The Stranglers are back with a new album, Dark Matters, a record that took a long time, effort, and hardship…
From: Intransitive
Mold-making can be a pain in the neck. And it's a truism in the model-making community that the better you…
From: Stderr
This cartoon is right about how the wingnuts operate. (This Modern World) I can see how this strategy can boost…
From: Mano Singham
Autumn is sneaking in, which means that it will soon be time to say goodbye to the lush colours of…
From: Affinity
There must be a huge mycelium run under the grass. Back in the day [any FBI that read this: back…
From: Stderr
The League of Assertive Women and sources within Bolingbrook’s Chamber of Commerce confirmed that Mayor Emeritus Roger Claar ordered the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The wonderful US health system on display. (Pearls Before Swine) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
I've been busy running around building forms for casting the liner for the forge body, and dealing with a bunch…
From: Stderr
QGCon is a queer games criticism conference that I attended in 2013 and 2014, because it was next door, and…
From: A Trivial Knot
I've been depressing lately. This should make you feel better: Nina Hagen did an entire album of swing music and…
From: Stderr
I got out of Facebook, but the stench still follows me. Yesterday, a reader told me about a new Facebook…
From: Pharyngula
I was forced to take an Uber today, and the driver was talking about how wonderful it is not knowing…
From: Jonathan's Musings
A decade ago I briefly tangled with Bob Enyart and his pal Fred Williams. They had a show called Real…
From: Pharyngula
When I was a student at the University of Iowa back in the 1980s, I was a member of a…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Time to explain why Boghossian's resignation is a) not newsworthy, and b) good and appropriate.
From: Pharyngula
Despite our participation in the free market being a positive summed game when we gain wealth, this does not mean…
From: Jonathan's Musings
I guess the Aubrey de Grey affair, in which he was accused of sexual harrasment and lost his job, has…
From: Pharyngula
The last post argues, not from me but from thirty years' worth of epidemiological studies, that where we are positioned…
From: Jonathan's Musings
HJ doesn't do comments at his blog, but his recent article about Harriet Hall - concluded with a simply told…
From: Great American Satan
This post is on the conclusions that epidemiologists have come to after three decades of research: the Joneses are very…
From: Jonathan's Musings
But not you. I've long been a fan of Cassandra Peterson, AKA Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, because she's goofy…
From: Pharyngula
There will not be a pride parade in 2021 in Taipei nor in any other city. Highly annoying, though not…
From: Intransitive
As expected, civil lawsuits have been filed against the Texas doctor Dr. Alan Braid who publicly announced that he had…
From: Mano Singham
In an earlier post, I wrote about how the Texas anti-abortion law, by authorizing anyone at all to bring a…
From: Mano Singham
In December 2020, courts in the UK inexplicably and incompetently ruled that hormones were "experimental" and thus should be denied…
From: Intransitive
Texas has passed an extremely restrictive law, effectively eliminating a woman's right to have an abortion by authorizing any person…
From: Mano Singham
Please do tear into Andrew Sullivan. This review of one of his books in The Baffler does a fine job…
From: Pharyngula
A lot of attention has been paid recently to the abortion law passed in Texas that places such great restrictions…
From: Mano Singham
I read a brilliant review of what may be a brilliant book (I'll have to read it to find out),…
From: Pharyngula
The Terrible, Egregious Racists and Fascists (TERFs) prove once again how willing they are to live down to their name,…
From: Intransitive
The worst day of the Salem Witch Trials came on September 22, 1692, three hundred and twenty nine years ago…
From: Intransitive
Kristen Lowery, 40 year old mother of four, anti-vaccine fanatic, chose poorly. She's dead of COVID-19, leaving behind a GoFundMe…
From: Pharyngula
That is all.
