I don't like to paint. Yet, so many times, I start a project the ends with a couple of coats…
From: Stderr
I'm working on a more personal post on this general subject, but in the meantime, here's a worthwhile video from…
From: Oceanoxia
I have written many times before about my admiration for the way that this radio program tells stories, whether they…
From: Mano Singham
Lauren Witzke is yet another QAnon supporter who has won a Republican primary and is going to be the party's…
From: Mano Singham
Currently, I am in the process of making a small batch (4) of kiridashi. It's a pretty strict design and,…
From: Stderr
Samantha Bee explains why just getting rid of Trump in the November election is not enough, that the Republicans have…
From: Mano Singham
This is the last one where I'll be looking at demon descriptions, but I have a few other things I…
From: Great American Satan
Cows, sure. Maybe spiders aren't as funny? [caption id="attachment_60362" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
Content Warning: Flashing Lights, Extreme Cheesiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIULR5NbBss Got some more demons to ponder. I was able to work out a…
From: Great American Satan
... editorial cartoons, 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon by Fred Packer [caption id="attachment_45318" align="alignnone" width="1073"] 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial…
From: Affinity
I hope you all have some fun with this conversation between the Knechtle evangelical group and some radical materialist named…
From: Pharyngula
I was asked by this fellow, Stuart Knechtle, to have a chat on his YouTube channel, so I guess I…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump is so ignorant and illiterate that apparently his aides read their briefing notes aloud, to him, like he's…
From: Stderr
A commenter, BCWebb, mentioned this recent paper, which is mind-blowingly bad. It's a combination of crackpot physics plus crackpot biology,…
From: Pharyngula
The Black Death inspired the flagellants -- it seems to be a common human response to extremes of stress, that…
From: Pharyngula
On Sunday, I put out a video about Kent Hovind, which sounded fine to me, but I got a lot…
From: Pharyngula
If you've been missing the heady old days of creationists popping onto the blog to make outrageous claims, I smoked…
From: Pharyngula
What a buffoon.
From: Pharyngula
I am happy to announce that for FreethoughtBlogs upcoming Panel of Inexpert Discussion, I have been able to secure the…
From: Pervert Justice
Sure, I'll give it a shot, although I do add a qualifier here, because I don't want to be associated…
From: Pharyngula
Some readers may recall that a couple of years ago, I made fun of a press release issued by the…
From: Mano Singham
Last week, dating app company Hornet published a dubious survey of 10,000 gay men on the 2020 US election. I…
From: Intransitive
I woke up to the horrible news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, 87 years old. As…
From: Pro-Science
Fascism is gaining power in the United States right now, accompanied by both lies about who and what they are,…
From: Oceanoxia
I have of course heard of the Miss America and Miss USA pageants and recall having seen bits of either…
From: Mano Singham
Another woman has come forward and charged that back in 1997 when she was a model, Trump sexually assaulted her.…
From: Mano Singham
People who want to be parents are the ones who should be having children. What to do with their reproductive…
From: Andreas Avester
Sophie Lewis has published an opinion piece in the NY Times that I thought was an interesting explanation of the…
From: Pharyngula
The AMNH cracks down on a harasser. https://twitter.com/Ento_Allies/status/1302361750961033216 I don't know the guy, and hadn't heard anything about his behavior…
From: Pharyngula
Shere Hite (November 2, 1942 – September 9, 2020) was a naturalized German citizen (born in the US), a sex…
From: Intransitive
I'm glad I didn't see this before class or I would have lost it.
