In terms of the queue, this post was written ten days ago? I had trouble sleeping, then fitful and shallow…
From: Life's a Gas
For the love of hell, do not look at any news today. In other sad things, David Lynch has passed…
From: Life's a Gas
For the love of hell, do not look at any news today. In other sad things, David Lynch has passed…
From: Life's a Gas
For the love of hell, do not look at any news today. In other sad things, David Lynch has passed…
From: Life's a Gas
See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
[WARNING: Long for today's attention-spans. Readers over 50 should be OK.] The Zombie of Bimmler You've probably heard that before.…
From: Stderr
I used to raid my dad's library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer…
From: Stderr
The Center for Inquiry has been ideologically captured by the wingnuts. We've known this for a long time, since it…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75306" align="alignright" width="233"] The Far Side[/caption] Marcelo Gleiser is a humble guy. The Templeton Foundation just awarded him $1.5…
From: Pharyngula
Ray Comfort is doing his thing, blaming the California wildfires on Hollywood blasphemy. I warn you, this video is a…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Olson has been soaking in the history of creationism, and has come out with an excellent YouTube documentary. It…
From: Pharyngula
A couple months ago, that I don't think AI is going to threaten William Shakespeare's high seat, but it might…
From: Stderr
Did you know that Darwinists are devolving, according to the Discovery Institute? They even have a picture of this devolution,…
From: Pharyngula
Now, both Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker have announced their resignation from the honorary board at the FFRF. Good. They…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75210" align="alignright" width="134"] Actually, in my experience the decay is spread everywhere[/caption] A commenter made me aware of a…
From: Pharyngula
When it comes to gauging the public mood on issues of importance, we tend to be overly swayed by the…
From: Mano Singham
Every year in my genetics class we play a little game. The first lab is dedicated to learning some basic…
From: Pharyngula
I'll probably post a bit about this within a few weeks, specifically what space David Lynch occupied in my heart…
From: Life's a Gas
As Joe Biden was getting his coat and leaving the White House, he has announced that he has ratified the…
From: Pharyngula
Good. Because I agree with her position on Neil Gaiman 100%.
From: Pharyngula
I know the community here doesn't need to hear this, but… TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN My one reservation about the…
From: Pharyngula
It always seemed like a most excellent liberal arts college, and in particular I enjoyed visiting with the late Jane…
From: Pharyngula
He's denying the worst of the claims, while admitting that he did have sexual relationships with his accusers. They were…
From: Pharyngula
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
There have been many ugly developments following the election victory of Trump. It seems like all the worst elements in…
From: Mano Singham
I opened up You're All Just Jealous of my Jetpack this morning, and this cartoon leapt out at me. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
My niece is busily archiving a vast pile of family documents to ancestry.com, and I periodically get these announcements that…
From: Pharyngula
I've been saying this for a long time: Musk is a poseur. He's not a great engineer; when he directly…
From: Pharyngula
Kent Hovind must be a real asshole -- he keeps driving women away. Here's a brief history of his brief…
From: Pharyngula
I had previously announced that I was going to retire after 2025-2026. That statement is no longer operational. We looked…
From: Pharyngula
This semester is much better than Fall term (which was hellish), but I have one complaint. Wednesdays are my bad…
From: Pharyngula
If you just want to listen to something soothing because the world sucks so bad right now, I have news…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sorry, I'm just now learning that congress has passed legislation to force the sale of TikTok. This is just…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75315" align="alignright" width="150"] I can imagine much worse, but I didn't want to make you all sick[/caption] You know,…
From: Pharyngula
The idea that we should be able to separate the artist and their art is an idealistic one, but I…
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
Any kind of nationalism is kinda fucked up and weird to me. Born and raised on stolen land, soaked in…
From: Life's a Gas
I saw this film a long time ago, soon after it came out. I did not remember much of the…
From: Mano Singham
For reasons, I wanted to create an image of jeezis that looked like an old Klasky-Csupo cartoon, like Rugrats, Ahh…
From: Life's a Gas
The setting is November 1327 in an abbey in the mountains of northern Italy. A highly learned English Franciscan monk…
From: Mano Singham
This post is part of a blogging protest arranged by Julia Serano, in response to not only Republican transphobia but…
From: Geeky Humanist
You gotta get yourself religion And try to serve the lord While the blood's Still warm In your veins... I…
From: Life's a Gas
Ken Ham is proud to announce that Answers in Genesis will be celebrating a non-Woke Christmas. It wasn’t that long…
From: Pharyngula
Think about how you can make young people happy: give them a puppy. I can't afford to hand out puppies,…
From: Pharyngula
When I started looking into Large Language Models (think ChatGPT) in detail, one paper really lodged itself in my head.…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
[WARNING: Long for today's attention-spans. Readers over 50 should be OK.] The Zombie of Bimmler You've probably heard that before.…
From: Stderr
Horrendous, but spectacularly flamboyant: SpaceX's "Starship" exploded over the Caribbean, producing an amazing fireworks show as tons of debris rained…
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
I wasted more time than you know pursuing that city park proposal which was less a proposal and more a…
From: Pharyngula
Black-feathered harbingers of doom all look the same. If you can tell crows from ravens at a distance, you're sharper…
From: Life's a Gas
I used to raid my dad's library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer…
From: Stderr
A meteorite crashing into the ground was caught on a home security camera. Neat!
From: Pharyngula
Marcus reminded me of the common claim: "AI is just remixing existing works". Or the more colorful version, "AI just…
From: A Trivial Knot
The 1936 Berlin Olympics is recalled as the effort by Adolf Hitler to showcase Germany as a prosperous modern state…
From: Mano Singham
When it comes to gauging the public mood on issues of importance, we tend to be overly swayed by the…
From: Mano Singham
A few years ago, I wrote a blog here, Neil Gaiman and the Lie of Purity. This was mostly about…
From: Impossible Me
This post has been a while coming, because I feel really important about this, and don't want to fuck it…
From: Life's a Gas
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Life's a Gas
One of the longest running pointless discussions in US politics is about what to do about the federal budget deficit.…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
As is often the case, commenters pick up on some aspect of a blog post that was not central to…
From: Mano Singham
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
State and federal-mandated minimum wages set a floor for what employers can pay their employees. It benefits more than the…
From: Mano Singham
I like James O'Brien's take on the recent contretemps. I would also argue that if you're claiming it was not…
From: Pharyngula
The 1936 Berlin Olympics is recalled as the effort by Adolf Hitler to showcase Germany as a prosperous modern state…
From: Mano Singham
A scene from the inauguration: Some elections are important, some are not. But this one, this one really mattered and…
From: Pharyngula
I have learned that the Asshole-in-chief has lined up a series of executive orders -- he loves EOs, they allow…
From: Pharyngula
[Previous: The Splinternet: The balkanized future of cyberspace] After a dramatic weekend, TikTok is alive. For now. Last year, Congress…
From: Daylight Atheism
[caption id="attachment_75381" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bob the Angry Flower[/caption] We are so totally screwed. If you're curious to know what the…
From: Pharyngula
When it comes to gauging the public mood on issues of importance, we tend to be overly swayed by the…
From: Mano Singham
TikTok was banned. TikTok has been restored. It's hard to really care anymore. No matter what he does, the MAGA…
From: Pharyngula
Those Purge movies got it wrong. This is capitalism. We're not going to legalize murder, but felonies, like theft and…
From: Pharyngula
This book by one of the best-known celebrity chefs, that has the subtitle Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, describes the…
From: Mano Singham