Well, I finally saw it. This is going to be a sort of scatter-shot review. I feel weird saying "spoilers…
From: Stderr
I had missed this earlier clip from Pie about the British prime minister's surprise move to bring the former prime…
From: Mano Singham
During the October FtB Poddish Sortacast, I told a story off the cuff with nothing but a slim outline (and…
From: Great American Satan
Thanksgiving was hard. I meditated and tried to get my head in a good place before leaving to go see…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It’s easy for me to write this post right now because, at the moment, I feel pretty good. Would you…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
The talented Mr Fingers is at it again. This time he built a rowboat out of a super realistic sculpture…
From: Stderr
Yesterday, Joe Biden turned 81 and it was yet another occasion for the media to fixate on his age. Ir…
From: Mano Singham
We are an animal-loving family. Five cats: Stachey, Sasha, Emmy, Jax, and Nina, and two guinea pigs: Nibbles and Nugget.…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
My daughter was at her grandpa's house tonight so my husband and I took advantage of our child-free time to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I forgot all about this debate. These signs will be going up around campus, so I guess I'm committed. Or…
From: Pharyngula
I've featured Michael Voris several times here -- he was the front man for an organization called the Church Militant,…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a fascinating old photo. [caption id="attachment_71637" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Farmer Olof Öhman (center), who reported the artifact’s discovery in 1898,…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
If you've never heard of David Rives before, you're fortunate: he's a lesser creationist best known for the well-fed, smug,…
From: Pharyngula
Assembly Theorypops up again
This morning I was surprised to see Assembly Theory popping up all over in my social media. Did somebody find…
From: Pharyngula
In a totally unsurprising announcement, Ayaan Hirsi Ali renounces atheism and declares herself a Christian. I half-expected this to happen…
From: Pharyngula
What is the purpose of life? It is to find meaning. [Viktor Frank] The title is not a misprint. Everyone,…
From: Jonathan's Musings
... is anyone actually surprised by this? Disappointed, sure - but surprised? [reuters] Nov 8 (Reuters) - (This Nov. 8…
From: Stderr
See this person? She's the biggest, most ignorant idiot at the Discovery Institute, which says a lot, since she's in…
From: Pharyngula
Every once in a while, some conservative dweeb gets upset at the fact that liberal women do not like conservative…
From: Pharyngula
My daughter was at her grandpa's house tonight so my husband and I took advantage of our child-free time to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The recent defeats at elections has resulted in the GOP scrambling to find a message on abortion that will placate…
From: Mano Singham
Bill Ackman is a hedge-fund billionaire who was very concerned that an MIT professor allowed a student to promote a…
From: Pharyngula
While the top line election results on Tuesday were good for Democrats, the picture looks even better when you look…
From: Mano Singham
Now I'm just making myself depressed. This is Bubba Copeland. He was the Republican mayor of a small town in…
From: Pharyngula
In gay fiction, the nerd/jock romance is a very common trope. In the standard take, the jock is an attractive…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have not seen any episodes of the TV series The Bachelor but have seen clips and read enough news…
From: Mano Singham
The US is a prudish country when it comes to issues of sex. While sexuality is rampant in films and…
From: Mano Singham
I keep seeing these naive pop culture simplifications of sex and gender -- it's all about gametes, or Y chromosomes,…
From: Pharyngula
It's like Christmas came early. When's the procession for the opportunity to piss on his evil rotting corpse? I've been…
From: Pharyngula
The greatest mass extinction in the history of the world took place 250 million years ago, at the end of…
From: Pharyngula
My forgemaking continues. I was hoping that this week the forge will be finished, but alas that is not the…
From: Affinity
I was complaining about the effect of Zoom on students -- it doesn't encourage engagement and leads to apathy --…
From: Pharyngula
Thanksgiving was hard. I meditated and tried to get my head in a good place before leaving to go see…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[caption id="attachment_71714" align="alignright" width="183"] Big Bluestem roots[/caption] Good deep roots make a difference. The photo to the right is from…
From: Pharyngula
i might be subconsciously racist against the Irish, i might be a half-assed murderclown, but sometimes i do something right. …
From: Great American Satan
It’s easy for me to write this post right now because, at the moment, I feel pretty good. Would you…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Warning: this is a discovery of a delicate, and some might even say offensive, nature, so I've put it below…
