If you're already feeling sad, just skip this post. The coal mining jobs are never going to come back. Mostly…
From: Stderr
Oversized kittens [caption id="attachment_33955" align="alignnone" width="800"] Ready?©Giliell, all rights reserved[/caption] [caption id="attachment_33956" align="alignnone" width="400"] Look, look, I'm climbing a tree!©Giliell,…
From: Affinity
Verschlimmbessern, verb, German: Making something worse by trying to improve it. I tried to somehow righten the mistakes I made…
From: Affinity
Last year we didn't really have too much of an autumn show of colour. Instead, most trees just went from…
From: Affinity
This week's Friday Feathers come from Nightjar who writes this: These sanderlings briefly landed in front of me during…
From: Affinity
The acclaimed singer-song writer-guitarist has announced that he is retiring from concert tours. He has had a long and illustrious…
From: Mano Singham
While David's tulips are most gorgeous, my woods are just as colourful, though the flowers are my potted plants. I'm…
From: Affinity
This week's recipe comes thanks to kestrel. Hmmm, too bad we don't have plums this year. I'll let kestrel take…
From: Affinity
I do not read much fiction these days but I used to read it a lot in the past, especially…
From: Mano Singham
I've been in a bit of personal debate recently about whether or not to get me some sort of starter…
From: Affinity
Or Andy Lewis or mariamaclachlan or Maria MacLachlan (if those latter two are different people). Sometimes I despair of getting…
From: Pervert Justice
I rarely do this outside of classrooms, but I'm going to give folks here some definitions that are in common…
From: Pervert Justice
Classic conspiracy theories galore at this facebook page, United 4 Truth. But also this: Do you want the explanation that…
From: Pharyngula
Related to my previous post, the latest tale of a white woman calling the cops on black people is the…
From: Pharyngula
Last week, I banned Andy Lewis, Maria Maclachlan, Alan Henness and a few of their friends. Oh, the weeping and…
From: Pharyngula
Uh-oh. Brace yourself for waves of outrage and rationalizations from Sam Harris and his fan boys. Eli Massey and Nathan…
From: Pharyngula
Just a reminder that the humanist charity, Foundation Beyond Belief, is still raising funds for hurricane relief, including for the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My guest for today is Courtney Heard. She’s been blogging about atheism and secular humanism at Godless Mom since 2014,…
From: Bi Any Means
It is time for Argument Clinic to tackle one of the most important topics in argumentation today: how to deal…
From: Stderr
I was introduced to another good take-down of that silly anti-"grievance studies" campaign. What I particularly appreciated is that this…
From: Pharyngula
I was recommended a YouTube video, "Transphobia: An Analysis," and it easily lives up to its name. I noticed an…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
John McLaughlin was an influntial conservative and used to host a public affairs show on public television that I stopped…
From: Mano Singham
I rarely do this outside of classrooms, but I'm going to give folks here some definitions that are in common…
From: Pervert Justice
There is a widespread and pervasive myth that children are frequently being pushed into gender transition therapies. It's a dangerous…
From: Geeky Humanist
Last week, I banned Andy Lewis, Maria Maclachlan, Alan Henness and a few of their friends. Oh, the weeping and…
From: Pharyngula
CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault, Racism, Transphobia According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 40 percent of trans people have attempted suicide…
From: Bi Any Means
This article seems almost prescient (in its tone, if nothing else), despite being merely a summary of particular trends. It's…
From: Pervert Justice
After Kavanaugh’s Destruction…
That's news to me, but it's actually good news, I'm just missing the details. Did he explode, was he loaded…
From: Pharyngula
So, in a Pharyngula thread Giliell observed: Actually I do think that people, especially white men*, voting for Trump because…
From: Pervert Justice
The Cleveland Orchestra has the reputation of being one of the best in the world. The city points proudly to…
From: Mano Singham
You are allowed to have irrational fears, and it's fine if you have a personal aversion. What is not fine…
From: Pharyngula
If you somehow missed my series of blog posts on this "grievance studies" debacle, or you'd just like the info…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
I may have to rename the blog, since doubling the number of grandchildren means this is more aptly named "Grandkids…
From: Pharyngula
Close to my home is a French cuisine restaurant called Edwins where I have eaten a couple of times. What…
From: Mano Singham
A 5000 year old grave in Iran contained the remains of a 25-30 year old, upper class woman. There's something…
From: Pharyngula
During a secret executive session of the DuPage Township Board, Trustee Maripat Oliver announced that she is leaving the Illuminati,…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
At least the weekend is over and done with. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EnrFe3Zb6k[/embed]
From: Affinity
If you're in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and you want to start your Halloween celebration a bit early, check out…
From: Freethinking Ahead
Really, we've got them all hoodwinked into thinking college is a way to learn things and launch a career…if they…
From: Pharyngula
One of the weirdest trends is where people pay enormous amounts of money for clothes items that look well-worn or…
From: Mano Singham
