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
In episode 8 of Creativity for Skeptics, I'll recap week two of The Artist's Way and preview week three. Transcript…
From: Freethinking Ahead
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From: Mano Singham
Two more pendants. I also finished some more shakers, but I didn't take pics. I really hope that this year…
From: Affinity
We've been having some snow over the last week, but on Friday we had snow on the ground AND brilliant…
From: Affinity
I am currently writing a book about being an atheist with a mental illness. I think I’ve mentioned it a…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Earlier, I posted those emails from a creationist telling me that he had a "theory" that united human genomics and…
From: Pharyngula
This post is meant to supplement the next one, which relies heavily on philosophy. I provided a reference in the…
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
Here, I briefly talk about myself as a gateway to the idea that perhaps we should be more tactful in…
From: Jonathan's Musings
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
Professional historian of lynching and mob violence Guy Lancaster has an article up at HistoryNewsNetwork.org that interprets the mob violence…
From: Pervert Justice
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
Zinnia Jones, ex-FtB writer, vlogger and author of Gender Analysis, recently made an innocuous and sarcastic statement on her twitter…
From: Intransitive
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
This post is meant to supplement the next one, which relies heavily on philosophy. I provided a reference in the…
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
Normally I would never repost anything from Taiwan News because it's fourth rate journalism. But the video speaks for itself,…
From: Intransitive
Classes start tomorrow, so I've got a great big calendar filling the screen on my second monitor. This is causing…
From: Pharyngula
I'm hoping most of you keep an eye on the Youtube channel Beau of the Fifth Column, but if you…
From: Oceanoxia
Here, I briefly talk about myself as a gateway to the idea that perhaps we should be more tactful in…
From: Jonathan's Musings
This post is meant to supplement the next one, which relies heavily on philosophy. I provided a reference in the…
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
For me, temptation is something to play with and pleasure is something I choose to pursue every now and then.…
From: Andreas Avester
Pat says he has received word from his god that the Holy Spirit is going to do something dramatic before…
From: Mano Singham
This is a poem from my upcoming book: How do you sleep? Indigo rain cleansing my brain after a…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
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 have been discussing the nature of the trials for the vaccine and the different phases. This article discusses what…
From: Mano Singham
Vaccines, the only light at the end of this grim tunnel called “COVID-19 pandemic.” Now that scientists have developed several…
From: Andreas Avester
Now that I'm retired, I try hard not to be the guy who stands in the back of the room…
From: Stderr
The Monterey Skepticamp conference on January 2, 2021 where I gave a talk was enjoyable and informative, covering quite a…
From: Mano Singham
Now you can! I saw that I can easily visualize the hearts beating in my baby spiders. It made me…
From: Pharyngula
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
I recently got a comment from a reader who was feeling pretty hopeless about our future under climate change. Whether…
From: Oceanoxia
Jordan Klepper has made it his niche to embed himself at rallies where angry Trump supporters gather and talk to…
From: Mano Singham
Trevor Aaronson writes about those people who in the past have been inspired by Trump's rhetoric to commit or plot…
From: Mano Singham
Once he leaves office, Trump will be in a bind. His cult followers love his bellicose rhetoric that targeted and…
From: Mano Singham
Roots Action is an online activist groups that I happily allow to exist in my inbox: I find their messaging…
From: Death to Squirrels
Writing headlines for news items is an art and I am often impressed at how they manage to capture in…
From: Mano Singham
If you asked Jackson Pollock to do a painting representing government computer security, it would look just like every other…
From: Stderr
People may remember how in 1981 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was killed, along with eleven others, by one of his…
From: Mano Singham
Now they're thinking a very silly and unbelievable Nicolas Cage movie (sorry, guys, you can't do near-instant transfers of faces…
From: Pharyngula
It's clear that the only reason fascistbook dumped Cheetolini was because the coup d'etat failed, not because Cheetolini's words and…
From: Intransitive
Wouldn't you know it, this thread would lapse just before Trump was kicked out of office. I wonder if the…
From: Pharyngula
If he wanted Trump, even after everything he has done to undermine the election, could have had a dignified farewell.…
From: Mano Singham
Oh yes, Josh Hawley lost his big book deal when he advocated insurrection, but he didn't have to worry --…
From: Pharyngula