Tegan and I were looking up Wally Shawn yesterday evening, and we discovered he'd been in a 2012 film we'd…
From: Oceanoxia
Hello after yet another long stretch away. Life has been, well, busy in the last year, so I haven't blogged…
From: Freethinking Ahead
This question came up in response to a new Elon Musk tweet that asserted, "Laws are on one side, poets…
From: Pervert Justice
The Christmas merchandizing push now starts after Halloween but really gets into high gear after Thanksgiving. Lewis Black looks at…
From: Mano Singham
I'm going to post a series of this, I hope, as it progresses. Really, we're talking about maybe an hour…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_3877" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Stairway leaf, a design by me[/caption] You can make some pretty things with relatively simple patterns…
From: A Trivial Knot
Samantha Bee sent Mike Rubens to find out. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
He manages to work in four puns into a single panel. Impressive! (The Argyle Sweater) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
I keep getting reminded of how unreliable memories can be, especially about things that happened a long time ago. While…
From: Mano Singham
Samantha Bee explains how the anti-aging industry and celebrities perpetuate false and dangerous myths about anti-aging techniques that sucker people…
From: Mano Singham
Chris Cuomo has been suspended from his job at CNN as his efforts to support his brother, Andrew, with the…
From: Pharyngula
I'm obliging, so I whipped out a response video to a creationist comment. I sure wish they had something original…
From: Pharyngula
"Kick it out," said the voice from behind me; I waved back over my shoulder, not looking - this was…
From: Stderr
Kent Hovind made a fresh shiny new video! That is exactly the same as all of his videos: lies, bullshit,…
From: Pharyngula
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
The topic of self-defense in this ridiculously over-armed culture is a fraught one, with many contradictions. On one hand, there…
From: Stderr
We've heard about hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and betadine, and who knows what else, but now we hit a new low (don't…
From: Pharyngula
Shock. Horror. Gasp. Kent Hovind tells a lie about me. By the way, I agree that I look pretty shabby…
From: Pharyngula
If you're curious about the quality of the comments I do not let through, well, know that as a minnow…
From: Pervert Justice
I thought I'd just be getting further protection against a nasty virus, but no…I'm about to become an explorer in…
From: Pharyngula
If you have any loved ones who're off the deep end in the far right, and you're worried about whether…
From: Oceanoxia
[caption id="attachment_64718" align="alignright" width="137"] not sentiment shared by the Declaration of Women's Sex Based Rights[/caption] Apparently, it's not trans women,…
From: Pharyngula
Content Warning: Nipple This time I'm going to go a bit far afield. I want to look back at media…
From: Stderr
I thought this was going to be a happy story about a small town in Minnesota. Chris and Kelsey's younger…
From: Pharyngula
Minnesota had a rather active intellectual life with an international reputation early in the 20th century. It had the bad…
From: Pharyngula
"Secure in my/his/their masculinity" is a common expression, but what does it mean? Some readers may find this obvious, but…
From: A Trivial Knot
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (a country which no longer exists, now part of Tanzania) on September…
From: Intransitive
... because, apparently, I don't exist. The TERFs have started saying their last quiet part out loud. [caption id="attachment_285" align="aligncenter"…
From: Impossible Me
The Rittenhouse verdict hasn't even been public for an hour and already I'm seeing supposed lefties criticizing Rittenhouse's mother not…
From: Pervert Justice
In 2005, fanatical christian fascists in Dover, Pennsylvania attempted to violate the separation of cult and state and put creationism into…
From: Intransitive
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From: Pervert Justice
Tegan and I were looking up Wally Shawn yesterday evening, and we discovered he'd been in a 2012 film we'd…
From: Oceanoxia
I took a break from making knives and the last three days I have spent testing my new circular saw…
From: Affinity
We've got the omicron variant in Minnesota. Minnesota has the second confirmed case of omicron COVID-19 variant in the United…
From: Pharyngula
Just look at how your college professor is armed for war. Alternatively, you could look at their haggard face and…
From: Pharyngula
And it is fading. The early ebullience from people like Bari Weiss is diminishing, and the only news about it…
From: Pharyngula
Next week is the last week of classes, so my goal is to be even more boring than usual, focusing…
From: Pharyngula
Commentariat(tm) Underwater Obstreperousness Agent Patrick Slattery sent me this story, to brighten my day. Because, unlike some of you, I probably…
From: Stderr
So we'll have a live Q&A on Sunday morning at 9am Central time! If you're one of patrons, you'll find…
From: Pharyngula
