Sometimes, I just have too many nearly-completed projects and experiments. These are experimental blades I made by taking a chunk…
From: Stderr
I've never watched Downton Abbey. I did see Gosford Park, which is a sort of predecessor, but for all I…
From: Oceanoxia
I decided to reinforce the throat of the handle with epoxy and carbon fiber tape. Instead of doing like before,…
From: Stderr
Recently I saw notices for "concerts" coming to Taiwan. Sam Smith. Westlife. Coldplay. Seriously, that's it? Taiwan has better bar…
From: Intransitive
I was going to hold off a day or two to avoid mentioning two TV shows close together, but after…
From: Intransitive
Content Warning: Suicide. Death stuff. But I end on a positive note, I swear. "Sweet lovely Death, I'm just waiting…
From: Great American Satan
The idea for this post started with my daughter coming home from the neighbor’s house and telling us that the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The Fixx's second album "Reach The Beach" was released on May 15, 1983, forty years ago. It contained several hit…
From: Intransitive
The rock and roll legend died today at the age of 84. The survivor of an abusive marriage to the…
From: Mano Singham
Anyone over age 45 will likely remember the miniseries "V", first broadcast on May 1-2, 1983, forty years ago. It…
From: Intransitive
She's a doctor, she must know all the inner secrets! Except…she's not a real doctor. She's a chiropractor. I don't…
From: Pharyngula
Has anybody read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton? It's about a man who gets a brain implant to correct…
From: Pharyngula
It leads stupid people like Ray Comfort to say things like this: [caption id="attachment_70221" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Queen of rock…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham has declared that he cannot respect other people's pronouns. The reason: that would be lying. As believers, we…
From: Pharyngula
Every once in a while, it sinks into the creationist mind that they have a problem, the heat problem. They…
From: Pharyngula
I was reminded on Mastodon that I used to live in Eugene, and shared the city with a particular creationist…
From: Pharyngula
Calm down, he's not dead yet. At his age, though, he's probably contemplating his future successor. Bodie Hodge, his son-in-law,…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham was asked if Muslims are going to hell. His answer: Well, it doesn’t matter if one is a…
From: Pharyngula
I’m sure all families indoctrinate their children to a degree – even if it’s not religious. My daughter recently had…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Just start talking about how the IRS needs to look into using AI to review every single tax return, fairly,…
From: Stderr
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
A couple of days ago, I ran across a pro-life (as in, anti-abortion) meme on Facebook: For those of you…
From: Geeky Humanist
cn: This review makes no attempt to avoid spoilers Bros is a 2022 gay romcom described as the first movie…
From: A Trivial Knot
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexology) in 1919, in Berlin, Germany. Its purpose was to…
From: Intransitive
The idea for this post started with my daughter coming home from the neighbor’s house and telling us that the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
For those not familiar with upper midwestern geography, Minnesota is right next to North Dakota. The largest city in North…
From: Pharyngula
I once worked in an animal surgery, and one night a 150 lb dog hooked a claw under an experimentally…
From: Pharyngula
I have been aware of the Satanic Temple as largely a group that seeks to dethrone religion's dominance in US…
From: Mano Singham
All I can say is…you go, girl. Boebert built her career on sanctimonious, though often incoherent, lectures on the supposed…
From: Pharyngula
One of the common TERF talking points is, “If I grew up today, I would have (wrongly) believed I was…
From: A Trivial Knot
There is not much to say. Of course the republicans are shitheads, for trying to take the economy hostage in…
From: Stderr
Bolingbrook Mary Alexander-Basta laid a wreath at the Time War Memorial to honor those who died before the Men in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
This, Dear Readers, is Mister Elegance. For those who can't see, he's a mostly black cat, sitting hunched over with…
From: Oceanoxia
Previous post. You have seen my money tree Crassula ovata before. It is probably my oldest bonsai tree, now somewhere…
From: Affinity
The idea for this post started with my daughter coming home from the neighbor’s house and telling us that the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Apologies for my nine month absence, a result of personal issues (none legal) and depression due to them. You never…
From: Intransitive
One of the most energetic voices of my youth is no more. In a statement on Wednesday night, a representative…
From: Pharyngula
This popped up in my Youtube recommendations, and I'm mostly working on the novel today, so I thought I'd share…
From: Oceanoxia
In the early hours of Tuesday 16 May 2023, my beloved sister, Kehinde Ilesanmi, passed away. She was 37 years…
From: YEMMYnisting
Uh-oh, my granddaughter Iliana has been warped by living with a grad student. [caption id="attachment_70168" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Instagram[/caption] I guess…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
