Rambling incoherent dream the other night. Our house was across a busy urban street from a house where a coven…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 1 Lieutenant Win Bear's brooding is interrupted by a priority call: "Five Charlie Nineteen, respond Code…
From: Daylight Atheism
Had a disease dream the other night, wish I'd taken better notes when I woke up. I think we were…
From: Life's a Gas
A popular SNL sketch from 2000 featuring Christopher Walken and Will Farrell. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
THIS IS A POST IN PROGRESS. I'm going to do edits on it at some point in the evening maybe? …
From: Life's a Gas
(Doonesbury) Even cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who is usually up-do-date on his references, cannot keep up. Musk just announced the birth…
From: Mano Singham
Big Spoilers Ahead. If you thought you were going to read the Best Story in the World without spoilin', read…
From: Life's a Gas
I posted recently about how the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days played a role in explaining the…
From: Mano Singham
Sure is fun when superheroes punch. Nobody gets brain damaged or killed by it. Biff bam boom. This is less…
From: Life's a Gas
Actually, I used to hang out at Affinity [aff] because sometimes there was interesting far-ranging discussions and art, and creativity.…
From: Stderr
I am a life-long atheist. I didn't have to deconvert and I'd go as far as saying that I'm anti…
From: Affinity
Here's another wild creationist claim that just popped up from the YouTube algorithm. It's a shouting match between a Muslim…
From: Pharyngula
Last night, Aron Ra got into a discussion about a claim that protein evolution is impossible, specifically, that different protein…
From: Pharyngula
Warning: Potentially Embarrassing References To 1980s Music Of course, the autocrats are assuming that the AIs will be nietzschean ubermenschen,…
From: Stderr
Sometimes, I'll tune in to these atheist phone line shows on YouTube. It's unfair, but it's always the worst, dumbest,…
From: Pharyngula
A great new podcast has come into existence: The Know Rogan Experience, The podcast is hosted brilliantly by Michael "Marsh"…
From: Pro-Science
Ken Ham is excited about another discovery of traces of collagen in dinosaur bones. Me? I'm saying ho-hum, it's mildly…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75620" align="alignright" width="150"] I have no idea what he's trying to say with this illustration on the column. God…
From: Pharyngula
This email was long and particularly vapid, so I'm not going into detail on it, but I do include the…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Phelps presents an overview of all of Answers in Genesis's shenanigans, right up to the recent news of a…
From: Pharyngula
Be there!
From: Pharyngula
Good news from Montana: the legislature was flooded with anti-trans laws, but they've all been defeated. They failed because a…
From: Pharyngula
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California who also has aspirations to the presidency, has destroyed any chance he has of…
From: Pharyngula
A new study finds that the 'quality' of a man's sperm correlates with their longevity. Sperm may be the canaries…
From: Mano Singham
Yesteray, I took my required online training course in Sexual Misconduct, Discrimination, and Retaliation Prevention and Response (SMPP). This is…
From: Pharyngula
Yesterday evening I was at a concert with the Indian heavy band Bloodywood. If you get a chance to see…
From: Pro-Science
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Seriously. Transgender people were a big wedge issue used to flip who knows how many fools to voting fash, or…
From: Life's a Gas
In a long essay, Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of History at the University of Delaware, writes that there is…
From: Mano Singham
It is LGBT+ History Month in the UK. This year's theme, Activism and Social Change, resonates deeply with me. LGBT+…
From: YEMMYnisting
This morning, I strolled down to the coffeeshop to relax and read a book by an author I've always enjoyed…
From: Pharyngula
It looks like Reels, Meta's attempt to match the popularity if Instagram, had a malfunction in its algorithm that resulted…
From: Mano Singham
Actually, I used to hang out at Affinity [aff] because sometimes there was interesting far-ranging discussions and art, and creativity.…
From: Stderr
What did '60s people mean by "it's a gas"? Something like "it blows my mind, it's trippy, it's exciting," I…
From: Life's a Gas
At the beginning of every month, I will repost my comments policy for those who started visiting this site the…
From: Mano Singham
The discovery on Wednesday, February 26th of the bodies of that fine actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and…
From: Mano Singham
Don't buy anything from Amazon or the big box stores. Shop locally. I think it's aiming small, though. Try a…
From: Pharyngula
I know hardly anything about cryptocurrencies or the underlying blockchain structure but was under the impression that it was supposed…
From: Mano Singham
You might think that it is too early to sow anything, and you would be right for about 99% of…
From: Affinity
Dang, these people look so happy. Those are our kids, Alaric, Skatje, and Connlann (l-r) and their Great-Grandma Westad. Of…
From: Pharyngula
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
I'm bewildered. I'm an anti-theist, so it makes me uncomfortable when I see a priest acting charitably and kindly and…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
How dare Joe Biden give Bill Nye the Medal of Freedom? Ham doesn't think he deserves it because Nye supports…
From: Pharyngula
I was in St. Paul, or transiting to and from St. Paul, all day yesterday for the grand #StandUpForScience rally.…
From: Pharyngula
Yeah, another SpaceX "Starship" exploded in a test flight. I think space exploration is a great thing, but the fact…
From: Pharyngula
At my university, the secretary in my office was a woman who had previously served in the army. She was…
From: Mano Singham
Colossal Biosciences is a tech company. You know what that means: hype, exaggeration, and lies, all to accompany developments that…
From: Pharyngula
A new study finds that the 'quality' of a man's sperm correlates with their longevity. Sperm may be the canaries…
From: Mano Singham
What a dramatic planet! Astronomers have found a weird planet orbiting a very Sun-like star. Called K2-360b, the planet is…
From: Pharyngula
Here's another wild creationist claim that just popped up from the YouTube algorithm. It's a shouting match between a Muslim…
From: Pharyngula
It was only a matter of time. In Texas, an unvaccinated six-year-old child has died of measles: The Texas outbreak…
From: Daylight Atheism
Last night, Aron Ra got into a discussion about a claim that protein evolution is impossible, specifically, that different protein…
From: Pharyngula
Warning: Potentially Embarrassing References To 1980s Music Of course, the autocrats are assuming that the AIs will be nietzschean ubermenschen,…
From: Stderr
A German woman has experienced what so many poor immigrants experience at the hands of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.…
From: Mano Singham
It looks like Reels, Meta's attempt to match the popularity if Instagram, had a malfunction in its algorithm that resulted…
From: Mano Singham
Netanyahu has announced the complete halt to all humanitarian aid to Gaza. He, with the support of the US, has…
From: Mano Singham
The Trump administration has been on a rampage against institutions that support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and in particular has…
From: Pharyngula
So Germany has voted, and yes, it's bad, but it could be a lot worse. We needed early elections after…
From: Affinity
A great new podcast has come into existence: The Know Rogan Experience, The podcast is hosted brilliantly by Michael "Marsh"…
From: Pro-Science
Niall Gooch is a very Christian man. He writes for the Spectator, a conservative British news weekly, but he also…
From: Pharyngula
It has long been know that a number of news sources in the US is completely unreliable, and work to…
From: Pro-Science
Yesterday evening I was at a concert with the Indian heavy band Bloodywood. If you get a chance to see…
From: Pro-Science
Seriously. Transgender people were a big wedge issue used to flip who knows how many fools to voting fash, or…
From: Life's a Gas
There are protests going on in St. Cloud today, and my son Alaric was out there taking a few pictures.…
From: Pharyngula
Of all the fights that Trump has instigated, the most pointless seems to be the one with Canada. For a…
From: Mano Singham
I am a life-long atheist. I didn't have to deconvert and I'd go as far as saying that I'm anti…
From: Affinity
I was in St. Paul, or transiting to and from St. Paul, all day yesterday for the grand #StandUpForScience rally.…
From: Pharyngula
Being fired from your job suddenly despite not having done anything wrong can be devastating to one's personal finances, let…
From: Mano Singham
I'm leaving shortly for our state capitol to stand around and complain. Stand up for Science! If you can't make…
From: Pharyngula
Good news from Montana: the legislature was flooded with anti-trans laws, but they've all been defeated. They failed because a…
From: Pharyngula
Yeah, another SpaceX "Starship" exploded in a test flight. I think space exploration is a great thing, but the fact…
From: Pharyngula
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California who also has aspirations to the presidency, has destroyed any chance he has of…
From: Pharyngula
Mon coeur! I swoon. I don't understand a word that Claude Malhuret is saying, but I am dizzy with adoration…
From: Pharyngula