It's fair to say that the Scouts are obsessed with the mythology of the heroic rescue. When I was a…
From: A Trivial Knot
Sorry to call you out on the floor like that, haha. I only knew for sure of one person reading…
From: Life's a Gas
Don’t Miss Posts. This MonsterHearts, I’m also having one regular post a day, if you should prefer that kind of…
From: Life's a Gas
Fast food franchises in the USA. Megacorporation offloads some amount of liability and expense by making deals with small business…
From: Life's a Gas
Don’t Miss Posts. This MonsterHearts, I’m also having one regular post a day, if you should prefer that kind of…
From: Life's a Gas
Before I begin my review of The Probability Broach, let's discuss its author: L. Neil Smith (or Lester Neil Smith…
From: Daylight Atheism
Get loved on, fools. If you have somebody to love on this day, do your duty. If you have not,…
From: Life's a Gas
Don’t Miss Posts. This MonsterHearts, I’m also having one regular post a day, if you should prefer that kind of…
From: Life's a Gas
Do you know what's going on in your mind, when you're doing something creative? Of course not, like, biologically speaking…
From: Life's a Gas
Don’t Miss Posts. This MonsterHearts, I’m also having one regular post a day, if you should prefer that kind of…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_75620" align="alignright" width="150"] I have no idea what he's trying to say with this illustration on the column. God…
From: Pharyngula
This email was long and particularly vapid, so I'm not going into detail on it, but I do include the…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Phelps presents an overview of all of Answers in Genesis's shenanigans, right up to the recent news of a…
From: Pharyngula
The Discovery Institute is thrilled by Rogan and Weinstein, entirely because these conspiracy theorists criticize "Darwinism". It's laughable. Rogan is…
From: Pharyngula
Aron Ra asked me to address a novel proof for the existence of god. You see, the only way you…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75481" align="alignright" width="150"] A horse living as God intended it to[/caption] I suspect most of you don't read the…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson did her yearly roundup of psychic predictions made by her friends, and it seems I'm the only one…
From: Pharyngula
[Previous: Let them eat the Ten Commandments] It's a consistent theme across history that religions are only as tolerant as…
From: Daylight Atheism
Our cat Augustine (Auggie), died last week due to various health conditions finally overwhelming his body. He was a 16-year-old…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
It's been over a decade since I even thought about Thunderf00t AKA Phil Mason. He had a blog here on…
From: Pharyngula
In a long essay, Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of History at the University of Delaware, writes that there is…
From: Mano Singham
It is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. This year's theme, Activism and Social Change, resonates deeply with me. LGBT+…
From: YEMMYnisting
This drunken sot and serial sexual harasser, Pete Hegseth, was appointed Secretary of Defense by a president who doesn't give…
From: Pharyngula
Everywhere in the world, including Canada, although we shouldn't talk about it here in the United States. We can celebrate…
From: Pharyngula
I have been told that I'm merely a “social justice” dishonest whackjob and that There are only two sexes, therefore…
From: Pharyngula
Richard Dawkins has attempted to answer the question "what is a woman" by inventing a definition, while simultaneously decrying attempts…
From: Pharyngula
I was watching this video -- it's very good, debunking all the nonsense anti-trans bigots regurgitate to justify their bias…
From: Pharyngula
Vera Rubin was a famous astronomer who did research on dark matter, and has an observatory named after her. Sadly,…
From: Pharyngula
You're sitting there trying to argue that reality isn't what you see right there in front of your face: nah,…
From: Pharyngula
I've been saying all along that good biology doesn't categorize sex into two inflexible bins, but what does that matter…
From: Pharyngula
I took a break and visited my local coffee shop for the first time in a few weeks, and I…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of the semester, I was pleased to see that I had no classes on Friday, and I…
From: Pharyngula
It's Darwin Day! And it is sort of about him, sorta. It's not like a Catholic saint's feast day, or…
From: Pharyngula
There is something compelling about this silly experiment. It is the kind of thing that someone may idly wonder about…
From: Mano Singham
It's all her fault. Iliana is bringing on Winter Storm Iliana. I hope she doesn't have to pay for all…
From: Pharyngula
I know that this was low-budget mid-1960s sci-fi, but this monster is ridiculous.