From: Pharyngula
The League of Assertive Women and sources within Bolingbrook’s Chamber of Commerce confirmed that Mayor Emeritus Roger Claar ordered the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Dusty and Tristan Graham were a couple of Alabama eBay resellers, who made videos of their collecting trips which were…
From: Pharyngula
Yesterday, I did successfully kill my own Facebook account, and it is gone for good. If you were one of…
From: Pharyngula
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl are a hockey team in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Most KHL teams (19) are based in Russia,…
From: Intransitive
Periodically there's a flurry of discussion about ways people can help with a movement beyond being on the front lines.…
From: Oceanoxia
My son Connlann went clamming for the first time ever, and got his limit in about 20 minutes. Unfortunately, it…
From: Pharyngula
I coulda cried. I went to the movies last night, and it wasn't another goddamned comic-book super-hero franchise movie. All…
From: Pharyngula
I was forced to take an Uber today, and the driver was talking about how wonderful it is not knowing…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Bob Enyart was an anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, religious fanatic, anti-LGBTQIA bigot and all around reprobate who contributed nothing to the world. …
From: Intransitive
This cartoon shows how at some point, efforts to do so will hit inevitably a rock and collapse.The only difference…
From: Mano Singham
I must admit that hearing that some people believe in the existence of 'lizard people' took me by surprise, even…
From: Mano Singham
In lieu of a post, I will refer you to an article of mine that was just published in Scientific…
From: Mano Singham
We seem to be awash in various culture wars that seem to never end. So it is good to consider…
From: Mano Singham
Come on, people! At least try to do a little bit. (Tom the Dancing Bug)
From: Mano Singham
Answers in Genesis is fond of a peculiar metaphor: portraying secularism and Christianity as two castles in a bitter war.…
From: Pharyngula
The internet is awash with examples of people in the US who believe in the craziest things. Even without seeking…
From: Mano Singham
I've been watching the smart people at the top of the university hierarchy slowly realize that there's still a pandemic…
From: Pharyngula
If you're plotting something and want to recruit a horde of fellow conspiracy theorists to join you, the go-to company…
From: Pharyngula
You may have noticed that I abstain from showing photos of spiders here, because when I do I get so…
From: Pharyngula
My absence caused me to miss an anniversary at the start of September: the Carrington Event of 1859 (CE, for…
From: Intransitive
I was brought up with enough food to eat but wasting was severely frowned upon. You served on your plate…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote last year that the popular prescription that one should walk 10,000 steps a day in order to obtain…
From: Mano Singham
I also ran across this video today, the seven types of factorials. I knew several of them from statistics, compsci,…
From: Intransitive
Have you ever wondered why there are no green stars? A good educated guess is that it's related to the…
From: Intransitive
It was a dark and stormy night in Okinawa, 1962; the seas were beaten into foam by the wind that…
From: Stderr
Today I'm going to answer some patron/reader questions: • Viruses replicate? Does that mean they mutate in infected people, too?…
From: Pharyngula
I had to comment on all the recent news about resurrecting mammoths, ala Jurassic Park. Nah, it's not happening in…
From: Pharyngula
September 22 is World Car Free Day, a day and a movement to encourage people to walk, ride bicycles, and…
From: Intransitive
Disturbing photos and video from the U.S.-Mexico border show Haitian refugees being attacked by Border Patrol agents on horses with…
From: Oceanoxia
It was a dark and stormy night in Okinawa, 1962; the seas were beaten into foam by the wind that…
From: Stderr
A lot of attention has been paid recently to the abortion law passed in Texas that places such great restrictions…
From: Mano Singham
Robert Paul Wolff is one of my favorite writers. I came across his work completely by accident: dad was getting…
From: Stderr
When I was a student at the University of Iowa back in the 1980s, I was a member of a…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
When I encounter wildly different perspectives, I freeze in place like the proverbial rabbit in headlights. My brain just locks…
From: Stderr
In the August 30, 2021 issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande takes a close look at the health care…
From: Mano Singham
Sometimes people who get frustrated by deep injustices in democratic societies seem to give up on their governments doing the…
From: Mano Singham
Despite our participation in the free market being a positive summed game when we gain wealth, this does not mean…
From: Jonathan's Musings
I generally avoid talking about specific foreigners in Taiwan because anything I say might come around (e.g. which foreigners deal…
From: Intransitive
The US Congress routinely goes through an exercise that to me perfectly captures its lack of maturity. It is the…
From: Mano Singham
This cartoon is right about how the wingnuts operate. (This Modern World) I can see how this strategy can boost…
From: Mano Singham
I was brought up with enough food to eat but wasting was severely frowned upon. You served on your plate…
From: Mano Singham
As expected, civil lawsuits have been filed against the Texas doctor Dr. Alan Braid who publicly announced that he had…
From: Mano Singham
Dustbin Trudeau called a snap election in August 2021, only twenty one months since the last federal election (December 2019),…
From: Intransitive
Disturbing photos and video from the U.S.-Mexico border show Haitian refugees being attacked by Border Patrol agents on horses with…
From: Oceanoxia
The wonderful US health system on display. (Pearls Before Swine) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
In an earlier post, I wrote about how the Texas anti-abortion law, by authorizing anyone at all to bring a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_63956" align="alignright" width="150"] Florida, America's poxed appendage[/caption] Their finances are in a shambles now, because one man held the…
From: Pharyngula