Every fall, the long-running satirical show Saturday Night Live introduces new cast members. It is considered a huge boost to…
From: Mano Singham
[Warning: Sexual Assault?] I encountered this track as the outro for a podcast I was listening to. When she sings…
From: Stderr
I know that watching Bill Maher these days is grating on the nerves but in this heated exchange, Michael Moore…
From: Mano Singham
Last time we looked at the front, now it's time to enter. I momentarily feared I was going to be…
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I refuse to believe anything new will come of this. I suspect it's going to be nothing but a remarketing…
From: Pharyngula
Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
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David Axe reports [db] a rather odd thing: the US and Iraqi government bombed the living crap out of an…
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Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
From: Stderr
Why does it always come down to lashing out to do harm to others? It's another lawsuit by a man…
From: Pharyngula
Why, just look at the Brainerd school board. Sue Kern even made president! During a recent meeting of the board,…
From: Pharyngula
After that last post, I realized there is another problem I have with doing debates with creationists. For a proper…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is writing about spiders and evolution, and my first thought was ha ha, that's funny, he's talking about…
From: Pharyngula
Every fall, the long-running satirical show Saturday Night Live introduces new cast members. It is considered a huge boost to…
From: Mano Singham
For such a notoriously self-proclaimed rational guy, Richard Stallman doesn't know how to write a proper resignation letter. His makes…
From: Pharyngula
The first sign of a biased dilettante is when they try to reduce biological phenomena to a single parameter that…
From: Pharyngula
It's because toxic masculinity is so ingrained in the culture that the staid ol' NY Times can publicly say that…
From: Pharyngula
In 2012, 16 year old Jorge Saavedra stabbed Dylan Nuno between eight and twelve times, killing him, after suffering years…
From: Intransitive
Moral quandries suck. There's a 20-something lesbian TERF in the UK who is terminally ill. I have never contacted her…
From: Intransitive
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
"Toxic masculinity" refers to harmful forms of masculine expression, such as violence, aggression, aloofness, and the policing of other men's…
From: A Trivial Knot
At the recent climate change town hall series put on by CNN, Bernie Sanders got asked a question about overpopulation…
From: Oceanoxia
This is quite possibly one of the more horrifying sentences I've read online lately. Since my recent lunch with my…
From: Pharyngula
There are rumors going about that someone wants to remake The Princess Bride, and some people are going batshit, as…
From: Pharyngula
I went to bed at 9 last night, and woke up this morning at 7:30. My whole body is staggered…
From: Pharyngula
I just gave the first exam of this semester in cell biology. I have a tradition of making the first…
From: Pharyngula
Over the past week, I've watched the 8-part Netflix series, Unbelievable. It's a truly harrowing account of a serial rapist,…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_870" align="alignright" width="300"] Image of an interstellar cruise ship disguised as a comet. [/caption] Clow UFO…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My teaching schedule is kind of front-loaded -- heavy stuff in the first half of the week, with a reprieve…
From: Pharyngula
Norman Jewison's film "...And Justice for All" was released on September 15, 1979, forty years ago this week. Remember Al…
From: Intransitive
Milo Yiannopoulos is really getting desperate. He's looking for an audience, any audience, that will pay attention to him, and…
From: Pharyngula
If, like me, you watch retro computing channels on youtube, you may be familiar with names like David Murray ("The…
From: Intransitive
Trumplethinskin has said the FDA should ban "flavoured" vaping products. His "ban", however, is only against flavoured nicotine packs, not vaping…
From: Intransitive
I highly doubt the study's claims as reported by The Guardian. The original study can be found here. Economists calculate monetary…
From: Intransitive
So in Pakistan, mobs of Muslim religious fanatics attack non-Muslims for blasphemy and while in India mobs of Hindu religious…
From: Mano Singham
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's heartwarming to see all the students spurning the offer…
From: Pharyngula
How are you? I hope you’re good. I’ve been kinda okay. I say kinda because almost a year ago I…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Mid-Autumn Festival is known by several names across several Asian countries. Taiwan often calls it Moon Festival, both Koreas call…
From: Intransitive
