved is too…
From: Mano Singham
As the occurrence of vaccine-preventable diseases declines, the challenge of communicating the risk of not being immunized increases.Every situation is unique;…
From: A Million Gods
One of the amusing things in general about the anti-vax is their unwillingness to be able to do work. I…
From: A Million Gods
James Watson's Nobel medal sold for a large sum yesterday. $4.1 million, to be exact, not counting the auction house's…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
[caption id="attachment_21700" align="aligncenter" width="500"] MBARI[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
He keeps saying the same ol' debunked crap over and over again, and nowadays when a paper comes out that…
From: Pharyngula
The Daily Show looks at the extraordinary effort by those on the right to find something, anything, other than excessive…
From: Mano Singham
In films, the star is often replaced by a double in many situations, either because the task involved is too…
From: Mano Singham
Because Cute Emergency simply shoved it at me, so how could I not.
From: Butterflies and Wheels
About this business of all of us being just manifestations of PZ - Russell Glasser wittily quoted an apt bit…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
I've been laughing about this since last night. The Storify is here if the embed doesn't work for you. [View…
From: Almost Diamonds
It appears that the Chinese government has declared war on puns. Since I am extremely fond of this form of…
From: Mano Singham
Comedy interlude. A comment on my piece titled What should we do? at the Freethinker: Blueshift Rhino says: Fri 5…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
The New Republic has abruptly disintegrated, NPR reports. We have more news today on The New Republic, which on Thursday announced…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
I had known that you could take small pets on a plane as part of your carry-on luggage as long…
From: Mano Singham
The Daily Show continues its excellent coverage of the recent deaths of black people at the hands of the police…
From: Mano Singham
Right now is a difficult time for many people for many reasons. It's hard (for me, maybe also for you)…
From: Brute Reason
[caption id="attachment_10315" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Use DarkSydOtheMoon@aol.com[/caption] Thanks again for the Christmas cheer, its helping a lot. If you can put…
From: The Zingularity
Rose Eveleth at the Atlantic reports on Twitter's new moves to improve its practices on harassment. (Rose Eveleth herself got…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly. Status: Heavily Moderated; Previous…
From: Pharyngula
I haven't been slacking -- next week is the last week of classes, and everything is coming due. I just…
From: Pharyngula
Do you love dendritic patterns? Of course you do - who doesn't? Do you love thin film interference? You probably…
From: En Tequila Es Verdad
James Watson's Nobel medal sold for more than expected. He's very happy. After the sale, he said: “I’m very pleased.…
From: Pharyngula
My November column for The Freethinker is out. It asks a question. What do we do with the thought that…
From: Butterflies and Wheels
I'm about to go off to the local clinic for a visit with a specialist, who's going to figure out…
From: Pharyngula
A small but I think telling item. Dave Silverman said in a public Facebook post an hour ago that Bill…
From: Butterflies and Wheels