I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately – which isn’t really like me – but I seem to be…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
What I realized is that I was making those chisels for a beginner, who was going to be working at…
From: Stderr
I was looking forward to a mellow, relaxed Fall term, when the office of human resources sent me this memo:…
From: Pharyngula
Casual Geographic, as the name implies, takes a sort of everyman approach to teaching us about the world. This dive…
From: Oceanoxia
Sometimes, I just have too many nearly-completed projects and experiments. These are experimental blades I made by taking a chunk…
From: Stderr
I've never watched Downton Abbey. I did see Gosford Park, which is a sort of predecessor, but for all I…
From: Oceanoxia
I decided to reinforce the throat of the handle with epoxy and carbon fiber tape. Instead of doing like before,…
From: Stderr
Recently I saw notices for "concerts" coming to Taiwan. Sam Smith. Westlife. Coldplay. Seriously, that's it? Taiwan has better bar…
From: Intransitive
I was going to hold off a day or two to avoid mentioning two TV shows close together, but after…
From: Intransitive
Content Warning: Suicide. Death stuff. But I end on a positive note, I swear. "Sweet lovely Death, I'm just waiting…
From: Great American Satan
And it's not anti-religious. Useful to know.
From: Pharyngula
I bet you never thought you'd see me writing that, did you? Ham has always insisted on a rigidly applied…
From: Pharyngula
This book looks so bad, I want to read it: Evolution is Wrong, by Erich von Däniken. I saw some…
From: Pharyngula
A chiropractor who also has a master's degree in immunology is in trouble because she posted an op-ed that favored…
From: Pharyngula
Kandiss Taylor ran for governor of Georgia on the slogan, Jesus, Guns, and Babies, which is the perfect Republican mantra.…
From: Pharyngula
She's a doctor, she must know all the inner secrets! Except…she's not a real doctor. She's a chiropractor. I don't…
From: Pharyngula
Has anybody read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton? It's about a man who gets a brain implant to correct…
From: Pharyngula
It leads stupid people like Ray Comfort to say things like this: [caption id="attachment_70221" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Queen of rock…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham has declared that he cannot respect other people's pronouns. The reason: that would be lying. As believers, we…
From: Pharyngula
Every once in a while, it sinks into the creationist mind that they have a problem, the heat problem. They…
From: Pharyngula
The president of that nation has signed into law tough new measures aimed against the LGBTQ community. Uganda's President Yoweri…
From: Mano Singham
He's fallen far now, and seems to think that thrashing about in the muck will raise him up, rather than…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
A couple of days ago, I ran across a pro-life (as in, anti-abortion) meme on Facebook: For those of you…
From: Geeky Humanist
cn: This review makes no attempt to avoid spoilers Bros is a 2022 gay romcom described as the first movie…
From: A Trivial Knot
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexology) in 1919, in Berlin, Germany. Its purpose was to…
From: Intransitive
The idea for this post started with my daughter coming home from the neighbor’s house and telling us that the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
For those not familiar with upper midwestern geography, Minnesota is right next to North Dakota. The largest city in North…
From: Pharyngula
I once worked in an animal surgery, and one night a 150 lb dog hooked a claw under an experimentally…
From: Pharyngula
I have been aware of the Satanic Temple as largely a group that seeks to dethrone religion's dominance in US…
From: Mano Singham
I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately – which isn’t really like me – but I seem to be…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Yikes. The Mac version of No Man's Sky just dropped on Steam, and like all the previous updates is totally…
From: Pharyngula
I finally got time to work on knives again and finished some of the second overabladeance blades and two of…
From: Affinity
There is not much to say. Of course the republicans are shitheads, for trying to take the economy hostage in…
From: Stderr
Bolingbrook Mary Alexander-Basta laid a wreath at the Time War Memorial to honor those who died before the Men in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
This, Dear Readers, is Mister Elegance. For those who can't see, he's a mostly black cat, sitting hunched over with…
From: Oceanoxia
Previous post. You have seen my money tree Crassula ovata before. It is probably my oldest bonsai tree, now somewhere…
From: Affinity
The idea for this post started with my daughter coming home from the neighbor’s house and telling us that the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Apologies for my nine month absence, a result of personal issues (none legal) and depression due to them. You never…
From: Intransitive
One of the most energetic voices of my youth is no more. In a statement on Wednesday night, a representative…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
