These are the last pictures by daylight. Remember that we went there in the evening especially so we could come…
From: Affinity
(Note: I am going to keep this as the top post for a while. New posts will appear below it…
From: Mano Singham
In the last couple of weeks, night time temperatures have been dropping to around 50F. This is my favorite time…
From: Stderr
I just saw the above film and it is excellent. It is based on real life events and tells the…
From: Mano Singham
John Oliver looks at how the Trump administration is trying to limit the services provided by this very important agency…
From: Mano Singham
Charly suggested stainless steel hose clamps, as an easy way to keep large chunks of wire rope from fraying while…
From: Stderr
Pearls Before Swine produces another one. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Ricky Gervais is an atheist, stand up comedian, and actor. He made a pretty funny film with an interesting premise…
From: Mano Singham
How did these guys figure out my plan way back in 2017? I'd only just started exploring the arachnid option…
From: Pharyngula
This is version 2.0 of Jazzlet's Eye Gouger, now with a much shorter blade for better leverage, and a thicker…
From: Stderr
(Note: I am going to keep this as the top post for a while. New posts will appear below it…
From: Mano Singham
For all you masochists out there who want all the details, Stephanie Zvan has published a thorough timeline of David…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_56358" align="alignright" width="297"] Not getting up from this one.[/caption] She wields a Broadsword of Brutal Honesty +5. The recent…
From: Pharyngula
I am pleased to say that my book will be released next month and can now be pre-ordered. You can…
From: Mano Singham
Spotted on Facebook. Hated it. [caption id="attachment_56343" align="aligncenter" width="500"] I am a very critical thinker, which is why I am…
From: Pharyngula
Sources tell the Babbler that former American Atheist president David Silverman will run for Bolingbrook mayor in 2021. [caption id="attachment_890"…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Yesterday, Secular Woman posted an article about these harassing lawsuits by harassers, specifically mentioning the pending litigation by Richard Carrier…
From: Pharyngula
Atheist Alliance International has hired David Silverman to be their executive director. I can't even. Silverman is the controversial former…
From: Pharyngula
It's the layers of incomprehension that get to you. It's dull, bewildered monkeys all the way down. [caption id="attachment_56296" align="aligncenter"…
From: Pharyngula
This is a really fascinating, if highly specialized, book about an important topic. Donald MacKenzie's Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and…
From: Stderr
It's International Pronouns Day! I got my button. I wonder if the UMM College Republicans got theirs? I notice that,…
From: Pharyngula
As stated, October 16th is International Pronouns Day, a day that encourages and demands respect for all Non-Binary, Transgender and…
From: Intransitive
Taipei's Pride Parade is the biggest in Asia with over 100,000 participants the last two years, and now, marriage equality. …
From: Intransitive
For all you masochists out there who want all the details, Stephanie Zvan has published a thorough timeline of David…
From: Pharyngula
An utterly horrible story: Aja Newman goes to the emergency room for severe shoulder pain. She's given a sedative…then the…
From: Pharyngula
Their little hate signs have gotten attention from Newsweek. That's all they really wanted, was to be outrageous and stupid…
From: Pharyngula
Ricky Gervais is an atheist, stand up comedian, and actor. He made a pretty funny film with an interesting premise…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday there was a town hall style forum with nine Democratic presidential candidates talking about LGBT issues, similar in format…
From: Mano Singham
Call me cynical, but I'm in full agreement with Christopher Chan: Friday October 11 is supposed to be National…
From: Intransitive
We have some [SATIRE!] deplorable students on our campus, and as I mentioned before, they've been putting up ugly anti-trans…
From: Pharyngula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTavR2PhsOY Open thread, talk whatever you want. Kindly. Previous thread.
From: Affinity
Joaquin Phoenix is right handed, as can be seen in an autograph scrum at an airport. So why did those…
From: Intransitive
Tuesday is also a crowded schedule for me, and I just got home. That's partly because I pushed and got…
From: Pharyngula
Republican Congressional candidate Jeanne Ives will run a “Hell House” this month focused on Representative Sean Casten. [caption id="attachment_894" align="alignright"…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My wife is away for a few weeks, so she's sending me photos of things she knows I'll like…like Texas…
From: Pharyngula
OK, memories, I've experienced this. [caption id="attachment_56348" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Unshelved[/caption] I was probably in second or third grade, somewhere around…
From: Pharyngula
I am pleased to say that my book will be released next month and can now be pre-ordered. You can…
From: Mano Singham
Uh-oh, she's just figured out that you get presents on your birthday.
