(Tom the Dancing Bug)
From: Mano Singham
Previously, I discussed the trope of heroes risking it all, and why I think it's a bad moral value. Now…
From: A Trivial Knot
Feeling sick and shitty on Tuesday the 11th, I did that thing where I wake up before dawn to go…
From: Life's a Gas
Centennial Hills, the first draft, is done! Who knows if it will get additional work and see some more mainstream…
From: Life's a Gas
It's fair to say that the Scouts are obsessed with the mythology of the heroic rescue. When I was a…
From: A Trivial Knot
Sorry to call you out on the floor like that, haha. I only knew for sure of one person reading…
From: Life's a Gas
Don’t Miss Posts. This MonsterHearts, I’m also having one regular post a day, if you should prefer that kind of…
From: Life's a Gas
Fast food franchises in the USA. Megacorporation offloads some amount of liability and expense by making deals with small business…
From: Life's a Gas
Don’t Miss Posts. This MonsterHearts, I’m also having one regular post a day, if you should prefer that kind of…
From: Life's a Gas
Before I begin my review of The Probability Broach, let's discuss its author: L. Neil Smith (or Lester Neil Smith…
From: Daylight Atheism
Ken Ham is excited about another discovery of traces of collagen in dinosaur bones. Me? I'm saying ho-hum, it's mildly…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75620" align="alignright" width="150"] I have no idea what he's trying to say with this illustration on the column. God…
From: Pharyngula
This email was long and particularly vapid, so I'm not going into detail on it, but I do include the…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Phelps presents an overview of all of Answers in Genesis's shenanigans, right up to the recent news of a…
From: Pharyngula
The Discovery Institute is thrilled by Rogan and Weinstein, entirely because these conspiracy theorists criticize "Darwinism". It's laughable. Rogan is…
From: Pharyngula
Aron Ra asked me to address a novel proof for the existence of god. You see, the only way you…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75481" align="alignright" width="150"] A horse living as God intended it to[/caption] I suspect most of you don't read the…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson did her yearly roundup of psychic predictions made by her friends, and it seems I'm the only one…
From: Pharyngula
[Previous: Let them eat the Ten Commandments] It's a consistent theme across history that religions are only as tolerant as…
From: Daylight Atheism
Our cat Augustine (Auggie), died last week due to various health conditions finally overwhelming his body. He was a 16-year-old…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Seriously. Transgender people were a big wedge issue used to flip who knows how many fools to voting fash, or…
From: Life's a Gas
In a long essay, Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of History at the University of Delaware, writes that there is…
From: Mano Singham
It is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. This year's theme, Activism and Social Change, resonates deeply with me. LGBT+…
From: YEMMYnisting
This drunken sot and serial sexual harasser, Pete Hegseth, was appointed Secretary of Defense by a president who doesn't give…
From: Pharyngula
Everywhere in the world, including Canada, although we shouldn't talk about it here in the United States. We can celebrate…
From: Pharyngula
I have been told that I'm merely a “social justice” dishonest whackjob and that There are only two sexes, therefore…
From: Pharyngula
Richard Dawkins has attempted to answer the question "what is a woman" by inventing a definition, while simultaneously decrying attempts…
From: Pharyngula
I was watching this video -- it's very good, debunking all the nonsense anti-trans bigots regurgitate to justify their bias…
From: Pharyngula
Vera Rubin was a famous astronomer who did research on dark matter, and has an observatory named after her. Sadly,…
From: Pharyngula
You're sitting there trying to argue that reality isn't what you see right there in front of your face: nah,…
From: Pharyngula
I got email from someone calling himself "devoted natural science diletant", criticizing me for paying attention to Intelligent Design creationism,…
From: Pharyngula
I'm feeling better today. At least my gut has stopped spasming, and I don't feel like I have curl into…
From: Pharyngula
Military marching bands are common all over the world. But marching bands for schools and colleges vary a lot around…
From: Mano Singham
I decided to significantly change the way I treat my garden this year. My goal is to raise as much…
From: Affinity
Gibs went flying out both ends, and from a few places in the middle. I splattered the bathtub, the floor,…
From: Pharyngula
My wife and I went on a date to this movie last night. It was OK, not as amusing as…
From: Pharyngula
I know Twitter was addictive, but dear god, you've got to stop. [caption id="attachment_75627" align="aligncenter" width="500"] I gotta admit I…
