Then local pond had some pokestops added, making it a much more attractive destination for an afternoon walk (don't judge).…
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After repeatedly threatening to contest every seat that is up for election because he was deeply unsatisfied with Brexit plan…
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These seem like a great way to keep score. The full deck seems to include everyone who is anyone in…
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He is not at all happy with the choices being offered to voters on December 12th in any part of…
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The popular leader was released from prison pending appeals and was met with cheering crowds. In a speech to the…
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I promised some pics of the "finished" garden, so here they are. [caption id="attachment_41062" align="aligncenter" width="800"] ©Giliell, all rights reserved[/caption]…
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Briefly, one of my favorite jokes: A computer programmer is heading to the grocery store for necessary supplies. As they're…
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I like the Non Sequitur cartoons but sometimes the joke can be a little obscure as in this one. I'm…
From: Mano Singham
Thanks to modern technology, one can do things that one could formerly only dream about, such as taking a pop…
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I just bumped into this 2 year old article in Forbes. Forbes is all sober, serious, conservative bullshit, right? This…
From: Pharyngula
These seem like a great way to keep score. The full deck seems to include everyone who is anyone in…
From: Stderr
"A rising tide lifts all boats." I've got no idea how many times business people and venture capitalists have said…
From: Stderr
The last time I talked about Phillip Johnson it was to say I am honestly happy that Phillip Johnson is…
From: Pharyngula
Suppose I were to pick some group of people, Buddhists, for example, or millennials, or Australians, and start writing nasty…
From: Fierce Roller
I have a strict rule: the War on Christmas does not start the day after Halloween. It starts the day…
From: Pharyngula
…you need to read David Gorski about the latest episode of Real Time. He's got the full quarter hour of…
From: Pharyngula
I remember when James Randi exposed the supposed psychic faith healer, Peter Popoff by revealing that he was receiving secret…
From: Pharyngula
Over at stderr, Marcus Ranum has a great piece explaining why 'movement atheism' was inherently limiting and now appeals only…
From: Mano Singham
Since this is a sermon/rant, I am going to relax some of my rules of engagement and make some assertions…
From: Stderr
The appropriately named John Crist is identified as a 'Christian' standup comedian, whatever that might mean. He was due to…
From: Mano Singham
This guy I never heard of before, T.I., is now famous in my head for one thing: being a revolting…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence VanDyke has been nominated for a position on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The American Bar Association has…
From: Mano Singham
Eleven months ago that we had a wildfire cause millions of dollars of damage to an arid wilderness area in…
From: Pervert Justice
For about ten years, I've been hearing about this dispute between pansexuality vs bisexuality. In its most basic form, the…
From: A Trivial Knot
[caption id="attachment_56494" align="alignright" width="150"] Tom Stiglich / www.tomstiglich.com[/caption] Harvey Weinstein was allowed to attend an event for young performers at…
From: Pharyngula
In an interview, investigative journalist Ronan Farrow says that the resistance he faced from his former bosses at NBC about…
From: Mano Singham
The organizers of the Taipei Pride Parade have announced this year's route, with two major changes from previous years. First,…
From: Intransitive
Every month I repost an article from my archives. Since this week is Ace Week, I thought it might be…
From: A Trivial Knot
It's International Pronouns Day! I got my button. I wonder if the UMM College Republicans got theirs? I notice that,…
From: Pharyngula
Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes were having lunch together -- now there's a lunch date from hell -- when someone…
From: Pharyngula
A few plugs: There is a video of me talking about the Ace Community Survey. Also cat and dog persons.…
From: A Trivial Knot
It's Saturday, and I have to go in to work to proctor some makeup exams and finish grading this brutal…
From: Pharyngula
John Bon Jovi has written a song celebrating service animals for veterans, which is a good cause and a great…
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From: Mano Singham
I am sure that pretty much everyone has heard the term 'mindfulness' being bandied about in the media. While it…
From: Mano Singham
You know what that means, boys and girls? A sudden flood of email from students letting me know they are…
From: Pharyngula
What started as a peaceful protest by weredogs against the removal of School Board member Dr. Sandra Carlson ended in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
OK, let's brighten up this joint a bit.
