[Warning: Sexual Assault?] I encountered this track as the outro for a podcast I was listening to. When she sings…
From: Stderr
I know that watching Bill Maher these days is grating on the nerves but in this heated exchange, Michael Moore…
From: Mano Singham
Last time we looked at the front, now it's time to enter. I momentarily feared I was going to be…
From: Affinity
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I refuse to believe anything new will come of this. I suspect it's going to be nothing but a remarketing…
From: Pharyngula
Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
From: Stderr
Can't he come up with good ideas on his own? [caption id="attachment_55944" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lio[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
David Axe reports [db] a rather odd thing: the US and Iraqi government bombed the living crap out of an…
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This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
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This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
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This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below: For your consideration we…
From: Stderr
Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
From: Stderr
Why does it always come down to lashing out to do harm to others? It's another lawsuit by a man…
From: Pharyngula
Why, just look at the Brainerd school board. Sue Kern even made president! During a recent meeting of the board,…
From: Pharyngula
After that last post, I realized there is another problem I have with doing debates with creationists. For a proper…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is writing about spiders and evolution, and my first thought was ha ha, that's funny, he's talking about…
From: Pharyngula
For such a notoriously self-proclaimed rational guy, Richard Stallman doesn't know how to write a proper resignation letter. His makes…
From: Pharyngula
The first sign of a biased dilettante is when they try to reduce biological phenomena to a single parameter that…
From: Pharyngula
It's because toxic masculinity is so ingrained in the culture that the staid ol' NY Times can publicly say that…
From: Pharyngula
In 2012, 16 year old Jorge Saavedra stabbed Dylan Nuno between eight and twelve times, killing him, after suffering years…
From: Intransitive
Moral quandries suck. There's a 20-something lesbian TERF in the UK who is terminally ill. I have never contacted her…
From: Intransitive
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
"Toxic masculinity" refers to harmful forms of masculine expression, such as violence, aggression, aloofness, and the policing of other men's…
From: A Trivial Knot
At the recent climate change town hall series put on by CNN, Bernie Sanders got asked a question about overpopulation…
From: Oceanoxia
This is quite possibly one of the more horrifying sentences I've read online lately. Since my recent lunch with my…
From: Pharyngula
It has become fairly common to hear that some of the men (and it is usually men) who furiously denounce…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_870" align="alignright" width="300"] Image of an interstellar cruise ship disguised as a comet. [/caption] Clow UFO…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My teaching schedule is kind of front-loaded -- heavy stuff in the first half of the week, with a reprieve…
From: Pharyngula
Norman Jewison's film "...And Justice for All" was released on September 15, 1979, forty years ago this week. Remember Al…
From: Intransitive
Milo Yiannopoulos is really getting desperate. He's looking for an audience, any audience, that will pay attention to him, and…
From: Pharyngula
If, like me, you watch retro computing channels on youtube, you may be familiar with names like David Murray ("The…
From: Intransitive
Trumplethinskin has said the FDA should ban "flavoured" vaping products. His "ban", however, is only against flavoured nicotine packs, not vaping…
From: Intransitive
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_866" align="alignleft" width="228"] File photo of Ryan Huffman[/caption] [caption id="attachment_865" align="alignright" width="300"] File photo of Maggie…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Martin Weitzman was a highly successful economist who had a distinguished academic career at the most prestigious universities and had…
From: Mano Singham
What should greet my eyes upon looking into the abyss of Twitter this morning but a chittering mob of angry…
From: Pharyngula
I find Bill Maher unwatchable, for many reasons, but James Corden managed to get through one of those monologs where…
From: Pharyngula
I highly doubt the study's claims as reported by The Guardian. The original study can be found here. Economists calculate monetary…
From: Intransitive
So in Pakistan, mobs of Muslim religious fanatics attack non-Muslims for blasphemy and while in India mobs of Hindu religious…
From: Mano Singham
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's heartwarming to see all the students spurning the offer…
From: Pharyngula