From: Pharyngula
I took a break and visited my local coffee shop for the first time in a few weeks, and I…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of the semester, I was pleased to see that I had no classes on Friday, and I…
From: Pharyngula
It's Darwin Day! And it is sort of about him, sorta. It's not like a Catholic saint's feast day, or…
From: Pharyngula
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
I'm bewildered. I'm an anti-theist, so it makes me uncomfortable when I see a priest acting charitably and kindly and…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
How dare Joe Biden give Bill Nye the Medal of Freedom? Ham doesn't think he deserves it because Nye supports…
From: Pharyngula
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, "Merry Christmas." It took me a few minutes to remember (so,…
From: Stderr
Ken Ham is excited about another discovery of traces of collagen in dinosaur bones. Me? I'm saying ho-hum, it's mildly…
From: Pharyngula
On the issue of AI, FreethoughtBlogs has gone Point, Point, Counterpoint, Another Consideration, and ... OK, I'll give my thoughts…
From: Life's a Gas
It's getting harder and harder to find something optimistic about. Seeing science knee-capped and obnoxious snots under Musk's employ rifling…
From: Pharyngula
When the Teslas originally came out, many people who were liberals got them because they felt that buying an electric…
From: Mano Singham
Of course it did. Baleen whales don't have teeth to chew him up, and their throats are too narrow to…
From: Pharyngula
When I want to hide from the news, I've always got bugs to tend. I've been neglecting my mealworm colony,…
From: Pharyngula
Tell me if you've heard of this before: a government responds to the noise around gender-affirming care by setting up…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the bright side of global population decline. For most…
From: Daylight Atheism
I used to be a highly creative person. I'm not bragging but one idea I threw out over a sushi…
From: Stderr
Which white cockatoo? Hell if I know. Apparently there are a number of white cockatoo species kept in captivity. I…
From: Life's a Gas
Seriously. Transgender people were a big wedge issue used to flip who knows how many fools to voting fash, or…
From: Life's a Gas
Trump and Musk have decreed that the remote work option that became popular during the Covid pandemic is not a…
From: Mano Singham
In a long essay, Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of History at the University of Delaware, writes that there is…
From: Mano Singham
It is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. This year's theme, Activism and Social Change, resonates deeply with me. LGBT+…
From: YEMMYnisting
I have written before about recent positive developments in Sri Lanka where the corrupt nepotistic looters who ran the country…
From: Mano Singham
After Trump's announcement about taking over Gaza and expelling all the people living there, they now want to be called…
From: Mano Singham
Health care workers are being harassed by an organization called "the American Accountability Foundation". They're getting letters threatening their jobs.…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_72748" align="alignright" width="226"] Tom the Dancing Bug[/caption] Our university president has spoken on the anti-DEI pronouncements coming from the…
From: Pharyngula
I used to read and support both of them (I used to send money to Greenwald back at the beginning…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the deferred dream of democracy and the stark reality…
From: Daylight Atheism
Spoiler: it's not much of a plan. He points out the magnitude of the problem: Trump has the backing of…
From: Pharyngula
That wealthy people are able to exploit all manner of tax loopholes is well known. Most of these loopholes do…
From: Mano Singham
(Tom the Dancing Bug)
From: Mano Singham
Cutting government spending has been in the news recently. The Associated Press conducted a poll to find out what Americans…
From: Mano Singham
The Musk-Trump regime seems set on destroying many parts of the government by firing employees or putting them on administrative…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_75630" align="alignright" width="150"] Fortunately, salvage crews work for free.[/caption] My wife & I have discussed flying out to Washington…
From: Pharyngula
When the Teslas originally came out, many people who were liberals got them because they felt that buying an electric…
From: Mano Singham
Trump and Musk have decreed that the remote work option that became popular during the Covid pandemic is not a…
From: Mano Singham
Danielle Sassoon, acting acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, resigned rather than be complicit in Trump's…
From: Mano Singham
Trump and Musk are treating the government as if it were a private company that they own and that they…
From: Mano Singham