We live in an age where many people are fleeing their native lands and seeking refuge in other countries. The…
From: Mano Singham
Today is Thanksgiving day in the US. Americans seem to have a love-hate relationship with this holiday. In many families…
From: Mano Singham
Thanksgiving is a lot of things to a lot of people. I'll be talking to my family back in the…
From: Oceanoxia
We're thanking our staff for their hard work by giving them the week off. So please enjoy this holiday classic…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I have been casually following the story about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) but had little idea what they were other than…
From: Mano Singham
I read and watch detective stories a lot. I think it is because they are essentially puzzles to be solved…
From: Mano Singham
The 2016 film Arrival that I reviewed here involved the sudden arrival of a fleet of alien spaceships at many…
From: Mano Singham
Big companies like Amazon, despite making huge profits for its owners and shareholders, fight tooth-and-nail to prevent their employees from…
From: Mano Singham
I am getting weary about hearing of all the ways that our devices are spying on us. The main ways…
From: Mano Singham
Fox News personality Laura Ingraham is an awful person similar to Tucker Carlson, using her show to promote the most…
From: Mano Singham
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
The topic of self-defense in this ridiculously over-armed culture is a fraught one, with many contradictions. On one hand, there…
From: Stderr
We've heard about hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and betadine, and who knows what else, but now we hit a new low (don't…
From: Pharyngula
Shock. Horror. Gasp. Kent Hovind tells a lie about me. By the way, I agree that I look pretty shabby…
From: Pharyngula
If you're curious about the quality of the comments I do not let through, well, know that as a minnow…
From: Pervert Justice
I thought I'd just be getting further protection against a nasty virus, but no…I'm about to become an explorer in…
From: Pharyngula
I've always celebrated Thanksgiving more than once a year. Once with my dad's family, and once with my mother's. My…
From: A Trivial Knot
The past few weeks in my cell biology course have been dedicated to an introduction to DNA: structure, replication, and…
From: Pharyngula
I have opinions on this silly University of Austin/UATX nonsense, but I fear the nascent institution is about to become…
From: Pharyngula
Once upon a time, I thought David Silverman was a good guy -- a bit aggressive, maybe, with a few…
From: Pharyngula
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (a country which no longer exists, now part of Tanzania) on September…
From: Intransitive
... because, apparently, I don't exist. The TERFs have started saying their last quiet part out loud. [caption id="attachment_285" align="aligncenter"…
From: Impossible Me
The Rittenhouse verdict hasn't even been public for an hour and already I'm seeing supposed lefties criticizing Rittenhouse's mother not…
From: Pervert Justice
In 2005, fanatical christian fascists in Dover, Pennsylvania attempted to violate the separation of cult and state and put creationism into…
From: Intransitive
According to the Human Rights Campaign, in the US there were forty five confirmed murders of Transgender and Non-Binary people…
From: Intransitive
Chris Mosier is a basketball player and Transgender man. He put together the ten images below for Transgender Awareness Week…
From: Intransitive
It is not a new insight to say that bigots always tell on themselves. The reasons they give for their…
From: Oceanoxia
When you're too lazy or incompetent to proofread. https://twitter.com/ColumboFanAcct/status/1457539330637971463 I hope she sunk a whole lot of money into her…
From: Pharyngula
It has come to my attention that the ancient moldy "venerable" webcomic "Sinfest" still exists - and has gone full…
From: Great American Satan
I haven't waded in on the JAQoff/TERF "kathleenzielinski" because I planned to read everything before commenting. But after seeing recent…
From: Intransitive
From retail workers who will never escape poverty to techbros striving for their first million, USA people working for private…
From: Great American Satan
We had our first dusting of snow today. And some little birb left these tiny footprints on our pavement. [caption…
From: Affinity
While we're possibly out visiting family and friends on this traditional family holiday, I hope you've done what is necessary…
From: Pharyngula
We're heading off to St Cloud to pick up #1 Son, then off to Wisconsin for a Thanksgiving feast with…
From: Pharyngula
There was a video game called Monster Rancher once upon a time. You trained monsters to fight, because cockfighting is…
From: Great American Satan
We're thanking our staff for their hard work by giving them the week off. So please enjoy this holiday classic…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I intended to leave this topic alone. So much for plans. I read the Jalopnik and other items below and…
From: Intransitive
Yuck, this abomination is making the rounds again. I'm going to see my granddaughter tomorrow. Should I bring her one…
From: Pharyngula
And one cobweb. Frost is very beautiful. It would be more beautiful if it were pleasantly warm, but one cannot…
From: Affinity
Explain something to me. Doxxing is bad, OK? If someone doesn't want their identity published, you should respect their privacy.…
From: Pharyngula
