Creating things for the future, or to give people pleasure, is an optimistic act. I finally got that big hunk…
From: Stderr
In a 2011 episode of Colbert's former show The Colbert Report, they sang acapella the Bill Withers song. The lyrics…
From: Mano Singham
I gotta post something to bump my last post, since it has a song in my head that I'd rather…
From: Great American Satan
I just love how this simple, factual message is stitched onto such bright yellow fabric. It has the feel of…
From: Death to Squirrels
It's been a long day and I'm tired, so I'll leave you in the capable hands of Ze Frank. Enjoy…
From: Oceanoxia
This is all over the interwebs, as it should be, so I won't apologize if you've already seen it. Apparently…
From: Stderr
https://youtu.be/ikvslWjx0EE
From: Oceanoxia
I did not read the best-selling book The Da Vinci Code, suspecting right from the beginning that, despite its extraordinary…
From: Mano Singham
Normally I pay zero attention to any awards shows. If an artist or their work was good, they usually get…
From: Intransitive
Making boxes is one of the fundamental techniques of woodworking, and it's also kind of a pain in the ass.…
From: Stderr
I was suspicious at the first paragraph -- who is out hugging strangers nowadays? -- but the whole second paragraph…
From: Pharyngula
There has been many megabytes of pixels spilled, writing about the US exit from Afghanistan. The tragedy, if there is…
From: Stderr
One of the most influential books in my life has been Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchism [stderr] [wc].…
From: Stderr
Good work, design team! After 52 years of fruitful ministry, the Institute for Creation Research is renewing its commitment to…
From: Pharyngula
Hovind responded to my challenge, which was to leave me out of his rigged debates and just go read a…
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
A bit over ten years ago, a bunch of us faced a dilemma: National Geographic had taken over hosting of…
From: Pharyngula
I got tired of Kent Hovind constantly demanding that I, and other people, debate him, so I offer an alternative.…
From: Pharyngula
Kent is back, begging for attention. Here are a couple of comments he left on my YouTube channel. I'll respond…
From: Pharyngula
I had to look at what they were saying about these beautiful animals, and <shock, horror> they are lying about…
From: Pharyngula
Remember the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, that field station where the boys ran wild and made life miserable for women…
From: Pharyngula
Branko Marcetic writes that while the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell did not blow the lid off the whole sordid Epstein…
From: Mano Singham
Normally I pay zero attention to any awards shows. If an artist or their work was good, they usually get…
From: Intransitive
When you're not grounded by evidence, speculation can take you to some very wild places.The Frontline COVID Critical Care Alliance,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
One of the reasons why I write science fiction, is that it's a way for me to think about what…
From: Oceanoxia
One of the consequences of having a great deal of math and physics education, is that whenever I learn about…
From: A Trivial Knot
As part of the legal proceeding involving Virginia Giuffre's charge that Prince Andrew was one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends that…
From: Mano Singham
Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted in the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse saga, the next case to follow will…
From: Mano Singham
I've noticed this phenomenon before: women, often self declared feminists, write about their fundamental unhappiness in their heterosexual marriages. They…
From: Affinity
A sexual harassment case brought by a student against a professor at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities -- my…
From: Pharyngula
I wanted to buy some food-safe wood glue because, with the overabundance of jatoba, I want to try to make…
From: Affinity
Sweet dreams. https://twitter.com/NewTRNewsAgency/status/1483410278582784002 I didn't have any such dreams -- I could barely sleep last night. Today classes resume, and…
From: Pharyngula
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the…
From: Stderr
The final part of kestrel's viral art project. Enjoy. Hepatitis B Virus can actually be prevented with a vaccine: [caption…
From: Affinity
The public school district in Willmar had to put 11 employees on leave when they refused to comply with some…
From: Pharyngula
There was a time when I could walk into a classroom, plug my laptop into a cable to the video…
From: Pharyngula
The US and its allies have set up a re-match for the Cuban Missile Crisis, which most people recognize as…
From: Stderr
Ghislaine Maxwell has decided to unclench and is no longer going to fight to keep the names of 8 "clients"…
From: Pharyngula
Content Warnings: Suicide, Vomit, Drowning, Trump Picture this. It's a medium overcast day on a shore somewhere in New…
From: Great American Satan
I have to start teaching in-person on Tuesday, and I've laid in a supply of N94 and N95 masks in…
From: Pharyngula
