[caption id="attachment_56046" align="alignright" width="150"] See this photo? That's the whole movie.[/caption] The movie playing in Morris this week is Ad…
From: Pharyngula
News reports suggest that Donald Trump made a deal with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that in exchange for…
From: Mano Singham
Perhaps some of you are wondering why there has been no update on my shop lately. That's because it's basically…
From: Stderr
I read this review of a new film Cuck that has as its central protagonist a white nationalist 'incel', the…
From: Mano Singham
Every fall, the long-running satirical show Saturday Night Live introduces new cast members. It is considered a huge boost to…
From: Mano Singham
[Warning: Sexual Assault?] I encountered this track as the outro for a podcast I was listening to. When she sings…
From: Stderr
I know that watching Bill Maher these days is grating on the nerves but in this heated exchange, Michael Moore…
From: Mano Singham
Last time we looked at the front, now it's time to enter. I momentarily feared I was going to be…
From: Affinity
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For the discerning fidgeter…
From: Stderr
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
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Most Americans don't know that reparations for slavery has already been attempted. It didn't work. But that's because the US…
From: Stderr
I got an email ad from the Mary Sue shop. I am very disappointed in them, and think they should…
From: Pharyngula
David Axe reports [db] a rather odd thing: the US and Iraqi government bombed the living crap out of an…
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This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For the discerning fidgeter…
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This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
From: Stderr
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
From: Stderr
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
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Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
From: Stderr
Why does it always come down to lashing out to do harm to others? It's another lawsuit by a man…
From: Pharyngula
Why, just look at the Brainerd school board. Sue Kern even made president! During a recent meeting of the board,…
From: Pharyngula
The fall of computer scientist Richard Stallman, forced to resign his position at MIT because of his apologetics for rape…
From: Mano Singham
I read this review of a new film Cuck that has as its central protagonist a white nationalist 'incel', the…
From: Mano Singham
H.J. Hornbeck has a post on the latest conflict between between YouTube bloggers Rationality Rules and Essence of Thought. I…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Every fall, the long-running satirical show Saturday Night Live introduces new cast members. It is considered a huge boost to…
From: Mano Singham
For such a notoriously self-proclaimed rational guy, Richard Stallman doesn't know how to write a proper resignation letter. His makes…
From: Pharyngula
The first sign of a biased dilettante is when they try to reduce biological phenomena to a single parameter that…
From: Pharyngula
It's because toxic masculinity is so ingrained in the culture that the staid ol' NY Times can publicly say that…
From: Pharyngula
In 2012, 16 year old Jorge Saavedra stabbed Dylan Nuno between eight and twelve times, killing him, after suffering years…
From: Intransitive
Moral quandries suck. There's a 20-something lesbian TERF in the UK who is terminally ill. I have never contacted her…
From: Intransitive
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_56046" align="alignright" width="150"] See this photo? That's the whole movie.[/caption] The movie playing in Morris this week is Ad…
From: Pharyngula
I guess it's a good thing that Jordan Peterson never professed happiness as a goal in life. “It’s all very…
From: Pharyngula
I isolated myself in a coffee shop, buckled down, and pounded straight through my grading. I got it done! Early…
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Today, in one of my left handers groups on facebook, someone mentioned a group named "Single Christian Mothers Against Left-Handed…
From: Intransitive
There are rumors going about that someone wants to remake The Princess Bride, and some people are going batshit, as…
From: Pharyngula
I went to bed at 9 last night, and woke up this morning at 7:30. My whole body is staggered…
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I just gave the first exam of this semester in cell biology. I have a tradition of making the first…
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Over the past week, I've watched the 8-part Netflix series, Unbelievable. It's a truly harrowing account of a serial rapist,…
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By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_870" align="alignright" width="300"] Image of an interstellar cruise ship disguised as a comet. [/caption] Clow UFO…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My teaching schedule is kind of front-loaded -- heavy stuff in the first half of the week, with a reprieve…
From: Pharyngula
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Daniel Cox make the case that one of the reasons that the number of people identifying as…
