The frightening and false information that is being propagated by anti-vaxxers has led many people to either not vaccinate their…
From: Mano Singham
https://youtu.be/NPnCBe0cLos SEGA is going fully mobile with the launch of SEGA Forever, an app store collection that allows nostalgic gamers…
From: Affinity
This month we review Yes' 1972 seminal album "Close to the Edge" and Chris reveals why it's such a personal…
From: Bi Any Means
Last year I went to LaveCon, and I'm going again this year. It's a small conference held in Northampton, devoted…
From: Stderr
[CONTENT NOTE: graphic image of child's arm showing injuries after a squirrel attack.] I read with alarm a terrifying story…
From: Death to Squirrels
A new comedy called The Little Hours and set in 1349 is based on a book I read as a…
From: Pervert Justice
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling captures well the absurdity of the idea that health care should be left to the so-called 'free…
From: Mano Singham
Malevolent Adjective. 1: having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred. 2: productive of harm…
From: Affinity
https://youtu.be/vmi-MtP969M The Trumpholes are so very upset over Moby's latest, claiming it's breeding hate and terrorists because, y'know, it's not…
From: Affinity
Art, as a tool of life and love, is available to all of us. We make use of it as…
From: Odgraphix
Earlier in the month, I had read about the christian wailing and gnashing of teeth over McDonald's having the awful…
From: Affinity
I was asked by Paulogia to say a few words about Answers in Genesis's news story about my visit to…
From: Pharyngula
This is a fantastically good video by ContraPoints on free speech. It's basically a dissection of what "free speech" actually…
From: Pharyngula
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
Mike Huckabee has been sued for illegally robocalling to plug his movie. It doesn't surprise me that he's a venal…
From: Pharyngula
Hume's gap, Hume's law, Hume's guillotine, the "is-ought" problem, the naturalistic fallacy--they're all phrases for the same observation: That a…
From: Against the Grain
In the past week, a Canadian law regulating the exercise of the right to medical assistance in dying (that right…
From: Pervert Justice
Or he would be, if he weren't an inanimate corpse that had ceased to be. Erdogan is continuing his corruption…
From: Pharyngula
I am almost never asked, "Right Reverend Crip Dyke, if some community leader is going to be a self-professed Christian,…
From: Pervert Justice
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I've been silent for a while. I intimated that I needed…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
She has a fine statement on their fundamental dishonesty. Now, he and his followers are acting as if me publicly…
From: Pharyngula
I first realized I was bisexual in high school but didn’t come out until fifteen years later because I thought…
From: Bi Any Means
By Reporter X Ten Jewish lesbians — from the solar system of the Lost Tribes of Israel — were kicked…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
On June 15th, 2017, the Senate finally voted on Bill C-16 after nine months of stalling. It passed, overwhelmingly, and…
From: Against the Grain
I went out for a drink stroll before the crushing crowds completely take over the neighborhood. It was pretty fucking…
From: Death to Squirrels
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
Robert Oscar Lopez truly hates Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar. It's symptomatic of every wrong thing in the world!…
From: Affinity
I've always been a fan of gender quotas. Think about it: sexism is largely unconscious and subtle, which means it…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
It's a beautiful day in NYC. Sunny skies all day, with a predicted high of 85F. If you're celebrating Pride…
From: Death to Squirrels
Hume's gap, Hume's law, Hume's guillotine, the "is-ought" problem, the naturalistic fallacy--they're all phrases for the same observation: That a…
From: Against the Grain
As Dan Geer once said, "We all have limited time; thank you for yours." I've been doing this for a…
From: Stderr
To get to Lavecon, I took the midlands train from London/Euston up toward Birmingham, and got off at Northampton. On…
From: Stderr
All of us have had the experience of having to deal with someone who just rubs you the wrong way.…
From: Mano Singham
I will be in a live hangout with PZ in a few hours, at noon CDT. I'm just going to…
From: A Trivial Knot
Another hangout today? Yes! I'll finding out what Dr Sarah of the Geeky Humanist is up to at 4pm Central…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to be hanging out with Siggy of A Trivial Knot today at noon Central time. Here's Siggy's blurb:…
From: Pharyngula
Anita Sarkeesian was at a convention of youtubers this week, which sounds like a kind of hell. It's not that…
From: Pharyngula
I like to document uses of the name "Volvox" that don't refer to the green algal genus, for example Volvox the…
From: Fierce Roller
Not for sensitive stomachs, but if you're interested in what your pet will do if you happen to up and…
From: Pharyngula
Content notice: Satirical depictions of Fascists. Reminder: This is a work of fiction. Organizers of the Village of Bolingbrook Annual…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
When I came across this article by Candida Moss and Jessica Baron with the title Where in your body is…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X Ten Jewish lesbians — from the solar system of the Lost Tribes of Israel — were kicked…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
