https://youtu.be/NPnCBe0cLos SEGA is going fully mobile with the launch of SEGA Forever, an app store collection that allows nostalgic gamers…
From: Affinity
This month we review Yes' 1972 seminal album "Close to the Edge" and Chris reveals why it's such a personal…
From: Bi Any Means
Last year I went to LaveCon, and I'm going again this year. It's a small conference held in Northampton, devoted…
From: Stderr
[CONTENT NOTE: graphic image of child's arm showing injuries after a squirrel attack.] I read with alarm a terrifying story…
From: Death to Squirrels
A new comedy called The Little Hours and set in 1349 is based on a book I read as a…
From: Pervert Justice
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling captures well the absurdity of the idea that health care should be left to the so-called 'free…
From: Mano Singham
Malevolent Adjective. 1: having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred. 2: productive of harm…
From: Affinity
https://youtu.be/vmi-MtP969M The Trumpholes are so very upset over Moby's latest, claiming it's breeding hate and terrorists because, y'know, it's not…
From: Affinity
Art, as a tool of life and love, is available to all of us. We make use of it as…
From: Odgraphix
I watched the season finale of American Gods, and they did something brave: they portrayed Jesus as just another member…
From: Pharyngula
In the past week, a Canadian law regulating the exercise of the right to medical assistance in dying (that right…
From: Pervert Justice
Or he would be, if he weren't an inanimate corpse that had ceased to be. Erdogan is continuing his corruption…
From: Pharyngula
I am almost never asked, "Right Reverend Crip Dyke, if some community leader is going to be a self-professed Christian,…
From: Pervert Justice
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I've been silent for a while. I intimated that I needed…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
[caption id="attachment_18919" align="alignnone" width="605"] The Obscene Kiss, an illustration of witches kissing the Devil's anus from Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium…
From: Affinity
My guest for today is Rajani Gudlavalleti, racial equity trainer and board member of the Foundation Beyond Belief. Here’s what…
From: Bi Any Means
Hussein Kesvani writes about how internet atheism sucks. As an internet atheist, I have to agree. To understand where online…
From: Pharyngula
The IHEU is launching a fundraising campaign to help humanists at risk around the world. Over the last 5 years,…
From: Pharyngula
Edward Bernays was the foremost proponent of "public relations" (which encompasses marketing, political propaganda, and other means of manipulating society)…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_18874" align="alignnone" width="825"] Pride Leadership AwardNavy Lt. Cmdr. Damita Zweiback presents a Department of Defense Pride Military Leadership Award…
From: Affinity
I'm constantly spammed by the Weatherspoon Institute, one of those right-wing think tanks that is, as part of its mission,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_18955" align="alignnone" width="800"] Shutterstock.[/caption] America, the experiment, is one that will fail. And no, this isn't yet another report…
From: Affinity
Bill Cosby is out, and of course he has a plan for his life: to lecture young men on how…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_18874" align="alignnone" width="825"] Pride Leadership AwardNavy Lt. Cmdr. Damita Zweiback presents a Department of Defense Pride Military Leadership Award…
From: Affinity
I had a lot of people click on the hyperlink I provided on my last long-form post in support of the…
From: Against the Grain
On March 22nd 2017, Khalid Masood drove a car on to the pavement of Westminster Bridge, killing four people and…
[caption id="attachment_18812" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Elise Peterson, "Grace Meets Matisse." All images courtesy the artists.[/caption] From hawking sports cars to hamburgers,…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_18806" align="alignnone" width="1050"] Amanda Charchian, Celine, 2016.[/caption] The exhibit starts tomorrow! Artists include: Aneta Bartos, Anna Biller, Amanda Charchian,…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_18777" align="alignnone" width="800"] Metropolitan Kornily (putin.blog).[/caption] Metropolitan Kornily, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, an Orthodox Catholic…
From: Affinity
Siggy has a fantastic post on his blag about the impact of sex-negativity in Christianity on ace folks: In ace…
From: Against the Grain
Anita Sarkeesian was at a convention of youtubers this week, which sounds like a kind of hell. It's not that…
From: Pharyngula
I like to document uses of the name "Volvox" that don't refer to the green algal genus, for example Volvox the…
From: Fierce Roller
Not for sensitive stomachs, but if you're interested in what your pet will do if you happen to up and…
From: Pharyngula
Content notice: Satirical depictions of Fascists. Reminder: This is a work of fiction. Organizers of the Village of Bolingbrook Annual…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Been having very high levels of pain lately, which also seeps out all over my attitude. Having to get up…
From: Affinity
I recently got into an argument over how big a cup is. I'd thought that measurement came in only two…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Cricket fans in India are notorious for being highly enthusiastic that sometimes crosses over into being bad sports, getting angry…
From: Mano Singham
Back here, I admonished The Intercept for being careless about the handling of classified info. I've since learned it's a…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Art, as a tool of life and love, is available to all of us. We make use of it as…
From: Odgraphix
For the most part, Taiwan is a safe country to live in. Petty crime isn't a major problem, and while…
From: Intransitive