How are you? I hope you’re good. I’ve been kinda okay. I say kinda because almost a year ago I…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Mid-Autumn Festival is known by several names across several Asian countries. Taiwan often calls it Moon Festival, both Koreas call…
From: Intransitive
In an interesting and informative profile of Tulsi Gabbard, Kerry Howley looks at her very unusual childhood and family that…
From: Mano Singham
Jerry Falwell was an evangelical preacher and the founder of Liberty University, a college that expects its students to abide…
From: Mano Singham
Petty hypo-christians and their "christian piety". As I've said elsewhere, the more publicly prudish, the more privately prurient. When stories…
From: Intransitive
Apparently yet another new book is out that tries to make the scientific case for god's existence. According to the…
From: Mano Singham
Here's some smug sanctimonious Christianity for you, all inflicted on a helpless baby. On Wednesday, Martina Obi-Uzom was found guilty…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_870" align="alignright" width="300"] Image of an interstellar cruise ship disguised as a comet. [/caption] Clow UFO…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
At last, I'm useful! I was called to a colleague's office because a big ol' spider was squatting on their…
From: Pharyngula
The first sign of a biased dilettante is when they try to reduce biological phenomena to a single parameter that…
From: Pharyngula
I've been seeing a lot of excitement about this new discovery on an extrasolar planet: it's got water. "We know…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_6452" align="aligncenter" width="1114"] Mark Twain by Unknown - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's…
From: Fierce Roller
I made a stop to check on that lovely Argiope at the local Subway…and she was gone! I was very…
From: Pharyngula
When I was in graduate school, magician James Randi gave a performance for the university and then he gave another…
From: Mano Singham
Royal Museums Greenwich has announced their Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 winners, and some of the photos are…
From: Intransitive
Hey! Hey, you! The University of Minnesota Morris is offering employment to an ecologist! Apply now! (Special attention will be…
From: Pharyngula
After I was done protesting yesterday (lie: we're never done protesting), it was late, it had been a long day,…
From: Pharyngula
How are you? I hope you’re good. I’ve been kinda okay. I say kinda because almost a year ago I…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
I was part of our local protest against the unmitigated evil of ICE yesterday. Several people spoke out with testimonials…
From: Pharyngula
Here is another post about the insanity of the US health system, a post that will be utterly incomprehensible to…
From: Mano Singham
Poor Milo Yiannopoulos is struggling. He's been whining on the few social media sites left to him that he's not…
From: Pharyngula
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
Mainstream media journalists and editors like to pride themselves on their 'political neutrality', that they do not take sides. Some…
From: Mano Singham
At the recent climate change town hall series put on by CNN, Bernie Sanders got asked a question about overpopulation…
From: Oceanoxia
In The 1619 Project of the New York Times that I wrote about earlier, the opening piece that frames the…
From: Mano Singham
When the modern history of the USA is told, it often begins with ships arriving here, such as Christopher Columbus…
From: Mano Singham
I discussed in an earlier post how this newspaper's 'Fact Checker' section showed an egregious example of deception in giving…
From: Mano Singham
Today came news that Cokie Roberts, was a major player at NPR and ABC as a political commentator, has died.…
From: Mano Singham
But that wouldn't be surprising. Rich people are like that. Taking a page from Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerburg, the…
From: Intransitive
So in Pakistan, mobs of Muslim religious fanatics attack non-Muslims for blasphemy and while in India mobs of Hindu religious…
From: Mano Singham
Whenever there's a mass shooting, fanatics will inevitably say, "This is no time to talk about gun control!" Au contraire, that's…
From: Intransitive
Marv hadn't heard of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire until now. https://twitter.com/mrvndn/status/1173898937557643266 There is something deeply wrong with American education when…
From: Pharyngula
We know that serial abusers who are prominent people must have had a large cadre of enablers who either assisted…
From: Mano Singham
David Axe reports [db] a rather odd thing: the US and Iraqi government bombed the living crap out of an…
From: Stderr
I know that watching Bill Maher these days is grating on the nerves but in this heated exchange, Michael Moore…
From: Mano Singham
The attack on the Aramco oil processing plant in Saudi Arabia that has disrupted about 5% of the global oil…
From: Mano Singham
Thanks to a comment by John Morales, I read this article by Kelsey Piper that looks at a possible justification…
From: Mano Singham