After their attempt to stuff the ten commandments into classrooms failed, the Texas legislature rebounds and succeeds in stuffing chaplains…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_70206" align="alignright" width="150"] Look at that stupid gomer.[/caption] Texas tried to pass a blatantly unconstitutional ten commandments law. Texas…
From: Pharyngula
You knew this would set ol' Bill's non-existent hair on fire: the Los Angeles Dodgers invited a drag group, the…
From: Pharyngula
On 2 June, we get a new docuseries on the Duggars, Bill Gothard, and the IBLP cult. It's going to…
From: Pharyngula
I have been aware of the Satanic Temple as largely a group that seeks to dethrone religion's dominance in US…
From: Mano Singham
See that guy draped with ammo for his gun? That's Bryan Slaton, a Republican slimeball from Texas, who committed an…
From: Pharyngula
I work for an arts program in a mental health organization, and since I sometimes work with kids, I am…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Japan is instituting some new guidelines for recognizing religious abuse. It would be nice to see something like this in…
From: Pharyngula
Let’s pretend for a minute that I wasn’t a skeptical person – that I didn’t ask a million questions. Maybe…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
There are a lot of changes we need to make, if we want to get control of how we affect…
From: Oceanoxia
I may dig into this more later, but the Supreme Court has launched another attack in their war on humanity.…
From: Oceanoxia
One of my favourite youtube channels is Mind Your Decisions by Presh Talwalker, a Stanford University graduate. It's a collection…
From: Intransitive
NASA is holding some sort of "public meeting before a UFO report". My word, is this what NASA wants to…
From: Intransitive
Casual Geographic, as the name implies, takes a sort of everyman approach to teaching us about the world. This dive…
From: Oceanoxia
Another way that AI is hurting us: it's being used to generate science spam that is flooding YouTube. Kyle Hill…
From: Pharyngula
For as long as I've been paying attention, folks talking about climate change have been pointing to insurance companies as…
From: Oceanoxia
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
Anyone who's ever worked with Dijkstra's algorithm or complex information systems understands matrices, and knows what a PITA they are. …
From: Intransitive
Blood is life, you know. That's been the lesson from science documentaries like Dracula and Mad Max: Fury Road. Remember…
From: Pharyngula
I recently read the memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895),…
From: Mano Singham
Another youtube channel I watch regularly is Not Just Bikes by Jason Slaughter, a Canadian from Fake London (Ontario) who…
From: Intransitive
As the title says, May 31st is World No Tobacco Day, a day to advocate the end of tobacco usage. …
From: Intransitive
On Friday, US district judge Amit Mehta handed down two more sentences to Oath Keepers for their role in the…
From: Mano Singham
The internet is a mixed bag. While it has been an exceptional vehicle for increased communication and information access, it…
From: Mano Singham
I've got a few fiction projects that I've put on the back burner over the last year or so. There's…
From: Oceanoxia
Once upon a time, when I was but a child, I called the cops on my brother's friends due to…
From: Oceanoxia
It is astonishing the extent that right wingers will go to in their efforts to make like difficult for immigrants…
From: Mano Singham
I just discovered an op-ed from 2021 written by Anna Krylov, the crusader against political correctness whose terrible paper I…
From: Pharyngula
Ah, affirmative action. I'd forgotten about it. It just doesn't come up much in my life. There are some institutions…
From: Great American Satan
I recently read the memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895),…
From: Mano Singham
How to throw away $30 billion. Twitter’s value has plummeted by almost two-thirds since Elon Musk acquired the company in…
From: Pharyngula
I may dig into this more later, but the Supreme Court has launched another attack in their war on humanity.…
From: Oceanoxia
The president of that nation has signed into law tough new measures aimed against the LGBTQ community. Uganda's President Yoweri…
From: Mano Singham
As the title says, May 31st is World No Tobacco Day, a day to advocate the end of tobacco usage. …
From: Intransitive
Ron DeSantis finally made his big announcement about running for the Republican nomination for president and the reviews about his…
From: Mano Singham
Kandiss Taylor ran for governor of Georgia on the slogan, Jesus, Guns, and Babies, which is the perfect Republican mantra.…
From: Pharyngula
For as long as I've been paying attention, folks talking about climate change have been pointing to insurance companies as…
From: Oceanoxia
Ken Paxton has been one of the most right wing and belligerent of Trump's supporters, advancing all manner of propositions…
From: Mano Singham
There is not much to say. Of course the republicans are shitheads, for trying to take the economy hostage in…
From: Stderr