Last month I played and discussed Tell Me Why, but today I want to discuss the genre that Tell Me…
From: A Trivial Knot
This is probably the penultimate report on the shop doors. I feel like that project is finally drawing to a…
From: Stderr
The kid's birthday was already at the start of the month, but of course with my body being an asshole…
From: Affinity
This year I planted some cornflowers that grew in front of the window. They were planned as degu treats, but…
From: Affinity
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From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_63371" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] Also, everyone who accepts Style 3 will be accused of doing Style 2 by Style…
From: Pharyngula
There is a new documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain about the food and travel writer who died by…
From: Mano Singham
The radio program On The Media aired a superb program about the appeal of Shakespeare that transcends his English origins…
From: Mano Singham
What goes on behind the scenes in films has as much fascination for me as the story I see on…
From: Mano Singham
There are all manner of political shenanigans going on in Texas as Republicans try to legislate even more restrictive voting…
From: Mano Singham
The conference is happening right now! But it's all virtual, and it's all cheap: check it out online. Note that…
From: Pharyngula
Answers in Genesis is advertising heavily, but all of the ads I've seen miss the mark…or undermine their point. I…
From: Pharyngula
I want to bring awareness to addiction but explain it in words that we use every day. I will use…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Ahh, the Discovery Institute. A patent pseudoscientific think-tank funded by right-wing millionaires. Doesn't that make you want to trust them?…
From: Pharyngula
The magic fly wings are back. I got this email yesterday: Dear doctor Myers, I’ve read your old article on…
From: Pharyngula
Save the children! What's really sad is that some people would look at that cartoon and think the central figure…
From: Pharyngula
The Great Jesus/Chthulhu Convergence! [caption id="attachment_63267" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] [caption id="attachment_63268" align="aligncenter" width="457"] Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)[/caption] See? Same difference.
From: Pharyngula
In a classic example of confusing belief with historical fact, Kylee Zempel at The Federalist is outraged at the very…
From: Pharyngula
I’m going to expand on something I tweeted. (Yes, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter.) Do you…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It was stupid, misleading terminology when it was coined (by Gary Wolf in Wired in 2006), and it just became…
From: Pharyngula
I am aware that the sexualization of women athletes is rampant but it is ridiculous that in this day and…
From: Mano Singham
As long as there have been Nazis. It's a natural enmity. Today I learned about Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore,…
From: Pharyngula
I haven't watched it in years -- decades, even -- and that's my excuse for not knowing about its sexist…
From: Pharyngula
And they paint a rather different picture of Shrier's book. The author’s incantation of the First Amendment does not sufficiently…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
As I hope you are all aware by now, the United States has a bad habit of pretending that any…
From: Oceanoxia
So you're presumably familiar with Sha'Carri Richardson who will miss the Olympics. What I did not know is that the…
From: Pervert Justice
Small town newspapers occasionally get letter-feuds going -- it fuels subscriptions, since you really want to know how angry Sally…
From: Pharyngula
I thought I'd start my posts on Harriet Hall's mess by starting at the extreme: are there any assertions that…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
There was a bit of a shock recently when Science-Based Medicine published a positive review of Abigail Schreier's godawful conservative…
From: Pharyngula
The US Supreme Court, by a 7-2 margin, has declined to hear a case where a school board appealed a…
From: Mano Singham
My friend got the knife I conspired with his wife to make for his 40th birthday. He wasted no time…
From: Affinity
I will be going this weekend to Los Angeles and San Diego to visit old friends. It will be my…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday I discovered that I am scheduled to teach a course in person in the Fall, as I was putting…
From: Pharyngula
This is almost certainly a pre-release bit of propaganda, but it's - as is the case for most Russian propaganda…
From: Stderr
What is a Stormtrooper's favorite store? Whatever's 10 feet to one side of the Target.
