Jun 17 2012
Lockwood DeWitt won Challenge #4 handily, which makes the SSA a total of $40 richer. I knew someone would remember what Evelyn and I were up to last month! Ron did, too, but gracefully bowed out. This is the last, though, so it’s all hands on deck. We’ll let my intrepid companion furnish the last …
Jun 17 2012
Cole Kingsbury won Challenge #3, putting another $10 in the SSA’s coffers in his honor. On to #4! I’m gonna kick it up a notch: name the location, and what geologists suspect created it. Schott Rule in effect: Cole has to sit this one out until 5pm. Ron’s back in the game, though, so be …
Jun 17 2012
Ron Schott pegged Challenge #2 as Wizard Island, Crater Lake, Oregon. He even got the exact viewpoint it was taken from. He is a Google Earth-fu Master. He’s also brought us up to $20. This next one is some geology by air. Name the fascinating geologic location framed by the window and the wing, and …
Jun 17 2012
All right. So I saw people blogging into the wee hours of today and thought the SSA Week challenge lasted all day. I was wrong. It lasted until yesterday. So our SSA Week Geology Challenge has now become our Post-SSA Week Geology Challenge. Which is completely okay, because there’s still a $250,000 matching donation offer …
May 23 2012
We’re having it. Due to legal issues and the fact that women get incredible blow-back when they mention that sexual harassment happens and it would be nice if men stopped engaging in it (see: Elevatorgate), the Conversation has to be somewhat circumspect in places. Certain names will not be named. At least, not until some …
May 04 2012
CeCe McDonald didn’t ask to be attacked, but she was. Some vicious assholes decided a transsexual woman of color was fair game for abuse. They assaulted her, they harmed her, and chased her down when she tried to flee. She had a pair of scissors in her purse. She took them out to ward off …
Apr 14 2012
Short notice, I know, but this shit’s important. If you can, make it out to show that the IDiotic “academic fairness (but what we really mean is we want to overthrow science in the classroom)” legislation that just opened the doors of Tennessee classrooms to all manner of IDiocy, creationism, and outright denialism needs to …
Mar 26 2012
It infuriates me that we have to have discussions like this in the 21st Century. It outrages me that we have to beg people to give folks their basic human rights. Why haven’t we reached the point where it’s obvious to even the dimmest and most backward among us that it’s not okay to deny …
Mar 21 2012
It’s been nearly a year since I clipped this snippet from Greta Christina’s “Live-Blogging the Rapture.” Religion depends on social consent to survive and perpetuate itself. We have to deny that consent. We have to keep pointing out, at every available opportunity, that the Emperor has no clothes. That, coming at the end of a …
Nov 19 2011
This is what America’s Finest are up to these days: Note the technique: the insouciant stoll, the pepper spray held at a casual yet effective angle, the expression that says he could just as easily be spraying cockroaches as students, because they’re equally vermin to him. Note that his safety and the safety of others …
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