As I mentioned on TNET, we're getting pets. More specifically, we're getting degus. We did all our learning and deciding…
From: Affinity
The plight of the Uighur minority in China is something that I was peripherally aware of and kept meaning to…
From: Mano Singham
It appears that Fox News personality and Trump whisperer Sean Hannity, no doubt in an attempt to appear erudite and…
From: Mano Singham
Given that the dudes from Zepp were most likely rapists, and given that even if they weren't, they literally have…
From: Great American Satan
I have written multiple times before how US history is taught in schools in a completely sanitized form that distorts…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday brought some encouraging news of a survey that shows that most Americans do not believe Trump's assertions that the…
From: Mano Singham
He highlights the article that I wrote about a few days ago that described how Trump's slumlord son-in-law Jared Kushner…
From: Mano Singham
I'm kind of a nexus of weird among a largeish circle of computer security people, photographers and artists, and bladesmiths.…
From: Stderr
Raksha, alas, has arthritis. When I first got her, waaay back in 2007, she was very high-energy, and could run circles…
From: Oceanoxia
I have recently been watching the British TV series The Indian Doctor. It is a fish-out-of-water story similar to the…
From: Mano Singham
I've been living in Academyville most of my life, which means I've met some of the villainous ogres the right-wingers…
From: Pharyngula
It is the 5th of August, and I have noticed that I've already run out of access to 'free' articles…
From: Pharyngula
It must be nice to be filthy rich, so that you can say any idiotic thing and automatically get lots…
From: Pharyngula
It's entirely online this year, for obvious reasons, but if you're interested, you should mosey on over to the Skepticon…
From: Pharyngula
Tonight, at 9pm Central, I'm going to try and wade through the bullshit Ken Ham threw everywhere in a recent…
From: Pharyngula
The Republicans have a new favorite doctor, Stella Immanuel. She loves hydroxychloroquine and detests face masks, so of course the…
From: Pharyngula
I've been puzzled by the fact that nobody seems to be talking about where these "federal troops" have come from.…
From: Stderr
So, the Portland protests aren't mine to lead, but I am a ConLaw nerd and so they do feel personal…
From: Pervert Justice
I'm working on a long, involved blog post relating to this video and the playlist of which it is a…
From: Oceanoxia
I feel good about that, too. I still get email from various organizations, though, so I still get sent the…
From: Pharyngula
Once upon a time, when I first heard about BethAnn McLaughlin, I posted approvingly about her. She was a founder…
From: Pharyngula
Since I didn't watch the awards presentation at all, I missed George R. R. Martin making a colossal flaming ass…
From: Pharyngula
We live in terrifying times, my friends. There's a lot of bad going on right now, both in the world,…
From: Oceanoxia
The problem of what pronoun to use to describe the third person singular has been around for a long time…
From: Mano Singham
The Republican party, led by the Trump administration, is pushing the United States ever closer to something like a civil…
From: Oceanoxia
You wanna see reductive? She's gonna give you reductive. https://twitter.com/BellaRizinti/status/1286996847962267649 My first thought was, "Why are these aliens murdering us…
From: Pharyngula
In the fight for greater justice and against systemic racism, female athletes in the fields of soccer and basketball have…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote before about Republican congressperson Ted Yoho's appalling behavior towards Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and his pusillanimous non-apology on the floor…
From: Mano Singham
When the New York Times got around to reporting Ted Yoho's vicious outburst at Ocasio-Cortez, they put all the emphasis…
From: Pharyngula
I'm working on a long, involved blog post relating to this video and the playlist of which it is a…
From: Oceanoxia
My goal in mcgyvering a vacuum pump was to remain under 100,-€ - which I did - and get better…
From: Affinity
I would lie if I said that I completely understand this. That's OK, I guess, I am sure there are…
From: Affinity
The minecraft server, Sitosis, has generated a brand-spanking new map, and is accepting membership requests, so it's time to play…
From: Pharyngula
I had an intense dream where I was at a family reunion, and everyone was there, including my dead father…
From: Pharyngula
But it might be the same species of fly whose picture Giliell has posted yesterday. Sitting here on Devil's bit.…
From: Affinity
I'm kind of a nexus of weird among a largeish circle of computer security people, photographers and artists, and bladesmiths.…
From: Stderr
Regular readers of my blog already know that I am interested in environmentally friendlier lifestyles. I don’t like the idea…
From: Andreas Avester
Raksha, alas, has arthritis. When I first got her, waaay back in 2007, she was very high-energy, and could run circles…
From: Oceanoxia
The last batch of knives did come out of quench straight-ish, but the tangs were a bit crooked on some…
From: Affinity
This getting old thing sucks. I've got things to do in the lab, but when I stood up this morning…
From: Pharyngula
