Did you know they’re actually born with that excellent mustache?
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Did you know they’re actually born with that excellent mustache?
Let’s not even bother tallying up the chronological years. It’s my birthday, and I’m celebrating by…going to an evening faculty meeting.
I’d say shoot me now, but I don’t think I’m worth the bullet anymore.
Jamie Gilt loves her guns. She has a page titled Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense. So you’d think she’d be a regular poster child for the NRA.
She’s in the hospital now because, as she was toodling down the Florida highways in her pickup truck, her four year old son found a .45 calibre pistol in the back seat, and plugged his mom right in the torso. She’s going to live, fortunately, and will be back to praising guns soon.
I’m not laughing. I’m just kind of staggered by the explosion of cliches I’ve now read.
Me. I’m the example given for ludic.
I was sent this as an “open letter” — I don’t know if it’s posted anywhere else, but since it’s “open”, I’m happy to let everyone read it.
Dear PZ,
Can I please ask you to refrain from insulting and writing about Sam Harris in the negative. I don’t know what you expect to achieve by constantly writing Sam Harris hit jobs. You are tearing the atheist community apart.
Does it not hurt you knowing that you are contributing to the toxicity of the atheist community? Do you not care about, as Sam Harris says, that his daughter will one day have to read articles about their father being a racist, and Islamophobe? Even if you don’t agree with Sam or Richard Dawkins, can’t you please get in line. They’re the ones on the front lines. They’re are the ones that will bring enlightenment to the masses.
Don’t you care about the damage you are doing? Imaging someone who is considering the notion of god and reads Sam Harris and thinks, “yes this makes sense, I no longer believe”. Now imagine that this person has major influence in society. Imagine that maybe this person becomes president. Imagine the good they could do.
Now imagine that they then read a PZ Myers blog post, and they read you saying Harris is a bigot and racist etc. You just prevented that president from being enlightened and doing great work as president, because they instead read something religious and became religious.
These are the stakes. We are not cultists, we are just pragmatic, for the greater good. I compel you. But I bet you have your mind made up and are not willing to listen to my sound reasoned arguments.
I feel a duty to at least try to persuade you and your readers. Please just write something positive about Sam, at least that way you appear neutral and unbiased.
kind regards,
Bernie Sanders, defying the polls, won the primary election in Michigan. Five Thirty Eight, the blog that is all about the polls, wonders what this means. Could it be that their polls won’t accurately predict the results of coming primaries?
I’ll tell you what it means.
This is so sweet. The channers/gamergaters/MRAs/generic assholes have declared 9 March to be a special day.
What is this all about? They’re upset about serious issues like Milo Yiannopoulos’s missing blue checkmark, and how people sometimes (rarely) bet banned or blocked for harassment, so they’ve decided to go all out repulsive for a day. They have a simple plan.
To participate all you have to do is post the most vile and offensive things you can think of (within federal law), in defense of freedom of speech.
Oh, man, brilliant. That’ll convince the world these worthies must be given a louder voice.
The story should begin with the victim. This is Kim Suozzi, 23 years old, and diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer that was going to kill her within a few months. She’s doomed and she knows it, so she has gone to Alcor, signed over her life insurance money, and asked to have her head frozen after death in the unlikely hope that someday, someone will be able to revive her. I feel a deep sadness for her; for someone so young, for anyone, to be confronted with an awful mortality is tragic.
She did die too soon after this video was made. And now we learn about the bumbling corpse mutilation that occurred afterwards.
You might want to stop reading right here. It’s a hard story, especially after seeing the young woman alive.
It’s Inernational Women’s Day! It’s also National Pancake Day!
Shhh. Nobody tell Mary, but I know what she’s getting for her celebratory dinner tonight.
In the category of “It’s a stupid job, but someone’s got to do it,” MRA’s all over the world are currently whining in protest, But when is International Men’s Day?
Richard Herring is bravely answering every one of them with two words: November 19th.
He’s being accused of “bullying” them.
Well, this day is just getting better and better. International Women’s Day, National Pancake Day, and a couple of evangelists have predicted that the world will end today.
What’s better about that? Tonight, when I’m serving the woman pancakes, I’ll have a reason to beg to open my birthday presents a day early. The world could end any minute now! Quick! Snarf down those pancakes now so I can have my presents NOOOOOOWWW!
That’ll work, right?
