QGCon is a queer games criticism conference that I attended in 2013 and 2014, because it was next door, and…
From: A Trivial Knot
I've been depressing lately. This should make you feel better: Nina Hagen did an entire album of swing music and…
From: Stderr
im not feeling very clever at the moment -
From: Great American Satan
Content Warnings: Bloody Movie Violence, Swears, Noisy Audio, Spoilers for John Woo's Hard-Boiled. Even the thumbnail for the video is…
From: Great American Satan
From his movie "Dirty Deeds." Honestly, I don't remember anything about the movie except this part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9EDE_bnws
From: Great American Satan
The comedian just died of cancer at the age of 61. I had never actually seen him perform but read…
From: Mano Singham
In the crazy media world we live in these days, I saw multiple headlines about a story in which Nicki…
From: Mano Singham
An amusing item: On September 3, Swedish band Night Flight Orchestra released their second album, Aeromantic II. One song on…
From: Intransitive
I have written before that the philosophy "Don't be a jerk" is a simple, straightforward, easy-to-understand-and-implement one because jerk behavior…
From: Mano Singham
No thagomizers. [caption id="attachment_63873" align="aligncenter" width="427"] The Far Side[/caption] It's still early in the 21st century, the students will figure…
From: Pharyngula
I was forced to take an Uber today, and the driver was talking about how wonderful it is not knowing…
From: Jonathan's Musings
A decade ago I briefly tangled with Bob Enyart and his pal Fred Williams. They had a show called Real…
From: Pharyngula
When I was a student at the University of Iowa back in the 1980s, I was a member of a…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Time to explain why Boghossian's resignation is a) not newsworthy, and b) good and appropriate.
From: Pharyngula
Despite our participation in the free market being a positive summed game when we gain wealth, this does not mean…
From: Jonathan's Musings
I guess the Aubrey de Grey affair, in which he was accused of sexual harrasment and lost his job, has…
From: Pharyngula
The last post argues, not from me but from thirty years' worth of epidemiological studies, that where we are positioned…
From: Jonathan's Musings
HJ doesn't do comments at his blog, but his recent article about Harriet Hall - concluded with a simply told…
From: Great American Satan
This post is on the conclusions that epidemiologists have come to after three decades of research: the Joneses are very…
From: Jonathan's Musings
[caption id="attachment_16723" align="alignright" width="150"] The Cultural Marxist War against DarwinismCreationists: evolution is a social construct, not biologically real.Liberal Creationists: race…
From: Pharyngula
In December 2020, courts in the UK inexplicably and incompetently ruled that hormones were "experimental" and thus should be denied…
From: Intransitive
Texas has passed an extremely restrictive law, effectively eliminating a woman's right to have an abortion by authorizing any person…
From: Mano Singham
Please do tear into Andrew Sullivan. This review of one of his books in The Baffler does a fine job…
From: Pharyngula
A lot of attention has been paid recently to the abortion law passed in Texas that places such great restrictions…
From: Mano Singham
I read a brilliant review of what may be a brilliant book (I'll have to read it to find out),…
From: Pharyngula
The Terrible, Egregious Racists and Fascists (TERFs) prove once again how willing they are to live down to their name,…
From: Intransitive
Democratic senator Joe Manchin has been using the influence he has achieved as a result of a 50-50 tie in…
From: Mano Singham
Months after Harriet Hall review of Irreversible Damage was pulled from Science-Based Medicine, she posted a revised version of it.…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
HJ doesn't do comments at his blog, but his recent article about Harriet Hall - concluded with a simply told…
From: Great American Satan
Whoops! When I wasn't looking, Harriet Hall had a peek at what her critics have been saying and created a…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl are a hockey team in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Most KHL teams (19) are based in Russia,…
From: Intransitive
Periodically there's a flurry of discussion about ways people can help with a movement beyond being on the front lines.…
From: Oceanoxia
My son Connlann went clamming for the first time ever, and got his limit in about 20 minutes. Unfortunately, it…
From: Pharyngula
I coulda cried. I went to the movies last night, and it wasn't another goddamned comic-book super-hero franchise movie. All…
From: Pharyngula
To the moon, Alice, to the moon! [caption id="attachment_63937" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Stevens County Covid Cases[/caption] Look at that. No COVID-19…
From: Pharyngula
Guest posts by Ice Swimmer There is a brackish water fish exhibit on the island Harakka. The fishes, caught from…
From: Affinity
Scatterbrain and procrastinator that I am, I never got around to the second part on the family tree of Chase…
From: Intransitive
Clive Sinclair has died after a ten year battle with cancer (July 30, 1940 to September 16, 2021). Sinclair was…
From: Intransitive
This is not a common sight. A single male roe deer, grazing near-ish our house in the middle of the…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_63934" align="alignright" width="150"] Who kills, again? Fuck every one of these assholes.[/caption] They are all aiding and abetting murder…