From: Pharyngula
Today came the news that Brigid Kosgei had smashed the women's marathon record that had stood for 16 years by…
From: Mano Singham
I don't expect much of a Kardashian, at least they're just in the business of marketing themselves for money. I…
From: Pharyngula
(Note: I am going to keep this as the top post for a while. New posts will appear below it…
From: Mano Singham
I am pleased to say that my book will be released next month and can now be pre-ordered. You can…
From: Mano Singham
You may recall my earlier post about the strange relationship between Jerry Falwell, Jr,, his wife, and two young men…
From: Mano Singham
From where I'm standing, usually racism. White religions worship "relics", and non-white people worship "fetishes" and "totems". I say we…
From: Intransitive
A right wing, anti-Muslim group called Act for America decided to hold a fund-raising cocktail party and dinner at Donald…
From: Mano Singham
One of the most common arguments that are presented for the existence of the afterlife are the reported near-death experiences,…
From: Mano Singham
On a regular basis, I hear about films that are released that are targeted at evangelical Christians that feed them…
From: Mano Singham
The Satanic Temple and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Or Pastafarians for short) are examples of non-religious groups…
From: Mano Singham
This evangelical preacher is literally phoning it in while he talks in tongues. Tfw even you don’t believe your bullshit…
From: Mano Singham
Recently came news that the Roman Catholic diocese of Rochester, NY became the 20th US diocese to file for bankruptcy.…
From: Mano Singham
Here's another wintertime project I've got to work on. I've got all these spiders I collected, and I'm confident that…
From: Pharyngula
So that's how unicorns fly through space -- by pooping out rainbow-colored slinkies. I've always wondered. The brain-twisting image comes…
From: Pharyngula
(Note: I am going to keep this as the top post for a while. New posts will appear below it…
From: Mano Singham
I'm done with seeking out spiders in their natural environment, for a while. I'm keeping an eye on a few…
From: Pharyngula
I have used most of the major reference management platforms at one time or another: EndNote, RefMan, Zotero, and Mendeley.…
From: Fierce Roller
John Oliver looks at how the Trump administration is trying to limit the services provided by this very important agency…
From: Mano Singham
My wife is away for a few weeks, so she's sending me photos of things she knows I'll like…like Texas…
From: Pharyngula
I am pleased to say that my book will be released next month and can now be pre-ordered. You can…
From: Mano Singham
From: Pharyngula
Military technology has a short life-span; anyone who has an advantage immediately becomes a target for spies and scientists trying…
From: Stderr
The last time I mentioned Jared Taylor, I said: he’s an unpleasant and pretentious leader of white supremacists…an unctuous, smiling…
From: Pharyngula
I have to say, if the US were trying to alienate as many people as possible, its immigration and police…
From: Mano Singham
These days we seem to see a proliferation of hate speech, the tone being set by the petulant man-child who…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_56351" align="alignright" width="111"] Memorial to the stolen families on the UMM campus[/caption] White Americans stole Indian children and ripped…
From: Pharyngula
Ricky Gervais is an atheist, stand up comedian, and actor. He made a pretty funny film with an interesting premise…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday was Pokémon Go Community Day. For those of you who don't play the game, that's a day when a…
From: Affinity
Yesterday there was a town hall style forum with nine Democratic presidential candidates talking about LGBT issues, similar in format…
From: Mano Singham
This awful. https://twitter.com/PopChassid/status/1182509132999528450 It's chilling how the audience boos when he mentions Somalia. Then they cheer when he claims to…
From: Pharyngula
I'm making slow but real progress, but everybody and their dog keeps telling me to take it slow and I'm…
From: Affinity
A right wing, anti-Muslim group called Act for America decided to hold a fund-raising cocktail party and dinner at Donald…
From: Mano Singham
Last night, twelve Democratic candidates debated for three hours. I watched almost all of it with a bunch of Bernie…
From: Mano Singham
I believe that the future of navies was written on the wall by the nazis. It just has taken a…
From: Stderr
I have to say, if the US were trying to alienate as many people as possible, its immigration and police…
From: Mano Singham
(Note: I am going to keep this as the top post for a while. New posts will appear below it…
From: Mano Singham
I just saw the above film and it is excellent. It is based on real life events and tells the…
From: Mano Singham
You want to see a truly deep delusion? I give you "Elizabeth Holmes Is a Visionary, and We Need More…
From: Pharyngula
I stumbled across this due to a poorly-constructed google search. Search-botch-browsing is a whole new category of entertainment, as far…
From: Stderr
Republican Congressional candidate Jeanne Ives will run a “Hell House” this month focused on Representative Sean Casten. [caption id="attachment_894" align="alignright"…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
John Oliver looks at how the Trump administration is trying to limit the services provided by this very important agency…
From: Mano Singham
These days we seem to see a proliferation of hate speech, the tone being set by the petulant man-child who…
From: Mano Singham