Yesterday was Focus on the Family's 40th anniversary. I remember 1977 well enough, and I remember the low stirrings of…
From: Affinity
I am almost never asked, "Right Reverend Crip Dyke, if some community leader is going to be a self-professed Christian,…
From: Pervert Justice
It is really not surprising how fundamentalism is the same irrespective of the religion because at root it requires the…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_18919" align="alignnone" width="605"] The Obscene Kiss, an illustration of witches kissing the Devil's anus from Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium…
From: Affinity
A new comedy called The Little Hours and set in 1349 is based on a book I read as a…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_18874" align="alignnone" width="825"] Pride Leadership AwardNavy Lt. Cmdr. Damita Zweiback presents a Department of Defense Pride Military Leadership Award…
From: Affinity
I want to see this horrible woman, Karen Handel, go down in flames. She's a Christian, which she interprets to…
From: Pharyngula
I'm a "mutually assured destruction" kind of gal. Christians had whole centuries in Europe to put their "turn the other…
From: Against the Grain
[caption id="attachment_13" align="alignright" width="162"] Jean Meslier[/caption] In order to avoid all embarrassment, they tell us that it is not necessary…
From: Stderr
From a few of the comments on my post about my visit to Ken Ham's Ark Park, people seem to…
From: Pharyngula
Existential Comics is... a bit of a weird read. Crudely drawn, a bit obsessed with nihilism, it nonetheless hits some…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
It's just too scary, and radioactive materials are just too weird. [caption id="attachment_35006" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The metal rods in the…
From: Pharyngula
We're making the planet a better place for cephalopods. It also helps that humans are busily destroying teleost populations. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
"NASA Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Pit Photographed on Mars" - like a trout to a clickbait fly, I rise and…
From: Stderr
It is really not surprising how fundamentalism is the same irrespective of the religion because at root it requires the…
From: Mano Singham
It's weird. I don't know why. [caption id="attachment_34988" align="aligncenter" width="500"] PhD Comics[/caption] Maybe it's because I find commercial interruptions infuriating.…
From: Pharyngula
As I mentioned previously, I have a chapter in the newly published book Biological Individuality, Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives. The…
From: Fierce Roller
Another one from Cassini's Grand Finale. And yeah, I'm a day late. NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting…
Biologists have the option of posting preprints, articles that have not yet been through peer review, to bioRxiv. Modeled on…
From: Fierce Roller
That strange tissue I showed in a previous post is…the chorion of the embryonic zebrafish. It's homologous to a structure…
From: Pharyngula
In the past week, a Canadian law regulating the exercise of the right to medical assistance in dying (that right…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_18960" align="alignnone" width="1160"] Christian Picciolini, founder of the group Life After Hate, is pictured. | AP Photo.[/caption] If there…
From: Affinity
Suddenly, all these videos of the Philando Castile shooting are being released after the murder cop got acquitted. This latest…
From: Pharyngula
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, much to my frustration, seems to be coated in the same Teflon as the country itself,…
From: Against the Grain
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I've been silent for a while. I intimated that I needed…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
[caption id="attachment_18938" align="alignnone" width="800"] Image from the scene where an off-duty officer was shot by a fellow cop in St.…
From: Affinity
My guest for today is Rajani Gudlavalleti, racial equity trainer and board member of the Foundation Beyond Belief. Here’s what…
From: Bi Any Means
Also late to this (warning: that link includes the Facebook video of Philando's death; it does not include the more recent…
Another one... I'm late to this one, I know. I'm sorry. Seattle police officers shot and killed a woman at…
A few years ago at a conference about queer video games, I said to an acquaintance, "It seems like there…
From: A Trivial Knot
Everyone talks about radical Islamists, and they definitely are terrible awful violent people (but remember, please: radical Islamist ≠ Muslim). But there…
From: Pharyngula
Yesterday was Focus on the Family's 40th anniversary. I remember 1977 well enough, and I remember the low stirrings of…
From: Affinity
Saudi Arabia continues its drive to be the Arab hegemon in the Middle East and, along with its subordinate partners…
From: Mano Singham
Showing once again that self-awareness is not the strong suit of right-wingers, a CEO has created an employment test, which…
From: Pro-Science
White House press spokesman Sean Spicer made the comments during an off-camera briefing to journalists in Washington. [bbc] So was…
From: Stderr
The Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell has released his version of the health care reform bill and it has as…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_18960" align="alignnone" width="1160"] Christian Picciolini, founder of the group Life After Hate, is pictured. | AP Photo.[/caption] If there…
From: Affinity
Krugman calculates who should favor this bill. So, is this bill good for you? Yes, if you meet the following…
From: Pharyngula
Those were the days, when Republicans tried to scuttle health care reform by claiming it would be heartless, cruel, bureaucratic,…
From: Pharyngula
Content notice: Satirical depictions of Fascists. Reminder: This is a work of fiction. Organizers of the Village of Bolingbrook Annual…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler