A few links of interest from around the web: From SFWA president Cat Rambo's blog: "Talking About Fireside Fiction’s #BlackSpecFic…
From: Freethinking Ahead
The last few days I've been limping around with every muscle in my body pulled and aching to some degree…
From: Stderr
Watch this video and be convinced!
From: Mano Singham
Articles like to use photographs to liven up their appearance. But getting your own photographs is time-consuming and expensive so…
From: Mano Singham
The girls had a fine time in the studio last night, leaving many wonderful hand prints (they do love reds),…
From: Affinity
As confrontations between neo-Nazi and white supremacists continue at various locations around the country, there was an interesting moment at…
From: Mano Singham
Voltaire was an epic correspondent. The "Republic of Letters" project at Stanford [rol] is analyzing Voltaire's letters and building relationship…
From: Stderr
This is a repost of an article from 2015. I selected this one because it mentions Never Let Me Go,…
From: A Trivial Knot
I did this exhibit in 2010. [caption id="attachment_6896" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] mjr, 2010, exhibit of 'column 5'[/caption] I used to know…
From: Stderr
Self care is retreating into worlds of imagination and letting the world burn. OK, no, we have to try to…
From: Great American Satan
Whose urine should you drink instead of getting a flu shot? Also urine delivery is important. Drink it through your…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a roundup of the best Chick tracts to hand out on Halloween. You know you're an awful person when…
From: Pharyngula
A whole 8 days ago, Rick Wiles was ranting about oooOOOoo Shadow Government ooOOOooo. I would venture a guess it…
From: Affinity
This guy, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, has a weird take on Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates would be less pessimistic if he weren't an…
From: Pharyngula
WALMART acted quickly to take down a racist and repulsive "thug life" mask caricaturing Tupac. Caine over at Affinity [affinity]…
From: Stderr
Listen, certain political pundits who shall not be named figured out United Conservative Party leadership candidate Jason Kenney's number a…
From: Against the Grain
[caption id="attachment_23017" align="alignnone" width="517"] Buffalo State Hospital, New York. Image courtesy of Christopher Payne via NPR.[/caption] Once again, we visit…
From: Affinity
There is still quite a bit of fallout, on Twitter at least, from the Milwaukee Mythicists MythCon this year. Full…
White supremacy is so deeply embedded in everything in the US, that you never have to look very far. (Seen…
From: Stderr
Sorry, no cake at all. (Hey, you should know the cake is a lie!) If you can help out the…
From: Affinity
A few years ago I wrote here about how school shooters and spree killers are made. Much has been written…
[caption id="attachment_23017" align="alignnone" width="517"] Buffalo State Hospital, New York. Image courtesy of Christopher Payne via NPR.[/caption] Once again, we visit…
From: Affinity
Did you know the way to deal with a man? Debate is only a prelude to punching his lights out.…
From: Pharyngula
Bill C-16 came and passed, and now that Jordan Peterson has no steam for his conspiratorial ramblings about trans people,…
From: Against the Grain
Some of you may know that I spent many years actively pushing forward conversations within anti-rape and anti-domestic violence organizations…
From: Pervert Justice
CN: Sexual harassment and assault For the first part of today's episode, we talk about Harvey Weinstein, the hashtags #MeToo…
From: Bi Any Means
“You’re not trans. You’re just a transtrender!” If non-binary people had a nickel every time we heard this, we’d be…
From: Bi Any Means
I re-watched the 2006 documentary, Jesus Camp the other day. It predicted Trump; not the who of Donald Trump, but…
From: Odgraphix
The fairytale theme of every wedding is – perfect love. It is a good story that has little to do…
From: Odgraphix
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From: Pharyngula
The girls had a fine time in the studio last night, leaving many wonderful hand prints (they do love reds),…
From: Affinity
The JFK assassination archive has been scheduled to be opened since 1992, when George H. W. Bush established a deadline…
From: Stderr
I only see spam when I check my email on my iPhone; my desktop and laptop have some nifty bayesian…
From: Stderr
Artificial intelligence programmers are getting good results with self-training neural networks. That's something I originally thought [stderr] wasn't going to…
From: Stderr
Just wait until it gains a primitive sentience and ambulatory appendages. A giant bog has come adrift and is wandering…
From: Pharyngula
Just so you know, Jason Thibeault (The Lousy Canuck) is going to do the cunning work of transferring all of…
From: Pharyngula
We have this thing called The Minnesota Goodbye -- if you lived here, you'd know what I'm talking about. You're…
From: Pharyngula
In case you want to start your day with a nice story for a change, go read this one. You'll…
From: Pharyngula
By Jenna Olson Publisher of the Bolingbrook Babbler We want to remind our readers that Dr. Richard Carrier is suing…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
We've been doing it all wrong. I was reading this article about blogs that review goddamn mattresses, which seems to…
From: Pharyngula
Don't get me wrong, I'm aware of anti-semitism, but RightWingWatch has delivered a disheartening quote from a prominent guest on…
From: Pervert Justice
There is still quite a bit of fallout, on Twitter at least, from the Milwaukee Mythicists MythCon this year. Full…
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has, in a 2-1 decision, overturned a federal district court opinion that a big…
From: Mano Singham
Last fall, shortly after starting this blog, I became a theist. It's a secret I feel I must now reveal.…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
When it started to become clear that Donald Trump was actually being taken seriously as a candidate for president, the…
The fairytale theme of every wedding is – perfect love. It is a good story that has little to do…
From: Odgraphix
“We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore. They don’t use the word ‘Christmas’ because…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
I have had to make a decision recently that is not the rational choice. Since I spend a fair amount…
From: Odgraphix
Among the many tax benefits that religious clergy get is that any housing allowance that they are given is exempt…
From: Mano Singham
The rapid succession of shooting tragedies has resulted in people realizing that the phrase ' sending our thoughts and prayers'…
From: Mano Singham
I didn't like the premiere episode of the new Star Trek at all. I was so repelled that I felt…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_36321" align="aligncenter" width="506"] NatGeo[/caption] "Graaaaaaadiiing!", he screams.
