I made a playlist of what I deemed the best Dead Milkmen songs, following my exhaustive review of their discography,…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 10 By threatening a captive prisoner, Win Bear was able to extract two useful pieces of…
From: Daylight Atheism
As usually happens, the hot takes by the losers following a bad election loss like what Trump and the Republicans…
From: Mano Singham
Georges Simenon was a prolific author who wrote a large number of novels featuring the French detective Jules Maigret. There…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_5496" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Radiant Star, designed by Madhura Gupta[/caption] This weekend, I'm at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The…
From: A Trivial Knot
Last day of Spooktober I always gotta take the losers of the voting and turn 'em into an excessively convoluted…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 10 Win Bear and his friends have captured a hitman. By threatening the prisoner with summary…
From: Daylight Atheism
what is wrong with me (/kurt)... content warning for school shooting related shit, but this is all horror stuff, so…
From: Life's a Gas
Many people nowadays find friends and potential romantic partners through online dating sites and similar means. If they strike up…
From: Mano Singham
I'm sure you've all been waiting to hear what Kim Kardashian has been up to. Apparently, she has landed a…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77867" align="alignright" width="115"] Heinmot Tooyalaket[/caption] He was a smart guy and gave the only good argument against education I've…
From: Pharyngula
The latest xkcd makes the point that science changes over time, and that the early days of space flight preceded…
From: Pharyngula
Here's an update to a story that's been brewing for almost twenty years. In 2006 and then in 2010, I…
From: Daylight Atheism
When something is both outside of your education and, at least on some level, outside of your interest, it will…
From: Life's a Gas
Imagine how odd it would look if all the heavenly bodies we see are more or less round-ish, and only…
From: Stderr
It's said that the world is made of stories. But, if that were true, why is translating a personal experience…
From: A Trivial Knot
Back in 2022, I made a dagger blade, when I was out at Dragonfly Forge in Oregon. I posted about…
From: Stderr
Avi Loeb is playing games with his peculiar interpretation of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. He keeps suggesting that this interesting, carbon-rich,…
From: Pharyngula
He proudly claims that he saved a life. His account: A few minutes later, as the service was starting, Pastor…
From: Pharyngula
Various conservatives are celebrating the publication of a new issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, or Peter Singer's slush…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump has another reason to invade us: this state stands for trans rights. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued…
From: Pharyngula
I wish people would stop running to Richard Dawkins for quotes defending regressive policies in science. He has nothing worthy…
From: Pharyngula
The book Nobody’s Girl: Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre has just been released.…
From: Mano Singham
RFK jr went on a rant about sperm. It's a national security threat, you know! Today, the average teenager in…
From: Pharyngula
I suspect most of my readers are not manly, masculine "he-men," according to this declaration by Edward K. Strong. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
Professional sports in the US is dominated by male teams whose players get the big contracts and media focus and…
From: Mano Singham
They've founded a new organization, Beyond X and Y. As the copy on their web page says: We’re a trans-led…
From: Pharyngula
Damn, this review hurts for a couple of reasons, but it really shouldn't. When people say stupid, hateful, hypocritical things,…
From: Pharyngula
I must say that I have been surprised by the reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk. I had of…
From: Mano Singham
Sources within ICE and the Border Patrol are accusing Antifa of unleashing a powerful snowstorm against their officers in the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I nearly went blind stepping into that store.
