The list of tragic deaths of innocent people caused by police and SWAT teams blasting into people's homes in the…
From: Mano Singham
It's been a while since we had a degupdate, and to be honest, for a long time I couldn't bear…
From: Affinity
Always good for a laugh. [caption id="attachment_62082" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption] Which reminds me…yesterday, my wife tried to cheer…
From: Pharyngula
We are now fed a regular diet of outrage about the most trivial of things. The latest are the ones…
From: Mano Singham
Sharing another poem from Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Forbidden I’m drowning in your choppy sea of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Judas and the Black Messiah is pretty fucking great. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in but was elated…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
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From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_3576" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Business Card Origami Orb, designed by Jeannine Mosely, with modification by me[/caption] This model has instructions…
From: A Trivial Knot
For those unfamiliar with it, yesterday's strip is an homage to the classic cross-talk act below by the comedy duo.…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_62054" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
It's time for another trip to the ruins of New Atheism, to scavenge for clues about its downfall. Today we…
From: A Trivial Knot
I am burnt out by free will. Although philosophers make a cogent case that free will exists in terms of…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Sharing another poem from Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Forbidden I’m drowning in your choppy sea of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
One of my major problems with Christianity, a problem that has become increasingly vivid in recent years, is the cultish…
From: Pharyngula
Yeah, I get YouTube comments now. Watch this guy go from you admitted that you think to therefore, Jesus! in…
From: Pharyngula
I mentioned earlier that I'd been on this "Philosophical Checkmate" discord server. It was an odd experience -- a few…
From: Pharyngula
As you should know, Naomi Wolf, former Clinton advisor, is now on the COVID denialism bandwagon. She has gotten worse.…
From: Pharyngula
OK, I've dealt with creationists. I've bumped into flat-earthers and walked away moaning. But now, people are claiming that there's…
From: Pharyngula
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
Sharing another poem from Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Forbidden I’m drowning in your choppy sea of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
People still pay attention to this conservative fraudster? Skip it. Irreversible Damage is simply more right-wing hysteria. The premise is…
From: Pharyngula
Jill Bearup is has made much more fun and informative video on the infamous boob armor than those made by…
From: Affinity
Conservatives: Gender is all about the penis. If you were born with a penis, you're a man. If not, you're…
From: Pervert Justice
What a buffoon. To respond to a colleague who posted support for civil rights for LGBT folk, she had to…
From: Pharyngula
It's another lethal gender reveal party. Growing up, Christopher and Michael Pekny were brothers and best friends. It only made…
From: Pharyngula
MI6 (formally known as the Secret Intelligence Service) is the UK's foreign intelligence service which spies on and in other countries.…
From: Intransitive
In the last few days, screenshots from a certain TERF's twitter page have been making the rounds in Transgender groups.…
From: Intransitive
As it is LGBT History month, I have written an updated version of my blog post-5 Things You Should Not…
From: YEMMYnisting
Well, hello, all; it's that time of the month again. Yup, the time when we wow you with the talents…
From: Geeky Humanist
It's been a while since we had a degupdate, and to be honest, for a long time I couldn't bear…
From: Affinity
Sharing another poem from Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Forbidden I’m drowning in your choppy sea of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I tried to walk in to open up the genetics lab this morning, and it ain't happening. The roads and…
From: Pharyngula
Readers may recall a previous post where a turkey held me hostage in my car for about half an hour.…
From: Mano Singham
It's a local thing. UMM students are making memes praising one of the cafeteria workers at JeanJeanPizzaQueen. It's so dang…
From: Pharyngula
As the April 6 Consolidated Election approaches, Bolingbrook’s wereskunks are now fractured between supporters of the First Party for Bolingbrook…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Some people who have been skating on the frozen canals in Europe despite warnings that the ice was thawing have…
From: Mano Singham
From: Pharyngula
Dear daughter, Yesterday was difficult. We’re still in the middle of the pandemic, so it was just another day of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
And a good topic. (By the way, spiders will eat mites.)