From: Pharyngula
Like with many other public health crises, the opioid epidemic is frequently thought of as having just somehow happened, the…
From: Mano Singham
Here we go again -- I said I'd try to make a youtube video about developmental biology every week, and…
From: Pharyngula
I watched that terrible Giant Robot Duel. They were slow, clumsy, and stupid, with nothing but ginned-up drama to add…
From: Pharyngula
You think they're friendly and that they just want to cuddle, but really they want to eat you. Nothing cute…
From: Pharyngula
Alternative medicines: they claim to cure all kinds of ailments, or at best they promise that they're harmless supplements. Now…
From: Pharyngula
Full disclosure: I don't have anything close to a scientific background. I majored in Theatre ferchrissakes, and graduated with my…
From: Death to Squirrels
If I didn't study Volvox, I would probably study placozoa. Placozoa are animals, but you wouldn't know it to look at…
From: Fierce Roller
How can anyone be this sloppy? Originally published in JAMA Pediatrics in 2012, the study found that children were more…
From: Pharyngula
Don't get me wrong, I'm aware of anti-semitism, but RightWingWatch has delivered a disheartening quote from a prominent guest on…
From: Pervert Justice
CN: sexual harassment Decades ago, when I was in fifth grade, a boy on the bus groped me while we…
From: Freethinking Ahead
[CONTENT NOTE: rape, domestic violence, inhumane treatment of vulnerable people.] I AM SIDE-EYING THE FUCK OUT OF YOU AUSTRALIA. And…
From: Death to Squirrels
Bill C-16 came and passed, and now that Jordan Peterson has no steam for his conspiratorial ramblings about trans people,…
From: Against the Grain
There is still quite a bit of fallout, on Twitter at least, from the Milwaukee Mythicists MythCon this year. Full…
Some of you may know that I spent many years actively pushing forward conversations within anti-rape and anti-domestic violence organizations…
From: Pervert Justice
Is this what nurses are being taught? It's also revealing how white people aren't even mentioned. We are the standard…
From: Pharyngula
My colleague Crip Dyke has a wonderful way with words: While The Advocate includes all this in its coverage, what…
From: Against the Grain
Fuck Nazis. [caption id="attachment_36286" align="aligncenter" width="500"] CNN[/caption] It's a trap!
From: Pharyngula
All of you teachers have been here. You want to get discussion going in the classroom, because that's a really…
From: Pharyngula
Articles like to use photographs to liven up their appearance. But getting your own photographs is time-consuming and expensive so…
From: Mano Singham
Some time ago, I read a piece by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo that anyone who comes into the…
From: Mano Singham
A whole 8 days ago, Rick Wiles was ranting about oooOOOoo Shadow Government ooOOOooo. I would venture a guess it…
From: Affinity
I guess it's supposed to be a sneaky critique of the "alternative facts" crowd, those Trump surrogates who appear on…
From: Pharyngula
Listen, certain political pundits who shall not be named figured out United Conservative Party leadership candidate Jason Kenney's number a…
From: Against the Grain
The US is now in a state of permanent undeclared war in large parts of the globe. This has become…
From: Mano Singham
Like with many other public health crises, the opioid epidemic is frequently thought of as having just somehow happened, the…
From: Mano Singham
A young man got to participate in some civic engagement with his scout troop, and was given an opportunity to…
From: Pharyngula
There is still quite a bit of fallout, on Twitter at least, from the Milwaukee Mythicists MythCon this year. Full…
Filmmaker Josh Fox has started a new series of animated short films that he labels as 'anti-totalitarian bedtime stories'. Here…
From: Mano Singham