From: Pharyngula
A quote from J. K. Huysman's Against Nature: Does there exist here below a being, conceived in the joys of…
From: Pharyngula
The appropriately named John Crist is identified as a 'Christian' standup comedian, whatever that might mean. He was due to…
From: Mano Singham
You want to see something chilling? It's how the police are indoctrinated into the warrior way, with a healthy dose…
From: Pharyngula
Johnson, who died last weekend at the age of 79, was a professor of law at the University of California,…
From: Mano Singham
I have written many times before about the intricate set of rules that Orthodox Jews have to live by. Some…
From: Mano Singham
Since this is a sermon/rant, I am going to relax some of my rules of engagement and make some assertions…
From: Stderr
There are a large number of Christians who think that the Bible is inerrant and infallible because it was inspired…
From: Mano Singham
The Satanic Temple keep pushing on the contradictions that exist in how US governmental institutions treat religions. Rather than simplifying…
From: Mano Singham
For example, I saw this guy's photo, and my brain immediately said to me, "Mormon." I lived in Utah for…
From: Pharyngula
What happens if the Last Supper of Christian lore is combined with the 2009 comedy film The Hangover featuring a…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_56691" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Sketching Science[/caption] One of the annoying things about creationists is that they always criticize evolution by…
From: Pharyngula
I got these new spiders from Texas last week, and they aren't adjusting very well. Usually what the new gals…
From: Pharyngula
The kid hosting this YouTube video is rather annoying, but Gwen Pearson is wonderful, as always. I wish I had…
From: Pharyngula
This presenter is having a grand time watching people cope with huntsman spiders. Panic never seems to work, does it?…
From: Pharyngula
Thanks to modern technology, one can do things that one could formerly only dream about, such as taking a pop…
From: Mano Singham
You want some really good information about hymens and virginity? The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education provides it. It's definitely…
From: Pharyngula
Someone wrote this angry, misinformed rant about the Ocean Sunfish, and it's now spreading all over facebook. It's kind of…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_6546" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Figure 4 from Haas et al. 2018. Average shapes of Volvox globator embryos for 10 stages…
From: Fierce Roller
Easy. They're in my house. It's been consistently cool out here in Minnesota -- temperatures have been right around 0°C,…
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From: Mano Singham
The popular leader was released from prison pending appeals and was met with cheering crowds. In a speech to the…
From: Mano Singham
Dietz is one of those well-groomed young white men with a brain full of slithery slimy worms. He's a white…
From: Pharyngula
Readers my recall my review of the film Green Book (2018) about a black classical pianist and his white driver…
From: Mano Singham
In New Atheism: The Godlessness that Failed, Scott Alexander explains how New Atheism was a much bigger phenomenon than younger…
From: A Trivial Knot
When I think of the history of slave labor in the US, I tend to think of cotton fields where…
From: Mano Singham
She has released her plan to provide universal health care coverage through a single payer system that will save ordinary…
From: Mano Singham
There has been a spate of teacher strikes across the country recently and just last week the teachers in the…
From: Mano Singham
The website known as 8chan has served as a cesspool of bigoted and racist hate mongering for a long time…
From: Mano Singham
A group of cowardly jerk-offs gathered at the Emmett Till memorial, which they can't shoot up anymore because it's been…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence VanDyke has been nominated for a position on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The American Bar Association has…
From: Mano Singham
After repeatedly threatening to contest every seat that is up for election because he was deeply unsatisfied with Brexit plan…
From: Mano Singham
Having once been threatened with a SLAPP suit (which is a lot less than some of my better-known Freethought Blogs…
From: Fierce Roller
This is painfully familiar. You know what hurt the most? When Oliver mentioned how much HBO and their insurance company…
From: Pharyngula
In this corner, the man with the shrinking face, the demagogue of Turning Point USA, money man for Libertarian sophomores…
From: Pharyngula
Hannah Arendt, a Jew who had narrowly escaped from Nazi Germany, was commissioned by The New Yorker magazine to cover…
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[caption id="attachment_56704" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Ted Rall[/caption]
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I never doubted it, but now the CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, confirms it for us all. He was asked about the…
From: Pharyngula
These seem like a great way to keep score. The full deck seems to include everyone who is anyone in…
From: Stderr
He is not at all happy with the choices being offered to voters on December 12th in any part of…
From: Mano Singham
The popular leader was released from prison pending appeals and was met with cheering crowds. In a speech to the…
From: Mano Singham