I should pass this one on to the herpetologist in the lab next to mine. [caption id="attachment_67577" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The…
From: Pharyngula
Mistreated Beads of envy line your forehead— in your sick game, you brought fire to the fight. My impressionable spirit…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I must be one of those sigma males who knows how to get a fecund young female to deliver. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
Chance I lay awake at night thinking about you picturing your smile imagining your touch. I don’t want it to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It's been said before that the French have a lot to teach U.S.ians about protesting. For all folks back home…
From: Oceanoxia
I mentioned recently my puzzlement that Trump's MAGA followers still talk to Jordan Klepper even though his clips make them…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
Monday, I set myself on fire. It wasn't too bad, but it was definitely not any kind of good. My…
From: Stderr
This time he goes to Waukesha, Wisconsin that held its primary elections on Tuesday. He seems to never run out…
From: Mano Singham
I must object to the methodology and the conclusions of this comic. [caption id="attachment_67457" align="aligncenter" width="500"] xkcd[/caption] The choice of…
From: Pharyngula
How do you feel about polygamy? Hear me out... I’ll admit it – I’m a huge fan of the show…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Quirks of nature happen all the time. When we pay attention to an inconsistency, our motivation is usually to delegitimize a…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Aww, Saturday's video about the Ark Park got a copyright claim, from something called "Matter Entertainment" (maybe they're a company…
From: Pharyngula
I need help, and that's why we're going to have a guest panelist on our Podish Sortacast coming up this…
From: Pharyngula
Have you ever encountered someone who says they pray “just in case” god exists? I once heard that compared to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
This comes up, periodically, and it's always annoying as hell that it's reported as a "solution" to some problem. Oh…
From: Stderr
Michael Shermer <ick, spit> put out a call for an article for his worthless magazine defending CRT, and complained that…
From: Pharyngula
No. I'm not going to listen to it. I'll take the Readers' Digest Condensed version of the epic encounter between…
From: Pharyngula
An Oklahoma teacher, Amy Cook, is using her classroom in a novel way. I'm always looking for different approaches to…
From: Pharyngula
Answers in Genesis is posting a video tomorrow which they claim will answer all the objections us horrible people have…
From: Pharyngula
This article is being cross-posted to my other blog, The Asexual Agenda. Some people may have seen the Asexuality 101…
From: A Trivial Knot
Does the title have your attention? Does it fill you with a feeling of dread? It should. Over the years,…
From: Oceanoxia
How do you feel about polygamy? Hear me out... I’ll admit it – I’m a huge fan of the show…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Did you think our leaders had learned anything from the catastrophe that has been the COVID-19 pandemic? Of course not,…
From: Oceanoxia
Stop me if you've heard this one: You're a politician, and you have two opponents, one more extreme than the…
From: Oceanoxia
Apparently I meant to write about this back in September, but for reasons that are still unclear to me, I…
From: Oceanoxia
You know, bro humor, so not actually funny. https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1554853489548967937 The responses are "hilarious". https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1554905056042012673 He probably wanted to smoke a…
From: Pharyngula
Applebees. It's a sex-trafficking, child rape, groomer sort of place.
From: Pharyngula
In my talk yesterday I briefly mentioned this digit length nonsense, the idea that you can tell men from women…
From: Pharyngula
"The Great Replacement" is the white nationalist myth that whites are being replaced by minorities, either through a conspiracy, or…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
How do you feel about polygamy? Hear me out... I’ll admit it – I’m a huge fan of the show…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Here we go -- the school year has really started. It's time for meetings. Meetings, meetings, meetings. More meetings. A…
From: Pharyngula
I think I did not show you the inside of my workshop, except for the pieces visible around the various…
From: Affinity
Classes start next week, so so I need to start getting my schedule back on track, which means I'm going…
From: Pharyngula
Last week, the first trial began in a case that, back in 2016 when I was living in Ohio, exploded…
From: Mano Singham
Once upon a time, I would have said nobody could out-crazy an American -- we've got the looniest, most deranged,…
From: Pharyngula
Have you ever encountered someone who says they pray “just in case” god exists? I once heard that compared to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Last December I was admitted to a treatment center for eating disorders. I spent the holidays there and was discharged…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Today was lazying-around-doing-nothing-in-particular-day. I needed it, my back hurt as if I were shoveling gravel. Four days in a row…
From: Affinity
You decide.
