This is really a thing of beauty: climate pseudoscientist Willis Eschenbach whines at the inadvertent comedy blog Watt’s Up With That that Bora Zivkovic has been moderating comments on his SciAm blog. Eschenbach, who’s also a Mass Extinction denialist, objects to Bora’s having instituted some basic anti-troll measures at A Blog Around The Clock that …
Category Archive: Fuckbrained assholes
Mar 02 2013
Al Qaeda has a magazine?
Apparently, they publish semi-irregularly an online magazine called Inspire. I’ve never seen a copy — and there have been cases of people in the UK being jailed for possessing a copy, so I don’t recommend that you go searching for one — but the latest issue includes this inspiring promotional piece. It’s an inspiring bit …
Feb 23 2013
People suck
I’ve been reading the story of Adalia Rose, a six year old girl with progeria. It makes me sick. Not Adalia, of course, but the fact that when she had fun posting videos on youtube and facebook, the trolls descended. Sometime in June, Carl Ludwig Sherburne noticed a new "bandwagon," his term for the Internet’s …
Feb 19 2013
I am now even more confident that we need more gun control
If nothing else, I want this asshole disarmed. BigDaddyHoffman1911 is some kind of gun freak from North Carolina who is proud to be walking around everywhere carrying deadly weapons…and here he is bragging about carrying a pair of Glock handguns equipped with 50 round ammo drums each. What war does he expect to erupt around …
Feb 08 2013
This just in: Fox News ‘experts’ are lying shitsacks
You might have seen this already: Media Matters caught it and it’s making the rounds, including at my green energy joint at KCET. Fox News talking head Shibani Joshi says the reason Germany’s leading the U.S. in solar power installations by a factor of about 20 is that Germany has more sun than we do …
Feb 05 2013
Nevada seems to have more than its share of idiots
Finally my lifelong lack of a college degree pays off! As it turns out, college degrees are bad for living things. At least that’s according to sterling citizen Cliff Gardner of Ruby Valley in Nevada, who said this to the New York Times: “I’m sure most of the people being considered for [the state’s Department of …
Feb 04 2013
Woman is a dirty word
I left a comment at Rebecca Watson’s recent post on being objectified; I said that while I face only a fraction of the abuse outspoken women get, lately the most common insult I get is being called a mangina, or worse, a woman. I now get email accusing me of being a woman. Think about …
Feb 04 2013
More professional victims causing deep rifts merely by existing
There really isn’t much I can excerpt from this story that won’t trigger folks pretty fucking hard. So the capsule summary: Three 15-year-olds start a rock band. They’re really good. They win a local Battle of the Bands. They receive acclaim. But they’re g-g-g-g-g-g-GIRLS. So the misogynist haters start leaving crappy, abusive, and even physically …
Feb 03 2013
Oh, the things you’ll learn about “Science” from the interwebs!
Far right wing talk show host Kevin Swanson has a few things to say about birth control. I’m beginning to get some evidence from certain doctors and certain scientists that have done research on women’s wombs after they’ve gone through the surgery, and they’ve compared the wombs of women who were on the birth control …
Jan 22 2013
“It’s about misogyny. It’s about intimidation. It’s about silencing.”
Jane Fae writes about the realities of online bullying in the New Statesman. …there is something disturbingly misogynistic about online bullying. Yes: blokes, male columnists, undoubtedly get it too. But it feels as though there is something far more vicious, gender-related with respect to what women have to endure. Beard makes the point well, in …
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