From: Pharyngula
A scene in an FBI building: the walls that were covered with words reflecting virtuous concepts were painted gray. What…
From: Pharyngula
What the hell? I just learned about the Zizian death cult from Rebecca Watson. Why? What did I do to…
From: Pharyngula
Representatives from the Illuminati named Elon Musk as February’s Man of the Month during a gathering at the Bolingbrook Golf…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I am concerned. [caption id="attachment_75504" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] I've got it under control. It really helped finding the place that…
From: Pharyngula
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
I'm bewildered. I'm an anti-theist, so it makes me uncomfortable when I see a priest acting charitably and kindly and…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
How dare Joe Biden give Bill Nye the Medal of Freedom? Ham doesn't think he deserves it because Nye supports…
From: Pharyngula
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, "Merry Christmas." It took me a few minutes to remember (so,…
From: Stderr
When the Teslas originally came out, many people who were liberals got them because they felt that buying an electric…
From: Mano Singham
Of course it did. Baleen whales don't have teeth to chew him up, and their throats are too narrow to…
From: Pharyngula
When I want to hide from the news, I've always got bugs to tend. I've been neglecting my mealworm colony,…
From: Pharyngula
Tell me if you've heard of this before: a government responds to the noise around gender-affirming care by setting up…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the bright side of global population decline. For most…
From: Daylight Atheism
I used to be a highly creative person. I'm not bragging but one idea I threw out over a sushi…
From: Stderr
Which white cockatoo? Hell if I know. Apparently there are a number of white cockatoo species kept in captivity. I…
From: Life's a Gas
The benefits of science to society are extremely significant. The so-called scientific revolution has driven much of the medical and…
From: Mano Singham
The situation is dire. Here's a good overview. Zach is not being hysterical. Everything he said is objective fact and…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a fantasy for you: a rich man uses his immense wealth to alleviate poverty, fund science that benefits all,…
From: Pharyngula
Trump and Musk have decreed that the remote work option that became popular during the Covid pandemic is not a…
From: Mano Singham
In a long essay, Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of History at the University of Delaware, writes that there is…
From: Mano Singham
It is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. This year's theme, Activism and Social Change, resonates deeply with me. LGBT+…
From: YEMMYnisting
I have written before about recent positive developments in Sri Lanka where the corrupt nepotistic looters who ran the country…
From: Mano Singham
After Trump's announcement about taking over Gaza and expelling all the people living there, they now want to be called…
From: Mano Singham
Health care workers are being harassed by an organization called "the American Accountability Foundation". They're getting letters threatening their jobs.…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_72748" align="alignright" width="226"] Tom the Dancing Bug[/caption] Our university president has spoken on the anti-DEI pronouncements coming from the…
From: Pharyngula
I used to read and support both of them (I used to send money to Greenwald back at the beginning…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the deferred dream of democracy and the stark reality…
From: Daylight Atheism
Little bit of a land mine here, but I'm feeling insouciant today, so bear with me... I've talked with thousands…
From: Life's a Gas
When the Teslas originally came out, many people who were liberals got them because they felt that buying an electric…
From: Mano Singham
Trump and Musk have decreed that the remote work option that became popular during the Covid pandemic is not a…
From: Mano Singham
Danielle Sassoon, acting acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, resigned rather than be complicit in Trump's…
From: Mano Singham
Trump and Musk are treating the government as if it were a private company that they own and that they…
From: Mano Singham
Working in the finance industry has given me a great deal of appreciation for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).…
From: A Trivial Knot
The Trump administration and his unelected stooge, Elon Musk, had charged in and imposed a blanket reduction of all indirect…
From: Pharyngula
[UPDATE: After this news was reported in the media, at 9:12 pm last night the state department modified the document…
From: Mano Singham
In a long essay, Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of History at the University of Delaware, writes that there is…
From: Mano Singham
C.R.E.A.M. by the Wu-Tang Clan says "Cash Rules Everything Around Me." No, my fellas. It is Chaos that reigns supreme. …
From: Life's a Gas
I used to be a highly creative person. I'm not bragging but one idea I threw out over a sushi…
From: Stderr