I guess I'll be the first person to reference this prominently on the internet. It is really hard to find…
From: Great American Satan
I'm watching "Us" tonight. And I won't stop making nagging posts about it until everyone comments here that they've bought…
From: Great American Satan
Hokey and sentimental was my unexpected reaction to hearing Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters the other day. In…
From: Odgraphix
If you're familiar with Don Winslow's novel The Force [wc] it may feel as though The Seven Five [wc] is…
From: Stderr
The end of winter finally brought some birds into the garden that I'd been missing the whole time, since there…
From: Affinity
This True News Story missed the most important detail. After long eras of systemic racial discrimination by humanity, God has…
From: Pharyngula
When I tried to get tickets for "Us," I could only find 7 PM showings. I assumed the theaters were,…
From: Great American Satan
Our woods are a nature and water reserve which means that there is no commercial use of the wood. Trees…
From: Affinity
We all have in our minds short histories of how knowledge grew and a popular one is that there was…
From: Mano Singham
One thing I hate doing is digging post-holes. There is always a rock or something in exactly the wrong spot…
From: Stderr
I'm sad to say that I don't care anymore. I got all these messages that 23 March 2019 is Atheist…
From: Pharyngula
I had a rough day today, after a couple of poor nights of fitful sleep, so I was mostly useless…
From: Pharyngula
Marcelo Gleiser has been awarded the Templeton Prize. When asked what he'd done to deserve it, his answer was his…
From: Pharyngula
Wow. I was listening to this video and thinking, "I've heard all this before -- these are the arguments against…
From: Pharyngula
That's rights, transfolks and boring people, it's another post about everyone's favorite lawsuit, Devin Nunes' US$250 million defamation complaint against…
From: Pervert Justice
So, if you aren't aware - as you are probably not - there is an in-joke at Wonkette about Devin…
From: Pervert Justice
The things I do to try and comprehend the mental workings of creationists…I wasted 16 minutes on a video of…
From: Pharyngula
Michael Behe has this new book out, Darwin Devolves. I haven't been able to muster enough enthusiasm to even want…
From: Pharyngula
For everyone who thought that previous atheist caricature was accurate, I have to tell you it's not. Here's a better…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a candidate rule: any time you see an organization trying to enforce its own system of justice and discipline…
From: Stderr
Oy. There's a new paper out by Marissa Harrison (of Penn State) et. al. collected historical data on the crimes…
From: Pervert Justice
Remember that old thing? No? OK, quick summary: Parental reports (on social media) of friend clusters exhibiting signs of gender…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
This is a repost of an article I published in 2015 on The Asexual Agenda. It was originally written for…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have written before about Democratic congressman Dan Lipinski, easily one of the worst Democrats in Congress, who occupies a…
From: Mano Singham
cn: This was imported directly from my tumblr, and therefore has unsafe levels of tumblr politics. I feel bad just…
From: A Trivial Knot
The Minnesota house passed the ERA. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has had a simple purpose since it was first…
From: Pharyngula
Here's an excellent video that includes clips from various interviews with famous people saying stupid, hateful things about trans people.…
From: Pharyngula
Alessandro Strumia was in the news earlier this fall -- he's the physicist who gave a workshop at CERN to…
From: Pharyngula
We seem to be in a cycle. Every time PZ Myers posts something about transgender people, the comment thread floods…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
cn: apologetics for sexual violence I don't know why, but YouTube keeps on recommending me videos about philosopher Slavoj Zizek. …
From: A Trivial Knot
[caption id="attachment_27012" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The first published photo of Jack on his daily walk. ©voyager, all rights reserved[/caption] Woo-Hoo! A…
From: Affinity
Tired: The Jordan B Peterson Official Merchandise Store: Lobster Capsule Collection. Wired: Lobsterfest.
From: Pharyngula
Earlier, I wrote an article on low emotionality, and I heard from a handful of readers with similar experiences. However,…
From: A Trivial Knot
Things are happening in Avalus' new aquarium. Let's join him to see what's up today. (Note: The last photo in this…
From: Affinity
Hokey and sentimental was my unexpected reaction to hearing Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters the other day. In…
From: Odgraphix
That's my granddaughter! Now I'm going to have to get Knut a spider toy, so he can keep up. A…
From: Pharyngula
I have new socks. I'm officially a doting grandfather now. Even the evil cat adores them.