From: Pharyngula
I was forced to take an Uber today, and the driver was talking about how wonderful it is not knowing…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Bob Enyart was an anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, religious fanatic, anti-LGBTQIA bigot and all around reprobate who contributed nothing to the world. …
From: Intransitive
This cartoon shows how at some point, efforts to do so will hit inevitably a rock and collapse.The only difference…
From: Mano Singham
I must admit that hearing that some people believe in the existence of 'lizard people' took me by surprise, even…
From: Mano Singham
In lieu of a post, I will refer you to an article of mine that was just published in Scientific…
From: Mano Singham
We seem to be awash in various culture wars that seem to never end. So it is good to consider…
From: Mano Singham
Come on, people! At least try to do a little bit. (Tom the Dancing Bug)
From: Mano Singham
Answers in Genesis is fond of a peculiar metaphor: portraying secularism and Christianity as two castles in a bitter war.…
From: Pharyngula
The internet is awash with examples of people in the US who believe in the craziest things. Even without seeking…
From: Mano Singham
I've been watching the smart people at the top of the university hierarchy slowly realize that there's still a pandemic…
From: Pharyngula
I also ran across this video today, the seven types of factorials. I knew several of them from statistics, compsci,…
From: Intransitive
Have you ever wondered why there are no green stars? A good educated guess is that it's related to the…
From: Intransitive
It was a dark and stormy night in Okinawa, 1962; the seas were beaten into foam by the wind that…
From: Stderr
Today I'm going to answer some patron/reader questions: • Viruses replicate? Does that mean they mutate in infected people, too?…
From: Pharyngula
I had to comment on all the recent news about resurrecting mammoths, ala Jurassic Park. Nah, it's not happening in…
From: Pharyngula
One of the more curious incidents in science history is 'polywater'. The existence of polywater was suggested by a Russian…
From: Mano Singham
The comedian just died of cancer at the age of 61. I had never actually seen him perform but read…
From: Mano Singham
In the crazy media world we live in these days, I saw multiple headlines about a story in which Nicki…
From: Mano Singham
Robert Paul Wolff is one of my favorite writers. I came across his work completely by accident: dad was getting…
From: Stderr
Old news. Nothing gets between a fiercely protective mother spider and her children. Dripping tree resin trapped adult female spiders…
From: Pharyngula
It was a dark and stormy night in Okinawa, 1962; the seas were beaten into foam by the wind that…
From: Stderr
A lot of attention has been paid recently to the abortion law passed in Texas that places such great restrictions…
From: Mano Singham
Robert Paul Wolff is one of my favorite writers. I came across his work completely by accident: dad was getting…
From: Stderr
When I was a student at the University of Iowa back in the 1980s, I was a member of a…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
When I encounter wildly different perspectives, I freeze in place like the proverbial rabbit in headlights. My brain just locks…
From: Stderr
In the August 30, 2021 issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande takes a close look at the health care…
From: Mano Singham
Sometimes people who get frustrated by deep injustices in democratic societies seem to give up on their governments doing the…
From: Mano Singham
Despite our participation in the free market being a positive summed game when we gain wealth, this does not mean…
From: Jonathan's Musings
On this anniversary of 9/11, I think this Giant If comic is close to how I feel: Never forget...that we…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The last post argues, not from me but from thirty years' worth of epidemiological studies, that where we are positioned…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Texas has passed an extremely restrictive law, effectively eliminating a woman's right to have an abortion by authorizing any person…
From: Mano Singham
Periodically there's a flurry of discussion about ways people can help with a movement beyond being on the front lines.…
From: Oceanoxia
It was a dark and stormy night in Okinawa, 1962; the seas were beaten into foam by the wind that…
From: Stderr
One thing I have learned is never to trust where the political sympathies of an electorate are by what I…
From: Mano Singham
The US military has admitted that the drone strike that it carried out that they initially claimed killed a major…
From: Mano Singham
A lot of attention has been paid recently to the abortion law passed in Texas that places such great restrictions…
From: Mano Singham
It's enlightening and amusing to see what the kooks are up to. They live in a world where every stupid…
From: Pharyngula
The incumbent governor of California Gavin Newsom easily defeated the costly effort to recall him, with the Associated Press calling…
From: Mano Singham
Gavin Newsom's victory in Tuesday's recall ballot was a foregone conclusion - not because "teh elekshun was stowlun!" as trumpkins…
From: Intransitive
Robert Paul Wolff is one of my favorite writers. I came across his work completely by accident: dad was getting…
From: Stderr