A friend of mine made me watch this; I had had too much wine, perhaps, and really couldn't believe I…
From: Stderr
Yesterday was Focus on the Family's 40th anniversary. I remember 1977 well enough, and I remember the low stirrings of…
From: Affinity
I am almost never asked, "Right Reverend Crip Dyke, if some community leader is going to be a self-professed Christian,…
From: Pervert Justice
It is really not surprising how fundamentalism is the same irrespective of the religion because at root it requires the…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_18919" align="alignnone" width="605"] The Obscene Kiss, an illustration of witches kissing the Devil's anus from Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium…
From: Affinity
A new comedy called The Little Hours and set in 1349 is based on a book I read as a…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_18874" align="alignnone" width="825"] Pride Leadership AwardNavy Lt. Cmdr. Damita Zweiback presents a Department of Defense Pride Military Leadership Award…
From: Affinity
The frightening and false information that is being propagated by anti-vaxxers has led many people to either not vaccinate their…
From: Mano Singham
I first realized I was bisexual in high school but didn’t come out until fifteen years later because I thought…
From: Bi Any Means
I previously pointed out that Casey Luskin's "false, straw-man [version] of ID" bears a striking resemblance to intelligent design advocate…
From: Fierce Roller
Existential Comics is... a bit of a weird read. Crudely drawn, a bit obsessed with nihilism, it nonetheless hits some…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
It's just too scary, and radioactive materials are just too weird. [caption id="attachment_35006" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The metal rods in the…
From: Pharyngula
We're making the planet a better place for cephalopods. It also helps that humans are busily destroying teleost populations. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
"NASA Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Pit Photographed on Mars" - like a trout to a clickbait fly, I rise and…
From: Stderr
It is really not surprising how fundamentalism is the same irrespective of the religion because at root it requires the…
From: Mano Singham
It's weird. I don't know why. [caption id="attachment_34988" align="aligncenter" width="500"] PhD Comics[/caption] Maybe it's because I find commercial interruptions infuriating.…
From: Pharyngula
As I mentioned previously, I have a chapter in the newly published book Biological Individuality, Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives. The…
From: Fierce Roller
I keep getting asked to explain my position on the mess at Evergreen College. I've abstained so far because I…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X Ten Jewish lesbians — from the solar system of the Lost Tribes of Israel — were kicked…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
On Friday June 23, 2017, Ari Melber, sitting in for Lawrence O'Donnell on, facilitated the best and most extensive examination…
From: COBS Web
In the past week, a Canadian law regulating the exercise of the right to medical assistance in dying (that right…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_18960" align="alignnone" width="1160"] Christian Picciolini, founder of the group Life After Hate, is pictured. | AP Photo.[/caption] If there…
From: Affinity
Suddenly, all these videos of the Philando Castile shooting are being released after the murder cop got acquitted. This latest…
From: Pharyngula
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, much to my frustration, seems to be coated in the same Teflon as the country itself,…
From: Against the Grain
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I've been silent for a while. I intimated that I needed…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
[caption id="attachment_18938" align="alignnone" width="800"] Image from the scene where an off-duty officer was shot by a fellow cop in St.…
From: Affinity
I know it's all the fashion, in some circles, to belittle the "mainstream media" for being hard on Donald Trump…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_19085" align="alignnone" width="720"] Hrag Vartanian.[/caption] Oh, the TSA has come up with yet another of their unbelievably stupid ideas,…
From: Affinity
Robert Mackey writes that Theresa May in order to have a working majority in parliament has bought the allegiance of…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_19056" align="alignnone" width="800"] Al Franken at The BookExpo2017 in New York City, 6/1/17. CREDIT: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx.[/caption] Getting…
From: Affinity
Insufficient specification, though. That defines every day.
From: Pharyngula
On June 15th, 2017, the Senate finally voted on Bill C-16 after nine months of stalling. It passed, overwhelmingly, and…
From: Against the Grain
Ranum's turn! Old blog post first. Joking aside, Putin’s right: the ‘attribution’ to Russia was very very poor compared to…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Thanks to Cory Doctorow I came across this short but powerful speech given yesterday by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn…
From: Mano Singham
On Friday June 23, 2017, Ari Melber, sitting in for Lawrence O'Donnell on, facilitated the best and most extensive examination…
From: COBS Web
Marcus Ranum discusses the status of the war in Afghanistan and the ever-enduring belief of the military that seems to…
From: Mano Singham