From: Pharyngula
We get it. You don’t want to choose from among the three establishment political parties. You don’t want to cast…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The 2019 race for village trustee is important because of its potential to shift power away from Mayor Roger Claar. …
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
In a recent post, I said I'm a very unenthusiastic person. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm…
From: A Trivial Knot
According to the results of the most recent General Social Survey data, the number of people who described themselves as…
From: Mano Singham
If you met someone who introduced himself as Bob Shabanowitz and tried to guess his ethnicity, the chances are that…
From: Mano Singham
A few important things about the Christchurch terrorism might set it apart from previous incidents of a similar nature. Obviously…
From: Great American Satan
I got a message from an acquaintance in Sri Lanka forwarding a video that said that the BBC had reported…
From: Mano Singham
I just learned that the Art Institute of Seattle has closed. This is bad news -- I knew people who…
From: Pharyngula
The trailer for the six-episode TV mini-series Good Omens has been released. {AD} The series is based on the book…
From: Mano Singham
I have written before about the TV comedy The Good Place and now there is apparently another one called Miracle…
From: Mano Singham
Australian cardinal George Pell, one of the most powerful men in the Vatican, was found guilty of child sexual abuse…
From: Mano Singham
An evangelical pastor in South Africa clearly felt that the usual tricks to persuade people that their god was acting…
From: Mano Singham
George Will is what passes for an intelligent man on the conservative side, I suppose, but wow, but religion twists…
From: Pharyngula
Let's start the morning with something cheery. Here's an innocent little ciliate swimming about and then rupturing…organelles and cytoplasm spewing…
From: Pharyngula
Oy. There's a new paper out by Marissa Harrison (of Penn State) et. al. collected historical data on the crimes…
From: Pervert Justice
The Cambrian explosion is the name given to the discovery of a vast range of fossils of organisms that existed…
From: Mano Singham
(My review of the above book just appeared in the March 2019 issue of the American Journal of Physics (vol.…
From: Mano Singham
It seems to be a universal rule: every ecosystem has its parasites. Wherever there is money being spent or media…
From: Fierce Roller
We all have in our minds short histories of how knowledge grew and a popular one is that there was…
From: Mano Singham
I'm getting together with some nerds, Jackson Wheat, Phrenomythic, and ScientistMel, to talk about the challenges of communicating science on…
From: Pharyngula
This is funny, but I have never seen a bolas spider. Have you? They're on the checklist of Minnesota spiders,…
From: Pharyngula
Michael Behe has this new book out, Darwin Devolves. I haven't been able to muster enough enthusiasm to even want…
From: Pharyngula
The Discovery Institute loves to tell me what I can and can't believe. This time it's Denyse O'Leary over at Uncommon…
From: Fierce Roller
I came across this article about Selene Saavedra Roman, a young woman who worked as a flight attendant for the…
From: Mano Singham
I've always thought the Southern Poverty Law Center was one of the good guys, fighting against race hatred and taking…
From: Pharyngula
I don't know if you've heard of it, but Cambridge is one of those prestigious "elite" universities, and sometimes they…
From: Pharyngula
If you met someone who introduced himself as Bob Shabanowitz and tried to guess his ethnicity, the chances are that…
From: Mano Singham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxtImDVMig I'm home today, with the Little One having caught a stomach bug and me not being sure if I…
From: Affinity
But this is just a little too on-the-nose. Warning that users who call for the suspension of bigoted accounts might…
From: Pharyngula
I have written before about Democratic congressman Dan Lipinski, easily one of the worst Democrats in Congress, who occupies a…
From: Mano Singham
In the light of the Christchurch terrorist attack, I think it is appropriate to try to put to rest, on…
From: Affinity
[CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of hate and mass murder.] I thought I knew why he shouted "subscribe to PewDiePie!" before opening…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
People have been talking about how Youtube's reliance on traffic-driving recommendation algorithms has turned the site into an engine for…
From: Great American Satan
Thanks to commenter efogoto, I saw the second part of the Seth Meyers interview of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez where she explained…
From: Mano Singham
I came across this article about Selene Saavedra Roman, a young woman who worked as a flight attendant for the…
From: Mano Singham
I have reached such a level of cynicism that now when I hear someone described as a philanthropist, I immediately…
From: Mano Singham
This video is really good. You should watch it. The basic message is that conservatives don't much like democracy, equality…
From: Pharyngula
Among other things he asked her why her questioning of people in congressional hearings was so much better than that…
From: Mano Singham
The fear that has been generated by school shootings in the US has prompted some districts to adopt measures that…
From: Mano Singham
Matt Taibbi has a blistering expose of the massive boondoggle that is the US military budget. He says that it…
From: Mano Singham
New Zealand leads the way. Both Australia and New Zealand blocked 4chan & 8chan for spreading that bloody murder video.…
From: Pharyngula
Driftglass gives a pithy summary of the American variant. …like any other cult, Republicans have conditioned themselves not to respond…
From: Pharyngula
The obvious answer is: "be Afghani." That implies being in place, having local support (whether coerced, enthusiastic or not) and…
From: Stderr