The sexual abuse of minors is an extremely ugly thing that rightly arouses great anger among people. This is likely…
From: Mano Singham
Oh boy, Answers in Genesis has published their assessment of the James Webb Space Telescope. They've already decided that it'll…
From: Pharyngula
It's been one revolution around the sun since Trump and part of the Republican Party enacted the coup attempt they'd…
From: Oceanoxia
I keep expecting no more of these stories. Maybe the increasing number of them is a good sign for the…
From: Intransitive
We atheists really can't take credit for it -- years of shaking our fists at the churches and patiently explaining…
From: Pharyngula
The indefatigable South African fighter for human rights died today at the age of 90. His achievements are well known…
From: Mano Singham
I cannot express my feelings about Christmas better than this cartoon. (Calamities of Nature) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
CBSN looks at the growing split within the evangelical movement between those who take extreme ideological stances and those who…
From: Mano Singham
Some people who do not want to get the vaccine but are required to do so because of their work…
From: Mano Singham
Content Warning: Cannibalism, Christmas When I was a kid I wondered how an infant full of holes survived, and why…
From: Stderr
After being kicked out of Australia for not meeting that country's requirements for entry, tennis player Novak Djokovic now faces…
From: Mano Singham
There is a giant space rock hurtling towards Earth! It is predicted to miss, and usually I'd trust the math…
From: Pharyngula
(Previous posts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part…
From: Mano Singham
I'm putting together a larger post on this, and I wanted to take a little time with it, so here's…
From: Oceanoxia
It's been a long day and I'm tired, so I'll leave you in the capable hands of Ze Frank. Enjoy…
From: Oceanoxia
An underwater volcanic eruption in the Pacific has triggered Tsunami warnings. The hardest hit is the island of Tonga and…
From: Mano Singham
You'd thnk something this important would be remembered. I'm mildly annoyed at myself because I mentioned it previously. Frederick Banting…
From: Intransitive
I am not the kind of person who chooses to go on cruise ships. I have been on long ocean…
From: Mano Singham
(Previous posts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part…
From: Mano Singham
The blanket octopus breaks all the rules.
From: Pharyngula
Apparently the agriculture post is going to take me another day - sorry about that! For any readers outside the…
From: Oceanoxia
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, a federal holiday. As longtime readers may recall, it…
From: Death to Squirrels
Today, the Republicans who oppose voting rights for black Americans are all piously praising and quoting Martin Luther King Jr.…
From: Pharyngula
Happy Martin Luther King Day! Or, more accurately, Racism-Is-Over-Because-We-Named-It-After-A-Black-Man Day! Here in the Great White North, our big state newspaper…
From: Pharyngula
The sexual abuse of minors is an extremely ugly thing that rightly arouses great anger among people. This is likely…
From: Mano Singham
The healthcare "system" of the United States is so deeply, unforgivably fucked up that it's hard to put into words.…
From: Oceanoxia
There has been many megabytes of pixels spilled, writing about the US exit from Afghanistan. The tragedy, if there is…
From: Stderr
Just listen to this Texas school board member to see why. https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1481340511923359753 He doesn't want his school district to become…
From: Pharyngula
I'm glad they do, or I wouldn't realize that some people think Blazing Saddles is "One of the greatest conservative…
From: Pharyngula
Content Warning: Religious Violence I'm not going to wade into the discussion surrounding Rebecca Solnit's opinion piece [sol] that argues…
From: Stderr
After being kicked out of Australia for not meeting that country's requirements for entry, tennis player Novak Djokovic now faces…
From: Mano Singham
Looks like the Europe edition of "Syria, the overthrow." Remember: the 'founding fathers' of the US tried to put some…
From: Stderr
Vice had an article about a family that was split apart when the 18-year old son reported their father to…
From: Mano Singham
James O'Brien shows us the way. It's a UK-centric rant, but that's OK, everything he says can be applied to…
From: Pharyngula
We're under the rule of a minority, selected for their wealth and willingness to support the wishes of the super-wealthy,…
From: Pharyngula
Apparently the agriculture post is going to take me another day - sorry about that! For any readers outside the…
From: Oceanoxia
Today, the Republicans who oppose voting rights for black Americans are all piously praising and quoting Martin Luther King Jr.…
From: Pharyngula
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the…
From: Stderr
I'm putting together a larger post on this, and I wanted to take a little time with it, so here's…
From: Oceanoxia
Novak Djokovic has been expelled from Australia after an Australian federal court panel unanimously upheld the deportation order issued on…
From: Mano Singham