Some people don't get it. They watch Goodfellas and want to grow up to be Henry Hill. They read Lolita…
From: Pharyngula
He does an excellent analysis of the shameless lies being used to push this monstrous bill. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Vala tries to decide where to get into trouble next, and away from the pesky camera. © C. Ford. {AD}
From: Affinity
Mark Sandman was born September 24, 1952, and would have been 65 today. I say would have been because he…
From: Intransitive
I'm kind of in to how undifferentiated tissue becomes mature and acquires a specific morphology, so I liked this series…
From: Pharyngula
There will be a town hall style debate on the new health care bill on Monday at 9:00pm on CNN.…
From: Mano Singham
Donald Trump seems to think that there is such a country. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
It turns out that even the major players in the health industry don't like the Graham-Cassidy bill. Backers of the…
From: Mano Singham
Oh... *ehem*... my apologies... So it's Rosh Hashanna, the Jewish new year. The year is 5778. For two days, we…
Jimmy Kimmel excoriates the senator from Louisiana who is the co-author of the so-called Graham-Cassidy health care bill that the…
From: Mano Singham
Oh, Jim Bakker is going a bit nuts with his yuck in a bucket, insisting that everyone buy, and that…
From: Affinity
In case any of my readers are interested in doing that (and some of you are! I get your email…
From: Pharyngula
The Guardian's subtitle captures the whole story: T-shirt by film-maker Roger Young polarises online commenters, with some praising gesture and…
From: Stderr
Pity poor Jon Del Arroz! The sad far-right science fiction author first came to my attention a short while ago…
From: Pharyngula
My guest for today is Dr. Anthony Pinn. He is a professor, author, and public intellectual working at the intersections…
From: Bi Any Means
As a measure of the degeneration of our public discourse, all you have to do is turn on your TV,…
From: Pharyngula
I’m relatively new to atheist/secular conferences, but the ones I’ve attended have been great. Last year’s Women in Secularism conference was a…
From: Bi Any Means
After playing an unbelievably bad atheist philosophy professor in God's Not Dead, Kevin Sorbo is going to stretch his range…
From: Pharyngula
Peter Boghossian blurted this out tonight. https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/910649608145006592 There are no right angles in nature, yet no one says right angles…
From: Pharyngula
Right Wing Watch has a comprehensive rundown of all those backing Roy Moore. In case you don't remember Moore, here…
From: Affinity
File this under "I am so surprised by this news I literally died." In the grand scheme of Women Having…
From: Against the Grain
A shocking dialogue: -Shiv
From: Against the Grain
The thing about TERFs is that, as a trans woman, I cannot play optics with them. Many TERF theories craft elaborate narratives…
From: Against the Grain
Last week the latest UK suicide statistics reminded us of the grim reality of the depths of teenage despair. Out…
The construction of menstruation as an "unclean" process is an important cornerstone in misogyny, as it provides the sexist asshat…
From: Against the Grain
Now will you believe me? I keep saying that sex and sex determination are far more complex than just whether…
From: Pharyngula
Lydia Bilton (nor her editor, for that matter) couldn't even make it one article without contradicting herself. An expert gets…
From: Against the Grain
A graphic designer, Katherine Young, redesigned a girls' magazine cover to highlight the implicit assumptions we all tend to make…
From: Pharyngula
When we last signal boosted My Chacha is Gay, we found another example of the unenviable position between white progressivism and Islam…
From: Against the Grain
I've never written my name in the snow. I've never participated in a competition to see how far I can…
From: Pharyngula
That title wasn't meant to be flippant. It's been a busy week in crime news, especially during "ghost month" where…
From: Intransitive
Good news! The world isn't ending today. The absence of an onrushing Niburu has compelled the original false prophet to…
From: Pharyngula
Is Sithrak planning to end the world on Sept 23? [express] No! Sithrak is going to fuck everyone up when…
From: Stderr
It's that time of year, and we're watching the DNR for optimal fall color watching. Stevens County has a ways…
From: Pharyngula
The University of Minnesota, Morris biology discipline has been approved to fill a tenure track line in biology. Here's the…
From: Pharyngula
A recent fix resulted in a glitch - comments in open threads are no longer showing in the recent comments…
From: Affinity
It should also start with a "K". You may have heard that James Damore is continuing to discredit himself further…
From: Pharyngula
At least, that's the lesson I take away from this. https://twitter.com/DavidASkelton/status/910345478394408960
From: Pharyngula
I've decided to be brave and open up the comments a bit. If I did it right, anyone who has…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
A nobleman went up to the Zen Master Hakuin and asked him “What happens to the enlightened man at death?”…
From: Mano Singham
Edward Feser has responded to my critique of the press release about his new book that I used as the…
From: Mano Singham
A new study finds that atheists behave more fairly toward Christians than Christians behave toward atheists. While this may be…
