You might have recently become aware of Todd in the Shadows as the guy who compiled James Somerton's lies, whacking…
From: Great American Satan
The karmic balance of the universe is maintained. Henry Kissinger has finally left us. So has Shane McGowan. Shane was…
From: Stderr
The debate on Wednesday debate involving the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination other than serial sex abuser…
From: Mano Singham
Stay Past accolades faded. Uncertainty reigns. I never thought I’d be here frail, fragile, forgotten. I crave neverending hope. I…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Get up. Take my daughter to school. Go to work. Come home. Sit in front of the TV. Go to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[I posted this yesterday and then soon after seem to have inadvertently overwritten it with the Tuberville post, so I…
From: Mano Singham
cn: Discussion of Holocaust media, while avoiding discussion of the Holocaust itself. Train (2009) is a board game slash art…
From: A Trivial Knot
By Reporter X CosMc’s, the first restaurant to combine Venusian inferno cuisine and chain fast food, will open in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
To no one's surprise, there is going to be a made-for-TV film about serial fabulist and no ex-congressperson George Santos.…
From: Mano Singham
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I was drafted to participate in a debate on my campus last night, and first I have to admit that…
From: Pharyngula
In about an hour I'm strolling over to be sacrificed in this godawful debate. It will be recorded, apparently. I'll…
From: Pharyngula
Get up. Take my daughter to school. Go to work. Come home. Sit in front of the TV. Go to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It sounds contradictory to combine science and their fake, unscientific ark, but that's what Answers in Genesis plans to do.…
From: Pharyngula
I forgot all about this debate. These signs will be going up around campus, so I guess I'm committed. Or…
From: Pharyngula
I've featured Michael Voris several times here -- he was the front man for an organization called the Church Militant,…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a fascinating old photo. [caption id="attachment_71637" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Farmer Olof Öhman (center), who reported the artifact’s discovery in 1898,…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
If you've never heard of David Rives before, you're fortunate: he's a lesser creationist best known for the well-fed, smug,…
From: Pharyngula
Just before the elections in November, I posted about Susanna Gibson, a nurse practitioner running for a seat in the…
From: Mano Singham
The Texas supreme court has put on hold the restraining order that a lower court judge had imposed that would…
From: Mano Singham
The sweeping restrictions on abortion that some states have imposed in the wake of the US Supreme Court invalidating Roe…
From: Mano Singham
The arcane rules that the US senate has set for itself gives enormous powers to even a single senator to…
From: Mano Singham
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Every once in a while, some conservative dweeb gets upset at the fact that liberal women do not like conservative…
From: Pharyngula
My daughter was at her grandpa's house tonight so my husband and I took advantage of our child-free time to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The recent defeats at elections has resulted in the GOP scrambling to find a message on abortion that will placate…
From: Mano Singham
Bill Ackman is a hedge-fund billionaire who was very concerned that an MIT professor allowed a student to promote a…
From: Pharyngula
While the top line election results on Tuesday were good for Democrats, the picture looks even better when you look…
From: Mano Singham
The belt grinder has now all the wheels newly surfaced with micarta and all 30 mm diameter wheels were increased…
From: Affinity
Warning: Old Man Rant coming up. My first flight on an airplane was in 1975. I was flying from Seattle…
From: Pharyngula
content warnings: ultragore, violence against women Dreamed I was a South Asian teenager who was the only boy on a…
From: Great American Satan
Stay Past accolades faded. Uncertainty reigns. I never thought I’d be here frail, fragile, forgotten. I crave neverending hope. I…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It's just getting better and better. Last week, Musk had said that “all” X Premium Plus subscribers would get access…
From: Pharyngula
Since it was revealed that gay youtuber James Somerton was engaging in extensive plagiarism in his videos, many of us…
From: A Trivial Knot
Welcome to Stress City! Yesterday was exams and exams, all very traditional pen-and-paper things, and right now the ugly pile…
From: Pharyngula
Get up. Take my daughter to school. Go to work. Come home. Sit in front of the TV. Go to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I'm sorry, but I was up at 5 putting the finishing touches on two exams I'm giving this afternoon, and…
