She looks at the efforts of Trump's new communications director and Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Stanislaw Lem wrote some very witty and unusual science fiction. If you haven't read Tales Of Pirx The Pilot [amazon]…
From: Stderr
When it comes to sports reporting, many 'reporters' abandon any pretense of objectivity and become fans of their local teams…
From: Mano Singham
I've been doing a Cool Stuff Friday post since April '016. Going to be a change. Fridays will be all…
From: Affinity
This... this is seriously incredible. I've watched it probably 10 times, now, and every single time, I cry. It's so…
Roger Waters was in fine form last night -- nonstop passion and fury, with a side of spacey weirdness, just…
From: Pharyngula
https://www.facebook.com/abcperth/videos/1616737455025875/ Corellas caught on camera going for a spin on a rooftop whirlybird air vent. {AD}
From: Affinity
From Raw Story, presented with no further comment: Ana Navarro compares Trump rallies to tripping on shrooms — but CNN’s…
From: Pervert Justice
It's going to be good. Later!
From: Pharyngula
Sorry for missing this on Monday. I've been working a lot, and my brother is in town, so I've been distracted.…
Yep, Answers in Genesis has folded, but not without whining. The Ark Encounter has agreed to pay the 50-cent per…
From: Pharyngula
https://youtu.be/T3P051LAWYg If you're a courageous soul, then go ahead, play the video. It's the absolute slaughter of the Bee Gee's…
From: Affinity
Who'd have thought it? He seems to be having great fun tearing up the idea. Boy, AiG News is a…
From: Pharyngula
We’ve had disagreements with Snopes before. OK, a lot of differences, but we can’t deny that they are one of…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I choose not to be associated with any political ideology - neither libertarianism, liberalism nor conservatism - as I believe…
From: Jonathan's Musings
[caption id="attachment_5749" align="alignright" width="286"] Miyamoto Musashi (unknown artist)[/caption] To be in favor or disgrace is to live in fear. To…
From: Stderr
Ken Ham says so. MEDIA AND BLOGGERS OUT OF CONTROL RE: ARK You may have read media reports and blogs…
From: Pharyngula
We're all going to be cyborgs who live on protein pills! Unfortunately, reality makes that less glamorous than it sounds.…
From: Pharyngula
Execration Figurines. Lance Wallnau is still at it, declaring a veritable storm of witchcraft is swirling about his darling, Trump.…
From: Affinity
A talk by Richard Dawkins on his newest book, Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist, was…
From: Pharyngula
HJ Hornbeck has a post titled Watch Your Language, criticizing Laci Green for a series of tweets on Trump's ban…
From: A Trivial Knot
Donald Trump has decreed that members of the transgender community cannot serve in the military in any capacity. There are…
From: Mano Singham
A few weeks ago, the British Medical Journal carried two educational articles about management of gender dysphoria in the non-specialist…
From: Geeky Humanist
Trump made a major policy announcement via Twitter (of course!). https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890193981585444864 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890196164313833472 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890197095151546369 Well, gosh. I guess Laci Green has…
From: Pharyngula
I've heard these same accusations made out of context, and I'm ashamed to say that I did not bother to…
From: Pharyngula
We were so close. Then came January 20th and the inauguration with its ominous speech from Hell. There was no…
From: Odgraphix
Thanks: [embed]https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/882677305927024640[/embed] -Shiv
From: Against the Grain
Much has been said already about YouTube sex educator Laci Green’s supposed “taking the red pill,” so I don’t want to rehash…
From: Bi Any Means
Ken Ham wants to take back the rainbow for his god, so he's now lighting up the Big Wooden Box…
From: Pharyngula
I am surprised and gratified that our school system took a progressive step forward -- they approved a set of…
From: Pharyngula
Coke Zero is being discontinued. Hot on the heels of this pronouncement that Like it or not, life is all…
From: Pharyngula
*more elevator waiting music* This is the best video ever pic.twitter.com/K065H6RJfQ — Keith (@lad) July 20, 2017
From: Against the Grain
I was annoyed at myself, earlier, for taking the easy way out and doing a half-hearted job with some iPhone…
From: Stderr
From Raw Story, presented with no further comment: Ana Navarro compares Trump rallies to tripping on shrooms — but CNN’s…
From: Pervert Justice
In Buffalo, a number of Black kids and young Black men were playing foot ball in the street - a…
From: Pervert Justice
We’ve had disagreements with Snopes before. OK, a lot of differences, but we can’t deny that they are one of…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Not content with past exposes of predatory journals, Discover.com blogger Neuroskeptic tells the tale of hir own saga fighting the…
From: Pervert Justice
A guy in the audience yelled at one of the tennis players at Wimbledon, so she decided to let him…
From: Stderr
Very annoyed. Bad thread day. {AD}
From: Affinity
No, not that goop. The real stuff. As every needlesmith and other handcrafter knows, hand care is extremely important. You…
From: Affinity
Researchers from Case Western have recently expanded on research that might be interesting to FtB audiences. The university's write up…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_20087" align="alignnone" width="560"] Jehovah's Golden Boy.[/caption] All the religious reich has gotten together and are defending Kushner, why he…
