I travelled a bit around in Japan around Christmas and New Year, and decided to stay for a couple of…
From: Pro-Science
During the filming of a new action film, lead actors Jonathan Majors and JC Kilcoyne tumbled backwards through a glass…
From: Mano Singham
I hear that they took him to the Naval Observatory for emergency medical care. Could this be The Day? It would…
From: Stderr
[caption id="attachment_5650" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Drawer Box, designed by Akiko Yamanashi[/caption] I got this drawer box from something called the Practical…
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Nothing as naughty as the last chapter, time to be boring again. The emotions run high in this one. If…
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The Probability Broach, chapter 17 This chapter begins with another of the fake quotes L. Neil Smith loves. This one…
From: Daylight Atheism
Some of the text here is extremely NSFW, I say as if any of my readers are still working. Pensioners…
From: Life's a Gas
Still not loving my work but big things are happening again, at least. In a subsequent draft, it should be…
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courtesy of baseball card vandals ... -
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It is easy to focus on the day-to-day events in the US-Israeli attack on Iran, we should not forget that…
From: Mano Singham
If you were active in online Atheism in 2011, you are probably aware of the Deep Rifts that formed back then,…
From: Pro-Science
It's been such a long time since we've opened the Argument Clinic. But, these times are desperate and many people…
From: Stderr
I figure with all the doom and gloom, maybe I should bring you a story that elevates your opinion of…
From: Stderr
Aww, pretty. I wonder what it says inside? [caption id="attachment_78960" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Dear Professor Myers:I am grateful to have the…
From: Pharyngula
I was enthused about the Artemis 2 lunar flyby mission. I was. My interest is cooling fast, though, and I…
From: Pharyngula
Normally, I do not get involved in conspiracist thinking. I guess I have a pretty basic world view: it's round,…
From: Stderr
There are a few things I find fascinating about the current war. First and foremost, it's a war of attrition…
From: Stderr
Answers in Genesis has some peculiar ideas about how science is done. This fool says you get a prize if…
From: Pharyngula
Let's begin with the mundane, normal response, because this is how I'd reply. Obama said in an interview that he…
From: Pharyngula
I feel as if all the point of progressivism has just served to use it as a target. Every place…
From: Stderr
If you were active in online Atheism in 2011, you are probably aware of the Deep Rifts that formed back then,…
From: Pro-Science
We all know that Twitter is a cesspool of spambots, far right users, incels and outright Nazis. We know this…
From: Pro-Science
Bette Midler has long been associated with gay culture, being a purveyor of showtunes and bland liberalism. In the runup…
From: Life's a Gas
The latest scandal: Kristi Noem's husband, Bryan Noem, has been revealed to be a cross-dresser by the Daily Mail. That's…
From: Pharyngula
I have been thinking more about the documentary Inside the Manosphere that I reviewed recently and it struck me how…
From: Mano Singham
Even someone as deeply cynical as I am about the lack of morality of Trump and his willingness to do…
From: Mano Singham
This 12-minute 2026 Oscar-nominated short film satirizes the period drama in more ways than one. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
An investigative report reveals that the man who has long been viewed as a civil rights icon and who organized…
From: Mano Singham
Netflix has released a new documentary by Louis Theroux where he goes inside the so-called 'manosphere', the world of young…
From: Mano Singham
On March 6, 2026, PBS reported on the latest release of files from the Epstein files that includes transcripts of…
From: Mano Singham
I travelled a bit around in Japan around Christmas and New Year, and decided to stay for a couple of…
From: Pro-Science
This past weekend, I was trained in the movie business. Our local theater is run as a co-op, I'm a…
From: Pharyngula
During the filming of a new action film, lead actors Jonathan Majors and JC Kilcoyne tumbled backwards through a glass…
From: Mano Singham
Instead… It's April. Come on.
