Man, it was a bad month for writing. I was doing well enough when I wrote, but there were certain…
From: Life's a Gas
No comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFLyhugRyI
From: Affinity
The Probability Broach, chapter 20 The Continental Congress has ended. Win Bear and his friends spent enormous amounts of effort…
From: Daylight Atheism
This annual event, where Washington-based journalists meet, eat, drink, and schmooze with the people they cover, with other celebrities thrown…
From: Mano Singham
Blah blah AI no creativity, whatever, blah. It's still fun. I was lying in bed trying to sleep and had…
From: Stderr
Content Notice: pro-AI, haters don't bother plz Somebody told google's gemini they were a mosquito and got mosquito advice, like,…
From: Life's a Gas
It takes very little to set the rightwing nut jobs off into starting a new front in the culture wars,…
From: Mano Singham
This grand plan to rename New York's Penn Station after Donald Trump has been kicking around for a while now,…
From: Death to Squirrels
The Probability Broach, chapter 20 The Continental Congress is at a stalemate. Win and Lucy know that John Jay Madison…
From: Daylight Atheism
Content Warnings: It's horror. Whatever. EDIT to ADD: jeezis i have a lot of repeated words phrases in this. they…
From: Life's a Gas
I ask because I got served this morning. There was a knock at the door, and a nice lady handed…
From: Pharyngula
Blah blah AI no creativity, whatever, blah. It's still fun. I was lying in bed trying to sleep and had…
From: Stderr
Right now, we are being treated to a fascinating mix of genius and antigenius, whipsawed between incredible stupidity and last-minute…
From: Stderr
This grubby-handed gentleman left a jar of raw milk outside, in 90°F heat, for two days, until the solids started…
From: Pharyngula
My husband described to me a version of the cosmological argument based on explanations. Everything in the world requires an…
From: A Trivial Knot
Hey atheists — I have a question.Is Lily Jay fake?
If you've hung out with the atheist communities on YouTube or Instagram (and if you haven't, congratulations!) you've probably encountered…
From: Pharyngula
I don't follow the day-to-day activities of the Peterson family, Jordan and Mikhaila, so I had just assumed that they…
From: Pharyngula
Got a spammesque comment on an old post, from a creationist! of all things. This has never been a blog…
From: Life's a Gas
I could not leave the scarring of this lovely video unaddressed, so I made a video of my own. Transcript…
From: Pharyngula
Who remembers the Peanut Butter Man, Chuck Missler? He was a creationist who ranked down there with Ray Comfort and…
From: Pharyngula
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan represent some of the worst elements of the so-called manosphere, the world of pathetic…
From: Mano Singham
The Tate Bros (Andrew & Tristan) of internet misogyny and international sex crime fame were arrested today, for extradition to…
From: Life's a Gas
Isn't that sweet? Pete Hegseth is imposing mandatory testosterone testing, but is not requiring testosterone supplements, yet. As we all…
From: Pharyngula
Trump was found guilty by a jury in 2023 of sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll. But he…
From: Mano Singham
In a long awaited ruling, the court affirmed by a 6-3 margin the constitutional right of birthright citizenship, that anyone…
From: Mano Singham
I've got a bit of a grudge going for Dave Chappelle. I don't think about things or people I hate…
From: Life's a Gas
I chose a life in the Great Social Discourse of Doom when I helped push Atheism Plus to establish a…
From: Life's a Gas
A long time ago I was hunting for a word and while "conformity" had occurred to me, it didn't feel…
From: Life's a Gas
I apologize for scaring you all with that dour, nasty visage. That's Keith Kidwell, a North Carolina state legislator, looking…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_79395" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Oh look, a trans person![/caption]
From: Pharyngula
No comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFLyhugRyI
From: Affinity
Three days of devastatingly hot weather were still not enough to dry the oats completely. I threshed two sheaves and…
From: Affinity
Elon Musk had another bad week. He was interviewed, and the interviewer asked mildly challenging questions, and poor little Elon…
From: Pharyngula
I tried to grow two varieties of garlic and three varieties of onions in my new raised beds. The raised…
From: Affinity
My Wednesdays all this month have been consumed with running errands to Alexandria, which have been worsened by the fact…
From: Pharyngula
Blah blah AI no creativity, whatever, blah. It's still fun. I was lying in bed trying to sleep and had…
From: Stderr
Jake Paul has inspired me. He's this terrible YouTuber who made a lot of money with stupid prank videos aimed…
From: Pharyngula
But trust xkcd to deliver! I used to do a little Forth programming…in the 1980s. Sing out if you're a…
From: Pharyngula
Emily Wilson has written a review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey! She's the author of an excellent translation of Homer's…
From: Pharyngula
Teh whezzer forecast for the next few days is: another heatwave. Thus, I decided to harvest my oats. [caption id="attachment_51062"…
From: Affinity