After their attempt to stuff the ten commandments into classrooms failed, the Texas legislature rebounds and succeeds in stuffing chaplains…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_70206" align="alignright" width="150"] Look at that stupid gomer.[/caption] Texas tried to pass a blatantly unconstitutional ten commandments law. Texas…
From: Pharyngula
You knew this would set ol' Bill's non-existent hair on fire: the Los Angeles Dodgers invited a drag group, the…
From: Pharyngula
On 2 June, we get a new docuseries on the Duggars, Bill Gothard, and the IBLP cult. It's going to…
From: Pharyngula
I have been aware of the Satanic Temple as largely a group that seeks to dethrone religion's dominance in US…
From: Mano Singham
See that guy draped with ammo for his gun? That's Bryan Slaton, a Republican slimeball from Texas, who committed an…
From: Pharyngula
I work for an arts program in a mental health organization, and since I sometimes work with kids, I am…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Japan is instituting some new guidelines for recognizing religious abuse. It would be nice to see something like this in…
From: Pharyngula
Let’s pretend for a minute that I wasn’t a skeptical person – that I didn’t ask a million questions. Maybe…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
For as long as I've been paying attention, folks talking about climate change have been pointing to insurance companies as…
From: Oceanoxia
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
Anyone who's ever worked with Dijkstra's algorithm or complex information systems understands matrices, and knows what a PITA they are. …
From: Intransitive
Blood is life, you know. That's been the lesson from science documentaries like Dracula and Mad Max: Fury Road. Remember…
From: Pharyngula
My wife was working in the garden this morning, while I was vegetating in front of the computer. One of…
From: Pharyngula
I was wondering what Neuralink is good for -- it must be for treating some serious medical condition, since it…
From: Pharyngula
Has anybody read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton? It's about a man who gets a brain implant to correct…
From: Pharyngula
I've got a few fiction projects that I've put on the back burner over the last year or so. There's…
From: Oceanoxia
Back in 2015, there was this interesting phenomenon about people seeing a photograph of a dress and coming down sharply…
From: Mano Singham
Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson are two high school students at St Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana. They have…
From: Intransitive
On Friday, US district judge Amit Mehta handed down two more sentences to Oath Keepers for their role in the…
From: Mano Singham
The internet is a mixed bag. While it has been an exceptional vehicle for increased communication and information access, it…
From: Mano Singham
I've got a few fiction projects that I've put on the back burner over the last year or so. There's…
From: Oceanoxia
Once upon a time, when I was but a child, I called the cops on my brother's friends due to…
From: Oceanoxia
It is astonishing the extent that right wingers will go to in their efforts to make like difficult for immigrants…
From: Mano Singham
I just discovered an op-ed from 2021 written by Anna Krylov, the crusader against political correctness whose terrible paper I…
From: Pharyngula
Ah, affirmative action. I'd forgotten about it. It just doesn't come up much in my life. There are some institutions…
From: Great American Satan
The leaders of the extremists groups behind the attacks on January 6th have had some serious setbacks in the courts.…
From: Mano Singham
In a comment on my post about the TV series Les Misérables and colorblind casting, commenter Raging Bee made two…
From: Mano Singham
We know that Hitler and the Nazis were impressed by racist and eugenics ideas in the US and that they…
From: Mano Singham
For as long as I've been paying attention, folks talking about climate change have been pointing to insurance companies as…
From: Oceanoxia
Ken Paxton has been one of the most right wing and belligerent of Trump's supporters, advancing all manner of propositions…
From: Mano Singham
There is not much to say. Of course the republicans are shitheads, for trying to take the economy hostage in…
From: Stderr
On Friday, US district judge Amit Mehta handed down two more sentences to Oath Keepers for their role in the…
From: Mano Singham
I've never watched Downton Abbey. I did see Gosford Park, which is a sort of predecessor, but for all I…
From: Oceanoxia
House speaker Kevin McCarthy and his Republican negotiators have reached a deal with Joe Biden and Democratic negotiators over a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_70244" align="alignright" width="129"] American Idiot[/caption] You may have heard that the state of Florida banned a poem by Amanda…
From: Pharyngula
The internet is a mixed bag. While it has been an exceptional vehicle for increased communication and information access, it…
From: Mano Singham
Axios recently published an item on inflation over the past four years. Everyone who wasn't a rightwingnut and either works…
From: Intransitive
As of Thursday's close, the amount of cash in the government's account was just $38.837 billion, the lowest it has…
From: Mano Singham