Seth Meyers had a good summary of Trump's departure and Biden's inauguration. Stephen Colbert's show from the night before inauguration…
From: Mano Singham
Trump left the White House without the pomp he had hoped for. The outgoing president, who has broken with tradition…
From: Mano Singham
I timed this post for noon on January 20th to celebrate the end of the Donald Trump presidency. There will…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_46685" align="aligncenter" width="800"] ©Giliell, all rights reserved[/caption] Well, it's not the Arctic sea, but for a frozen puddle it…
From: Affinity
A buzzard used the opportunity to scout for food (and now guess who only had the 250 mm lens with…
From: Affinity
Writing headlines for news items is an art and I am often impressed at how they manage to capture in…
From: Mano Singham
"The Sadness" is a new zombie movie being released this Friday in Taiwan. I can't watch movies so I won't…
From: Intransitive
They're monsters, I tell you. They team up with publishers and become real horrors. My colleague here at UMM, Josh…
From: Pharyngula
cn: no spoilers in the OP, but spoilers permitted in comments Over break, I tried playing Bugsnax, a video game…
From: A Trivial Knot
The swans are the mascots of the whole village. The old pair divorced and moved out some time in 2019,…
From: Affinity
I am keeping this as a work-in-progress because the comments help. Please see "Atheism and Tolerance" where I stopped. This…
From: Jonathan's Musings
One of the things bringing me great joy right now is watching QAnon implode. None of the predictions came true!…
From: Pharyngula
What sucks is when you've lived more than 70 years, and not for one day have you known what accountability…
From: Pervert Justice
Earlier, I posted those emails from a creationist telling me that he had a "theory" that united human genomics and…
From: Pharyngula
The topic of relativism is usually not relevant until we hear from the religious right on absolute morality. I recall…
From: Jonathan's Musings
If you asked Jackson Pollock to do a painting representing government computer security, it would look just like every other…
From: Stderr
I get email, still, and I get tired of it all. This is what I got last night. Modern people…
From: Pharyngula
Back when I was CEO of NFR, in 1999, I broke labor laws by sending an email to all staff…
From: Stderr
In my previous episode on hypnosis, [stderr] I began by framing my views on the topic by dividing it into…
From: Stderr
Sunday morning at 6am Central I'm going to have a "This is your life, Adnan Oktar!" show, reviewing this guy's…
From: Pharyngula
With great mourning I must inform all of you that president Biden has disappeared about 157 million women. I am…
From: Affinity
I never got around to posting my pictures from Taipei's pride parade on October 28th. The estimated attendance was around…
From: Intransitive
Vaccines, the only light at the end of this grim tunnel called “COVID-19 pandemic.” Now that scientists have developed several…
From: Andreas Avester
Randomly meeting people from your past, people that you had some kind of big feelings about, there's a tendency to…
From: Great American Satan
For me, temptation is something to play with and pleasure is something I choose to pursue every now and then.…
From: Andreas Avester
In the last post I covered some of the more obvious problems with the world building. This one will focus…
From: Affinity
Christmas 2020 was all about self-love and selfcare for me. It was a much needed body appreciation day. With Covid19,…
From: YEMMYnisting
The ILGA (or International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) have published their 2020 world report on rights and…
From: Intransitive
A New York City paramedic was moonlighting as a nude model to earn some extra money and the New York…
From: Mano Singham
Hungary's government is joining other Eastern European countries in becoming depraved despots and bigots. They have outlawed adoption by anyone…
From: Intransitive
Remember a few years ago when Pokemon was all the rage, everyone walking around streets with app, trying to "catch"…
From: Intransitive
I am keeping this as a work-in-progress because the comments help. Please see "Atheism and Tolerance" where I stopped. This…
From: Jonathan's Musings
A few news items: I sometimes play on Sitosis, a free public Minecraft server. It's totally vanilla, with a mature…
From: Pharyngula
My vacuum pump was delayed one more week but it should be due to arrive today afternoon. In the meantime,…
From: Affinity
A meeting between Palatine’s werecoyotes and weredogs to end recent coyote attacks against dogs ended in a brawl. The Palatine…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The topic of relativism is usually not relevant until we hear from the religious right on absolute morality. I recall…
From: Jonathan's Musings
A month ago, several pilots and crew of Eva Airlines violated quarantine and potentially spread COVID-19, as some of them…
From: Intransitive
Not zombies themselves, which are still physiologically impossible, but the way characters deal with them in zombie movies. Horror movies…
From: Pharyngula
A porch thief gets caught in the act and tries to run away quickly but his car gets stuck in…
From: Mano Singham
Just a mish-mash of recent things.... People don't like my bad puns? Okay, here's one more, my response to a…
From: Intransitive
I am keeping this as a work-in-progress because the comments help. Please see "Atheism and Tolerance" where I stopped. This…
From: Jonathan's Musings
I can tell we're going to be hearing much about young Mr Josh Hawley in the future. He's a fanatical…
From: Pharyngula
It's God. I mean, Ken Ham, who thinks he is god. Oh look. Biden has appointed a transgender woman to…
From: Pharyngula
The topic of relativism is usually not relevant until we hear from the religious right on absolute morality. I recall…
From: Jonathan's Musings
The Monterey Skepticamp conference on January 2, 2021 where I gave a talk was enjoyable and informative, covering quite a…
From: Mano Singham
While there's a lot to be getting on with this week in the USA (and, heck, around the world, what…
From: Pervert Justice
Mikey Weinstein, of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, wrote an excellent open letter to the US Air Force Academy, pointing…
From: Stderr
No, not another one of these parallel-mania posts, where everything that is about Jesus parallels other gods! It is interesting how…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Grounded Ivory giggles and pink powder secrets power an endless charade. Let it all hang out between the pews. Just…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Last summer, I did some spider-hunting around Murdock, Minnesota. It's the typical slow, sleepy, small rural town (with spiders! But…
From: Pharyngula
It must be convenient to be a spider at Halloween. To decorate, you just rummage through your closet and pull…
From: Pharyngula
This video that was sent to me by a friend shows what a powerful predator the peregrine falcon is. I…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know any economists. But, I assume that there are real economists out there that are trying to do…
From: Stderr
I'm going to put off the celebratory imbibery a bit longer today so that I can talk about development of…
From: Pharyngula
Nice. Paleontologists found a fossil Psittacosaurus with beautifully preserved scales -- they can even see signs of the pigments coloring…
From: Pharyngula
If you asked Jackson Pollock to do a painting representing government computer security, it would look just like every other…
From: Stderr
When I hammered out my reservations about Eric Lander as science advisor, I knew exactly what source to track down:…
From: Pharyngula
Another conversation about evo-devo! On Wednesday at 3pm Central (note change in time: I'm teaching again, so had to work…
From: Pharyngula
We got some wonderful news from Joe Biden last week. President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that he has chosen a…
From: Pharyngula
In my previous episode on hypnosis, [stderr] I began by framing my views on the topic by dividing it into…
From: Stderr
I am keeping this as a work-in-progress because the comments help. Please see "Atheism and Tolerance" where I stopped. This…
From: Jonathan's Musings
As I have said so many times before, the US is a one-party state. The party is a pro-war, pro-oligarchy…
From: Mano Singham
What sucks is when you've lived more than 70 years, and not for one day have you known what accountability…
From: Pervert Justice
Anaiise Diaz, former Social Justice and Legislative Assistant at the American Humanist Association, recently wrote an article for The Humanist called…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
While the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are…
From: Death to Squirrels
People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.…
From: Jonathan's Musings
The Dutch government has resigned en masse. What was the massive scandal that brought them all down? Prepare to be…
From: Mano Singham
Professional historian of lynching and mob violence Guy Lancaster has an article up at HistoryNewsNetwork.org that interprets the mob violence…
From: Pervert Justice
If you didn't read me say it elsewhere, I don't and haven't watched TV for about ten years, and that…
From: Intransitive
Yesterday Trump became the only president to be impeached twice, with 10 Republican congresspersons joining with the Democrats to pass…
From: Mano Singham
Seth Meyers had a good summary of Trump's departure and Biden's inauguration. Stephen Colbert's show from the night before inauguration…
From: Mano Singham
Who's POVs? Mine, of course. And Beau of the Fifth Column. First, BotFC: He points out that many of Biden's…
From: Intransitive
The US is constantly criticizing other countries and lecturing them on how they should behave, as if the US is…
From: Mano Singham
I'm sure you've heard that twelve national guard members were removed from the inauguration event. Those whose backgrounds suggested any…
From: Intransitive
I'm not a good person. I used to wake up every morning and mutter, "I wonder if Trump died of…
From: Stderr
As I have said so many times before, the US is a one-party state. The party is a pro-war, pro-oligarchy…
From: Mano Singham
Trump left the White House without the pomp he had hoped for. The outgoing president, who has broken with tradition…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know any economists. But, I assume that there are real economists out there that are trying to do…
From: Stderr
I timed this post for noon on January 20th to celebrate the end of the Donald Trump presidency. There will…
From: Mano Singham
Ever since the election, we have seen the process of people who once were joined at the hip to Trump…
From: Mano Singham