SPOOKTOBER DAY 13 - INVESTIGATION OPTIONAL CHALLENGES: THRIFT STORE & HAND-ME-DOWNS, BODY SNATCHER, STRANGER IN TOWN TAROT INFLUENCE: KNIGHT OF…
From: Life's a Gas
SPOOKTOBER DAY 12 - SPOOPY / PUMPKINCORE OPTIONAL CHALLENGES: ROLE MODEL, CANDYLAND, HOME INVASION TAROT INFLUENCE: THE SUN, INVERTED TITLE: …
From: Life's a Gas
I had a couple of posts last year about the people who call themselves biohackers. There are people who devote…
From: Mano Singham
SPOOKTOBER DAY 11 - WEREWOLVES & BEASTS OPTIONAL CHALLENGES: APOCALYPSE, ESCAPE, STARS & SUN TAROT INFLUENCE: THE MAGICIAN, UPRIGHT TITLE: …
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_90" align="aligncenter" width="300"] He just sucks in every way[/caption] So I get up to a lot of different creative…
From: Cubist Vowels
I'm so lady-like and kindly now that I ignore insults with a casual grace that is a marvel to behold. …
From: Life's a Gas
SPOOKTOBER DAY 10 - UNDEAD OPTIONAL CHALLENGES: ROYALTY, DANSE MACABRE, OBSESSION TAROT INFLUENCE: ACE OF PENTACLES, UPRIGHT TITLE: THE MERRY…
From: Life's a Gas
On this day I do hereby declare Panzergoth be mine. Panzergoth is the scream of the human spirit where it's…
From: Stderr
The world is filled with advice about how we should live our lives. One of the most widely loved is…
From: Oceanoxia
SPOOKTOBER DAY 9 - POSSESSION OPTIONAL CHALLENGES: STALKER, INSOMNIA, PACT WITH EVIL TAROT INFLUENCE: ACE OF WANDS, UPRIGHT TITLE: THE…
From: Life's a Gas
I'm thinking that most probably aren't stupid enough to fall for this, so maybe this is the floor. That comes…
From: Pharyngula
You probably already have heard of this; if you haven't, I'm sorry. The DoD is planning on executing the Fort…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_80401" align="alignright" width="131"] Man, he looks suspiciously well-tanned and groomed for someone hospitalized for a few weeks[/caption] Gabe Poirot…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about a surprising new finding: practicing Christians are more likely…
From: Daylight Atheism
refutation of evolution
[caption id="attachment_80372" align="alignright" width="150"] Ted Beale and the books he hasn't read[/caption] Not really. My criticism was that his math…
From: Pharyngula
This is not a competition, but I debunked Vox Day's stupid evolution "disproof" in one fairly short written post. If…
From: Pharyngula
It's been a long time since I paid any attention to Bill Dembski or Vox Day/Theodore Beale, but they seem…
From: Pharyngula
The US is one of the most barbarous countries on Earth. Sure, there are worse - places that execute citizens…
From: Stderr
This is an amazingly stupid argument. This guy claims that he can disprove abiogenesis. He has two arguments: Hydrolysis. All…
From: Pharyngula
Remember that awful Calvin Smith video I got halfway through? I finally finished it. It was painful. Script below the…
From: Pharyngula
The Washington Post announces that the Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’.…
From: Pharyngula
There is a lot of stuff in the Epstein files that has been redacted out of the public eye, I…
From: Pharyngula
Megyn Kelly. She's hideous. She has a rotting, diseased brain behind that shiny façade. MEGYN KELLY (HOST): No one will…
From: Pharyngula
Dispiriting news from my alma mater: University of Oregon receives five sexual assault reports within first week of classes. Students…
From: Pharyngula
i'm working on the discolology of björk but i've barely started and it's gonna be a lot. gonna have spooktobers…
From: Life's a Gas
Building Better Men
I went through rush, the campaign to enlist new students into a fraternity/sorority, my first year at the University of…
From: Pharyngula
I have paid just a passing interest to the issue of 'furries', the people who role-play by dressing up as…
From: Mano Singham
If you ever thought Steven Pinker was a member of the liberal intelligentsia, think again. That was his carefully maintained…
From: Pharyngula
The death last week of Gloria Steinem at the age of 92 saw many tributes to someone who was widely…
From: Mano Singham
New news out of Romania Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering The agency said on…
From: Pro-Science
I was trying to think of romantic dates to go on with my wife, and I came up with a…
From: Pharyngula
Last night, I did another shift as theater projectionist, and sat through the movie Verity a second time. We had…
From: Pharyngula
The Guardian asks, "Fraternities are the most likely place for US campus rapes. Should they be shut down?" What a…
From: Pharyngula
This was a first year of growing carrots in my newly established raised beds, which I filled with soil that…
From: Affinity
I put up a few spiders around the door. I've got a few more to mount around the house. Will…
From: Pharyngula
As usual, I've been running the projector for the local theater Last night was the dull horror of Verity, a…
From: Pharyngula
On this day I do hereby declare Panzergoth be mine. Panzergoth is the scream of the human spirit where it's…
From: Stderr
Long day of non-stop lab and class and grading and about to go to a student seminar, despite being despite…
From: Pharyngula
I dried, shelled, and weighed all the soybeans that I harvested. [caption id="attachment_51251" align="aligncenter" width="450"] © Charly, all rights reserved.…
From: Affinity
In a way, this article could count towards next year's gardening. I have sown wheat on the biggest continuous patch…
From: Affinity
Sam Alito really hates gay and trans people, and logic. He has some twisted arguments. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito,…
