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From: Mano Singham
We have another Podish-Sortacast going on this afternoon. Stop on by!
From: Pharyngula
I'm planning on joining the Freethoughtblogs Podish-Sortacast team this Saturday at 4 PM Central Time to discuss Art and Social…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I thought I'd sell my old anvil and get a new one. The surface of the anvil was pretty pitted,…
From: Stderr
This is how the sea star do. https://youtu.be/dZ20KsgVeu0 I was honestly surprised by some of this - I knew some…
From: Oceanoxia
That's not Alito's house, is it girl? Used it to create a meme template at https://imgflip.com/i/6ff36u First use:
From: Pervert Justice
A while back I wrote about my forays into electronic music production. I dropped that project for quite a while,…
From: A Trivial Knot
Blogging has been declining. I don't have much evidence, aside from Google trends, but it's fairly obvious from personal experience. For…
From: A Trivial Knot
It was just a matter of time, wasn't it? And with the installation of actual working lights in our cellar,…
From: Affinity
I had not realized until today that each year on this day Star Wars geeks take advantage of this pun…
From: Mano Singham
Here I would like to discuss how our bias contributes to discrimination, marginalization, and subordination. The heart of bias, regardless…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Ken Ham is bragging again. Whatever happened to Xian humility? What's most interesting is that "seasonal housing". When Ham was…
From: Pharyngula
Conservatives are desperately trying to change the subject. They want to avoid talking about their potential success in banning abortion…
From: Pharyngula
Every time I mention the Salem Hypothesis, as I did in recent video, I get a bunch of complaints from…
From: Pharyngula
Do any of you old-timers recall TXPiper, the obnoxious racist creationist I banned in 2013? Would you believe he still…
From: Pharyngula
I think. But you never can tell.
From: Pharyngula
From: Pharyngula
The rubes will believe anything if you say it while wearing a lab coat and a clerical collar. It's a…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_66415" align="alignright" width="132"] He even looks like a prankster.[/caption] The people behind the silly "birds aren't real" have always…
From: Pharyngula
I consider this a clear case of pathological skepticism. Or perhaps more charitably, naive skepticism. A professional 747 pilot has…
From: Pharyngula
It will not make any difference, because the people who have made the decision do not respect scientific or medical…
From: Pharyngula
This is a review of both the TV series, and the webcomic. The reader should be aware that I greatly…
From: A Trivial Knot
So we have a new commenter by the name of A Woman of No Importance who contributed to the thread…
From: Pervert Justice
Whether or not the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v. Wade has the exact language as the leaked memo, I…
From: Oceanoxia
By Dale Onofrey Columnist Bolingbrook residents love community groups, (or at least the trustees love telling us about them). So…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
It looks like we're fast approaching an end to abortion rights in the United States, as guaranteed by the 1973…
From: Oceanoxia
By Reporter X Bolingbrook’s Clow UFO Base grounded all interstellar flights following the unprecedented leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s first…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Keep this in mind: Those who want to criminalize abortion also want to legalize the rape and violent assault of…
From: Intransitive
So, in keeping with a line of cases most recently exemplified by Washington v. Glucksberg (a right-to-die case), Alito demanded…
From: Pervert Justice
I've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating: If you represent Harry P fandom by so little an act as…
From: Great American Satan
I'm planning on joining the Freethoughtblogs Podish-Sortacast team this Saturday at 4 PM Central Time to discuss Art and Social…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
There will also be posts with other things, but I am not done with the flowers yet. You probably understand…
From: Affinity
I'm still here, fuzzily. Thanks to the drugs, I slept though the night, and after I woke up, I went…
From: Pharyngula
This video shows the capture of an alligator roaming in the driveway of a home in South Carolina. [I've updated…
From: Mano Singham
There is no single answer of course but the increased isolation during the pandemic has led to considerable reflection on…
From: Mano Singham
When going on a get-together with my friends from university, I occasionally offer to sharpen their knives for free or…
From: Affinity
I mentioned that I was messed up with some nasty lower back pain -- I got in to the doctor…
From: Pharyngula
A rabbit gang attacked Aurora mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin while he was recording political ads in Bolingbrook.…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
[caption id="attachment_66523" align="alignright" width="300"] Why do we do this to ourselves?[/caption] It's good to have an outsider take a look…
From: Pharyngula
The latest from Science informs us of more COVID variants taking over, and they're good at avoiding our immune systems.…
From: Pharyngula