From: Mano Singham
Right Wing Watch has a comprehensive rundown of all those backing Roy Moore. In case you don't remember Moore, here…
From: Affinity
One of Donald Trump's most potent messages in the last election was his vision, given in almost apocalyptic language, about…
From: Mano Singham
Every national religion has a tendency to make man vain, unsocial, and wicked; the first step toward humanity is to…
From: Stderr
When we last signal boosted My Chacha is Gay, we found another example of the unenviable position between white progressivism and Islam…
From: Against the Grain
Two atheists Seth Andrews and Matt Dillahunty visited Ken Ham's theme park the Ark Encounter in Kentucky and provide a…
From: Mano Singham
Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about our current atmosphere of normalizing bigots from the White House on…
One of the paradoxical signs that god does not exist is how religious apologists keep trying to prove that s/he…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_21901" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Long live evolution, Yehrin Tong.[/caption] Dave Daubenmire is frothing again, this time about things he doesn't…
From: Affinity
Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (CWB) is concerned with earthquakes - or rather, the lack of them in 2017. (As if…
From: Intransitive
The government of Chiayi county, Taiwan, is offering a (modest) reward for the capture of brown anoles, a species of…
From: Intransitive
Warning: Sexual practices, bodily fluids There's an old USENET dictum: "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_22141" align="alignnone" width="1500"] A shipwreck from the medieval period, of a type known from literature but never previously seen,…
From: Affinity
Wow. Every person on the planet saw one version or another of this "Octopolis" story and had to send it…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Otto is running for governor of Minnesota, and she has some good, progressive ideas for improving our energy self-reliance.…
From: Pharyngula
They do, and they always have. Here's an interesting way to illustrate that: make reconstructions of modern animals as if…
From: Pharyngula
One interesting fact about electrons is that they are all literally identical. And I really do mean completely and literally…
From: A Trivial Knot
I know I'm late. I got about 30 minutes of sleep last night and I had work at 12pm, so...…
Oh, my. Some researchers have discovered that pigments in tattoo inks can, over the years, wander out of the tattoo…
From: Pharyngula
As I've mentioned, I loathe U.S. men’s sportsball with the burning intensity of ten thousand suns. #yesallmenssportsball. The reasons are…
From: Death to Squirrels
File this under "I am so surprised by this news I literally died." In the grand scheme of Women Having…
From: Against the Grain
Like many residents, we were shocked to learn today about the vandalizing of Mayor Roger Claar’s home. His house was…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Contrary to popular belief among certain YouTubers, I’m a social justice warrior who actually loves free speech. In fact, the…
From: Bi Any Means
When news first broke out of the mass-arrest at J20 (Trump's inauguration), I expected a non-specific blanket charge as a…
From: Against the Grain
The thing about TERFs is that, as a trans woman, I cannot play optics with them. Many TERF theories craft elaborate narratives…
From: Against the Grain
My guest for today is Dr. Anthony Pinn. He is a professor, author, and public intellectual working at the intersections…
From: Bi Any Means
One interesting fact about electrons is that they are all literally identical. And I really do mean completely and literally…
From: A Trivial Knot
If there was ever an argument for abolishing Canada's appointed Senate, Lynn Beyak is it. After defending the first genocide…
From: Against the Grain
Patrik Hermannson is a young Swedish man who went undercover to explore the American alt-right movement. He works with a…
From: Pharyngula
Gosh. I was going to say you were obviously Nazis because of the stupidity and self-loathing, but then I saw…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump has suddenly started waging a war on sports figures, taking aim at those who have started the practice…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_35992" align="alignright" width="129"] We can keep this one.[/caption]Nature published a catastrophically bad editorial a while back, in which an…
From: Pharyngula
He does an excellent analysis of the shameless lies being used to push this monstrous bill. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
In his 80-minute speech last night at the rally in support of Luther Strange in the Alabama US senate primary…
From: Mano Singham
The Guardian's subtitle captures the whole story: T-shirt by film-maker Roger Young polarises online commenters, with some praising gesture and…
From: Stderr
Like many residents, we were shocked to learn today about the vandalizing of Mayor Roger Claar’s home. His house was…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
In the war of words between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, we have to declare that Kim…
From: Mano Singham
There will be a town hall style debate on the new health care bill on Monday at 9:00pm on CNN.…
From: Mano Singham
Bernie Sanders delivered what was supposed to be a major foreign policy address on Wednesday at Westminster College in Fulton,…
From: Mano Singham