Oh, souls. There are those who are insistent that souls are real, in spite of them being intangible and invisible.…
From: Affinity
That's the myth, anyway. Repressive governments will stir up a rising of protest music and street art and great poetry…
From: Pharyngula
I find stuff on the dark underbelly of the internets, where I sometimes labor to clean the tubes. "What a…
From: Stderr
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From: Mano Singham
Narcisse (Narcissus). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées. {AD}
From: Affinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd8Dnz72C1Q Destination Earth. A not so charming Petroleum propaganda piece from 1956. Produced at the height of the Cold War,…
From: Affinity
I am very grateful to be hale and hearty on this occasion of my 42nd Birthday. The past has…
From: YEMMYnisting
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…
From: YEMMYnisting
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From: Affinity
My guest for today is Armin Navabi, ex-Muslim and founder of Atheist Republic. He’s also the author of the book…
From: Bi Any Means
Self-styled "prophet" Mark Taylor is at it again, this time loaded with all kinds of war vernacular, made to appeal…
From: Affinity
I got some spam this morning from "Natural Health Choice", which you can guess from the name is not going…
From: Pharyngula
I see that Donald Trump tried to declare that opioid abuse is an Emergency. To be fair, it's a problem;…
From: Stderr
David Silverman of American Atheists and Andrew Copson of the International Humanist and Ethical Union have issued a statement on…
From: Pharyngula
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…
From: Affinity
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
Nothing to see here, folks: 1963 The Great Breen Boondoggle: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly)…
From: Against the Grain
As I have said before (a number of times) in this series, a principle component of fascist policing is an…
From: Pervert Justice
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
Bolingbrook police officers peacefully escorted a were-skunk from the 8/15/17 Village Board meeting. Mayor Roger Claar ordered the male were-skunk…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I am very grateful to be hale and hearty on this occasion of my 42nd Birthday. The past has…
From: YEMMYnisting
Hey, I've seen this guy around town. Nice way to become the most famous guy in Morris.
From: Pharyngula
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…
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
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
Self-styled "prophet" Mark Taylor is at it again, this time loaded with all kinds of war vernacular, made to appeal…
From: Affinity
[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
[caption id="attachment_20941" align="alignnone" width="1136"] Screencapture.[/caption] There's been some very interesting research happening in Chicago, and it turns out that trees…
From: Affinity
Mano Singham is unenthused about the eclipse. Same here. It's neat, would be an interesting phenomenon to observe, but I'm…
From: Pharyngula
Recently I wrote a piece about The AI That Will Kill Us All [stderr] and hypothesized one thing (which my…
From: Stderr
There seems to be a lot of excitement about the solar eclipse that will pass over the US on Monday…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_20910" align="alignnone" width="765"] A depiction of a 15th-century bed. Public Domain.[/caption] Blankets, sheets. Most people have trouble sleeping without…
From: Affinity
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
[caption id="attachment_20952" align="alignnone" width="1935"] 150 Years of Iconography, courtesy of Southern Poverty Law Center. Sourced from their story, Whose Heritage?…
From: Affinity
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/896523232098078720 Barack Obama: "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background…
From: Affinity
Bob Vulfov has some very serious words for some very serious people: Thank you very much for coming in today…
From: Against the Grain
[caption id="attachment_20941" align="alignnone" width="1136"] Screencapture.[/caption] There's been some very interesting research happening in Chicago, and it turns out that trees…
From: Affinity
I hate this study already. Some psychologists attempted to develop a psychological profile of the alt-right by interviewing them and…
From: Pharyngula
Nothing to see here, folks: 1963 The Great Breen Boondoggle: Walter Breen excluded from Worldcon as he was judged (correctly)…
From: Against the Grain
[CONTENT NOTE: casual ableism] Our troll story today begins as they almost always do: with an unprompted comment on an…
From: Death to Squirrels
I barely remember it myself, but I do remember a machine that kills fascists. And now here's a statement from…
From: Pharyngula
I haven't posted about Nazi invasion and terrorist attack in Charlottesville because I'm feeling... well... You can easily see my…
As I have said before (a number of times) in this series, a principle component of fascist policing is an…
From: Pervert Justice
This may seem like a strange question because of course the Nazis hated Jews, enough that they set about systematically…
From: Mano Singham
It's another mass resignation: the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities has just dumped Trump in an excellent "Dear…
From: Pharyngula
Bob Vulfov has some very serious words for some very serious people: Thank you very much for coming in today…
From: Against the Grain
Back in the day, one of the strongest clues pointing away from the Kremlin came from a US intelligence agency…
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From: Mano Singham
Now that Donald Trump has openly showed his neo-Nazi and white supremacist sympathies, this has put the Republican leadership in…
From: Mano Singham
In 2017, that is. But for now, conservative leaders' efforts to push the "bathroom bill" through the special legislative session…
From: Freethinking Ahead
Alberta's political landscape has been shifting rapidly in the past few months, and I just haven't had time to write…
From: Against the Grain
HBO showed a tightly edited video by Vice News of the sequence of events that unfolded at Charlottesville over the…
From: Mano Singham
I have been busy these last few days with having family members as houseguests and also doing some traveling with…
From: Mano Singham