From: Pharyngula
I figure with all the doom and gloom, maybe I should bring you a story that elevates your opinion of…
From: Stderr
It is the time of the year when a gardener has so much work that it is impossible to take…
From: Affinity
Normally, I do not get involved in conspiracist thinking. I guess I have a pretty basic world view: it's round,…
From: Stderr
I usually post my blog comments policy at the beginning of the month for the benefit of new readers. Rather…
From: Mano Singham
It just so happens that today is the day I have an appointment to talk with my division chair about…
From: Pharyngula
“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”…
From: Pharyngula
I thought Xians were supposed to celebrate with colored eggs and church services and a nice family dinner. I was…
From: Pharyngula
At a Christian worship service last week, defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave the following prayer. “Let every round find its…
From: Mano Singham
And it's the Pope, no less! Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal…
From: Pharyngula
One of the basic things that are emphasized in the training of scientists is the importance of evidence in arriving…
From: Mano Singham
One of the things that really makes me furious is when adults make decisions that endanger the lives of their…
From: Mano Singham
I've made posts wondering before if any of the people from the shit side of the regressive/progressive atheist split find…
From: Life's a Gas
Christopher Beha has a long essay titled Losing Faith in Atheism wherein he describes his personal journey from Catholicism to…
From: Mano Singham
This clip was yanked from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert because Trumpian sycophants did not care at all for…
From: Pharyngula
I just learned that one of the featured talks in the US Pavilion at Davos (I detest Davos anyway) is…
From: Pharyngula
I had no idea what Cities Church was like. This is the church in St Paul were protesters disrupted a…
From: Pharyngula
Holly Dunsworth is doing a page-by-page reading of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. She has more stamina than I do.…
From: Pharyngula
I put together a rambling video about the final project in my genetics class, and about the responsibility of modern…
From: Pharyngula
Among the many bad and evil things that Trump did when he got into office for the second time, was…
From: Pro-Science
We all know that Twitter is a cesspool of spambots, far right users, incels and outright Nazis. We know this…
From: Pro-Science
I subscribe to the Oglaf patreon. I find the comic amusing, and via the patreon, I get extra content, sporadically.…
From: Pharyngula
The latest Moon mission has launched, although it has a long way to go yet. I anticipate smooth sailing since…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about some unexpectedly hopeful news that shows progress fighting climate…
From: Daylight Atheism
[caption id="attachment_78882" align="alignright" width="276"] Which one is the robot?[/caption] "Bizarre" is the right word -- apparently, there was an event…
From: Pharyngula
I feel as if all the point of progressivism has just served to use it as a target. Every place…
From: Stderr
The invaluable investigative news source ProPublica has a highly disturbing article about how crank RFK Jr's; health agenda, backed by…
From: Mano Singham
If you were active in online Atheism in 2011, you are probably aware of the Deep Rifts that formed back then,…
From: Pro-Science
I can think of non-KKK reasons why a person might feel motivated to delete any reference to blackface from Al…
From: Life's a Gas
It's been such a long time since we've opened the Argument Clinic. But, these times are desperate and many people…
From: Stderr
I have been thinking more about the documentary Inside the Manosphere that I reviewed recently and it struck me how…
From: Mano Singham
It is easy to focus on the day-to-day events in the US-Israeli attack on Iran, we should not forget that…
From: Mano Singham
Apparently, I'm "Somalia-oriented," because I don't share Trump's bigoted views about entire nations. In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people…
From: Pharyngula
When I was around 13 years of age, our neighbors had five children, three of whom were close in age…
From: Mano Singham
I feel as if all the point of progressivism has just served to use it as a target. Every place…
From: Stderr
The invaluable investigative news source ProPublica has a highly disturbing article about how crank RFK Jr's; health agenda, backed by…
From: Mano Singham
An investigative report reveals that the man who has long been viewed as a civil rights icon and who organized…
From: Mano Singham
Back in the days of the Vietnam war, there came to be something known as the Five O'Clock Follies, a…
From: Mano Singham
Among the many bad and evil things that Trump did when he got into office for the second time, was…
From: Pro-Science
I hear that they took him to the Naval Observatory for emergency medical care. Could this be The Day? It would…
From: Stderr
If shitler and his "warfighter" get up their dicks enough to nuke somebody, I'd like to just be on the…
From: Life's a Gas
The Labour Party came into power in the UK in July 2024 in a landslide win that saw them win…
From: Mano Singham
Trump has proposed a 2027 budget. Here's the bottom line. The budget would increase funding for presidential priorities – such…
From: Pharyngula
It's been such a long time since we've opened the Argument Clinic. But, these times are desperate and many people…
From: Stderr
I figure with all the doom and gloom, maybe I should bring you a story that elevates your opinion of…
From: Stderr
Given her almost cartoonish expressions of support for Trump, why was Pam Bondi fired as attorney general? She had been…
From: Mano Singham
Even being an ultra-loyalist brown-noser wasn’t enough for attorney general Pam Bondi to keep her job as attorney general because…
From: Mano Singham