Incantation Noun: a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of…
From: Affinity
Held on 9th July, 2017, I can honestly say UK Black pride, 2017 was superb fun! The entertainment, atmosphere and…
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I won't provide you with a tedium of links because if you're following along at home with US politics and…
From: Pervert Justice
This beatboxer got my hitherto dead ovaries coming alive and jumping for joy when I stumbled on his street performance…
From: YEMMYnisting
Cool trivia of the day: On August 14, 1976, Stiff Records released Nick Lowe's "So It Goes". It was the…
From: Intransitive
So, I have to admit up front that I'm just not a fan of Van Halen. But it's pretty much…
Short form: I wish there were more thrillers that had such great lighting, interesting characters, adult plot, and which did…
From: Stderr
If wikipedia is at all credible (it's not), the list of famous left handed musicians is lengthy. Other sites also…
From: Intransitive
This is brilliant at so many levels: [caption id="attachment_5885" align="aligncenter" width="750"] [source][/caption]The artist, Pejac's instagram feed is [here]. Delacroix's painting…
From: Stderr
This is just odd. From WorldNewsDailyReport, a clickbait fake news site (hence no link), comes a story a lot of…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_20884" align="alignnone" width="749"] Screengrab.[/caption] The Jefferson Gathering, a group of fanatical, conservative christians who have a lock on a…
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No man on earth is truly interested in sustaining error; sooner or later it is compelled to surrender to truth.…
From: Stderr
Becky N. sent me this: There is a facebook group devoted to trolley problem memes. [fb] I am not going…
From: Stderr
"Cursing" is a left-over of the jewish restrictions on saying "Yahweh" [caption id="attachment_611" align="alignright" width="195"] Is this the right room…
From: Stderr
Yvette d'Entremont might have pissed off David Avocado Wolfe with her article, DAVID AVOCADO WOLFE IS THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN…
From: Pharyngula
My guest for today is writer and activist Greta Christina. She’s the author of several books including “Why are You…
From: Bi Any Means
The Vatican has fired shots across the bow, aiming at the heart of christian conservatives, and their current rule over…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_20747" align="alignnone" width="800"] Queen Jezebel Being Punished by Jehu, Andrea Celesti.[/caption] Lance Wallnau is getting worse, in every respect.…
From: Affinity
There are some things I think I've said a few thousand times to try and break through the certainty of…
From: Pharyngula
My inestimable colleague Crip Dyke reminded me that I've never justified the vocabulary I use in my writings on trans…
From: Against the Grain
Cheesy singing, dirty dancing and that moment revellers jumped into the Trafalgar square fountain; it is fair to say I…
From: YEMMYnisting
I called it a "persistent, sustained, and uncoordinated gaslighting," this idea that readily observable bodily characteristics necessarily trumps a person's…
From: Against the Grain
A couple years ago, I made this linkspam on call-out culture. "Call-out culture" refers to a pattern in social justice…
From: A Trivial Knot
Following up with the previous post on changes to the United Kingdom's process for Gender Recognition Certificates, Ezra describes one…
From: Against the Grain
This is a doozy of a canard that just won't die. It's how idiots who don't understand evolution, but know…
From: Pharyngula
Commenter sonofrojblake was prevented by a glitch from posting this useful bit of information as to why same-sex marriage has…
From: Mano Singham
While James Damore is out virtue signaling with the alt-right (he's already been interviewed by Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux,…
From: Pharyngula
I got into a lengthy facebook flail-a-thon [here] with some real live biological determinists, last night. Seriously! I had allowed myself…
From: Stderr
My guest for today is writer and activist Greta Christina. She’s the author of several books including “Why are You…
From: Bi Any Means
I have been receiving complaints from readers and other bloggers for months -- and recent posts praising Fox News and…
From: Pharyngula
This beatboxer got my hitherto dead ovaries coming alive and jumping for joy when I stumbled on his street performance…
From: YEMMYnisting
Today has been interesting (in the sense of "may you live in interesting times"). Human error at one of Taiwan's…
From: Intransitive
© C. Ford. It seems I have a never ending supply of useless CDs, but they do have a use!…
From: Affinity
You can count on coal 24/7. You can’t always depend on the sun!