However, my soup recipe is worth far more than my non-existent soul, so this might be a worse deal than…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_64761" align="alignright" width="150"] I think he found two nickels on the carpet.[/caption] A plumber doing bathroom repairs discovered large…
From: Pharyngula
At my bridge club, on one of the days of the week, there is a tradition of someone, who is…
From: Mano Singham
The Christmas merchandizing push now starts after Halloween but really gets into high gear after Thanksgiving. Lewis Black looks at…
From: Mano Singham
If you have any loved ones who're off the deep end in the far right, and you're worried about whether…
From: Oceanoxia
Samantha Bee sent Mike Rubens to find out. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
The most terrible force destroying the family unit, and therefore attacking all of Western Civilization, is clearly Evangelical Christianity. In…
From: Pharyngula
Although the anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors get a lot of media coverage, a new survey from the Pew Research Center…
From: Mano Singham
I recall reading something a while back that I couldn't find when I went to write this, about a Christian…
From: Impossible Me
The US Supreme Court yesterday refused to grant an injunction to stop the implementation of Maine's requirement that nearly all…
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
As we all know, birds aren't real -- they're all just odd looking squid. Case in point: this is a…
From: Pharyngula
Oh, look. I just posted my 500th observation to iNaturalist. If you're very, very nice, I'll let you see it.…
From: Pharyngula
I've become so accustomed to the fact that climate change increases both droughts and floods, that when I saw research…
From: Oceanoxia
Remember how I said that most African countries are better at detecting and dealing with epidemics than places like Europe…
From: Oceanoxia
As with any virus, the Covid-19 virus will mutate over time and this requires scientists to give each variant labels…
From: Mano Singham
A new variant has arisen, and with it a new wave of anti-vax nonsense, and a new reminder that colonialism…
From: Oceanoxia
In my mailbox today, I found a copy of the University of Oregon Biology Newsletter -- I'm sure the publications…
From: Pharyngula
The news about South African scientists detecting a new variant of the covid-19 virus that has been labeled the 'Omicron'…
From: Mano Singham
I keep getting reminded of how unreliable memories can be, especially about things that happened a long time ago. While…
From: Mano Singham
Samantha Bee explains how the anti-aging industry and celebrities perpetuate false and dangerous myths about anti-aging techniques that sucker people…
From: Mano Singham
One of the offensive ways in which immigrants are treated in the US is using the term 'alien' to describe…
From: Mano Singham
Remember how I said that most African countries are better at detecting and dealing with epidemics than places like Europe…
From: Oceanoxia
If you have any loved ones who're off the deep end in the far right, and you're worried about whether…
From: Oceanoxia
A new variant has arisen, and with it a new wave of anti-vax nonsense, and a new reminder that colonialism…
From: Oceanoxia
I've never paid much attention to McWhorter, and only gave him a bit of side-eye when I noticed that he's…
From: Pharyngula
If you thought Fox News was bad, don't turn on OAN. I haven't. I don't even know if our cable…
From: Pharyngula
"Kick it out," said the voice from behind me; I waved back over my shoulder, not looking - this was…
From: Stderr
There are many films, too many to name and I am sure each one of us have our favorites, about…
From: Mano Singham
We live in an age where many people are fleeing their native lands and seeking refuge in other countries. The…
From: Mano Singham
There's a lot to be said about Thanksgiving, what it represents, and what it has been used to obscure. I…
From: Oceanoxia
One of the offensive ways in which immigrants are treated in the US is using the term 'alien' to describe…
From: Mano Singham
We had another mass shooting in a school in Michigan. It was carried out with premeditation by a dumb kid…
From: Pharyngula
Remember how I said that most African countries are better at detecting and dealing with epidemics than places like Europe…
From: Oceanoxia
Commentariat(tm) Underwater Obstreperousness Agent Patrick Slattery sent me this story, to brighten my day. Because, unlike some of you, I probably…
From: Stderr
If you have any loved ones who're off the deep end in the far right, and you're worried about whether…
From: Oceanoxia
As with any virus, the Covid-19 virus will mutate over time and this requires scientists to give each variant labels…
From: Mano Singham
A new variant has arisen, and with it a new wave of anti-vax nonsense, and a new reminder that colonialism…
From: Oceanoxia
The news about South African scientists detecting a new variant of the covid-19 virus that has been labeled the 'Omicron'…
From: Mano Singham
Content Warning: Nipple This time I'm going to go a bit far afield. I want to look back at media…
From: Stderr
Our modern society was born in a period of relative climatic stability. Regional climate change did destroy various civilizations, but…
From: Oceanoxia