From: Pervert Justice
Dune. I would like to see this done right, and it looks good, the cast looks perfect, but…you cannot fit…
From: Pharyngula
This Minnesota man doesn't murder any human beings, instead he just slaughters integrity and reason. From corporate America to conspiracy…
From: Pharyngula
I am publicly retracting and apologizing for a blog post I published on my blog A Trivial Knot in March…
From: A Trivial Knot
Every once in a while I remember something I wrote a long time ago as I'm trying to craft something…
From: Pervert Justice
Wait, wait, wait -- we all know what to expect in a headline beginning "Florida Man". It's going to be…
From: Pharyngula
Look at this cartoon. Look at it! The multi-dimensional wrongness blew my mind. But you know I'm going to have…
From: Pharyngula
Welp, the good news is that the small town of Morris has a shiny new store, The Homestead. It's a…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham wants to expand his Ark Park with a Tower of Babel. A Bible-themed attraction in Kentucky that features…
From: Pharyngula
Genesis 3:14: And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all…
From: Great American Satan
In a classic example of confusing belief with historical fact, Kylee Zempel at The Federalist is outraged at the very…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Mano Singham
During the height of the pandemic when things were pretty much locked down and all but essential workers were required…
From: Mano Singham
As fascinated as I am over the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous—a physician and stockbroker who created a mass movement because…
From: Jonathan's Musings
In the US, people use religious beliefs to claim a broad array of exemptions from the laws that apply to…
From: Mano Singham
The churches are burning in Canada. I oppose the idea of atheists setting churches on fire. That you are offended…
From: Pharyngula
This is incredible. On a scale of 0-10 WTFs this is a 10. From the most recent episode of Daniel…
From: Stderr
Look This is a bit from a recent episode of Reveal podcast. [reveal]@50:00You have to hear it in your mind…
From: Stderr
This is almost certainly a pre-release bit of propaganda, but it's - as is the case for most Russian propaganda…
From: Stderr
It seems like some people are realizing that they should have got vaccinated but it is too late. Some of…
From: Mano Singham
On Monday, the UK government lifted almost all pandemic-related restrictions. Boris Johnson has used as a rationale for this action…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday, I had a lot of reasons to think about the question of mechanical advantage involving ladders. The 40-foot extension…
From: Stderr
I want to bring awareness to addiction but explain it in words that we use every day. I will use…
From: Jonathan's Musings
With the rapid spread of the Delta variant of covid-19 that now makes up 83% of the cases, Republican opposition…
From: Mano Singham
He was interviewed by Johnny Carson back in 1978. (Via Mark Frauenfelder) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Asa Hutchinson is the governor of Arkansas, a deeply Republican state in which vaccine rates are low and covid-19. infections…
From: Mano Singham
The invaluable investigative site ProPublica has been mining its trove of confidential tax documents that were released to it to…
From: Mano Singham
I have written before about how the government of Israel, faced with rising global criticisms of its apartheid policies towards…
From: Mano Singham
Every once in a while I remember something I wrote a long time ago as I'm trying to craft something…
From: Pervert Justice
The Individual Retirement Account is a financial device in the US that was supposedly meant to encourage ordinary people to…
From: Mano Singham
Tell me if this looks familiar. I grew up in a conservative environment in Central Texas. I played high school…
From: Pharyngula
Remember this old debate? Dictionary Atheists disbelieve in gods and dislike religion, but that’s it. The fact that the universe…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
With the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti, I think it's important for people - Americans in particular -…
From: Oceanoxia
The Right just gets worse and worse. I thought it was intolerable when Reagan was their idol, even more ludicrous…
From: Pharyngula
Since the issue at hand is about how to refer to people in the US of Latin American origin or…
From: A Trivial Knot
The US Navy is now building a new line of replenishment ships. The first in class is the USNS John…
From: Pervert Justice
Look This is a bit from a recent episode of Reveal podcast. [reveal]@50:00You have to hear it in your mind…
From: Stderr
The invaluable investigative site ProPublica has been mining its trove of confidential tax documents that were released to it to…
From: Mano Singham
I have written before about how the government of Israel, faced with rising global criticisms of its apartheid policies towards…
From: Mano Singham
Ha ha ha ha haaa! At the height of the controversy surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the revelations that…
From: Pharyngula
It seems like some people are realizing that they should have got vaccinated but it is too late. Some of…
From: Mano Singham
Jon Schwarz at The Intercept recounts a comic-tragic story about how he, as a joke, started tweeting on July 15…
From: Mano Singham
On Monday, the UK government lifted almost all pandemic-related restrictions. Boris Johnson has used as a rationale for this action…
From: Mano Singham
The Individual Retirement Account is a financial device in the US that was supposedly meant to encourage ordinary people to…
From: Mano Singham
I am aware that the sexualization of women athletes is rampant but it is ridiculous that in this day and…
From: Mano Singham
With the rapid spread of the Delta variant of covid-19 that now makes up 83% of the cases, Republican opposition…
From: Mano Singham