The most terrible force destroying the family unit, and therefore attacking all of Western Civilization, is clearly Evangelical Christianity. In…
From: Pharyngula
Although the anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors get a lot of media coverage, a new survey from the Pew Research Center…
From: Mano Singham
I recall reading something a while back that I couldn't find when I went to write this, about a Christian…
From: Impossible Me
The US Supreme Court yesterday refused to grant an injunction to stop the implementation of Maine's requirement that nearly all…
From: Mano Singham
In the US, claiming that some action is based on their religious faith tends to give people wide latitude. So…
From: Mano Singham
The other day, Fox News was hyperfocused on the War on Christmas. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1448710602046820352 https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1448712133760389127 I guess I need to gird…
From: Pharyngula
There were some comments in response to my post on writing sermons during the time I was a lay preacher…
From: Mano Singham
A Moonie splinter cult is now buying up property and using AR-15s as church accoutrements. These are not good neighbors.…
From: Pharyngula
If someone said to you, We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children, and…
From: Pharyngula
As long time readers know, I used to be a lay preacher in the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka. What…
From: Mano Singham
Get it away from me! P.S. We're back home from a short visit with our granddaughter. Now we just stay…
From: Pharyngula
Today is Thanksgiving day in the US. Americans seem to have a love-hate relationship with this holiday. In many families…
From: Mano Singham
Thanksgiving is a lot of things to a lot of people. I'll be talking to my family back in the…
From: Oceanoxia
A new paper by Shota Yamashita and colleagues explores the genetic basis for soma in one of the most mysterious…
From: Fierce Roller
Oh boy, it's getting intense out there. I discovered the latest absurdity via David Futrelle, and I encourage you to…
From: Pharyngula
The 2016 film Arrival that I reviewed here involved the sudden arrival of a fleet of alien spaceships at many…
From: Mano Singham
Big Oil would like us all to forget that they lied to us for decades -- they tried to tell…
From: Pharyngula
This is a nice micrograph of an ascidian egg. A very large egg. That is definitely the sperm entry point…
From: Pharyngula
When the concept of superorganisms come up in science fiction, we tend to focus on the mental aspect of it.…
From: Oceanoxia
In the US where we are inundated with stories of the lifestyles of the rich, it should not be surprising…
From: Mano Singham
We live in an age where many people are fleeing their native lands and seeking refuge in other countries. The…
From: Mano Singham
There's a lot to be said about Thanksgiving, what it represents, and what it has been used to obscure. I…
From: Oceanoxia
Thanksgiving is a lot of things to a lot of people. I'll be talking to my family back in the…
From: Oceanoxia
Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia Travis and Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan were…
From: Death to Squirrels
The topic of self-defense in this ridiculously over-armed culture is a fraught one, with many contradictions. On one hand, there…
From: Stderr
Spencer, Kessler, Cantwell and other white supremacists found liable in deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville The jury…
From: Death to Squirrels
... because, apparently, I don't exist. The TERFs have started saying their last quiet part out loud. [caption id="attachment_285" align="aligncenter"…
From: Impossible Me
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. If the Rittenhouse verdict was not a traumatic enough reminder for you that Murrikkka…
From: Death to Squirrels
That absurd "University" of Austin fakeout has been met with satire and ridicule to the point where its board of…
From: Pharyngula
No, not fiction. Not a hallucination, either, nor a snarky description of the 'sentence' he 'passed' on his – regardless…
From: Impossible Me
There's a lot to be said about Thanksgiving, what it represents, and what it has been used to obscure. I…
From: Oceanoxia
Good news just in time for a too-brief Thanksgiving break. The three White men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery…
From: Pharyngula
Thanksgiving is a lot of things to a lot of people. I'll be talking to my family back in the…
From: Oceanoxia
I have been casually following the story about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) but had little idea what they were other than…
From: Mano Singham
Besides out-generaling the treacherous Confederates and putting down one rebellion that split the country, Grant also was an advocate for…
From: Pharyngula
One of the most common "rebuttals" to anyone advocating any form of socialism is to demand evidence of a "successful"…
From: Oceanoxia
[caption id="attachment_64660" align="alignright" width="111"] Rich kid & rapist Christopher Belter[/caption] It's yet another example of how judges can ignore justice…
From: Pharyngula
In the US where we are inundated with stories of the lifestyles of the rich, it should not be surprising…
From: Mano Singham
My mind plays tricks on me: I originally started to write about how Kyle Rittenhouse is "the new Walter Mitty"…
From: Stderr
Some politically left people are hard line against killing anyone for any reason, especially in Europe these days. Some of…
From: Great American Satan