From: Pharyngula
I am currently listening to various YouTube essays on LOTR lore. I have read most of the books and watched…
From: Affinity
Gentle mockery of zoroastrianism again. I found out, or was reminded of, the version of your soul that goes for…
From: Life's a Gas
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another…
From: Pro-Science
There's a line in Minority Report that's stuck with me. After looking over the crime scene, the detective character turns…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Just ask Doug Wilson. "If Kamala [Harris] had won the presidency, there would have been basically zero evangelicals in the…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_79680" align="alignright" width="300"] These gomers make it so hard to celebrate Independence Day[/caption] It's Independence Day, which means most…
From: Pharyngula
We're deep in the insanity phase of the progression, and it's obvious. A report has been released that exposes the…
From: Pharyngula
Lard, I hate waking up to shit like this. Especially when I'm only really interested in the latest news about…
From: Death to Squirrels
Heretical notion, not much to it, but it makes more sense the canon version of events. I am constantly confronted…
From: Life's a Gas
I had a couple of posts last year about the people who call themselves biohackers. There are people who devote…
From: Mano Singham
It's not the computers or software, it's the colossal assholes who run AI companies. [caption id="attachment_80443" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Tom Gauld[/caption]…
From: Pharyngula
I can't speak for you, but I wear shoes. Sport sandals, specifically, which have a thick sole that provide an…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Every year, there's a little freak-out from Seattle communities about spider season. Seattle's annual spider season has arrived, driven primarily…
From: Pharyngula
A colleague found this lovely grass spider scampering about the hallways, and she brought it to me (this is a…
From: Pharyngula
The winners of the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine have been announced: it's Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann,…
From: Pharyngula
That's Brown Brothers Media, and you've probably read some of their articles. They produce Space Daily, which I've encountered a…
From: Pharyngula
Recently we have been inundated with alarming stories based on what Jacob Coxon, a mathematician and software engineer who resigned…
From: Mano Singham
My wife keeps coming home from work with spiders she rescues. They've been invading her work place. This is a…
From: Pharyngula
Suddenly, the leaves have started falling from the trees. That's pretty pathetic, I know, but according to the DNR, Stevens…
From: Pharyngula
This is a statue that graces our central campus mall. [caption id="attachment_80438" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Commissioned by Puncky '73 and Mary…
From: Pharyngula
Pete Hegseth's obscene decision to livestream the December 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan has generated worldwide revulsion…
From: Mano Singham
The Nobel Peace Prize has always had a political dimension to it and in the past has been awarded to…
From: Mano Singham
You probably already have heard of this; if you haven't, I'm sorry. The DoD is planning on executing the Fort…
From: Stderr
Having the death penalty is barbaric enough. Now the defense secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that the execution Nidal Hasan,…
From: Mano Singham
If you live in California, you will have been inundated with a barrage of ads over several propositions that are…
From: Mano Singham
If you want to know the intentions of the people currently running the US government, it's helpful to understand their…
From: Oceanoxia
The US is one of the most barbarous countries on Earth. Sure, there are worse - places that execute citizens…
From: Stderr
The food delivery company DoorDash spent heavily in the past New York City mayoral campaign in an effort to defeat…
From: Mano Singham
What is terrorism? It turns out that there is no universally agreed upon definition. There is no legal or scientific consensus on…
From: Mano Singham
In contrast to the clown show of politics, actually filling out a ballot is very tedious. I believe in filling…
From: A Trivial Knot
I am very fond of the quote “How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”…
From: Mano Singham
This sounds like a fascinating, factual documentary. Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important…
From: Pharyngula
Trump has been raging against Ilhan Omar for years, and now he has had her home raided…on suspicion of what?…
From: Pharyngula
Nothing is going right for Trump in the three conflicts in which the US is directly or indirectly involved, in…
From: Mano Singham
Pete Hegseth's obscene decision to livestream the December 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan has generated worldwide revulsion…
From: Mano Singham
On this day I do hereby declare Panzergoth be mine. Panzergoth is the scream of the human spirit where it's…
From: Stderr
The world is filled with advice about how we should live our lives. One of the most widely loved is…
From: Oceanoxia
The Nobel Peace Prize has always had a political dimension to it and in the past has been awarded to…
From: Mano Singham
The President is shit-talking Minnesota again. He really hates us. [caption id="attachment_80416" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The once Great State of Minnesota…
From: Pharyngula