During the October FtB Poddish Sortacast, I told a story off the cuff with nothing but a slim outline (and…
From: Great American Satan
Thanksgiving was hard. I meditated and tried to get my head in a good place before leaving to go see…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It’s easy for me to write this post right now because, at the moment, I feel pretty good. Would you…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
The talented Mr Fingers is at it again. This time he built a rowboat out of a super realistic sculpture…
From: Stderr
Yesterday, Joe Biden turned 81 and it was yet another occasion for the media to fixate on his age. Ir…
From: Mano Singham
We are an animal-loving family. Five cats: Stachey, Sasha, Emmy, Jax, and Nina, and two guinea pigs: Nibbles and Nugget.…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
My daughter was at her grandpa's house tonight so my husband and I took advantage of our child-free time to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I have some big questions on my mind. How do you move past anger when someone has mistreated you? When…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
As I've been feeling the concept of leftover people lately, I'd like to do something with them. But I dunno,…
From: Great American Satan
I've featured Michael Voris several times here -- he was the front man for an organization called the Church Militant,…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a fascinating old photo. [caption id="attachment_71637" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Farmer Olof Öhman (center), who reported the artifact’s discovery in 1898,…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
If you've never heard of David Rives before, you're fortunate: he's a lesser creationist best known for the well-fed, smug,…
From: Pharyngula
Assembly Theorypops up again
This morning I was surprised to see Assembly Theory popping up all over in my social media. Did somebody find…
From: Pharyngula
In a totally unsurprising announcement, Ayaan Hirsi Ali renounces atheism and declares herself a Christian. I half-expected this to happen…
From: Pharyngula
What is the purpose of life? It is to find meaning. [Viktor Frank] The title is not a misprint. Everyone,…
From: Jonathan's Musings
... is anyone actually surprised by this? Disappointed, sure - but surprised? [reuters] Nov 8 (Reuters) - (This Nov. 8…
From: Stderr
See this person? She's the biggest, most ignorant idiot at the Discovery Institute, which says a lot, since she's in…
From: Pharyngula
These creationist goobers are worse than low-hanging fruit -- they're rotting on the ground and indistinguishable from the droppings of…
From: Pharyngula
My daughter was at her grandpa's house tonight so my husband and I took advantage of our child-free time to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The recent defeats at elections has resulted in the GOP scrambling to find a message on abortion that will placate…
From: Mano Singham
Bill Ackman is a hedge-fund billionaire who was very concerned that an MIT professor allowed a student to promote a…
From: Pharyngula
While the top line election results on Tuesday were good for Democrats, the picture looks even better when you look…
From: Mano Singham
Now I'm just making myself depressed. This is Bubba Copeland. He was the Republican mayor of a small town in…
From: Pharyngula
In gay fiction, the nerd/jock romance is a very common trope. In the standard take, the jock is an attractive…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have not seen any episodes of the TV series The Bachelor but have seen clips and read enough news…
From: Mano Singham
The US is a prudish country when it comes to issues of sex. While sexuality is rampant in films and…
From: Mano Singham
I keep seeing these naive pop culture simplifications of sex and gender -- it's all about gametes, or Y chromosomes,…
From: Pharyngula
Here we go again. Richard Dawkins pushes bad biology and hatred. Hey friends, Remember me? I've been offline for a…
From: Pharyngula
My forgemaking continues. I was hoping that this week the forge will be finished, but alas that is not the…
From: Affinity
I was complaining about the effect of Zoom on students -- it doesn't encourage engagement and leads to apathy --…
From: Pharyngula
Thanksgiving was hard. I meditated and tried to get my head in a good place before leaving to go see…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[caption id="attachment_71714" align="alignright" width="183"] Big Bluestem roots[/caption] Good deep roots make a difference. The photo to the right is from…
From: Pharyngula
i might be subconsciously racist against the Irish, i might be a half-assed murderclown, but sometimes i do something right. …
From: Great American Satan
It’s easy for me to write this post right now because, at the moment, I feel pretty good. Would you…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Warning: this is a discovery of a delicate, and some might even say offensive, nature, so I've put it below…
From: Pharyngula