From: Mano Singham
I highly doubt the study's claims as reported by The Guardian. The original study can be found here. Economists calculate monetary…
From: Intransitive
So in Pakistan, mobs of Muslim religious fanatics attack non-Muslims for blasphemy and while in India mobs of Hindu religious…
From: Mano Singham
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's heartwarming to see all the students spurning the offer…
From: Pharyngula
How are you? I hope you’re good. I’ve been kinda okay. I say kinda because almost a year ago I…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Mid-Autumn Festival is known by several names across several Asian countries. Taiwan often calls it Moon Festival, both Koreas call…
From: Intransitive
In an interesting and informative profile of Tulsi Gabbard, Kerry Howley looks at her very unusual childhood and family that…
From: Mano Singham
Jerry Falwell was an evangelical preacher and the founder of Liberty University, a college that expects its students to abide…
From: Mano Singham
Petty hypo-christians and their "christian piety". As I've said elsewhere, the more publicly prudish, the more privately prurient. When stories…
From: Intransitive
Apparently yet another new book is out that tries to make the scientific case for god's existence. According to the…
From: Mano Singham
From: Pharyngula
The fall of computer scientist Richard Stallman, forced to resign his position at MIT because of his apologetics for rape…
From: Mano Singham
Oh my. Oh my oh my. While I was out at our climate strike event, I had to, naturally enough,…
From: Pharyngula
Look at 'em, brazenly skipping my class. It was to take part in the climate strike, so I guess I'll…
From: Pharyngula
We go from the sublime to the hideous. When we were doing our routine check for egg sacs the other…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_56026" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A baby Octopus octopus found by NOAA in American Samoa.[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
I'm not teaching today. I informed the students earlier this week that today is the day of the Global Climate…
From: Pharyngula
About nine years ago I suffered a concussion, falling and hitting the right side of my head on the granite…
From: Intransitive
In my history and philosophy of science course, I used to start by asking students whether cheerleading was a sport.…
From: Mano Singham
I was at our student summer research presentations. Look at this clever pair, showing off their poster to a milling…
From: Pharyngula
I liked this angle on the story: going into rehab was the right thing for Peterson to do, and he…
From: Pharyngula
The fall of computer scientist Richard Stallman, forced to resign his position at MIT because of his apologetics for rape…
From: Mano Singham
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is the latest politician to be revealed to have appeared in blackface in the past.…
From: Mano Singham
I read this review of a new film Cuck that has as its central protagonist a white nationalist 'incel', the…
From: Mano Singham
If you are yearning for some leftist Youtuber, Thought Slime is also good. I do not agree with him on…
From: Affinity
Abuse comes in more forms than many people realize. Take financial abuse, where someone uses economic leverage to control you,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Kevin Drum looks at data that suggests that being a pedestrian in the US has gotten a lot more dangerous…
From: Mano Singham
Every fall, the long-running satirical show Saturday Night Live introduces new cast members. It is considered a huge boost to…
From: Mano Singham
How are you? I hope you’re good. I’ve been kinda okay. I say kinda because almost a year ago I…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
I was part of our local protest against the unmitigated evil of ICE yesterday. Several people spoke out with testimonials…
From: Pharyngula
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Daniel Cox make the case that one of the reasons that the number of people identifying as…
From: Mano Singham
News reports suggest that Donald Trump made a deal with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that in exchange for…
From: Mano Singham
Perhaps the only redeeming feature of Donald Trump is that unlike previous presidents he seems deeply reluctant to get the…
From: Mano Singham
The fall of computer scientist Richard Stallman, forced to resign his position at MIT because of his apologetics for rape…
From: Mano Singham
The recent attack on the refineries in Saudi Arabia has, predictably, aroused outrage in the leadership of that country and…
From: Mano Singham
Look at 'em, brazenly skipping my class. It was to take part in the climate strike, so I guess I'll…
From: Pharyngula
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is the latest politician to be revealed to have appeared in blackface in the past.…
From: Mano Singham
I've been naughty and haven't made any YouTube videos in a while (I have to change that, if only I…
From: Pharyngula
Most Americans don't know that reparations for slavery has already been attempted. It didn't work. But that's because the US…
From: Stderr
I read this review of a new film Cuck that has as its central protagonist a white nationalist 'incel', the…
From: Mano Singham