From: Pharyngula
My tracking wheels made from alu-tubing had a diameter just 30 mm, so the ball bearings were running really rough…
From: Affinity
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
As one of those people who grew up in the 60s, and who tended to ignore the need for trimming…
From: Pharyngula
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
It's mystifying. I'm not a fan of the company, OpenAI -- they're the ones hyping up ChatGPT, they're 49% owned…
From: Pharyngula
I wasn't able to track down the 19th century book that inspired this post, but I suspect the book itself…
From: Great American Satan
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
Trying to find a source for some half-remembered knowledge. This is a real long shot, but I hope one of…
From: Great American Satan
It makes perfect sense. Send tanks and bulldozers and soldiers into Gaza, and then when the panicked, displaced residents end…
From: Pharyngula
I had a heart-related health scare today, and spent most of the day in the hospital getting checked out. Some…
From: Oceanoxia
Every four years, Americans who value human life, and see the ills caused by capitalism, are pushed to vote for…
From: Oceanoxia
It's a journey of increasing uneasiness. A guy in an office is browsing Google Earth, and sees a dark circle…
From: Pharyngula
Well, this is a horror story about coding incompetence. There is this nice gadget that can be controlled from your…
From: Pharyngula
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
What can I say? All that matters in the long run is the population -- vaporizing a few individuals now…
From: Pharyngula
iNaturalist does this thing where they'll give you a graphical summary of your contributions in the past year. Here's mine.…
From: Pharyngula
I was booking flights to Seattle this morning, a fairly short hop away from Minneapolis, when I saw another interesting…
From: Pharyngula
Loeb gets a quick filleting from Rebecca. I know exactly how Loeb would respond, if he were to even notice,…
From: Pharyngula
I guess enough people complained about the stupidity of their article about spider eggs in some dork's toe. They've posted…
From: Pharyngula
I for one would really like to see self-driving cars become an everyday reality, as common as cars are now.…
From: Mano Singham
The Weinersmiths were interviewed by Adam Conover -- it's an hour-long video but it's worth it. They're talking about their…
From: Pharyngula
Gonna use ableist language in this post, obviously, but not as an endorsement, also obviously - I hope. A common…
From: Great American Satan
Some of you may remember the college admissions scandal of a few years ago in which many famous actors and…
From: Mano Singham
Xitter is currently facing an advertiser boycott, all because Musk has been promoting, and contributing to, a culture of racism,…
From: Pharyngula
In the US, wealthy owners of professional sports teams have long practiced the art of extortion on the local citizens…
From: Mano Singham
Chris Rufo strutted into a lecture at a school of business at the University of Texas, which you'd think would…
From: Pharyngula
A video of a man, a former state department official and reportedly an advisor to president Obama, harassing a street…
From: Mano Singham
Jim Irsay, the billionaire owner of an NFL football team, was arrested in 2014 for driving while impaired. In a…
From: Mano Singham
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
As the death toll from the Israeli assault on Gaze rises to horrifying levels, with bombing attacks on even hospitals…
From: Mano Singham
Just before the elections in November, I posted about Susanna Gibson, a nurse practitioner running for a seat in the…
From: Mano Singham
The Texas supreme court has put on hold the restraining order that a lower court judge had imposed that would…
From: Mano Singham
This is how I like to see conservatives represented: briefly, and distilled down to the essence of their lunacy. I…
From: Pharyngula
The debate on Wednesday debate involving the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination other than serial sex abuser…
From: Mano Singham
The sweeping restrictions on abortion that some states have imposed in the wake of the US Supreme Court invalidating Roe…
From: Mano Singham
Now that George Santos has been kicked out of Congress, there is a scramble to fill his seat in the…
From: Mano Singham
I posted on Tuesday about how Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville finally caved and released the holds on all but 11…
From: Mano Singham
The ex-speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has said that he will leave Congress at the end of…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_71807" align="alignright" width="150"] You wouldn't believe how popular this sentiment is on the right-wing/New Age side of the internet.…
From: Pharyngula
To no one's surprise, there is going to be a made-for-TV film about serial fabulist and no ex-congressperson George Santos.…
From: Mano Singham