No barbarous carnivores here! Well, except for the spiders. [caption id="attachment_71702" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Far Side[/caption] Our plans have changed.…
From: Pharyngula
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
I adopted Zoom in all of my classes when the pandemic hit -- I liked the flexibility it provided for…
From: Pharyngula
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
It's mystifying. I'm not a fan of the company, OpenAI -- they're the ones hyping up ChatGPT, they're 49% owned…
From: Pharyngula
I wasn't able to track down the 19th century book that inspired this post, but I suspect the book itself…
From: Great American Satan
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
Trying to find a source for some half-remembered knowledge. This is a real long shot, but I hope one of…
From: Great American Satan
It makes perfect sense. Send tanks and bulldozers and soldiers into Gaza, and then when the panicked, displaced residents end…
From: Pharyngula
I had a heart-related health scare today, and spent most of the day in the hospital getting checked out. Some…
From: Oceanoxia
Every four years, Americans who value human life, and see the ills caused by capitalism, are pushed to vote for…
From: Oceanoxia
Since I had been sick the last few weeks, I had been camped out on the couch and watching a…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[Warning: AI] An apostle friend of mine made a fun suggestion: to use AI to illustrate a bible. A carefully…
From: Stderr
We have got used to the existence of 'deepfakes', computer generated images and videos that are almost indistinguishable from the…
From: Mano Singham
This is what Orcas do to Great White Sharks. Face it, Orcas are pretty damned metal. Let's be honest: as…
From: Pharyngula
I was in the lab this morning, and found the Steatoda borealis in an odd position: face-to-face, chelicerae almost touching,…
From: Pharyngula
It's mystifying. I'm not a fan of the company, OpenAI -- they're the ones hyping up ChatGPT, they're 49% owned…
From: Pharyngula
Lately, I've been curious about this one species of spiders I've been breeding, Steatoda borealis. What makes them stand out…
From: Pharyngula
In case you've ever wondered how a swordfish uses that long pointy thing on the front of their head, it's…
From: Pharyngula
Winning a Nobel prize does not mean you are a smart guy. It means you have a lot of in-depth…
From: Pharyngula
I very much like Scott Manley's videos: technical, detailed, interesting analyses of space flights, delivered with a pretty accent. He…
From: Pharyngula
My wife and I got together this morning and strolled over to the holy place -- my lab. She's been…
From: Pharyngula
So, in pursuit of posting something weekly, I started writing about a recently published study on Greenland's glaciers. The main…
From: Oceanoxia
Chris Rufo strutted into a lecture at a school of business at the University of Texas, which you'd think would…
From: Pharyngula
A video of a man, a former state department official and reportedly an advisor to president Obama, harassing a street…
From: Mano Singham
Jim Irsay, the billionaire owner of an NFL football team, was arrested in 2014 for driving while impaired. In a…
From: Mano Singham
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
As the death toll from the Israeli assault on Gaze rises to horrifying levels, with bombing attacks on even hospitals…
From: Mano Singham
Nancy Wilson is described as an expert in 'Christian parenting' and in this clip she describes how she spanked her…
From: Mano Singham
There are few things that arouse stronger reactions in people than the claim that free will is an illusion. When…
From: Mano Singham
More from Gervasi: The reason both superpowers consider forward land-based missiles more threatening than forward-based bombers or missiles at sea…
From: Stderr
Once again, it is a comedy show Last Week Tonight that provides a serious and balanced look at the carnage…
From: Mano Singham
We have got used to the existence of 'deepfakes', computer generated images and videos that are almost indistinguishable from the…
From: Mano Singham
Fabulist George Santos seems resigned to the fact that following the release of the scathing report by the House ethics…
From: Mano Singham
Gotta let my two followers on tumblr know I keep it real: AnarchoTumblr Fuck Off Leftoid tumblr in general has…
From: Great American Satan
There is no question that serial sex abuser Donald Trump's (SSAT) rants at his rallies and on his social media…
From: Mano Singham
A video of a man, a former state department official and reportedly an advisor to president Obama, harassing a street…
From: Mano Singham
Jim Irsay, the billionaire owner of an NFL football team, was arrested in 2014 for driving while impaired. In a…
From: Mano Singham
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_71685" align="alignright" width="128"] Just a bit crooked[/caption] Good news! Changpeng Zhao, Sam Bankman-Fried's brother-by-another-mother, just got slapped with a…
From: Pharyngula
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
Yesterday, Joe Biden turned 81 and it was yet another occasion for the media to fixate on his age. Ir…
From: Mano Singham