The plight of the Uighur minority in China is something that I was peripherally aware of and kept meaning to…
From: Mano Singham
I'm working on a long, involved blog post relating to this video and the playlist of which it is a…
From: Oceanoxia
As my readers may be aware, all is not well in the heart of the American Empire. There have been…
From: Oceanoxia
Today I'm mourning someone I never met, and never talked to. I've felt sad about the death of a number…
From: Oceanoxia
The white supremacists have opened a church just down the road from me, about 40 minutes down the road, between…
From: Pharyngula
This article collects statistics about atheists in America and worldwide. In America: Research has shown that most atheists tend to…
From: Mano Singham
Unfortunately, the United States seems to be entering an eviction crisis, caused by the pandemic-triggered mass unemployment, combined with a…
From: Oceanoxia
God Does Not Comprehend Forgiveness. The topic of who god forgives, and for what, and why, is central to christian…
From: Stderr
It's always good to see internal schisms within Christianity, but not so great when the guy with a $100 million+…
From: Pharyngula
Shives does this weekly YouTube satire called The Whirlpool, which mocks a certain Catholic fanatic who has a show called…
From: Pharyngula
The current flu pandemic has rekindled a lot of interest in the 1918 pandemic where the misleadingly labeled Spanish flu…
From: Mano Singham
One of the effects of a warming world that has long been predicted, and has caused some confusion, is the…
From: Oceanoxia
As I watch the people protest And I read the homemade signs I decipher what they’re thinking—- I can read…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
13 days until classes begin, and this last batch of spiders are now about 13 days old. I took a…
From: Pharyngula
The US attorney general Bill Barr has defended the massive and violent federal response to the demonstration in Portland by…
From: Mano Singham
The New Scientist site has an article, that's not behind a paywall, about the Beirut explosion. Despite what Trump initially…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I learned something today! There is this spider I keep on my office desk. I've always wondered, since these spiders…
From: Pharyngula
I saw a UFO, once. I was going north on I-70 outside of Pittsburgh and suddenly there was a gleaming…
From: Stderr
Yesterday brought some encouraging news of a survey that shows that most Americans do not believe Trump's assertions that the…
From: Mano Singham
This is an entry in my series where I read physics articles in Scientific American, under the theory that having…
From: A Trivial Knot
The plight of the Uighur minority in China is something that I was peripherally aware of and kept meaning to…
From: Mano Singham
The US attorney general Bill Barr has defended the massive and violent federal response to the demonstration in Portland by…
From: Mano Singham
I have written multiple times before how US history is taught in schools in a completely sanitized form that distorts…
From: Mano Singham
In the Democratic primary election for the House of Representatives in St. Louis, Missouri, Cori Bush who was backed by…
From: Mano Singham
Are you familiar with Color of Change? If not, check out their web site or just watch this brief recap…
From: Death to Squirrels
Once upon a time, when I first heard about BethAnn McLaughlin, I posted approvingly about her. She was a founder…
From: Pharyngula
Ed Yong's excellent article in the Atlantic, "How the Pandemic Defeated America," is a devastatingly honest account of why the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Iris over at Death to Squirrels has a post about Saraya Rees, a teenager who had a mental health crisis, and…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Iris at Death to Squirrels has a post up regarding the cruel treatment and unjust imprisonment of a young bi-racial…
From: Affinity
The city of Washington, DC, the capital of the US that has a population of about 700,000 and covers about…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know who Josh Bernstein is, but he'd be fine with me dying. He compares voting in person to…
From: Pharyngula
The current flu pandemic has rekindled a lot of interest in the 1918 pandemic where the misleadingly labeled Spanish flu…
From: Mano Singham
One of the effects of a warming world that has long been predicted, and has caused some confusion, is the…
From: Oceanoxia
As I watch the people protest And I read the homemade signs I decipher what they’re thinking—- I can read…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
The plight of the Uighur minority in China is something that I was peripherally aware of and kept meaning to…
From: Mano Singham
It appears that Fox News personality and Trump whisperer Sean Hannity, no doubt in an attempt to appear erudite and…
From: Mano Singham
North Paulding High in Georgia has opened, and there are swarms of students milling around maskless in crowded hallways. What…
From: Pharyngula
The US attorney general Bill Barr has defended the massive and violent federal response to the demonstration in Portland by…
From: Mano Singham
When will Twitter and Facebook get around to banning this guy? Isn't it bad enough that he has his sycophants…
From: Pharyngula
I have written multiple times before how US history is taught in schools in a completely sanitized form that distorts…
From: Mano Singham