I periodically browse websites about interior design, because I consider beautiful interior an art form, and I am interested in…
From: Andreas Avester
The multi-talented Monty Python alum died yesterday at the age of 77. He had been diagnosed with a rare form…
From: Mano Singham
The utter failure of mainstream media in the US provides a source of never-ending articles as new debacles quickly follow…
From: Mano Singham
I used the last day of my winter break to see Little Women. I hadn't read the book, and if…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Mano Singham
This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2008, over ten years ago! This is the one that…
From: A Trivial Knot
When I saw the title of this article that said Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences,…
From: Mano Singham
The guy on the far right is about to be pointing the barrel of his rifle into the back of…
From: Stderr
(Pearls Before Swine)
From: Mano Singham
Flibberty Bibberty Twitter's engagement scheme Spreads around viral memes And with them, hate Since nothing can redeem This vicious spite…
From: Impossible Me
Looking at my past two months of blogging, I seem to be talking a lot about critical thinking--i.e. how to…
From: A Trivial Knot
Football at the professional level is not an environment that encourages the questioning of any kind of authority - scumbag…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
I'd heard of them, of course, but I was in a state of blessed ignorance so the term just sailed…
From: Pharyngula
That's a fairly standard role for a soldier, really. But, I've been surprised at how little press this incident received.…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_57644" align="alignright" width="150"] Does she look gay to you?[/caption] Now we know why Texas is full of homosexuals: it's…
From: Pharyngula
When I saw the title of this article that said Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences,…
From: Mano Singham
The guy on the far right is about to be pointing the barrel of his rifle into the back of…
From: Stderr
It causes people to do stupid things, like cross lanes and drive into oncoming cars as a "test of faith".…
From: Pharyngula
Since this came up in comments on my previous post, I thought I'd regale readers with the tale of that…
From: Death to Squirrels
...How are you treated as an atheist? [Via From the Ashes of Faith.] I saw the question/post on the sidebar…
From: Death to Squirrels
Every once in a while the following conversation happens in my Twitter feed: Dude: "eating pussy too submissive for me…
From: Affinity
Shiv has come out of retirement with an excellent post on Meghan Murphy. Go read it. I'm a fan, but…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
This story was making the rounds last week, about a study that had found that women who are creeped out…
From: Pharyngula
Clothes are strictly gendered. In stores, some are marketed as only for men while others are marketed as exclusively for…
From: Andreas Avester
I recommended that short story by Isabel Fell, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” to you all because I…
From: Pharyngula
Ayanna Pressley has just released a video through The Root about losing her hair over the last 6 months as…
From: Pervert Justice
Content Warning: Explicit Talk of Sexual Harassment. I'm six foot tall, 250 pounds, AMAB, masc-looking with a big white beard…
From: Great American Satan
This has been crossposted to The Asexual Agenda. "Subversivism", according to Julia Serano, is the practice of extolling certain gender…
From: A Trivial Knot
I had been wondering about what would happen to the Equal Rights Amendment ever since Democrats took control of both…
From: Mano Singham
There's something about the internet mindset - the anonymity (or, I should say, "apparent anonymity") on both sides, that brings…
From: Stderr
I am booked up all day long. This is the price I pay for arranging my schedule so my Fridays…
From: Pharyngula
There was a shooting in Seattle yesterday, at 3rd & Pine, and I said to myself, "I know that place…
From: Pharyngula
I periodically browse websites about interior design, because I consider beautiful interior an art form, and I am interested in…
From: Andreas Avester
The multi-talented Monty Python alum died yesterday at the age of 77. He had been diagnosed with a rare form…
From: Mano Singham
I have been sent an attempt to unify my two obsessions: an octopus is just a wet spider. No. No.…
From: Pharyngula
This letter is purportedly from Human Resources to an employee with an older, unsightly car. I don't know if it's…
From: Pharyngula
Since we discontinued the ads on this site, I (and other bloggers) get lots of promotional crapola from people who…
From: Pharyngula
A pushy salesman who refuses to take “no” for an answer can be immensely annoying. They sometimes try to go…
From: Andreas Avester
I am organized! Now ready to face the spring semester, although I've also learned that I'm apparently up to be…
From: Pharyngula
Shhh. Iliana is on the phone. Do not disturb.
