that title may sound like another bad cancer result but no, this was just a weird dream. i got a…
From: Life's a Gas
I am sure that everyone has seen a variation of this scene in films. Somebody gets really mad about something…
From: Mano Singham
I hate airline travel. It is all so tedious, the drive to the airport, parking, taking the shuttle to the…
From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 12 [Content note: Mention of suicide.] After their meeting with Bertram, Ed and Win pay a…
From: Daylight Atheism
when i say my writing group is doing an unaffiliated writing month, i mean to say only my husband and…
From: Life's a Gas
I am not a gourmet. I am not a foodie. I have little interest in food other than to sustain…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_2144" align="alignleft" width="175"] Revenge of the Phantom Press[/caption] November is turning out to be a very good for my…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
This will (I hope!) take a while, and I'm not going to bother being scrupolous about the sources of my…
From: Stderr
In an earlier posting about my osoraku dagger, I made a comment to the effect that rocks are pretty yawn-riffic.…
From: Stderr
In the movie Hard Boiled (辣手神探/Lashou Shentan/Hot-handed God of Cops), there's a big warehouse fight scene that just keeps going…
From: Life's a Gas
Back in the day, when I was writing papers, it was a grueling, demanding process. I'd spend hours in the…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a taste of what some apparently consider a persuasive argument. One minute after you die you will be either…
From: Pharyngula
In an earlier posting about my osoraku dagger, I made a comment to the effect that rocks are pretty yawn-riffic.…
From: Stderr
Daniel Phelps has been tracking attendance at Ken Ham's roadside attraction for many years, and as you might expect, it's…
From: Pharyngula
PragerU has been flooding my in-box with trash lately. No, I don't give a good fucking goddamn about Dennis Prager's…
From: Pharyngula
In the Bible, Jesus commands his followers to feed the hungry, shelter refugees, and comfort the afflicted. Whether they obey…
From: Daylight Atheism
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here's a hint: it's one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.…
From: Stderr
There's nothing new. It's a big space rock passing through empty space, not even coming close to us or interacting…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sure you've all been waiting to hear what Kim Kardashian has been up to. Apparently, she has landed a…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77867" align="alignright" width="115"] Heinmot Tooyalaket[/caption] He was a smart guy and gave the only good argument against education I've…
From: Pharyngula
Wait, what? There's a Riley Gaines Center? Meanwhile, the Leadership Institute, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit that trains conservative activists, launched…
From: Pharyngula
Incels and misogynists seem to have missed out on a lot of genetics, so they freely make it up as…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson. The context: it's because Lawrence Krauss was getting clobbered by Watson over his abuses, and he wrote to…
From: Pharyngula
The insufferably pompous, arrogant, and sexist former president of Harvard University has been forced to withdraw from many of his…
From: Mano Singham
I have not written much about the Epstein files and the recently released trove of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and…
From: Mano Singham
It's as if America wasn't the paradise the Right tries to tell us. A Gallup poll shows that a lot…
From: Pharyngula
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
The Democrats have been releasing damning emails from the Epstein files, which is a good start. There's nothing too surprising…
From: Pharyngula
Various conservatives are celebrating the publication of a new issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, or Peter Singer's slush…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump has another reason to invade us: this state stands for trans rights. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued…
From: Pharyngula
I hate airline travel. It is all so tedious, the drive to the airport, parking, taking the shuttle to the…
From: Mano Singham
I hope you won't mind if I continue blogging about my garden next year too. There is a lot I…
From: Affinity
This is the last post about this year's gardening endeavours. This is the approximate harvest: Potatoes: 54,00 kg Blueberries: 0,24…
From: Affinity
It may not look like much, but this is a deadly hazard. We tried clearing our driveway, but this stuff…
From: Pharyngula
We got about 6 inches of snow last night, creating a winter wonderland out there. It's not great. Mary was…
From: Pharyngula
The first big snowstorm of this winter has arrived, in time to give us a white Thanksgiving.