From: Pharyngula
Do Christians get the funny drilled out of them? I ask because I recently got this ad from Ray Comfort:…
From: Pharyngula
That dogmatic suppositionalist, Sye Ten Bruggencate, seems to have done a naughty. The only question is whether it was something…
From: Pharyngula
Sharing another poem from Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Forbidden I’m drowning in your choppy sea of…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
People who are homophobic and transphobic do not hesitate to say that their stance is what their god wants, as…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_61986" align="alignright" width="150"] Jan 6, 2021; Washington, DC, USA; Protesters at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Congress…
From: Pharyngula
Sharing another poem from my book, Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy. Thrive (a message to my younger self)…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
In the past few months, I’ve become a lot more open about being an atheist and I feel I have…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Isaac Bailey is not an atheist, but he makes the atheist case strongly. I'm struggling to hold fast to my…
From: Pharyngula
In general, the things that Jesus is reported to have said are fairly benign. (I do not want to get…
From: Mano Singham
The struggle for trans rights has, at the rhetorical and PR level, revolved around finding ways to get the cis,…
From: Oceanoxia
Always good for a laugh. [caption id="attachment_62082" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption] Which reminds me…yesterday, my wife tried to cheer…
From: Pharyngula
The establishment New York Times has a beautifully produced article about the collapse of the Gulf Stream. [nyt] It's got…
From: Stderr
In February 2021, an object was found amongst boxes donated to an organization. At first, it was mistaken for a…
From: Intransitive
When you start to track problems with the F-35, you may discover that the problems have problems and that there…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_62063" align="alignright" width="150"] Why do artists always put domes up? We'd be living in tunnels deep under the Martian…
From: Pharyngula
Sorry, I invented a label. It's to describe a nonsensical fad that I keep running into. It's like steampunk: romanticizing…
From: Pharyngula
Gizmodo has published a slideshow of 17 images taken on Mars from the current mission. In one of them, it…
From: Mano Singham
It is stunning that anyone still thinks Elon Musk is a smart guy. Shannon Stirone tears into one of his…
From: Pharyngula
When I came up with the name "stderr" for this blog, I was thinking about the way that the error-stream…
From: Stderr
Despite the sombre milestone of 500,000 deaths being passed, the numbers in the US continue to move in a good…
From: Mano Singham
The list of tragic deaths of innocent people caused by police and SWAT teams blasting into people's homes in the…
From: Mano Singham
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has opened a war crimes investigation into war crimes committed in the…
From: Mano Singham
We are now fed a regular diet of outrage about the most trivial of things. The latest are the ones…
From: Mano Singham
This is the first I've heard of it, too. Thursday is being claimed as the inaugural "Weird Pride Day" (same…
From: Intransitive
Judas and the Black Messiah is pretty fucking great. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in but was elated…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Yesterday, I visited a Discord server called Philosophical Checkmate for a bit of a freewheeling discussion. It was a mixed…
From: Pharyngula
Conservatives: Gender is all about the penis. If you were born with a penis, you're a man. If not, you're…
From: Pervert Justice
So, some schmuck named Luke Russell Coffee has been arrested for his participation in the 1/6 insurrection. I don't blog about every…
From: Pervert Justice
Crusading journalist, novelist, and one-time socialist candidate for governor of California in 1934, Upton Sinclair wrote a novel The Jungle…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
The list of tragic deaths of innocent people caused by police and SWAT teams blasting into people's homes in the…
From: Mano Singham
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has opened a war crimes investigation into war crimes committed in the…
From: Mano Singham
We are now fed a regular diet of outrage about the most trivial of things. The latest are the ones…
From: Mano Singham
Joe Biden's pick to head the Office of Management and Budget has withdrawn her name in the face of stiff…
From: Mano Singham
Judas and the Black Messiah is pretty fucking great. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in but was elated…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General of the US Postal Service, was a businessperson and Republican fundraiser with no experience in…
From: Mano Singham
This one shocked me. In retrospect, I realize it shouldn't have. Over at CounterPunch, there is a piece about Klaus…
From: Stderr
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From: Mano Singham
People who are homophobic and transphobic do not hesitate to say that their stance is what their god wants, as…
From: Mano Singham
When you start to track problems with the F-35, you may discover that the problems have problems and that there…
From: Stderr