I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October… CONTENT WARNING: More Violent Transploitation. …
From: Great American Satan
I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October… SPOOKTOBER DAY #17 —…
From: Great American Satan
Gaiman occupies an unusual place, to me. He's a middle-aged white British celebrity, which these days puts him in a…
From: Impossible Me
A thought on Dave Chappelle's hate speech and propaganda that netflix is fobbing off as "comedy". I recently saw this…
From: Intransitive
Back in 1961, the film Murder She Said was released with Margaret Rutherford playing the role of Miss Marple, the…
From: Mano Singham
I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October… SPOOKTOBER DAY #15 —…
From: Great American Satan
Fox News is celebrating 25 years of existence and The Daily Show has created a montage of some of the…
From: Mano Singham
By “logic puzzle”, I don’t just mean puzzles involving logic, but rather a specific genre of puzzles, whose most famous…
From: A Trivial Knot
I’m doing a thing with some people to do 31 horror story concepts within October… SPOOKTOBER DAY #13 —…
From: Great American Satan
I like Jessie Gender. I will heartily recommend her videos in general (though admittedly, I don't much care for the…
From: Impossible Me
Gaiman occupies an unusual place, to me. He's a middle-aged white British celebrity, which these days puts him in a…
From: Impossible Me
This is my genuine response to the problem of free will. If my kids ask what is free will, I…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Rob Skiba was a right-wing evangelical preacher who told people that the COVID-19 vaccine was the "mark of the beast".…
From: Pharyngula
Before my email went down, I was engaged in an exchange with an Indonesian student. He wrote to me asking…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_64204" align="alignright" width="150"] Let's get all Manichaean on their asses![/caption] Caroline Matas attended an Answers in Genesis conference, and…
From: Pharyngula
Are you at all curious about what Kent Hovind is up to, or his latest legal travails? Oh boy, it's…
From: Pharyngula
I thought an outline of the problem of free will would help anyone that is interested in the debate. To…
From: Jonathan's Musings
It's almost time for Freethought Blogs' Podish-Sortacast, Episode 2 live broadcast. It starts at 16:00 CDT today. I won't be…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Yep, I finally did it: I have revealed to the creationists the secret we have held so long: how to…
From: Pharyngula
Fascists in the US government are trying to legislate against teaching truths such as: The US is systemically racist. The…
From: Stderr
Louis CK remains the king -- wow, but that guy destroyed his reputation spectacularly -- but it looks like Dave…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_64265" align="alignright" width="150"] Rev. Carlson & Father Rogan[/caption] I should be used to this by now. I spent decades…
From: Pharyngula
Rosie DiManno is wondering why we can't say 'woman' anymore, which is a rather self-contradictory thing to declare in a…
From: Pharyngula
CN: Descriptions of periods, medical procedures, etc. But hey, if half the world can deal with this, the other half…
From: Affinity
As others on FtB have mentioned, netflix plan to broadcast a bigoted, transphobic and homophobic "comedy special" in the name…
From: Intransitive
Fox News is celebrating 25 years of existence and The Daily Show has created a montage of some of the…
From: Mano Singham
Have you heard about the latest round of anti-Trans hate propaganda the rightwing media are trying to disseminate as fast…
From: Intransitive
I like Jessie Gender. I will heartily recommend her videos in general (though admittedly, I don't much care for the…
From: Impossible Me
This is a topic I find simultaneously fascinating and annoying. There is some evidence that conservatives and progressives- as defined…
From: Oceanoxia
A truly horrific case has rightfully caught the attention of the media in the UK, the murder of Sarah Everard.…
From: Pharyngula
After I posted about how so many comedians are disappointing people, I found that Abbey had written about Neil Gaiman…
From: Pharyngula
The police are constantly begging for more, more, more: more money, more guns, more surplus military equipment, because, after all,…
From: Pharyngula
It should be spent on grading, but instead my morning was tied up with blood tests and X-rays. The doctor…
From: Pharyngula
Climbing up in the polls, Minnesota takes the 7th position in number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. Why? Because nobody here is…
From: Pharyngula
It's now official. Iliana blows out the candles on her chocolate covered chocolate donut with chocolate ice cream. There was…
From: Pharyngula
I attended my granddaughter's third birthday party yesterday, with some trepidation. I like her very much, but I'm an experienced…
From: Pharyngula
Merck has developed a pill to treat COVID-19, one that won't require refrigeration like a vaccine and thus easier to…
From: Intransitive
What a strange video. It makes perfect sense -- if you're asked to show proof of vaccination, just show them.…
From: Pharyngula
This was me yesterday: the diners demanded to be fed, so I was flicking tasty flies to my spider friends.…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Pharyngula
In the US, claiming that some action is based on their religious faith tends to give people wide latitude. So…