From: Pharyngula
I am not a gourmet. I am not a foodie. I have little interest in food other than to sustain…
From: Mano Singham
Not being able to sit in an ordinary chair for over a month finally pushed me over the edge with…
From: Affinity
Another casual blogging event. This one is about farts. Wait, I'm being serious! A few months ago, I had COVID…
From: A Trivial Knot
Mary and I saw Wicked: For Good last night at the local theater. It was OK; we both thought it…
From: Pharyngula
In these days of relentlessly depressing news, a good comedy comes as a welcome relief and this is such a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77735" align="alignright" width="130"] Dumbass[/caption] I don't think she should graduate from college until she passes a basic English literacy…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a comment about how Catholics tell stories that they claim are in the Bible that aren't,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77649" align="alignright" width="150"] Chopping it all down[/caption] I had a nightmarish realization last night -- that American education was…
From: Pharyngula
We all know of and despise Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. He's a Christo-Fascist of the…
From: Pharyngula
As regular readers know, I play the card game bridge and recently I happened to look at some aspects of…
From: Mano Singham
Joseph Ladapo is the surgeon general for the state of Florida and is a vaccine skeptic who recently announced plans…
From: Mano Singham
I've been pretty blithe in my attempts to make people feel less doomy, and PZ did call me out on…
From: Life's a Gas
I was in the parking lot of home despot, when I saw this sign at a distance. Initially I thought…
From: Life's a Gas
To me the answer is 'no' but the title of this post was suggested by this essay by Philip Goff,…
From: Mano Singham
I am sure that everyone has seen a variation of this scene in films. Somebody gets really mad about something…
From: Mano Singham
in honor of our eightlegged overlord and my husband's gentle ways, i ain't killin' as many spiders as i could. …
From: Life's a Gas
We're all sick. My mother-in-law brought home some wacky virus or other, which naturally is hitting my husband the worst,…
From: Life's a Gas
Looks delicious. I'd share, but I've only got enough for the bigger spiders -- these are more expensive than mealworms,…
From: Pharyngula
A few days ago, I was sent a link to an article titled, "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak…
From: Pharyngula
This will (I hope!) take a while, and I'm not going to bother being scrupolous about the sources of my…
From: Stderr
I do post on Patreon. The latest can be read at no charge, and includes a video of a ravenous…
From: Pharyngula
I am so confused…but then science is often confusing. I was reading this article in Science magazine that went against…
From: Pharyngula
In an earlier posting about my osoraku dagger, I made a comment to the effect that rocks are pretty yawn-riffic.…
From: Stderr
What if you and I see different colors? Like when I see red, it’s the same as when you see…
From: A Trivial Knot
In many of the websites that I read, I come across repeated articles with headlines that suggest that Trump is…
From: Mano Singham
This will (I hope!) take a while, and I'm not going to bother being scrupolous about the sources of my…
From: Stderr
Elon Musk declared that Wikipedia was "woke," and started his own online encyclopedia titled "Grokipedia". He was probably tempted to…
From: Pharyngula
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here's a hint: it's one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.…
From: Stderr
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
It is often interesting when, after a trial that garnered a lot of attention, the jurors talk about what went…
From: Mano Singham
I occasionally look in on our local racist cult -- but not very often, because dear god, they are boring.…
From: Pharyngula
I know that many of the readers of this blog also read PZ's Pharyngula so this post may be a…
From: Mano Singham
A professor in Indiana has been removed from her class after a student complained. A lecturer in the Indiana University…
From: Pharyngula
I had not known much about Zohran Mamdani's family who were not in the forefront of his successful campaign for…
From: Mano Singham
In many of the websites that I read, I come across repeated articles with headlines that suggest that Trump is…
From: Mano Singham
Also, the worst case of getting old ever. Dorothy Fuldheim was a well-respected and cutting edge newscaster from Cleveland from…
From: Pharyngula
I think Tom Tomorrow is being sarcastic here. I tried to think of what we, the resistance, could be sincerely…
From: Pharyngula
The American justice system has hardly ever been something to boast about. It is heavily tilted to serve the interests…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_78035" align="alignright" width="150"] Aren't all "influencers" phony to some degree?[/caption] Strange news: analyzing the top MAGA users on Twitter…
From: Pharyngula
There were two surprises last Friday. One was the meeting between New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Trump. Given…
From: Mano Singham
We have preprofessional programs here at UMM, which, if we gave a good goddamn about the opinions ot the Trump…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_61833" align="alignright" width="150"] Oh, get stuffed with your ludicrous "free speech" whining.[/caption] I've been on a news fast the…
From: Pharyngula
I came across this news item that said that Democrats have a glimmer of optimism about their chances to win…
From: Mano Singham
Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. In…
From: Mano Singham