The coming eclipse is a sign of the unreliability of solar power, I guess. Kentuckians are planning to protest. If…
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Bolingbrook’s Antifa, an anti-fascist group, announced that it now has a Leopard 2A5 tank. [caption id="attachment_250" align="alignright" width="500"] Alleged photo…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I'm fine, it's my wireless that experienced sudden death, and left me stranded. My abrupt disappearance from the world didn't…
From: Affinity
Mass manufacturing is a major problem for left handed people. Very few items outside of musical instruments and sporting goods…
From: Intransitive
Recognizing ableism in language is important. There is no "default and alternative," and language should never infer, refer or defer…
From: Intransitive
Buying products for left handed people is difficult in a world of right handed privilege. There are fewer disabled people…
From: Intransitive
[caption id="attachment_20884" align="alignnone" width="749"] Screengrab.[/caption] The Jefferson Gathering, a group of fanatical, conservative christians who have a lock on a…
From: Affinity
No man on earth is truly interested in sustaining error; sooner or later it is compelled to surrender to truth.…
From: Stderr
"Cursing" is a left-over of the jewish restrictions on saying "Yahweh" [caption id="attachment_611" align="alignright" width="195"] Is this the right room…
From: Stderr
Robert Jeffress is an evangelical pastor who has been a steadfast supporter of Donald Trump and even said during the…
From: Mano Singham
The Vatican has fired shots across the bow, aiming at the heart of christian conservatives, and their current rule over…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_20747" align="alignnone" width="800"] Queen Jezebel Being Punished by Jehu, Andrea Celesti.[/caption] Lance Wallnau is getting worse, in every respect.…
From: Affinity
Islamic mosques separate people by gender and assign inferior roles to women. Majority Islamic nations and many orthodox Muslims have…
From: Mano Singham
Jim Bakker, the disgraced former televangelist who reinvented himself as an End Times prepper pitchman following his time in prison,…
From: Affinity
Oh, Michele Bachmann. She's working very hard to get back into a spotlight again, any spotlight. As usual, she'll say…
From: Affinity
Almost on cue after my post yesterday on how ambitious politicians in the US have to fake religiosity, I came…
From: Mano Singham
Cassini's Grand Finale... The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in…
I follow Uncommon Descent to keep up with what the cdesign proponentsists are up to, even though I've been banned…
From: Fierce Roller
The sequel is going to go a bit dark: this is a deep ocean sponge. It's dark and ominous, and…
From: Pharyngula
Last week, Mary Beard was getting sneered at because she agreed that the Roman Empire was ethnically diverse, and that…
From: Pharyngula
I have been invited to give a talk on the topic of genius on Friday, August 18th. The talk is…
From: Mano Singham
This poor beetle was probably just minding his own business before a gigantic flying terror swooped down, stabbed him with…
From: Fierce Roller
I have always been intrigued by optical illusions, seeing them as providing fascinating insights into how the brain works as…
From: Mano Singham
The Life You Can Save's [1] Facebook page recently shared an article that asks the question: does poverty show up in…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Content Notice: Trans-antagonistic nonsense of many varieties. Miranda Yardley has, much to my despair, started clogging the "transgender" tag on…
From: Against the Grain
Oh, let us count the ways... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is requesting information on…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Quietly, in the dead of night, the city of Baltimore took down their confederate monuments. A statue of Robert E.…
From: Pharyngula
My inestimable colleague Crip Dyke reminded me that I've never justified the vocabulary I use in my writings on trans…
From: Against the Grain
He had showed up at the protest With a banner and a shield With a sense of righteous anger And…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
Held on 9th July, 2017, I can honestly say UK Black pride, 2017 was superb fun! The entertainment, atmosphere and…
From: YEMMYnisting
I won't provide you with a tedium of links because if you're following along at home with US politics and…
From: Pervert Justice
Cheesy singing, dirty dancing and that moment revellers jumped into the Trafalgar square fountain; it is fair to say I…
From: YEMMYnisting
Here you go: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/897116115935133696 SCOOP: "Weev", the system administrator for The Daily Stormer is planning on sending Nazis to #HeatherHeyer…
From: Affinity
So this is what happens when you confront nazis. They collapse. Good grief. It's just kind of a fun idea,…
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From: Oceanoxia
Pearce Tefft recently wrote an open letter to his son. The other day, PZ posted about the fanatical racist relative…
From: Affinity
I have been busy these last few days with having family members as houseguests and also doing some traveling with…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote a piece back in November of last year, about "Inner Dynamics of Revolutions." [stderr] And, as I watch…
From: Stderr
He had showed up at the protest With a banner and a shield With a sense of righteous anger And…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
I won't provide you with a tedium of links because if you're following along at home with US politics and…
From: Pervert Justice
I go off the grid for a little R&R, and I return to this? White supremacist terrorism and imminent nuclear…
From: Death to Squirrels
I was about to type up a bit of a follow-up to this post, shoring up the titular claim that…
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From: Oceanoxia
In the process of researching my last post, I stumbled on some excellent sources which didn't fit but are worth…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
It made me laugh to see Jason Kessler, organizer of the Charlottesville hate march, get heckled so fiercely he had…
From: Pharyngula
Bolingbrook’s Antifa, an anti-fascist group, announced that it now has a Leopard 2A5 tank. [caption id="attachment_250" align="alignright" width="500"] Alleged photo…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler