[caption id="attachment_1116" align="alignright" width="400"] Will Rep. Sean Casten be denied another term by the Illuminati?[/caption] The New World order claimed…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October SPOOKTOBER DAY #25 —…
From: Great American Satan
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a special effects wrangler. In fact, the short story Armaments Race…
From: Stderr
There has been a lot of coverage of actor Alec Baldwin firing a gun on a film set that resulted…
From: Mano Singham
I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October… SPOOKTOBER DAY #23 --…
From: Great American Satan
Mothers everywhere will love today's Zits strip. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
If you like dark humor (is there any other kind?) there sure is much to snort about in this cartoon.…
From: Death to Squirrels
Nearly four years ago, I had a post about quicksand. In it I mused how it used to be a…
From: Mano Singham
I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October… SPOOKTOBER DAY #21 --…
From: Great American Satan
It's Black History Month and the theme this year is Proud To Be. I am Proud of everything that makes…
From: YEMMYnisting
It wasn't that long ago (and it's still ongoing) that creationists followed a relatively successful strategy of packing school boards…
From: Pharyngula
How stupid can creationists get? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's even more stupid than they assume me…
From: Pharyngula
There's nothing here I didn't already know, but if you want an up-to-date summary of Hovind's criminality, here's a video.…
From: Pharyngula
Genetics According to Jesus
I slummed it a bit this morning, watching a video by Dr. (he really is, with a Ph.D. from a…
From: Pharyngula
Gaiman occupies an unusual place, to me. He's a middle-aged white British celebrity, which these days puts him in a…
From: Impossible Me
The apparent paradoxes emerge from a false theory of mind and language that assumes that freedom can be defined abstractly…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Rob Skiba was a right-wing evangelical preacher who told people that the COVID-19 vaccine was the "mark of the beast".…
From: Pharyngula
Before my email went down, I was engaged in an exchange with an Indonesian student. He wrote to me asking…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_64204" align="alignright" width="150"] Let's get all Manichaean on their asses![/caption] Caroline Matas attended an Answers in Genesis conference, and…
From: Pharyngula
Are you at all curious about what Kent Hovind is up to, or his latest legal travails? Oh boy, it's…
From: Pharyngula
On my previous post, commenter KuraZed asked: What is the collective noun for TERFs? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod? But day before…
From: Impossible Me
Louis CK remains the king -- wow, but that guy destroyed his reputation spectacularly -- but it looks like Dave…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_64265" align="alignright" width="150"] Rev. Carlson & Father Rogan[/caption] I should be used to this by now. I spent decades…
From: Pharyngula
Rosie DiManno is wondering why we can't say 'woman' anymore, which is a rather self-contradictory thing to declare in a…
From: Pharyngula
CN: Descriptions of periods, medical procedures, etc. But hey, if half the world can deal with this, the other half…
From: Affinity
As others on FtB have mentioned, netflix plan to broadcast a bigoted, transphobic and homophobic "comedy special" in the name…
From: Intransitive
Fox News is celebrating 25 years of existence and The Daily Show has created a montage of some of the…
From: Mano Singham
Have you heard about the latest round of anti-Trans hate propaganda the rightwing media are trying to disseminate as fast…
From: Intransitive
I like Jessie Gender. I will heartily recommend her videos in general (though admittedly, I don't much care for the…
From: Impossible Me
This is a topic I find simultaneously fascinating and annoying. There is some evidence that conservatives and progressives- as defined…
From: Oceanoxia
My father's knees are not what they used to be and he also has unstable blood pressure. So he needs…
From: Affinity
No, no, no, this cartoon is wildly inappropriate, unless tomorrow's follow-up is a bloody scene of vengeance as Lio turns…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_1116" align="alignright" width="400"] Will Rep. Sean Casten be denied another term by the Illuminati?[/caption] The New World order claimed…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Editors seem to love to publish waffling centrist apologists for journalistic weaseling, and I hate it. Here's some opinion columnist…
From: Pharyngula
Reason #1: I'm off the prednisone and pain-killers, since the tendinitis agonies have now subsided greatly. I'm just stuck wearing…
From: Pharyngula
The squid were avoiding me in elevators. [caption id="attachment_64328" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Tom Gauld[/caption] Was it my breath? Body odor? Creepy…
From: Pharyngula
When I saw a news story headline "Seattle police bust lucrative Lego trafficking scheme", I assumed that 'Lego' was either…
From: Mano Singham
As mentioned recently, cities around the world are finally accepting the reality that fewer cars and more bicycles is a…
From: Intransitive
I was interviewed by the Secular Humanists of Western Lake Erie. Hey, that's a terrible acronym. (Also available as a…
From: Pharyngula
Breakthrough discovery! [caption id="attachment_64317" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] Give her a raise! Oh, right. <never mind me, I'm over here crying…
From: Pharyngula
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
This is a topic I find simultaneously fascinating and annoying. There is some evidence that conservatives and progressives- as defined…
From: Oceanoxia
This video (transcript) makes a lot of sense, pointing out that how atheists are made is a combination of historical/cultural/emotional…
From: Pharyngula
The Catholic Church seems to be experiencing a few rifts of their own. The current pope has apparently been sending…
From: Pharyngula
In the US and Canada, we've had a tremendous number of cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests -- over…
From: Pharyngula
One of the lesser-publicized objections to taking the covid-19 vaccines is the fear that side effects may appear after many…
From: Mano Singham
It needs a soundtrack, though.