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another…
From: Pro-Science
There's a line in Minority Report that's stuck with me. After looking over the crime scene, the detective character turns…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Just ask Doug Wilson. "If Kamala [Harris] had won the presidency, there would have been basically zero evangelicals in the…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_79680" align="alignright" width="300"] These gomers make it so hard to celebrate Independence Day[/caption] It's Independence Day, which means most…
From: Pharyngula
We're deep in the insanity phase of the progression, and it's obvious. A report has been released that exposes the…
From: Pharyngula
Lard, I hate waking up to shit like this. Especially when I'm only really interested in the latest news about…
From: Death to Squirrels
Heretical notion, not much to it, but it makes more sense the canon version of events. I am constantly confronted…
From: Life's a Gas
One of Christianity's most pernicious and harmful ideas is that a deathbed conversion is sufficient to erase all of your…
From: Pharyngula
You may have the impression that Minnesota is chock-full of Scandinavian Lutherans, but that's not so: German Catholics make up…
From: Pharyngula
I am busy today and in lieu of an original post, thought that I would post an old article of…
From: Mano Singham
Just yesterday, I was tuning up the syllabus for my cell biology course, which starts up in about 3 weeks.…
From: Pharyngula
This headline certainly caught my attention (via AP): A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the…
From: Death to Squirrels
I want to lead with a sentiment from near the end of my last post, which is that it's going…
From: Oceanoxia
[caption id="attachment_79867" align="alignright" width="150"] "COVID ""Cures"""[/caption] Anthony Fauci was hauled up in a senate hearing where ignorant, ideologically-poisoned buffoons like…
From: Pharyngula
The loony right has been obsessed with the belief that the Covid-19 virus did not jump from animals to humans…
From: Mano Singham
We found another Argiope down the street. She'd made a spectacular catch. Her web is in a great location, because…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the double whammy of extreme weather that besieged the…
From: Daylight Atheism
The Monarchs are here.
From: Pharyngula
My university offers courses in several languages with a relatively tiny population base, like Anishinaabe, the language of the indigenous…
From: Pharyngula
Now you can. It's pretty amazing how much silk she can produce so quickly.
From: Pharyngula
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another…
From: Pro-Science
It takes very little to set the rightwing nut jobs off into starting a new front in the culture wars,…
From: Mano Singham
A military police officer turned researcher got a job as a corrections. No one will be surprised that she discovers…
From: Pharyngula
One of the most disgusting things about the Biden administration was his steadfast refusal to condemn Israel's horrific genocidal behavior…
From: Mano Singham
I share with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the belief that there are no good billionaires. “There’s a certain level of wealth and…
From: Mano Singham
A lot of this is what I consider being from the Department of Obviousness Department, which I normally try to…
From: Stderr
Republican speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson thought he would scare people by reading out loud what the…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday saw primary races in Colorado and there was an upset when democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeated 15-term incumbent congresswoman…
From: Mano Singham
In a long awaited ruling, the court affirmed by a 6-3 margin the constitutional right of birthright citizenship, that anyone…
From: Mano Singham
People who are sensitive to avoid giving offense tend to be cautious in how they refer to groups of people…
From: Mano Singham
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another…
From: Pro-Science
Due to Andy Burnham stepping down as Mayor, in order to get elected to Parliament, so he could become the leader…
From: Pro-Science
Man, it was a bad month for writing. I was doing well enough when I wrote, but there were certain…
From: Life's a Gas
Trump's justice department admits that the reason that the Lincoln pool paint was peeling was because it was a botched…
From: Mano Singham
I want to lead with a sentiment from near the end of my last post, which is that it's going…
From: Oceanoxia
Most people have an abysmal level of knowledge of world geography, unable to place even major countries on a map…
From: Mano Singham
How about both? At an AIDS conference in Rio, the representatives of the United States put up this map: That's…
From: Pharyngula
For the longest time the Ford Edsel, launched in 1957, held the record as the biggest flop automotive history, the…
From: Mano Singham
I've never been much of an alcohol drinker -- the example of my alcoholic grandfather kept me wary of the…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_79867" align="alignright" width="150"] "COVID ""Cures"""[/caption] Anthony Fauci was hauled up in a senate hearing where ignorant, ideologically-poisoned buffoons like…
From: Pharyngula