ABC made a TV show off Marvel's comic "Cloak & Dagger," and shit it out onto their new streaming service…
From: Great American Satan
{AD} Why is anyone surprised anymore that so many people who work for Fox News are straight-up racists, so much…
From: Mano Singham
The pitch of a note is determined by its frequency, and frequency can vary within a continuous spectrum. And yet,…
From: A Trivial Knot
Men flow into life, and ebb into death. Some are filled with life; Some are empty with death; Some hold…
From: Stderr
I had a long day. It could have been worse. In a stressful moment I was rude to someone I…
From: Great American Satan
Pickled beets are ridiculously easy to make, they just require a bit of time. They're a perfect project for a…
From: Stderr
There are fans who painstakingly document all the errors that inevitably creep in when creating such a complicated thing as…
From: Mano Singham
Not only are the three eldest Trump offspring utterly lacking in ethical principles, they do not seem very bright either,…
From: Mano Singham
I confess that I do not have any protection for my phone. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
John Oliver discusses some of the highlights of the Paul Manafort trial currently underway. {AD}
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.. To slap a cop in the face, and get away with it? "It's a slap in the face," Broward…
From: Stderr
Men flow into life, and ebb into death. Some are filled with life; Some are empty with death; Some hold…
From: Stderr
This has become a theme of mine: who knows what, and when. It's an important issue, and if you believe…
From: Stderr
Remember when Ray Comfort went on and on about how the banana was clearly designed by a god, when the…
From: Pharyngula
My father used to say that the history of a time can't be written until all the bodies are buried.…
From: Stderr
Caine, a member of FtB, lost her battle with cancer this week. Honestly, I mainly knew her through the back…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
McCarthy is still around, and she has just issued a "call to action" -- the anti-vaxxers are supposed to rush…
From: Pharyngula
No. Here's a mind-blowing compilation of his conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, what worries me most isn't that this guy raves online…
From: Pharyngula
From Forbes, no less: Ticket Sales Dry Up for Noah's Ark Tourist Attraction. It gets even better in the body…
From: Pharyngula
Everyone knew that Krauss had been ill-behaved towards women, and there'd even been that story of him groping a fan…
From: Pharyngula
cn: sexual harassment I saw a New York Times article titled "What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist is Accused?"…
From: A Trivial Knot
London Pride 2018 took place on July 7 in central London with the theme 'Pride Matters'. Even though I now…
From: YEMMYnisting
The month of June heralded the start of Pride Month and it has been one pride after another here in…
From: YEMMYnisting
PZ at Pharyngula recently alerted me to what happened to Chrys Stevenson when she pointed out to the people on…
From: Mano Singham
Attentive readers may have noticed a while ago when I started referring to my robot boyfriend as my robot fiancé.…
From: A Trivial Knot
Samantha Bee tries to correct an imbalance in the way that sexual abuse of men and women are treated in…
From: Mano Singham
I did my first local TV interview on abuse affecting people of all genders 26 years ago this month. At…
From: Pervert Justice
It has rightly been pointed out that while atheists span the entire spectrum of the population, the atheist movement itself,…
From: Mano Singham
Oh god, I could tell exactly how this was going to turn out. A woman did an experiment: when she…
From: Pharyngula
It used to be I'd get up in the morning and get battered with blog comments and email, and now…
From: Pharyngula
By Dale Onofrey Hello. If you have been a long time reader of the Babbler, then you’ll remember that I…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
[caption id="attachment_51668" align="alignright" width="116"] No, not this one.[/caption] We are very pleased to now have a two screen theater here…
From: Pharyngula
This dog clearly believes in that maxim and quickly spirits its cat friend away from a fight with another cat.…
From: Mano Singham
Do you need one, too? I want to face the day like this every day.