From: Pharyngula
The whole "Columbus discovered The Americas" meme is stupid; rather obviously the people who settled down there 13,000 years before…
From: Stderr
I know nothing about birds but was of course aware of the name John James Audubon who became famous for…
From: Mano Singham
Puerto Rico has become the most vaccinated region in the US and why that may be so is interesting. Puerto…
From: Mano Singham
And it comes from Fox News, of all places, and was made by host Neil Cavuto during an interview with…
From: Mano Singham
I asked my masters in the Freethoughtblogs collective, because there are (I believe) some evolutionary biologists in the house. However,…
From: Stderr
For the last couple of days I've been doing some self-education about the current state of nuclear energy systems and…
From: Stderr
Nearly four years ago, I had a post about quicksand. In it I mused how it used to be a…
From: Mano Singham
Nice image to illustrate a basic cladistic principle. I still get whines from creationists complaining that I said we humans…
From: Pharyngula
I know nothing about birds but was of course aware of the name John James Audubon who became famous for…
From: Mano Singham
Remarkable. Judge Bruce Schroeder is doing a fine job demonstrating the power of systemic bias. https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1453021349694279690 That trial is going…
From: Pharyngula
Those fervent conservative Free Speech Warriors have hit on a new strategy to protect our sacred right to say anything…
From: Pharyngula
For the last couple of days I've been doing some self-education about the current state of nuclear energy systems and…
From: Stderr
Gosh, the people in Washington sure do like to lie. And the supine media (who want to think of themselves…
From: Stderr
On my previous post, commenter KuraZed asked: What is the collective noun for TERFs? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod? But day before…
From: Impossible Me
A few years ago, I was working as a curriculum writer at a non-profit science education research company called TERC.…
From: Oceanoxia
It's Black History Month and the theme this year is Proud To Be. I am Proud of everything that makes…
From: YEMMYnisting
In my recent post about government's manifest failure in the face of climate change, GerrardianOfTitanServer naturally cropped up and started…
From: Stderr
Lacking a better term for it, I mentally think of my deep suspicion regarding civilization as "anti-social" because it is,…
From: Stderr
One of the lesser-publicized objections to taking the covid-19 vaccines is the fear that side effects may appear after many…
From: Mano Singham
Money plays an obscenely large role in American politics. It is not unusual for politicians with a reforming agenda to…
From: Mano Singham
In response to yesterday's post about traffic terrorism, this word salad diatribe appeared in the comments: Would be nice if…
From: Intransitive
I know nothing about birds but was of course aware of the name John James Audubon who became famous for…
From: Mano Singham
This, I was not expecting. One of my friends organized a petition asking John Oliver's Last Week Tonight to do…
From: Intransitive
Puerto Rico has become the most vaccinated region in the US and why that may be so is interesting. Puerto…
From: Mano Singham
And it comes from Fox News, of all places, and was made by host Neil Cavuto during an interview with…
From: Mano Singham
Those fervent conservative Free Speech Warriors have hit on a new strategy to protect our sacred right to say anything…
From: Pharyngula
For the last couple of days I've been doing some self-education about the current state of nuclear energy systems and…
From: Stderr
Gosh, the people in Washington sure do like to lie. And the supine media (who want to think of themselves…
From: Stderr