From: Pharyngula
Does the title have your attention? Does it fill you with a feeling of dread? It should. Over the years,…
From: Oceanoxia
Zimbabwe has reported an outbreak of measles in a part of the country in which 157 children have died. They…
From: Mano Singham
"Pastor of anti-gay Alabama church gets 10-year prison sentence for molesting young boys." There are a lot of religious fanatics…
From: Pharyngula
Have you ever encountered someone who says they pray “just in case” god exists? I once heard that compared to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I love living in Toledo, Ohio. It’s very different from where I grew up even though my childhood home is…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Well, this is one horrific story of child abuse. The Adams family lived on a lonely dirt road about 8…
From: Pharyngula
I will be turning forty later this year, and while I don’t think that’s old, I am definitely noticing signs…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I was interviewed by the Atheists Republic Cape Town on their 'Meet the Atheists' segment. Below is the full clip…
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TW: Murder, sexual assault An unrelated news item reminded me of where I used to live, and why I wouldn't…
From: Intransitive
I have come to rely on meditation. When my anxiety feels out of control it is one surefire way to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
A whole genus of spiders has been named after David Bowie, Bowie ziggystardust, B. majortom, B. letsdance and B. magicdance…
From: Pharyngula
The current tax filing system in the US is absurdly complex. Part of the reason is that the tax code…
From: Mano Singham
I should pass this one on to the herpetologist in the lab next to mine. [caption id="attachment_67577" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_67572" align="alignright" width="146"] Please, can we think of the spiders?[/caption] I think there are a heck of a lot…
From: Pharyngula
The Musk grift continues. The technology he just buys outright is OK, but he always promotes it with hype and…
From: Pharyngula
It was a big win for Evergreen College to get rid of him, because he had to have been teaching…
From: Pharyngula
First thing this morning, I checked on my new first wave of Steatoda triangulosa spiderlings, took photos, measured dimensions, etc.,…
From: Pharyngula
Zimbabwe has reported an outbreak of measles in a part of the country in which 157 children have died. They…
From: Mano Singham
The copyright claim on our Ark video has been resolved, in my favor. This means the money comes streaming into…
From: Pharyngula
This past week has been Stevens County Fair week, and you know what that means: we strolled around looking at…
From: Pharyngula
Does the title have your attention? Does it fill you with a feeling of dread? It should. Over the years,…
From: Oceanoxia
What exactly does it mean to be "cancelled"? That seems to be an infinitely flexible word when used by its…
From: Pharyngula
This comes up, periodically, and it's always annoying as hell that it's reported as a "solution" to some problem. Oh…
From: Stderr
Did you think our leaders had learned anything from the catastrophe that has been the COVID-19 pandemic? Of course not,…
From: Oceanoxia
The Family Research Council is a think tank that promotes right-wing causes that are consistent with a christian nationalist viewpoint.…
From: Mano Singham
Stop me if you've heard this one: You're a politician, and you have two opponents, one more extreme than the…
From: Oceanoxia
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its monthly report and says that a whopping 538,000 jobs were added last…
From: Mano Singham
Apparently I meant to write about this back in September, but for reasons that are still unclear to me, I…
From: Oceanoxia
Migrants who have been convicted of a criminal offence will be required to scan their faces up to five times…
From: Oceanoxia
I don't know if I'd heard of The People's Park, in Berkley, California, but I certainly didn't know the full…
From: Oceanoxia
Mike Pence, Trump's vice-president, has condemned the attacks on the FBI for their execution of a search warrant on Trump's…
From: Mano Singham
The current tax filing system in the US is absurdly complex. Part of the reason is that the tax code…
From: Mano Singham
Does the title have your attention? Does it fill you with a feeling of dread? It should. Over the years,…
From: Oceanoxia
In the wide-ranging interview that he gave to George Sylvester Viereck that was published in 1929 in the Saturday Evening…
From: Mano Singham
I don't understand it. Can someone explain it to me? Minnesota is rather disappointing.
From: Pharyngula
My fellow Americans, you've probably already seen some of the mocking commentary on a Dr Oz campaign ad, in which…
From: Pharyngula
The results of yesterday's primary elections are in. Sarah Palin wasn't laughed off the slate and moves on to the…
From: Pharyngula
It has been almost six months since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th. Buckets of ink have been spilled about…
From: Oceanoxia
I think it is beginning to dawn on Trump and his supporters that the execution of a search warrant by…
From: Mano Singham
These could be interesting, unlike the rather predictable Minnesota primary. It's Trumpkins vs anti-Trumpkins. Liz Cheney is expected to lose.…
From: Pharyngula