I was recently watching the TV series Marple (2013) based on the stories of Agatha Christie and one episode A…
From: Mano Singham
This coming Sunday is Mother's Day and it will also be the Freethought Blogs Mother's Day Fundraising Anthology. Richard Carrier's…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I am fond of the card game bridge, growing up in a bridge playing family and returning to it in…
From: Mano Singham
The rapid development of the vaccines to prevent covid-19 has to be considered a massive scientific success because creating such…
From: Mano Singham
An old college chum and I am in touch with on social media posted a Space Shooters image and tagged…
From: Great American Satan
(Pearls Before Swine) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
When I wrote about the funny TV show Ted Lasso, some readers expressed regret that they do not subscribe to…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_3640" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Dachshund, designed by Yara Yagi[/caption] I made these dachshunds as part of the local origami club,…
From: A Trivial Knot
I think most of my readers will have seen the iconic performance by Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison…
From: Pro-Science
The zeppelin’s white skin glowed in the city’s lights as it approached the docking tower. Rivulets of water made it…
From: Oceanoxia
Rhawn Joseph is back. Two years ago, I posted a comprehensive list of my engagements with that fraud, so if…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson has been getting lots of them, and threats of lawsuits, in a tangled web of complaints from a…
From: Pharyngula
Because I actually find this caption interesting.
From: Pharyngula
You don't need to understand the meaning, as long as you string together a few science terms you learned in…
From: Pharyngula
Every spring there comes a day when it's time to see if I can mow the grass. Usually, it's a…
From: Stderr
Once upon a time, the growing atheist community was shattered by the emergence of a disruptive faction who thought there…
From: Pharyngula
It's impossible to look at the US justice system and not think "something is seriously wrong, here." As usual, the…
From: Stderr
The only thing I disagree with my Quaker friends on is the slogan speaking truth to power. First of all,…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson's podcast Citations Needed is one of my favorites; they never fail to illuminate their topic,…
From: Stderr
Which makes this twitter wisdom ring true as hell: Shame sluts, you get fewer sluts. It's called consequences, misogynists.
From: Pervert Justice
My thoughts about "mother's day" this year: I never begrudge this May weekend to those who came from good families…
From: Intransitive
Mothers Day has utterly confounded me as far back as I can remember. During my childhood years, spent unhappily suffocating…
From: Death to Squirrels
America's "protest season" has begun, and the government has continued its brutal response to any calls for systemic change. Because…
From: Oceanoxia
https://youtu.be/X4G7asMHqZ4 As I've said before, I don't think the threat of fascism will be leaving the United States any time…
From: Oceanoxia
Ken the Hen is exactly right: LEAVE THEM ALONE. [caption id="attachment_62611" align="aligncenter" width="500"] First Dog on the Moon[/caption] I remember…
From: Pharyngula
The only thing I disagree with my Quaker friends on is the slogan speaking truth to power. First of all,…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Jules Gill-Peterson, writer for Jewish Currents, has published an essay on the far right obsession with and attempts to legislate…
From: Intransitive
The state of California is famous for having all manner of issues decided by placing propositions on the ballot. Its…
From: Mano Singham
cn: it's about sex positions, but it is not graphic I hate the top vs bottom dichotomy as it is…
From: A Trivial Knot
Which makes this twitter wisdom ring true as hell: Shame sluts, you get fewer sluts. It's called consequences, misogynists.
