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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
By Reporter X Despite numerous interstellar diplomatic protests, Bolingbrook Mayor Mary Alexander-Basta banned aliens from attending the Taste of Bolingbrook…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Since I've been taking a walk every evening, I've found that I easily slipped into trading my blogging-time for walking-time.…
From: Stderr
Just recently I watched this film version of the musical that has been one of the biggest musical stage sensations…
From: Mano Singham
The lead vocalist for The Seekers has died at the age of 79. This Australian group were massively popular in…
From: Mano Singham
Some days I get horrible mashups of bad songs in my head, most recently from watching Todd in the Shadows'…
From: Great American Satan
A few years ago, I was lining up for the superhero blockbusters, too (metaphorically -- we don't have long lines…
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
It’s no secret – treatment tore me up and I’m pretty fragile. My mental mess has spilled out into every…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[caption id="attachment_50911" align="alignright" width="150"] Meg Lyman[/caption] Fuck panspermists, and fuck creationists. They are pretty much indistinguishable. It's their fault I…
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
Right after I posted about needing more atheists and more inspiration, what do you know, Yemisi Ilesanmi, the proudly feminist,…
From: Pharyngula
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
I'm heading to Missouri, which is kind of the opposite of Minnesota. This is what's happening in my home state:…
From: Pharyngula
This is the second video in The Renegade Cut's series on the enforcement of hierarchies. If you haven't seen the…
From: Oceanoxia
Zumba is the world's largest dance fitness program. I’ve been doing it remotely since the start of the pandemic, actually…
From: A Trivial Knot
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
He's so villainous, sometimes he openly admits his villainy! Elon Musk has wielded a virtual monopoly on how we think…
From: Pharyngula
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
I have some medical stuff going on this Friday, and have been very preoccupied with that and crash editing my…
From: Great American Satan
A driver ran right through a red light at a busy city intersection at a speed estimated at possibly 60…
From: Mano Singham
I think I've got it under control, probably, although the internal sensations of doom and helpless descent into a spiral…
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…
From: YEMMYnisting
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
Now or Never is going to protest the Congressional baseball game at 6pm on July 28th, I'm planning on doing…
From: Oceanoxia
This is the second video in The Renegade Cut's series on the enforcement of hierarchies. If you haven't seen the…
From: Oceanoxia
Oh gosh. We know what to blame for our current situation now. Fantasy Role-Playing Is Hurting America! I heard this…
From: Pharyngula
Time for my weekly spider measuring event. The young'uns molted again, and once again, they've grown some more. It's a…
From: Pharyngula
In 1929, Albert Einstein, at that time living in Berlin, gave a wide-ranging interview to George Sylvester Viereck that was…
From: Mano Singham
I guess it's more of a "short documentary" than a "video", but either way, it's got interesting stuff in it!…
From: Oceanoxia
Some time back, I started thinking of the era we've entered as The Age of Endless Recovery. The basic concept…
From: Oceanoxia
Only a week and a half until classes come crashing down on me! Today was a lab maintenance day, next…
From: Pharyngula
I think a lot of people have trouble imagining a technological society that doesn't decimate the environment. That's pretty understandable, given…
From: Oceanoxia
When I get into my car and shut the door, its closing makes a solid kind of sound. I had…
From: Mano Singham
Busy morning. They're only going to get busier. One of the things I got done today was to assemble of…
From: Pharyngula
You ever watch a sleeping cat or dog, and see their little paddy-paws twitching and their legs all curled up?…
From: Pharyngula
I do spare a glance for other cruel killers too, you know. We've got one of these Cooper's hawks living…
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
I was interviewed by the Atheists Republic Cape Town on their 'Meet the Atheists' segment. Below is the full clip…
From: YEMMYnisting
One of the bright spots in the current economy has been the low unemployment rate and the increase in wages.…
From: Mano Singham
In the most general sense, the various forms of socialism, to paraphrase Richard Wolff, are united by the belief that…
From: Oceanoxia
Yes he can! And he hasn't hit bottom yet! https://twitter.com/DavidEdwards/status/1558849165500846081 The Texas senator made the remarks at a rally in…
From: Pharyngula
Thanks to the revelations about the material found at Mar-a-Lago, I have learned more about the arcane bureaucratic processes involving…
From: Mano Singham
Some time back, I started thinking of the era we've entered as The Age of Endless Recovery. The basic concept…
From: Oceanoxia
Some details of the search of Trump's Florida residence have been released. It appears that FBI agents did find documents…
From: Mano Singham
This time he goes to Waukesha, Wisconsin that held its primary elections on Tuesday. He seems to never run out…
From: Mano Singham
One of the flaws I think many skeptics share is a love of consistency. If we've done any studying of…
From: Stderr
I have this fantasy, which is that someone gave Donald Trump a laminated card that said "launch codes: man, woman,…
From: Stderr
We are living at a time when conspiracy theories abound and where over-the-top reactions to the most routine of events…
From: Mano Singham
Project Veritas still exists, and they were recently slapped with $150,000 in legal fees because they tried to sue Stanford…
From: Pharyngula