From: Affinity
Oh, crap. It's Sunday morning, and all I need is a sermon from dumbshit Jim Carrey. It's nice that he's…
From: Pharyngula
Some Buddhist monks in Thailand, where Buddhism is the majority religion, clearly seem to think that evangelical Christians in the…
From: Mano Singham
A day or two ago PZ Myers put up a post about sexual harassment of graduate students, and I followed…
From: Pervert Justice
The generation to whom the Christians' bigwig directly spoke 2000 years ago will not pass away before the Most Momentous…
From: Pervert Justice
Women in Saudi Arabia have to endure what is probably the most strict dress code in the world, requiring them…
From: Mano Singham
September 21st, 1995, was a good day to be a god. Or, alternatively, to own a grocery store. A worshipper…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
If our Christ-worshipers claim that God endowed their saints with power to perform the [caption id="attachment_13" align="alignright" width="121"] Your host,…
From: Stderr
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.…
From: Against the Grain
Researchers from Case Western have recently expanded on research that might be interesting to FtB audiences. The university's write up…
From: Pervert Justice
This is another example of credulous/bad reporting about my field. Whenever I see the press utterly fail to "get" something…
From: Stderr
A recent study examined the brains of 111 former NFL football players and found that only one of them did…
From: Mano Singham
I also realize I missed last week's APotW. Apologies... Continuing on with the Grand Finale... This image was taken on…
Herpetologists are a pervy bunch (pdf link). Once a male turtle was captured, we attempted to induce an erection by…
From: Pharyngula
There was a pre-dawn collision on June 17 involving a large container ship ACX Crystal and a US navy destroyer…
From: Mano Singham
Since I just mentioned the boogey-word, post-modernism, here's a terrifically good overview of the subject by Peter Coffin. He sets…
From: Pharyngula
https://youtu.be/RadGavdgKAk The video above comes from NASA’s newly released video archive, and shows a 1970s wingtip vortices test at Langley…
From: Affinity
As long as it is Shark Week…
From: Pharyngula
Not content with past exposes of predatory journals, Discover.com blogger Neuroskeptic tells the tale of hir own saga fighting the…
From: Pervert Justice
Rhetorically, of course. The man is an ignoramus. He actually objected to a BBC video that illustrated the Roman empire…
From: Pharyngula
Researchers from Case Western have recently expanded on research that might be interesting to FtB audiences. The university's write up…
From: Pervert Justice
[This post is based on a comment I made over at Pharyngula. Also, content warning for TERF bullshit. ALSO also,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
In Buffalo, a number of Black kids and young Black men were playing foot ball in the street - a…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_12785" align="alignnone" width="800"] Tucker Viemeister.[/caption] In the previous post, Richard Spencer's sugar daddy was revealed. Now, Spencer and his…
From: Affinity
I choose not to be associated with any political ideology - neither libertarianism, liberalism nor conservatism - as I believe…
From: Jonathan's Musings
[caption id="attachment_20056" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Richard Spencer and William H. Regnery II.[/caption] Lance Williams at Reveal has an absorbing article up…
From: Affinity
Mike Epifani has a compelling piece on antipathy towards prisoners: Over 6.74 million people are supervised by US adult correctional systems, and…
From: Against the Grain
The team behind Game of Thrones is now proposing a new show: an alternate reality series in which the South…
From: Pharyngula
Thanks: [embed]https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/882677305927024640[/embed] -Shiv
From: Against the Grain
Do you need Canada to step in and intervene, USA? Because things are getting weird. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890566339462672385 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890568797941362690 Shock surprise, after…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
In the bizarre world that we now live in, four Republican senators have said that they will only vote for…
From: Mano Singham
The Mooch. “They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three…
From: Pharyngula
She looks at the efforts of Trump's new communications director and Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_20157" align="alignnone" width="532"] Palermo's Pizza.[/caption] “What part of Donald Trump is not elite? The business side, the politics side,…
From: Affinity
Constitutional lawyers and political historians are going to have a busy time with the Donald Trump administration because it is…
From: Mano Singham
You all know I'm terrible already. But in my defense, I cannot be held responsible if my news feed is…
From: Death to Squirrels
The news that John McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer seems to have given people another bout of selective amnesia,…
From: Mano Singham
Donald Trump has decreed that members of the transgender community cannot serve in the military in any capacity. There are…
From: Mano Singham
boop [embed]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890193981585444864[/embed] [embed]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890196164313833472[/embed] Been busy working on some long form work that I've been commissioned to do. Updates will be…
From: Against the Grain