From: Pharyngula
Football at the professional level is not an environment that encourages the questioning of any kind of authority - scumbag…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
[WARNING: sexual abuse] Any group which is generally male-led, maintains strong insider-versus-outsider privacy, and has its own process for adjudicating…
From: Stderr
I don't know how this adds up. So this Minnesota church is struggling with declining membership -- only about 25…
From: Pharyngula
Cardinal Raymond Burke was asked about what to do if a family member brings their gay partner to an event…
From: Pharyngula
When I saw the title of this article that said Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences,…
From: Mano Singham
One good, one bad. "Confessionals" are allegedly absolutes and absolution - You can say anything inside and be "forgiven", but…
From: Intransitive
It has always been absurd that the followers of a faith that believes in an all-powerful deity would think that…
From: Mano Singham
And they must be propitiated. They are ubiquitous in human cultures across time and space because they actually exist. As…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
At the height of the battles over the efforts of intelligent design creationists (IDC) to have their ideas taught as…
From: Mano Singham
Of the major religions, Buddhism carries with it the least amount of supernatural baggage (though not entirely devoid of it)…
From: Mano Singham
WWII was comprehensible as adaptations of the lineages in question. Christ.
I guess Richard Dawkins has limits on where he'll allow the Intellectual Dork Web to take him. This is a…
From: Pharyngula
This is a dramatic video of arctic ice growing and shrinking. https://twitter.com/S_Maryam8/status/1220252304219099137 It was presented at Davos, as if those…
From: Pharyngula
The 19th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas will be held May 24-29 on Île des Embiez…
From: Fierce Roller
Corey S. Powell provides a history of the Hubble-LeMaitre law and the efforts to pin down a precise value of…
From: Mano Singham
After Chad and Yara hit it off and mated, I started shuffling Chad off to meet other spider ladies. First…
From: Pharyngula
When I saw the title of this article that said Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences,…
From: Mano Singham
This story was making the rounds last week, about a study that had found that women who are creeped out…
From: Pharyngula
In science, collective judgments by credible experts that have passed through institutional filters are what make up reliable knowledge. These…
From: Mano Singham
I was not going to go into the university today. It is miserable outside -- bitter cold, stiff winds, piles…
From: Pharyngula
I'm back! I survived my trek to the lab! It wasn't as bad as I made it sound -- the…
From: Pharyngula
Newsweek has released a new poll that finds that Bernie Sanders has surged to the top and is the Democratic…
From: Mano Singham
WWII was comprehensible as adaptations of the lineages in question. Christ.
I guess Richard Dawkins has limits on where he'll allow the Intellectual Dork Web to take him. This is a…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_57671" align="alignright" width="150"] Never forget.[/caption] Richard Jewell was a security guard at the 1996 Summer Olympics, who discovered pipe…
From: Pharyngula
Let me say right off the bat that I don't think newspaper endorsements matter that much anymore. Given the proliferation…
From: Mano Singham
The good readers of FtB probably are aware of this, but MLK was skeptical of capitalism, against US imperialism, and…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Flibberty Bibberty Twitter's engagement scheme Spreads around viral memes And with them, hate Since nothing can redeem This vicious spite…
From: Impossible Me
Ayanna Pressley has just released a video through The Root about losing her hair over the last 6 months as…
From: Pervert Justice
From [youtube]@3:46 The right, at this point, is simply suicidal. It's not a question of going too far. The right…
From: Stderr
I had been wondering about what would happen to the Equal Rights Amendment ever since Democrats took control of both…
From: Mano Singham
I am impressed with this detailed dissection of the recent collapse of the Romance Writers of America. Not only does…
From: Pharyngula
Newsweek has released a new poll that finds that Bernie Sanders has surged to the top and is the Democratic…
From: Mano Singham
Our preznit has announced placing more travel bans on various countries. Why, I don't know. What does this accomplish for…
From: Pharyngula
Naomi Klein describes how she overcame her initial infuriated reaction to Hillary Clinton's savage attack on Bernie Sanders, the news…
From: Mano Singham
This is a dramatic video of arctic ice growing and shrinking. https://twitter.com/S_Maryam8/status/1220252304219099137 It was presented at Davos, as if those…
From: Pharyngula
[WARNING: sexual abuse] Any group which is generally male-led, maintains strong insider-versus-outsider privacy, and has its own process for adjudicating…
From: Stderr
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says something that I too have been saying for ages and should be repeated over and over again.…
From: Mano Singham
It looks like Hillary Clinton is determined to inject herself into the election campaign and in the most negative way.…
From: Mano Singham
The utter failure of mainstream media in the US provides a source of never-ending articles as new debacles quickly follow…
From: Mano Singham
That's a fairly standard role for a soldier, really. But, I've been surprised at how little press this incident received.…
From: Stderr
by Joe Giamanco, Jaime Olson and Village Trustee Robert Jaskiewicz On Thursday, January 16, 2020, for the final time in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler