This is a chapter-by-chapter review of problematic romance novel ‘Walking Disaster’ by Jamie McGuire. Posts in the series will all…
From: Geeky Humanist
This is the little one's fault (yeah, the little one. Almost as tall as me). She saw something like this…
From: Affinity
After promising to make a collection of my pre-Freethought Blog Babbler articles, I finally got around to it. God to…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Astrud Gilberto, who sang The Girl From Ipanema, has died at the age of 84. Her version of the song…
From: Mano Singham
They say that you should never judge a book by its cover but I admit there are some film titles…
From: Mano Singham
The US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has warned that excessive use of social media by young people carries serious health…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_4572" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Turtle, designer unknown[/caption] You know, I posted a sketch of this same model, but I don't…
From: A Trivial Knot
Is humor a sign of intelligence? Hahahahah, that was funny.
From: Stderr
I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately – which isn’t really like me – but I seem to be…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
What I realized is that I was making those chisels for a beginner, who was going to be working at…
From: Stderr
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
If you're curious about who would sign up for a Neuralink implant, as I am, you will discover that the…
From: Pharyngula
Is humor a sign of intelligence? Hahahahah, that was funny.
From: Stderr
And it's not anti-religious. Useful to know.
From: Pharyngula
I bet you never thought you'd see me writing that, did you? Ham has always insisted on a rigidly applied…
From: Pharyngula
This book looks so bad, I want to read it: Evolution is Wrong, by Erich von Däniken. I saw some…
From: Pharyngula
A chiropractor who also has a master's degree in immunology is in trouble because she posted an op-ed that favored…
From: Pharyngula
Kandiss Taylor ran for governor of Georgia on the slogan, Jesus, Guns, and Babies, which is the perfect Republican mantra.…
From: Pharyngula
She's a doctor, she must know all the inner secrets! Except…she's not a real doctor. She's a chiropractor. I don't…
From: Pharyngula
Has anybody read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton? It's about a man who gets a brain implant to correct…
From: Pharyngula
I've been a fan of Zinnia Jones for a long time, starting way back in the day when she was…
From: Pharyngula
Back when I was in college, California passed Proposition 8, which notoriously banned same-sex marriage, after it had been briefly…
From: A Trivial Knot
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
A jury found that serial sex abuser Donald Trump (SSAT) guilty of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll decades ago and…
From: Mano Singham
The president of that nation has signed into law tough new measures aimed against the LGBTQ community. Uganda's President Yoweri…
From: Mano Singham
He's fallen far now, and seems to think that thrashing about in the muck will raise him up, rather than…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
A couple of days ago, I ran across a pro-life (as in, anti-abortion) meme on Facebook: For those of you…
From: Geeky Humanist
cn: This review makes no attempt to avoid spoilers Bros is a 2022 gay romcom described as the first movie…
From: A Trivial Knot
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexology) in 1919, in Berlin, Germany. Its purpose was to…
From: Intransitive
In the 1990s, Intel created a new processor platform, the Itanium, with the vision of their multicore processor chips dominating…
From: Intransitive
After promising to make a collection of my pre-Freethought Blog Babbler articles, I finally got around to it. God to…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My folks are in town for a week - the first time I've seen them since I left the US…
From: Oceanoxia
Astrud Gilberto, who sang The Girl From Ipanema, has died at the age of 84. Her version of the song…
From: Mano Singham
I took this little survey in the Washington Post that takes into account your income, number of dependents, and region…
From: Pharyngula
They say that you should never judge a book by its cover but I admit there are some film titles…
From: Mano Singham
We finished putting up the greenhouse and started to fill it: [caption id="attachment_49626" align="aligncenter" width="450"] ©Giliell, all rights reserved[/caption] [caption…
From: Affinity
My daughter is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. When she entered the world seven years ago she…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
A MacOS port of No Man's Sky dropped this past week. Let's try it out! This will be a short…
From: Pharyngula
This is the second three-piece set from the second overabladeance that I have finished. It is what you might call…
From: Affinity
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
After their attempt to stuff the ten commandments into classrooms failed, the Texas legislature rebounds and succeeds in stuffing chaplains…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_70206" align="alignright" width="150"] Look at that stupid gomer.[/caption] Texas tried to pass a blatantly unconstitutional ten commandments law. Texas…
From: Pharyngula
You knew this would set ol' Bill's non-existent hair on fire: the Los Angeles Dodgers invited a drag group, the…
From: Pharyngula
On 2 June, we get a new docuseries on the Duggars, Bill Gothard, and the IBLP cult. It's going to…
From: Pharyngula
I have been aware of the Satanic Temple as largely a group that seeks to dethrone religion's dominance in US…
From: Mano Singham
See that guy draped with ammo for his gun? That's Bryan Slaton, a Republican slimeball from Texas, who committed an…
From: Pharyngula
I work for an arts program in a mental health organization, and since I sometimes work with kids, I am…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Japan is instituting some new guidelines for recognizing religious abuse. It would be nice to see something like this in…
From: Pharyngula
Let’s pretend for a minute that I wasn’t a skeptical person – that I didn’t ask a million questions. Maybe…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Two separate items from Computerphile this week, both from the University of Nottingham. First up, Dr. Steve Bagley talks about…
From: Intransitive
David Gerard brings up an interesting association: the crypto grifters, as their scam begins to disintegrate, have jumped ship to…
From: Pharyngula
My folks are in town for a week - the first time I've seen them since I left the US…
From: Oceanoxia
Rowan Atkinson is well known as an actor and comedian. But his undergraduate education was in electrical and electronic engineering,…
From: Mano Singham
You know this podish-sortacast that Freethoughtblogs runs? At the end of the last one, we were talking about new topics,…
From: Pharyngula
This video does what it says on the box. Casual Geographic is here it entertain and inform, and in my…
From: Oceanoxia
Apple unveiled a shiny new gadget today: Apple Vision Pro. This looks really good! I want one. But as the…
From: Pharyngula
AI has been much in the news recently. The initial splash was with ChatGPT and its potential to enable students…
From: Mano Singham
Look at that thing. It's beautiful. That's Ingenuity, the drone that was sent to Mars on the Perseverance mission. It…
From: Pharyngula
A Texas A&M professor flunked all of his students because ChatGPT told him to. Dr. Jared Mumm, a campus rodeo…
From: Pharyngula
We live in a world dominated by men in pretty much every area of life. Hence anyone who argues that…
From: Mano Singham
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
Tomorrow is a day of action for those working to stop Cop City, in Atlanta, Georgia. For any who need…
From: Oceanoxia
A republican judge appointed by Cheetolini (the same one that first put a stay on the Tennessee "law" which criminalize…
From: Intransitive
The US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has warned that excessive use of social media by young people carries serious health…
From: Mano Singham
I do not like the Democratic Party. As an institution, they are corrupt and disingenuous servitors of the upper class,…
From: Oceanoxia
I recently read the memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895),…
From: Mano Singham
Another youtube channel I watch regularly is Not Just Bikes by Jason Slaughter, a Canadian from Fake London (Ontario) who…
From: Intransitive
As the title says, May 31st is World No Tobacco Day, a day to advocate the end of tobacco usage. …
From: Intransitive
On Friday, US district judge Amit Mehta handed down two more sentences to Oath Keepers for their role in the…
From: Mano Singham
We live in a world dominated by men in pretty much every area of life. Hence anyone who argues that…
From: Mano Singham
Mr Licht is OUT. Byers notes that the CNN Trump town hall combined with a less-than-flattering profile of Licht in…
From: Pharyngula
Robert Hanssen died on Tuesday (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023), reportedly of natural causes. From the FBI's own…
From: Intransitive
Chris Licht, the former head of CNN who pushed that disastrous, mismanaged Trump town hall on us, seems to have…
From: Pharyngula
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
AI has been much in the news recently. The initial splash was with ChatGPT and its potential to enable students…
From: Mano Singham
Tomorrow is a day of action for those working to stop Cop City, in Atlanta, Georgia. For any who need…
From: Oceanoxia
Ryan Busse, a former vice president of sales for a major gun manufacturer, explains how the gun industry went off…
From: Mano Singham
A month ago, I wrote about my astonishment that as many as seven horses that had had to be euthanized…
From: Mano Singham
Many years ago, I suggested to my parents that they might want to have plans in case of future wildfires.…
From: Oceanoxia