I’ve been slacking. I haven’t been fighting the War on Easter with the fervor I should. Bill O’Reilly has identified our open hostility to Easter already. Gosh, I didn’t realize that our assault on Easter was a linchpin of our plan to get abortion on demand and free drugs, or I would have engaged in …
Category Archive: Stupidity
Mar 19 2013
Fair’s fair
I was mean to the History Channel yesterday — I mocked them for portraying Satan as a dark-skinned man with a resemblance to Obama. But you know, that wasn’t fair. It’s not as if that show about the Bible is full of coded racist references to appeal to the yahoos of America. Why, look here: …
Mar 18 2013
How not to read a graph
This ought to be on Skepchick’s Bad Chart Thursday. The Daily Mail — hey, why are you already groaning? — put up a graph to prove that global warming forecasts are WRONG. They say: The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes …
Mar 17 2013
You can all call me Mahout Myers now
Oh, no. Not again. It’s another arrogant wanker insisting that atheism is a religion, too, and of course, making dumbass arguments to do it. And here they are: Atheists are, in fact, some of the most religious people. First, they have a functioning God under whom they are subservient (normally it’s science or rationality, but …
Mar 06 2013
Bora 1, Climate Denialist Kooks 0
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 …
Mar 05 2013
Christian hypocrisy…no surprise at all
Here’s a sign of women’s progress: you can’t get fired by a Christian school for getting pregnant anymore. That’s against the law. Unfortunately, you can still be fired for fornicating, along with a few other things. The way that Christian organizations try to get around the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which bars firing women …
Mar 01 2013
Be gentle, sweet, and kind
One of these trolls — in this case, one populating the #WISCFI twitter hashtag for the Women in Secularism conference — threw out a recommendation to all the ladies out there: 8 Easy Tips to Act More Feminine. It’s not clear whether this person was being cynical, mocking, or serious, but at least we can …
Feb 22 2013
A quick rhetorical question about animal husbandry
Who here can tell me the difference between hay and straw?
Feb 22 2013
I am so over the skeptical movement
I am so over Ben Radford. I thought he was obtuse before. Now I’m convinced that he’s simply an idiot. He attempts to rebut my criticisms. Myers admits that I’m technically correct that Ensler’s statistics are not exactly right, but claims I’m being “hyperskeptical,” and states that “One billion women have been victims of ‘homicide, …
Feb 20 2013
An argument for gun control that might finally resonate with wingnuts
A tragic story: a man stuffed a gun in his pants and it accidentally went off, shooting him in the penis and leg. Let’s forestall the usual comments: no, he didn’t deserve to be mutilated this way, OK? But still, this kind of event is what we should worry about more, and which will occur …
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