From: Pharyngula
My favorite alien organism in Predator Badlands was the brachiating carnivore with trilateral symmetry. That was neat. I also like…
From: Pharyngula
The spam is rising. I'm going to have to go through and block a lot of unwanted email sources. This…
From: Pharyngula
Sciatic nerve problems often require exercise, so last week, I tried working in the garden a bit. Carefully, and slowly.…
From: Affinity
That's a good long life, so there's that at least. But otherwise, let this be an object lesson to everyone:…
From: Pharyngula
Computer security is not an issue Clouseau has thought about much, I guess. At the time of the brazen heist…
From: Pharyngula
Yesterday, I took advantage of the university health clinic to get both my flu shot and my COVID shot. The…
From: Pharyngula
I'm surprised that Siouxsie Wiles has had to fight with her own university -- after she'd been fighting the good…
From: Pharyngula
Minnesotans will be prowling the farmlands with rifles this weekend through 23 November. I think I'll stay home, not just…
From: Pharyngula
In these days of relentlessly depressing news, a good comedy comes as a welcome relief and this is such a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77735" align="alignright" width="130"] Dumbass[/caption] I don't think she should graduate from college until she passes a basic English literacy…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a comment about how Catholics tell stories that they claim are in the Bible that aren't,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77649" align="alignright" width="150"] Chopping it all down[/caption] I had a nightmarish realization last night -- that American education was…
From: Pharyngula
We all know of and despise Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. He's a Christo-Fascist of the…
From: Pharyngula
As regular readers know, I play the card game bridge and recently I happened to look at some aspects of…
From: Mano Singham
Joseph Ladapo is the surgeon general for the state of Florida and is a vaccine skeptic who recently announced plans…
From: Mano Singham
I've been pretty blithe in my attempts to make people feel less doomy, and PZ did call me out on…
From: Life's a Gas
I was in the parking lot of home despot, when I saw this sign at a distance. Initially I thought…
From: Life's a Gas
To me the answer is 'no' but the title of this post was suggested by this essay by Philip Goff,…
From: Mano Singham
In case you were worried about yesterday's spider who was tangled in their molt, worry no more. They are free!
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes it's hard to count. They'll walk away from their molt and eventually it'll be a less confusing tangle.
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about how the fossil fuel era will end - not…
From: Daylight Atheism
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. Also I am going to suspend…
From: Mano Singham
Below the fold. I had to do spider cage cleanup today, like a good little Igor. Last week, they'd all…
From: Pharyngula
Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I…
From: Pharyngula
This article leads with a photo of a spectacularly beautiful joro spider. Beautiful. I'd love to see more, but I…
From: Pharyngula
We have a home Pholcus phalangioides living under our kitchen cupboard, who occasionally emerges when they've caught something in their…
From: Pharyngula
Found lurking in our bedroom, an assassin! [caption id="attachment_77786" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Masked Hunter (Reduvius personatus)[/caption] It has been courteously escorted…
From: Pharyngula
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. Also I am going to suspend the limit…
From: Mano Singham
We are used to politicians and government officials having sign language interpreters alongside when they deliver important messages so that…
From: Mano Singham
Juan Cole makes an interesting point in light of Mamdani campaigning partly in Arabic. Because so many Arabic speakers have…
From: Pharyngula
As usually happens, the hot takes by the losers following a bad election loss like what Trump and the Republicans…
From: Mano Singham
Tuesday saw Democrats sweep the board in every election, winning easily even in races that were expected to be close…
From: Mano Singham
Two federal judges have ruled that SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) payments that assist low-income people to pay for food…
From: Mano Singham
I have written many times before about the practice known as jury nullification, where juries exercise their right to acquit…
From: Mano Singham
The Department of Homeland Security is recruiting with a new trope, same as the old trope. I was never into…
From: Pharyngula
Various conservatives are celebrating the publication of a new issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, or Peter Singer's slush…
From: Pharyngula
First the bad news. In mid-term elections in Argentina, the party of president Javier Milei, a Trump fanboy, won a…
From: Mano Singham
That question, rhetorical of course, is prompted by the story about the leaked texts by members of the group known…
From: Mano Singham
We've been dealing with this ridiculous government shutdown, which was initiated because the Republican budget was promoting major cuts in…
From: Pharyngula
Trump and Republicans have no qualms about using false numbers about everything including the economy and the effects of tariffs…
From: Mano Singham
We are used to politicians and government officials having sign language interpreters alongside when they deliver important messages so that…
From: Mano Singham
Recall the case of the man who was prosecuted by the federal government for throwing a sandwich at a CBP…
From: Mano Singham
Former speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she is not going to run for re-election to her San Francisco congressional…
From: Mano Singham
Usually, I just ignore anything from Ben Shapiro and Co., but this time I was tempted by the headline, Mamdani’s…
From: Pharyngula
As usually happens, the hot takes by the losers following a bad election loss like what Trump and the Republicans…
From: Mano Singham
It was a good night for Democrats and social democrats, with a big blue sweep all across the country. Mamdani…
From: Pharyngula
Tuesday saw Democrats sweep the board in every election, winning easily even in races that were expected to be close…
From: Mano Singham
That is all the obituary Dick Cheney deserves, nothing more. {AD}
From: Mano Singham