From: Pharyngula
No barbarous carnivores here! Well, except for the spiders. [caption id="attachment_71702" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption] Our plans have changed.…
From: Pharyngula
As one of those people who grew up in the 60s, and who tended to ignore the need for trimming…
From: Pharyngula
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
It's mystifying. I'm not a fan of the company, OpenAI -- they're the ones hyping up ChatGPT, they're 49% owned…
From: Pharyngula
I wasn't able to track down the 19th century book that inspired this post, but I suspect the book itself…
From: Great American Satan
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
Trying to find a source for some half-remembered knowledge. This is a real long shot, but I hope one of…
From: Great American Satan
It makes perfect sense. Send tanks and bulldozers and soldiers into Gaza, and then when the panicked, displaced residents end…
From: Pharyngula
I had a heart-related health scare today, and spent most of the day in the hospital getting checked out. Some…
From: Oceanoxia
Every four years, Americans who value human life, and see the ills caused by capitalism, are pushed to vote for…
From: Oceanoxia
Since I had been sick the last few weeks, I had been camped out on the couch and watching a…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I was booking flights to Seattle this morning, a fairly short hop away from Minneapolis, when I saw another interesting…
From: Pharyngula
Loeb gets a quick filleting from Rebecca. I know exactly how Loeb would respond, if he were to even notice,…
From: Pharyngula
I guess enough people complained about the stupidity of their article about spider eggs in some dork's toe. They've posted…
From: Pharyngula
I for one would really like to see self-driving cars become an everyday reality, as common as cars are now.…
From: Mano Singham
The Weinersmiths were interviewed by Adam Conover -- it's an hour-long video but it's worth it. They're talking about their…
From: Pharyngula
This is a story that is egregiously bogus. Wolf spider lays eggs in man's toe during cruise. No. Just no.…
From: Pharyngula
We have got used to the existence of 'deepfakes', computer generated images and videos that are almost indistinguishable from the…
From: Mano Singham
This is what Orcas do to Great White Sharks. Face it, Orcas are pretty damned metal. Let's be honest: as…
From: Pharyngula
I was in the lab this morning, and found the Steatoda borealis in an odd position: face-to-face, chelicerae almost touching,…
From: Pharyngula
It's mystifying. I'm not a fan of the company, OpenAI -- they're the ones hyping up ChatGPT, they're 49% owned…
From: Pharyngula
Xitter is currently facing an advertiser boycott, all because Musk has been promoting, and contributing to, a culture of racism,…
From: Pharyngula
In the US, wealthy owners of professional sports teams have long practiced the art of extortion on the local citizens…
From: Mano Singham
Chris Rufo strutted into a lecture at a school of business at the University of Texas, which you'd think would…
From: Pharyngula
A video of a man, a former state department official and reportedly an advisor to president Obama, harassing a street…
From: Mano Singham
Jim Irsay, the billionaire owner of an NFL football team, was arrested in 2014 for driving while impaired. In a…
From: Mano Singham
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
As the death toll from the Israeli assault on Gaze rises to horrifying levels, with bombing attacks on even hospitals…
From: Mano Singham
Nancy Wilson is described as an expert in 'Christian parenting' and in this clip she describes how she spanked her…
From: Mano Singham
There are few things that arouse stronger reactions in people than the claim that free will is an illusion. When…
From: Mano Singham
News from the Florida GOP: Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms…
From: Pharyngula
The war criminal and terrible person
From: Mano Singham
Henry Kissinger has died, 100 years old. He was a monster, who was held in high regards by the political…
From: Pro-Science
I've never been to Cambodia. But this makes me want to desecrate a corpse. Gotta remember, though, that he fucked…
From: Pharyngula
I had missed this earlier clip from Pie about the British prime minister's surprise move to bring the former prime…
From: Mano Singham
One of the big criticisms of capitalism is that corporations are purely profit-seeking. If there's ever an opportunity for a…
From: A Trivial Knot
In the US, wealthy owners of professional sports teams have long practiced the art of extortion on the local citizens…
From: Mano Singham
Oh no! The Republican party's coffers are low in cash because people don't want to donate to them! The Republican…
From: Pharyngula
We have got used to the existence of 'deepfakes', computer generated images and videos that are almost indistinguishable from the…
From: Mano Singham
Fabulist George Santos seems resigned to the fact that following the release of the scathing report by the House ethics…
From: Mano Singham