From: Pharyngula
It occurs to me, in light of the comment on my latest bird article, some might imagine me depressed. Worry…
From: Great American Satan
I leave town for a few days, and crackpots start dunning the university's lawyers for petty information. Comma has been…
From: Pharyngula
I'm back home from my sojourn in Wisconsin, but now I have to flee the house, because my wife has…
From: Pharyngula
Before I begin, I just have a few housekeeping items. First, as you'll notice in the byline, my name is…
From: Bi Any Means
By Reporter X Alien Antifa fighters dealt a humiliating defeat to members of the Proud Boys who tried to violently…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The month of June heralded the start of Pride Month and it has been one pride after another here in…
From: YEMMYnisting
Here we go again. As announced by Pennsylvania State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a grand jury has released a report…
From: Pharyngula
[Note: I wrote almost all of this blog before learning of Caine's passing. I only interacted with her a few…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Today on the show, we talk about some of the news stories from this past week, including the recent announcement…
From: Bi Any Means
It has rightly been pointed out that while atheists span the entire spectrum of the population, the atheist movement itself,…
From: Mano Singham
My guest for today is David Niose. According to his bio, he is the legal director of the Appignani Humanist…
From: Bi Any Means
A horrific crime was committed by the Catholic Church at Tuam, Ireland. Single mothers and their babies were neglected and…
From: Pharyngula
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1018933359978909696 Yes asshole, obviously it is indeed your cultural upbringing. Or at least the bigoted cultural aspects you've consumed and,…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Political Correctness appears to have usurped religion’s title as arbiter of morality; Religion wants the title back. Political correctness has,…
From: Odgraphix
Morgan was unavailable for this episode, so today we have Nick Little from CFI joining us to take a look…
From: Bi Any Means
My guest for today is Dr. Marisa Richmond. She’s a transgender activist based in Nashville, TN who, in 2016, became…
From: Bi Any Means
Things have gotten quiet over here, due to SIGGRAPH. Picture a giant box of computer graphics nerds, crossed with a…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
An article asks, Reaching the stars: is human hibernation really possible? It's not very deep -- and it seems to…
From: Pharyngula
I was asked to summarize my Ph.D. thesis research…I usually think of this kind of question as more relevant for…
From: Pharyngula
You can find the most amazing things. Like a 3 meter long clubhook squid washed up on the shore.
From: Pharyngula
I was out for my morning saunter when I spotted this at a local pond: a baby turtle hitching a…
From: Pharyngula
Since 2004 or so, I've done a column over at SearchSecurity [ss] which started out as me doing a point/counterpoint…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_1914" align="aligncenter" width="404"] Image source: Wikipedia[/caption] The light mill, also known as the Crookes radiometer, is a little…
From: A Trivial Knot
It must be a constant source of humiliation for journalists that have to pretend to swallow something obviously absurd, so…
From: Stderr
I'd love to know what this dark matter stuff is, and you know that physicists want to know even more.…
From: Pharyngula
After that blustering buffoon badgering bison, it would be nice to see a thoughtful man behaving competently. How about this?…
From: Pharyngula
I was watching this video in which Chrisiousity takes apart a lecture by Gad Saad. Saad, as you may know,…
From: Pharyngula
Before I begin, I just have a few housekeeping items. First, as you'll notice in the byline, my name is…
From: Bi Any Means
London Pride 2018 took place on July 7 in central London with the theme 'Pride Matters'. Even though I now…
From: YEMMYnisting
This has become a theme of mine: who knows what, and when. It's an important issue, and if you believe…
From: Stderr
Cory Doctorow has a good essay where he critiques the recent alarms sounded by conservatives (triggered by the banning of…
From: Mano Singham
I did not know the minimum wage for jobs where tipping is common is $2.13. That is not a living…
From: Pharyngula
The billionaire Koch brothers, massive funders of all manner of right-wing candidates and organizations, who are totally against any government…
From: Mano Singham
There was an interesting case of a young women who blew through a stop sign at 60 mph and when…
From: Mano Singham
[Note: I wrote almost all of this blog before learning of Caine's passing. I only interacted with her a few…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
This is revealing. According to Laura Ingraham, demographic shifts are not organic, but have been forced upon the country by…
From: Pharyngula
By Dale Onofrey Hello. If you have been a long time reader of the Babbler, then you’ll remember that I…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
No one could ever figure out what Omarosa Manigault Newman's job was as an aide to Donald trump. The only…
From: Mano Singham
Lost in the primary news from last week was one item. You may recall me writing about Arthur Jones, described…
From: Mano Singham
You fall for a Sacha Baron Cohen stunt. https://twitter.com/cynicsanonymous/status/1028892851076247552 The guy is a gun nut named Dan Roberts, and is…
From: Pharyngula
You just voted, and all the candidates you voted for were 3 women and a Muslim man.
From: Pharyngula
You may recall the horrific killing by Israel in 2014 of four young children playing on a beach in Gaza.…
From: Mano Singham
I was traveling to attend a wedding over weekend and so did not get to follow the news but was…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X Alien Antifa fighters dealt a humiliating defeat to members of the Proud Boys who tried to violently…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
This has become a theme of mine: who knows what, and when. It's an important issue, and if you believe…
From: Stderr
Cory Doctorow has a good essay where he critiques the recent alarms sounded by conservatives (triggered by the banning of…
From: Mano Singham