The story of Adam and Eve tells how Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat the fruit from a…
From: Mano Singham
[CONTENT WARNING: child rape, teen suicide, fanatical hostility to bodily autonomy and consent, extreme misogyny, and probably some other shit…
From: Death to Squirrels
While much of the week's legal news has centered on the leaked draft of a US Supreme Court that revealed…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_66411" align="alignright" width="101"] He wants to save our children like he saved Christmas. By bombing.[/caption] Kirk Cameron is plugging…
From: Pharyngula
Oh, and it's satanic. A satanic portal. We know this because Roger Stone says so. Here's a picture of it:…
From: Pharyngula
Media that is specifically branded as Christian—such as Christian rock, or any movies that appear on PureFlix—has a reputation for…
From: A Trivial Knot
Now the Republicans want to ban math textbooks. Florida has rejected 54 out of 132 proposed math textbooks because Ron…
From: Pharyngula
It's on a plane, 30,000 feet in the air. https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1515284320184934403 If I were on that plane, I'd be demanding my…
From: Pharyngula
It's the only way to interpret this rather ominous newspaper ad. Except, right, it's Easter, that weekend when the death-cult…
From: Pharyngula
The geneticist has had a distinguished career and for the last dozen years has served as director of the National…
From: Mano Singham
I have addressed the nonsense about cancer as an atavism multiple times here, and I even made a video about…
From: Pharyngula
In developed countries where many people have an abundance of food and the luxury of choice, there also tends to…
From: Mano Singham
Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist, and a climate activist. He's doing work that's desperately needed, and deserves our support.…
From: Oceanoxia
There it is: the black hole at the center of our galaxy, named Sagittarius A*. Hi there, big fella! You're…
From: Pharyngula
I've made no secret of my belief that our best bet for carbon capture and storage is to use plants.…
From: Oceanoxia
Do you like thinking about their last days, when they were set on fire and hurled about by terrible storms,…
From: Pharyngula
This is how the sea star do. https://youtu.be/dZ20KsgVeu0 I was honestly surprised by some of this - I knew some…
From: Oceanoxia
My graduate advisor got some good news last week: Charles B. Kimmel has been elected to the National Academy of…
From: Pharyngula
I never heard of the Thylacocephala until I saw this video, and they are bizarre arthropods, now extinct, unfortunately. I…
From: Pharyngula
I like greenery. I like the idea of cities that are covered in plant life, for a whole host of…
From: Oceanoxia
I don't have a lot of energy today. Tegan came down with the same stomach bug as me, one day…
From: Oceanoxia
I've long struggled with what to think of Richard Dawkins, once a hero, now a muddled old man. Here is…
From: Pharyngula
[CONTENT NOTE: white nationalist terrorism and mass murder, no images.] This moment is not about me. It is about you,…
From: Death to Squirrels
We now have yet another mass shooting. A teenage gunman in military-style clothing opened fire with a rifle at a…
From: Mano Singham
The United States is a country that was founded on white supremacy, and that has yet to actually address the…
From: Oceanoxia
Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist, and a climate activist. He's doing work that's desperately needed, and deserves our support.…
From: Oceanoxia
[caption id="attachment_66523" align="alignright" width="300"] Why do we do this to ourselves?[/caption] It's good to have an outsider take a look…
From: Pharyngula
I think it's pretty common, in any area of activism or advocacy, to get passionate about something before you fully…
From: Oceanoxia
I like greenery. I like the idea of cities that are covered in plant life, for a whole host of…
From: Oceanoxia
A damning statement, but damn is it accurate.
From: Intransitive
I don't have a lot of energy today. Tegan came down with the same stomach bug as me, one day…
From: Oceanoxia
We now have yet another mass shooting. A teenage gunman in military-style clothing opened fire with a rifle at a…
From: Mano Singham
Right now, Minnesota has a conservative/centrist Democrat as governor. It would be nice if we had a reasonable set of…
From: Pharyngula
The United States is a country that was founded on white supremacy, and that has yet to actually address the…
From: Oceanoxia
Texas is screwing the rest of the country, again. They passed a law against internet "censorship" that is nothing but…
From: Pharyngula
Apparently 17 years ago the US gubmint passed a law that's starting to take effect now-ish, requiring a extra-special super…
From: Great American Satan
I'm planning on joining the Freethoughtblogs Podish-Sortacast team this Saturday at 4 PM Central Time to discuss Art and Social…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist, and a climate activist. He's doing work that's desperately needed, and deserves our support.…
From: Oceanoxia
A rabbit gang attacked Aurora mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin while he was recording political ads in Bolingbrook.…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
After the chaos of Monday when, in response to pro-government mobs attacking the tent camps of anti-government protestors, there was…
From: Mano Singham