That atheists can be virtuous is so obvious that it is not something that needs to be stated. But we…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_33777" align="alignnone" width="163"] Source: Wikimedia[/caption] Remember when "liberals" praised Pope Francis for being so progressive? Our lovely progressive Pope…
From: Affinity
In my post on the short BBC true-false quiz on popular misconceptions about evolution, I mentioned that I had got…
From: Mano Singham
Catholic morality demands rapists face no punishment when their victims testify as to their deeds, according to Bishop Donald Sanborn:…
From: Pervert Justice
Let's pretend, for just a moment, that we have rule of law in America right now, and that this country…
From: Oceanoxia
The BBC website has a short quiz consisting of seven true-false questions about evolution that seek to challenge many popular…
From: Mano Singham
In a long overdue move, the government of Cuba is seeking to change many elements of its constitution, one article…
From: Mano Singham
Do not trust billionaires. Do not trust big corporations. Both owe their existence to a lack of concern for human…
From: Oceanoxia
He makes a point that I had not thought of before. If Satan is in charge of hell and people…
From: Mano Singham
In a recent post, I noted the fact that in many other countries, investigations of abuses in the Catholic church…
From: Mano Singham
I admit, I drooled a little bit: HHMI has developed this cool gadget for imaging embryos. It's got everything: a…
From: Pharyngula
Perhaps you're an evolutionary biologist who thinks evolutionary psychology is too panadaptationist. Or you're a creationist who thinks evolutionary biology…
From: A Trivial Knot
I rarely do this outside of classrooms, but I'm going to give folks here some definitions that are in common…
From: Pervert Justice
I know, you're all sick of Boghossian's stunt. I am too. Still, I just spotted something I'd like to document.…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
You were too slow: Chiroteuthis calyx wins.
From: Pharyngula
My lab schedule is now settled on feeding on Monday and Thursday, and on Friday I shuffle males into tubes…
From: Pharyngula
Hurricane Michael is hammering Florida right now. Unlike the previous hurricane to hit the US where there was a long…
From: Mano Singham
I know what you're all wondering: "WHAT DID MARY SLIP INTO MY COFFEE AND CAN YOU HAVE SOME?" This is…
From: Pharyngula
Ever read a policy document? They have a pretty simple structure, where the problem is identified and then solutions are…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
We're in a mundane phase of this project -- I've got swarms of baby spiders, a handful of wild-caught adults,…
From: Pharyngula
Beau of the Fifth Column has a bit of insight that might help clarify things for those who're confused about…
From: Oceanoxia
While I have thoughts on Elizabeth Warren taking and releasing the results of a DNA test that "proves" her Native…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
I have written before about Australian sprinter Peter Norman who joined with Tommie Smith and John Carlos in their dramatic…
From: Mano Singham
Or Andy Lewis or mariamaclachlan or Maria MacLachlan (if those latter two are different people). Sometimes I despair of getting…
From: Pervert Justice
I rarely do this outside of classrooms, but I'm going to give folks here some definitions that are in common…
From: Pervert Justice
Today we’re going to take a break from Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the rest of all the horrible stuff happening…
From: Bi Any Means
I like to think of myself as someone not easily provoked to anger. But I do have hot buttons that…
From: Mano Singham
My guest for today is Courtney Heard. She’s been blogging about atheism and secular humanism at Godless Mom since 2014,…
From: Bi Any Means
Have you noticed how Republican insults are becoming a genuine mark of pride? Sharice Davids is running for Congress, and…
From: Pharyngula
William Blackstone once wrote: all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously: for the law holds, that it is…
From: Pervert Justice
Lynna is your curator. How are you all holding up, America? [caption id="attachment_52262" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Tom Tomorrow[/caption] (Previous thread)
From: Pharyngula
First off, John Oliver looks at the latest atrocity involving the disappearance and possible murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in…
From: Mano Singham
I've done the 23andMe test. I'm 50% Scandinavian. More significantly, I knew my great-grandparents personally; my great-grandmother was a Swedish…
From: Pharyngula
Beau of the Fifth Column has a bit of insight that might help clarify things for those who're confused about…
From: Oceanoxia
While I have thoughts on Elizabeth Warren taking and releasing the results of a DNA test that "proves" her Native…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
During a secret executive session of the DuPage Township Board, Trustee Maripat Oliver announced that she is leaving the Illuminati,…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I have written before about Australian sprinter Peter Norman who joined with Tommie Smith and John Carlos in their dramatic…
From: Mano Singham
It turns out that Saudi Arabia was hosting a big Future Investment Initiative (FII) summit in Riyadh on October 23…
From: Mano Singham
Today we’re going to take a break from Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the rest of all the horrible stuff happening…
From: Bi Any Means
Sarah Aziza reports that the mysterious disappearance and possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey is not the…
From: Mano Singham