From: Intransitive
Bad news, everyone: Minnesota has cancelled Halloween. Like many things in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Halloween might have…
From: Pharyngula
And when did they know it? [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Is there any reason NOT to suspect the Myers…
From: Pervert Justice
I had an extremely bad year bird-watching wise so far. There are definitively a lot fewer birds around than there…
From: Affinity
Last night I lost it. The last two weeks were bad, bad, with both my parents having some major health…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_1211" align="alignright" width="500"] Author and authoritarian expert Sarah Kendzior addressed Bolingbrook's weredeer population.[/caption] In a secret video presentation, Sarah…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Someone sent me a link to this page about using spiders in Dungeons & Dragons…as monsters. I am offended! That’s…
From: Pharyngula
No COVID-19 detected! COVID-19/SARS-CoV, PCR Undetected SARS-CoV-2 RNA absent. This result does not rule out COVID-19 in the patient, as…
From: Pharyngula
Our sweet Katja didn't make it. After I was ever so carefully hopeful last night, she died this morning. Apparently…
From: Affinity
You would hope that the bright young minds attending an excellent university would be smarter than this, but apparently there…
From: Pharyngula
Some readers may recall that a couple of years ago, I made fun of a press release issued by the…
From: Mano Singham
You can go here for links and sources, and a text version
From: Oceanoxia
This is the last one where I'll be looking at demon descriptions, but I have a few other things I…
From: Great American Satan
That Catholic reactionary, Michael O'Fallon, is running another "Sovereign Nations" conference. It's very important you know. https://twitter.com/SovNations/status/1307056529204563969 The funny thing…
From: Pharyngula
I guess there is. I'm always torn by these things. They aren't a problem, and they promote good humanist values,…
From: Pharyngula
Content Warning: Flashing Lights, Extreme Cheesiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIULR5NbBss Got some more demons to ponder. I was able to work out a…
From: Great American Satan
Fascism is gaining power in the United States right now, accompanied by both lies about who and what they are,…
From: Oceanoxia
Jerry Falwell, Jr., who had to resign as president of Liberty University after revelations about the swinging sexual lifestyle of…
From: Mano Singham
Y'all know what time it is. The way I translate these is in part from google translate but also in…
From: Great American Satan
This was a comedy bit that I saw Rowan Atkinson perform many years ago but he has updated it for…
From: Mano Singham
I'm working on a more personal post on this general subject, but in the meantime, here's a worthwhile video from…
From: Oceanoxia
A paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science reports the first confirmed existence of chromium iron (aka stainless steel) not…
From: Intransitive
For once, the YouTube algorithm is working in my favor. It's currently saying "Oh, so you like big spiders, do…
From: Pharyngula
Here's another video of Argiope making an egg sac. The difference is that this is a time-lapse, so you can…
From: Pharyngula
As the pandemic drags on and countries try to grapple with how to achieve some semblance of normalcy in the…
From: Mano Singham
When I started seeing stories about this, my immediate reaction is "someone's lying." That's a given, because exaggerating things just…
From: Stderr
Back in March I wrote about some progress that's being made in the the use of renewable energy to split…
From: Oceanoxia
As the death toll goes past 200,000, health experts have been warning that we should brace ourselves for a surge…
From: Mano Singham
It's OK if you skip around. This video of Argiope aurantia making an egg sac is over 8 hours long.…
From: Pharyngula
When people have a terminal illness and are confronted with the real possibility of imminent death, one cannot fault them…
From: Mano Singham
secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
From: Pervert Justice
The murderers of Breonna Taylor have basically been acquitted -- one cop is facing charges of endangering white people, because…
From: Pharyngula
On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sep 23rd, not much more than an hour after the Kentucky AG announced that no…
From: Pervert Justice
H/T to Wonkette who saw this first, but it was too good not to share. GET YOUR BOOTY TO THE…
From: Pervert Justice
Well, the grand jury indictments are in and a single officer is being charged with three counts of "Wanton Endangerment"…
From: Pervert Justice
I have written many times about jury nullification, the little known right of juries to acquit defendants even if the…
From: Mano Singham
September 22, 1692 was the height of the Salem witch trials, the night when eight people were murdered for "the…
From: Intransitive
One sure-fire way to see if something is a cult is what happens within their families and friends. If they…
From: Mano Singham
You can go here for links and sources, and a text version
From: Oceanoxia
Samantha Bee explains why just getting rid of Trump in the November election is not enough, that the Republicans have…
From: Mano Singham
I'm working on a more personal post on this general subject, but in the meantime, here's a worthwhile video from…
From: Oceanoxia
In response to Trump's unwillingness to commit to relinquishing power if he's defeated in November, ABC News reports that In…
From: Freethinking Ahead
I have written many times before about my admiration for the way that this radio program tells stories, whether they…
From: Mano Singham
The Republican Party in Texas is going after its own to try to stop Gov. Abbott from ensuring safer in-person…
From: Freethinking Ahead
Donald Trump is so ignorant and illiterate that apparently his aides read their briefing notes aloud, to him, like he's…
From: Stderr
On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sep 23rd, not much more than an hour after the Kentucky AG announced that no…
From: Pervert Justice
H/T to Wonkette who saw this first, but it was too good not to share. GET YOUR BOOTY TO THE…
From: Pervert Justice
Well, the grand jury indictments are in and a single officer is being charged with three counts of "Wanton Endangerment"…
From: Pervert Justice
As the pandemic drags on and countries try to grapple with how to achieve some semblance of normalcy in the…
From: Mano Singham
I have, of course, read all the Richard Scarry books, and will probably be reading more if ever I see…
From: Pharyngula