Last March, I attended the APS March Meeting, which is the largest annual physics conference in the country (and perhaps…
From: A Trivial Knot
Saturday, July 1 is Canada Day, and Monday July 17 will mark sixteen years since I left Canada. Unlike most…
From: Intransitive
The novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) wrote books such as A Passage to India, Howard's End, and A Room With…
From: Mano Singham
When I first stumbled across the works of Tatjana Van Vark, back in the '90s, I was completely blown away.…
From: Stderr
In the thread about Bletchley Park, Dunc made a comment about the "foreshortening effect of living in a country with…
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I came across this clever mashup of British prime minister Theresa May into scenes from the iconic film Monty Python…
From: Mano Singham
Uh-oh. They're on to us, comrades. LOL!
From: Pharyngula
The frightening and false information that is being propagated by anti-vaxxers has led many people to either not vaccinate their…
From: Mano Singham
https://youtu.be/NPnCBe0cLos SEGA is going fully mobile with the launch of SEGA Forever, an app store collection that allows nostalgic gamers…
From: Affinity
This month we review Yes' 1972 seminal album "Close to the Edge" and Chris reveals why it's such a personal…
From: Bi Any Means
This is terrible. I'm supposed to be on the side of the atheists, but I can't help but agree that…
From: Pharyngula
WISDOM IN THREE PARTS: Part I: A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry…
From: Affinity
No, not that kind of angel dust. This would be Jehovah blessed, gold dust, from angels. Angel dandruff. Whatever it…
From: Affinity
True Leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are the leaders the people know and admire; after…
From: Stderr
Clementine Ford has published a book, Fight Like A Girl, and has written a number of columns like this one,…
From: Pharyngula
Earlier in the month, I had read about the christian wailing and gnashing of teeth over McDonald's having the awful…
From: Affinity
I was asked by Paulogia to say a few words about Answers in Genesis's news story about my visit to…
From: Pharyngula
This is a fantastically good video by ContraPoints on free speech. It's basically a dissection of what "free speech" actually…
From: Pharyngula
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
Mike Huckabee has been sued for illegally robocalling to plug his movie. It doesn't surprise me that he's a venal…
From: Pharyngula
During the LGBTQIA Pride Parade in Chicago on June 21, a pro-Israel attempted to co-opt the parades message of inclusion…
From: Intransitive
The Illinois News-Gazette has an interesting twist in an editorial. Read it and let's see if you can detect a…
From: Pharyngula
She has a fine statement on their fundamental dishonesty. Now, he and his followers are acting as if me publicly…
From: Pharyngula
I first realized I was bisexual in high school but didn’t come out until fifteen years later because I thought…
From: Bi Any Means
By Reporter X Ten Jewish lesbians — from the solar system of the Lost Tribes of Israel — were kicked…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
On June 15th, 2017, the Senate finally voted on Bill C-16 after nine months of stalling. It passed, overwhelmingly, and…
From: Against the Grain
I went out for a drink stroll before the crushing crowds completely take over the neighborhood. It was pretty fucking…
From: Death to Squirrels
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
Robert Oscar Lopez truly hates Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar. It's symptomatic of every wrong thing in the world!…
From: Affinity
I've always been a fan of gender quotas. Think about it: sexism is largely unconscious and subtle, which means it…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
That's the moment when Piers Morgan realizes his co-host has twisted his own knife around and stabbed him with it.…
From: Pharyngula
I love how humans try to get their hobbies turned into work. After all, that's a perfectly valid objective, and…
From: Stderr
True Leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are the leaders the people know and admire; after…
From: Stderr
As Dan Geer once said, "We all have limited time; thank you for yours." I've been doing this for a…
From: Stderr
To get to Lavecon, I took the midlands train from London/Euston up toward Birmingham, and got off at Northampton. On…
From: Stderr
All of us have had the experience of having to deal with someone who just rubs you the wrong way.…
From: Mano Singham
I will be in a live hangout with PZ in a few hours, at noon CDT. I'm just going to…
From: A Trivial Knot
Another hangout today? Yes! I'll finding out what Dr Sarah of the Geeky Humanist is up to at 4pm Central…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to be hanging out with Siggy of A Trivial Knot today at noon Central time. Here's Siggy's blurb:…
From: Pharyngula
Anita Sarkeesian was at a convention of youtubers this week, which sounds like a kind of hell. It's not that…
From: Pharyngula
Last month I wrote about a legal challenge brought by a of South African secularist group OGOD (Organisasie vir Godsdienste-Onderrig…
From: Mano Singham
Over time, I've believed anti-feminism is a cult of sorts. Their use of memes was a deciding factor, but there…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Yesterday, a 6,000 pound monument to the Ten Commandments was installed on the grounds of the Arkansas state capital building.…