From: Mano Singham
The other day, Fox News was hyperfocused on the War on Christmas. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1448710602046820352 https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1448712133760389127 I guess I need to gird…
From: Pharyngula
There were some comments in response to my post on writing sermons during the time I was a lay preacher…
From: Mano Singham
A Moonie splinter cult is now buying up property and using AR-15s as church accoutrements. These are not good neighbors.…
From: Pharyngula
If someone said to you, We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children, and…
From: Pharyngula
As long time readers know, I used to be a lay preacher in the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka. What…
From: Mano Singham
This is a topic I find simultaneously fascinating and annoying. There is some evidence that conservatives and progressives- as defined…
From: Oceanoxia
This video (transcript) makes a lot of sense, pointing out that how atheists are made is a combination of historical/cultural/emotional…
From: Pharyngula
The Catholic Church seems to be experiencing a few rifts of their own. The current pope has apparently been sending…
From: Pharyngula
In the US and Canada, we've had a tremendous number of cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests -- over…
From: Pharyngula
One of the things I noticed is that while I write and give talks lot about the philosophy of science,…
From: Mano Singham
In the US, claiming that some action is based on their religious faith tends to give people wide latitude. So…
From: Mano Singham
The chief minister of Australia's Northern Territory did not take kindly to Ted Cruz criticizing his vaccine mandate, and told…
From: Mano Singham
A new study finds that the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed the 99.9% level. The…
From: Mano Singham
Scott Manley is a youtuber who produces science videos. This new one succinctly explains the five Lagrange Points around pairs…
From: Intransitive
The Taliban is backing a nationwide mass vaccination campaign by the United Nations against polio in that country. The UN…
From: Mano Singham
We just got step 3 scribbled in, but now an awful lot of people are trying to bypass it. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
In my recent post about government's manifest failure in the face of climate change, GerrardianOfTitanServer naturally cropped up and started…
From: Stderr
People increasingly use the internet to explore medical issues. That is in general a good thing, provided they are careful…
From: Mano Singham
This Hempwood product sounds interesting. I actually think that with a bit of tinkering and upscaling of the production, it…
From: Affinity
In my recent post about government's manifest failure in the face of climate change, GerrardianOfTitanServer naturally cropped up and started…
From: Stderr
Lacking a better term for it, I mentally think of my deep suspicion regarding civilization as "anti-social" because it is,…
From: Stderr
Mario Savio: There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at…
From: Stderr
I'll lead with the happy news: I survived another grueling Thursday coupled to my continuing Achilles tendon agony. But I…
From: Pharyngula
I like Jessie Gender. I will heartily recommend her videos in general (though admittedly, I don't much care for the…
From: Impossible Me
I am contemptuous of the stupidity of anti-vaxxers; anyone who studies the merest whiff of epidemiology and virology is going…
From: Stderr
I regret not hearing until now that October 11 was Indigenous People's Day in the US. I read that Biden…
From: Intransitive
This is a topic I find simultaneously fascinating and annoying. There is some evidence that conservatives and progressives- as defined…
From: Oceanoxia
The game of tax avoidance is one of the corrupt scandals of the US' ridiculous regime. There are armies of…
From: Stderr
In reading this article about how one county treats children, one cannot help but think that if you wanted to…
From: Mano Singham
This is an important story, that the news media tried to just sort of ... slip past, without dwelling on…
From: Stderr
One of the things I noticed is that while I write and give talks lot about the philosophy of science,…
From: Mano Singham
Donald Trump tried this before, with his pathetic little "blog" that closed up shop in short order. Now he's trying…
From: Pharyngula
Lawsuits, as I know from personal experience, cause great personal stress and financial difficulty. They are effective when appropriately applied…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_64271" align="alignright" width="150"] A very red state[/caption] Behold, the official Republican Party Platform for Texas in 2020. THIS…IS…MADNESS! opposing…
From: Pharyngula
In the US, claiming that some action is based on their religious faith tends to give people wide latitude. So…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_64265" align="alignright" width="150"] Rev. Carlson & Father Rogan[/caption] I should be used to this by now. I spent decades…
From: Pharyngula
The chief minister of Australia's Northern Territory did not take kindly to Ted Cruz criticizing his vaccine mandate, and told…
From: Mano Singham
You know, the word "school" (and "college" and "university") ought to have some kind of protected status, where you can't…
From: Pharyngula
A new study finds that the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed the 99.9% level. The…
From: Mano Singham