In an interesting and informative profile of Tulsi Gabbard, Kerry Howley looks at her very unusual childhood and family that…
From: Mano Singham
Jerry Falwell was an evangelical preacher and the founder of Liberty University, a college that expects its students to abide…
From: Mano Singham
Petty hypo-christians and their "christian piety". As I've said elsewhere, the more publicly prudish, the more privately prurient. When stories…
From: Intransitive
Apparently yet another new book is out that tries to make the scientific case for god's existence. According to the…
From: Mano Singham
Here's some smug sanctimonious Christianity for you, all inflicted on a helpless baby. On Wednesday, Martina Obi-Uzom was found guilty…
From: Pharyngula
In my history and philosophy of science course, I used to start by asking students whether cheerleading was a sport.…
From: Mano Singham
I was at our student summer research presentations. Look at this clever pair, showing off their poster to a milling…
From: Pharyngula
Kevin Drum looks at data that suggests that being a pedestrian in the US has gotten a lot more dangerous…
From: Mano Singham
I got a call from campus Medical Services today -- they've been invaded by spiders lately, and were wondering if…
From: Pharyngula
Will Happer has resigned as a member of the Trump administration's National Security Council. Since Trump never got around to…
From: Mano Singham
Also acutely relevant to the problem I just described is this article by Bruce Schneier, who explains how the problems…
From: Pharyngula
It was a cunning plan. All these mosquitos are carrying terrible diseases like dengue fever and Zika, so what if…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_870" align="alignright" width="300"] Image of an interstellar cruise ship disguised as a comet. [/caption] Clow UFO…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
At last, I'm useful! I was called to a colleague's office because a big ol' spider was squatting on their…
From: Pharyngula
The first sign of a biased dilettante is when they try to reduce biological phenomena to a single parameter that…
From: Pharyngula
Abuse comes in more forms than many people realize. Take financial abuse, where someone uses economic leverage to control you,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Kevin Drum looks at data that suggests that being a pedestrian in the US has gotten a lot more dangerous…
From: Mano Singham
Every fall, the long-running satirical show Saturday Night Live introduces new cast members. It is considered a huge boost to…
From: Mano Singham
How are you? I hope you’re good. I’ve been kinda okay. I say kinda because almost a year ago I…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
I was part of our local protest against the unmitigated evil of ICE yesterday. Several people spoke out with testimonials…
From: Pharyngula
Here is another post about the insanity of the US health system, a post that will be utterly incomprehensible to…
From: Mano Singham
Poor Milo Yiannopoulos is struggling. He's been whining on the few social media sites left to him that he's not…
From: Pharyngula
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
Mainstream media journalists and editors like to pride themselves on their 'political neutrality', that they do not take sides. Some…
From: Mano Singham
At the recent climate change town hall series put on by CNN, Bernie Sanders got asked a question about overpopulation…
From: Oceanoxia
I hate reading essays that I mostly agree with, but are poorly written and completely miss the most important point.…
From: Pharyngula
Lysander Spooner was an anarchist, writer, and legal theorist who died in 1887. [wik] [wc] Spooner was raised a deist…
From: Stderr
Anti-vaxxers (primarily rich and middle class white women, of course) are calling themselves "civil rights activists", comparing their ignorance about…
From: Intransitive
Will Happer has resigned as a member of the Trump administration's National Security Council. Since Trump never got around to…
From: Mano Singham
Today came news that Cokie Roberts, was a major player at NPR and ABC as a political commentator, has died.…
From: Mano Singham
But that wouldn't be surprising. Rich people are like that. Taking a page from Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerburg, the…
From: Intransitive
So in Pakistan, mobs of Muslim religious fanatics attack non-Muslims for blasphemy and while in India mobs of Hindu religious…
From: Mano Singham
Whenever there's a mass shooting, fanatics will inevitably say, "This is no time to talk about gun control!" Au contraire, that's…
From: Intransitive
Marv hadn't heard of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire until now. https://twitter.com/mrvndn/status/1173898937557643266 There is something deeply wrong with American education when…
From: Pharyngula
We know that serial abusers who are prominent people must have had a large cadre of enablers who either assisted…
From: Mano Singham