From: Mano Singham
I am not sure how many people read the comments to my posts but quite often the commenters are very…
From: Mano Singham
When I came across this article by Candida Moss and Jessica Baron with the title Where in your body is…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X Ten Jewish lesbians — from the solar system of the Lost Tribes of Israel — were kicked…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
A friend of mine made me watch this; I had had too much wine, perhaps, and really couldn't believe I…
From: Stderr
Yesterday was Focus on the Family's 40th anniversary. I remember 1977 well enough, and I remember the low stirrings of…
From: Affinity
I am almost never asked, "Right Reverend Crip Dyke, if some community leader is going to be a self-professed Christian,…
From: Pervert Justice
Last March, I attended the APS March Meeting, which is the largest annual physics conference in the country (and perhaps…
From: A Trivial Knot
The novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) wrote books such as A Passage to India, Howard's End, and A Room With…
From: Mano Singham
Very exciting! After the last of its kind died out about 12,000 years ago, a strange animal that stumped Charles…
From: Death to Squirrels
If you're a grad student or postdoc planning to attend the Fourth International Volvox Conference, don't forget that travel grant applications are due this Saturday.…
From: Fierce Roller
This is a promotional video for the University of Utrecht, but it doesn't lie (although I'm beginning to detest the…
From: Pharyngula
The frightening and false information that is being propagated by anti-vaxxers has led many people to either not vaccinate their…
From: Mano Singham
I first realized I was bisexual in high school but didn’t come out until fifteen years later because I thought…
From: Bi Any Means
I previously pointed out that Casey Luskin's "false, straw-man [version] of ID" bears a striking resemblance to intelligent design advocate…
From: Fierce Roller
Existential Comics is... a bit of a weird read. Crudely drawn, a bit obsessed with nihilism, it nonetheless hits some…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
It's just too scary, and radioactive materials are just too weird. [caption id="attachment_35006" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The metal rods in the…
From: Pharyngula
Emphasis on sad. I've been a fan of her work for years and years, and quite abruptly she has completely…
From: Pharyngula
...It's about the message. In October of 2016, teachers across Seattle organized a campaign to wear a shirt displaying "Black…
From: Against the Grain
I keep getting asked to explain my position on the mess at Evergreen College. I've abstained so far because I…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X Ten Jewish lesbians — from the solar system of the Lost Tribes of Israel — were kicked…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Have you no shame? Shame on you for suggesting that! Take the walk of shame down the hall of shame.…
From: Odgraphix
On Friday June 23, 2017, Ari Melber, sitting in for Lawrence O'Donnell on, facilitated the best and most extensive examination…
From: COBS Web
In the past week, a Canadian law regulating the exercise of the right to medical assistance in dying (that right…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_18960" align="alignnone" width="1160"] Christian Picciolini, founder of the group Life After Hate, is pictured. | AP Photo.[/caption] If there…
From: Affinity
Suddenly, all these videos of the Philando Castile shooting are being released after the murder cop got acquitted. This latest…
From: Pharyngula
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, much to my frustration, seems to be coated in the same Teflon as the country itself,…
From: Against the Grain
Last month I wrote about a legal challenge brought by a of South African secularist group OGOD (Organisasie vir Godsdienste-Onderrig…
From: Mano Singham
So why do these guys think they can figure out health care policy? Here's Pete Olson, Republican from Texas, objecting…
From: Pharyngula
Hey, would you like to listen to Lee Greenwood's God Bless the U.S.A.? No? Good. Because this is the America…
From: Pharyngula
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880049704620494848 Donald J. Trump: "The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they…
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[caption id="attachment_19132" align="alignnone" width="800"] The Trump International Hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, is seen in Washington on Dec. 21,…
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I had assumed that Germany was one of those enlightened countries where same-sex marriages had long been legal and lesbians…
From: Mano Singham
I came across this clever mashup of British prime minister Theresa May into scenes from the iconic film Monty Python…
From: Mano Singham
I was going to point and laugh at Donald Trump for hanging a fake Time magazine cover in his golf…
From: Pharyngula
When there was a ghastly tragedy on April 4th, 2017 in Idlib, Syria that killed a large number of civilians,…
From: Mano Singham
Postmedia, the corporate near-monopoly on Canadian news outlets, is heavily invested in convincing the public that the same austerity which…
From: Against the Grain