From: Pervert Justice
She's fine. The Evil Cat's bloodwork all came back totally normal, and the vet has survived unscarred. The cat's kind…
From: Pharyngula
As usual, I didn't give myself enough time to write a post reminding you of the game stream before I…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
I was worried last night. I spent some time stroking this poor lethargic cat last night before I went to…
From: Pharyngula
This morning, I followed the Sacrament of the Cat, which is that first I must use the bathroom and allow…
From: Pharyngula
This past month has been something else -- overworked, trapped in my office all day long, stressed out to the…
From: Pharyngula
It's remarkably easy, and you can see them hop and squeak in this video. Oh, right, also, there are some…
From: Pharyngula
Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing, news that does not interest me at all. A pair of meddling incompetent billionaires…
From: Pharyngula
That's my daughter Skatje, who has successfully passed her exams for advancement to candidacy for a Ph.D. today. It's hard…
From: Pharyngula
Howdy, strangers! Gawd, I think I've promised myself and others that I'll start blogging again a half-dozen times or so,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
It is several months since the last update on this project, and there are reasons for that. Some have to…
From: Affinity
(Guest post by Dan Phelps) Many of you are aware that Answers in Genesis (AiG) has a very strict Statement…
From: Pharyngula
What if he offered you candy, or had a puppy you could play with? That's Josh Duggar, the man who…
From: Pharyngula
https://youtu.be/X4G7asMHqZ4 As I've said before, I don't think the threat of fascism will be leaving the United States any time…
From: Oceanoxia
I recently ran into one of the tried-and-boring christian come-backs against atheism: "if you don't believe in god, how can…
From: Stderr
The pedagogical methods of Mark Samsel wouldn't fly here. In fact, they weren't even successful in Kansas. Kansas state Rep.…
From: Pharyngula
Dear daughter, By now I’m sure you know, I hate Christmas. I hate Christmas shopping. I hate Christmas carols, and…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
As you can tell from my posting the other day, I am sick of Georgia's desire to both steal elections…
From: Stderr
Some terminally ill people experience excruciating pain for prolonged periods of time before they die of natural causes. Thus I…
From: Andreas Avester
A recent Gallup poll shows that the number of people who belong to a church, mosque or synagogue is dropping…
From: Mano Singham
An interesting fact about the QAnon phenomenon is that even though the mysterious Q has not been heard of in…
From: Mano Singham
One thing that is fast becoming a central theme of my work is the notion that, in addition to decentralizing…
From: Oceanoxia
Alex Gibney has a new documentary The Crime of the Century that looks at the opioid drug crisis and the…
From: Mano Singham
I mentioned before that I got into a conversation with Kevin Logan and Kristi Winters about this painfully narrow video…
From: Pharyngula
Thanks to generous donors, we are about to launch a new named professorship. The University of Minnesota Morris announced a…
From: Pharyngula
As the cost of renewable energy keeps going down and the technology used to generate and store it improve, the…
From: Mano Singham
On my daily spider meditation in the lab, today I found that they'd molted again. They're bigger, and they have…
From: Pharyngula
I have discussed before the increased trend towards color-blind casting of films and TV shows, which I see more in…
From: Mano Singham
In one of Pratchett's best novels, Nightwatch, Sam Vimes travels back in time and takes part in the "Glorious Revolution"…
From: Affinity
Matt Simon writes that airports have lots of open spaces and big buildings that are never in shadow, which would…
From: Mano Singham
I recently ran into one of the tried-and-boring christian come-backs against atheism: "if you don't believe in god, how can…
From: Stderr
One thing that is fast becoming a central theme of my work is the notion that, in addition to decentralizing…
From: Oceanoxia
Alex Gibney has a new documentary The Crime of the Century that looks at the opioid drug crisis and the…
From: Mano Singham
ProPublica's investigative reporter Alec McGillis has been following the predatory practices of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner that have earned him…
From: Mano Singham
When a social affliction affects only the poor or people of color, it tends to be either ignored or treated…
From: Mano Singham
America's "protest season" has begun, and the government has continued its brutal response to any calls for systemic change. Because…
From: Oceanoxia
A straw on the camel's back "Cancel culture" is a bad and incoherent concept, run into the ground by conservatives…
From: A Trivial Knot
The rapid development of the vaccines to prevent covid-19 has to be considered a massive scientific success because creating such…
From: Mano Singham
https://youtu.be/X4G7asMHqZ4 As I've said before, I don't think the threat of fascism will be leaving the United States any time…
From: Oceanoxia
I don't get it. As a white man, I love critical race theory -- it explains so much, helps me…
From: Pharyngula
An old college chum and I am in touch with on social media posted a Space Shooters image and tagged…
From: Great American Satan
One thing that is fast becoming a central theme of my work is the notion that, in addition to decentralizing…
From: Oceanoxia
The label 'right wing echo chamber' is used frequently, including by me. But what are all the entities that make…
From: Mano Singham
As the cost of renewable energy keeps going down and the technology used to generate and store it improve, the…
From: Mano Singham
ProPublica's investigative reporter Alec McGillis has been following the predatory practices of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner that have earned him…
From: Mano Singham
These days we are awash in conspiracy theories. This old clip from the sketch comedy show That Mitchell and Webb…
From: Mano Singham
When a social affliction affects only the poor or people of color, it tends to be either ignored or treated…
From: Mano Singham
America's "protest season" has begun, and the government has continued its brutal response to any calls for systemic change. Because…
From: Oceanoxia
The poor man. He was banned from Twitter and Facebook (he tried to appeal to Facebook, but they've recently denied…
From: Pharyngula
I've written about this before: the design methodology used to produce the F-35 makes it nearly impossible to maintain any…
From: Stderr
https://youtu.be/X4G7asMHqZ4 As I've said before, I don't think the threat of fascism will be leaving the United States any time…
From: Oceanoxia