I really wanna know, so sayeth the Whom'st. Who art thou? I had another wacky idea for a series of…
From: Life's a Gas
I don't wanna bother anyone who doesn't wanna be bothered, and the person I'm about to mention, when last seen,…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 18 Gallatinopolis, normally a sleepy rural town, is jam-packed with delegates arriving for the Continental Congress.…
From: Daylight Atheism
had a dream young al pacino had a drag persona that had achieved local fame. at the same time he…
From: Life's a Gas
Two wonderful singers, one wonderful song. What's not to like? {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Whenever a new person tries to comment on a post here, the WordPress platform that this blog uses has filters…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_2300" align="alignright" width="300"] A still from one of Iran's AI Lego videos. (From Explosive Media)[/caption] Inside Bolingbrook's Barber's Corners…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Some RPGs will give you a fistful of dice to roll, and when they're 6-sided, adding up the pips fast…
From: Life's a Gas
Two of my books are on sale for $0.99 each until the end of May: A Fire in the Shadows…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Most of us take some steps to look our best selves, especially if we are going out in public. Usually…
From: Mano Singham
Commenter Ted Lawry pointed me at this Discovery Institute article, in which they accuse scientists of smugness. Their authoritative source…
From: Pharyngula
I know, they all are, but this one is mangling developmental biology and genetics, so I had to criticize Rob…
From: Pharyngula
I got up this morning and was moved to churn out a YouTube video before 9am. It was really easy…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the alleged trend of young people going back to…
From: Daylight Atheism
AI companies have a poor ethical reputation -- they're wrecking the environment to build data centers, they disregard privacy, they…
From: Pharyngula
I have a presupposition of my own, that essentially all people have equal capability and equal intelligence and equal intellectual…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson takes a swipe at his AI psychosis. What I'm wondering about now is…who is Dawkins getting advice from…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is trying to game a tourism poll in Kentucky -- he wants his followers to vote for his…
From: Pharyngula
The goomba fallacy is when some people say A, and some people say B. And then you say, isn’t it…
From: A Trivial Knot
I stopped paying attention to Richard Dawkins a long time ago, but every once in a while he says something…
From: Pharyngula
I'm not gay, or trans, or bi, but even so, if I were living in Texas, I'd be desperate to…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_3580" align="aligncenter" width="979"] Mother (pink madonna) by Mikulus Galanda, 1933.(public domain via rawpixel)[/caption] (via Women's March email) Mother’s Day…
From: Death to Squirrels
I know I'm not here much any more. But I came by, attracted by an unrelated technical issue, and found…
From: Impossible Me
Will a trans rights group unleash a powerful global earthquake on April 25? Bolingbrook officials aren’t taking chances. “Sure, it…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I learned about this horror from Greta Christina: there are networks of websites that host videos of men raping their…
From: Pharyngula
When I read that the secretary of defense Pete Hegseth had summarily fired the army chief of staff Randy George,…
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
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
Rabbi Adam Chalom of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation reflected on Jerusalem Day 2026 and the consequences of the Six Day War.…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I had to address my friends: don't pity me for my bad design. I'll get better.
From: Pharyngula
I'm back from my knee surgery, and I only look half-dead. All went well, I'm on hydrocodone for a couple…
From: Pharyngula
Bright and early tomorrow morning, I'm getting arthroscopic surgery on my knee. This morning I was off at the physical…
From: Pharyngula
A bunch of links to interesting content that I have come across on the internet Public Health professor’s ‘Coverage Denied’…
From: Pro-Science
From: Pharyngula
Sawatsky: Sexual pain in Christian Women | The Asexual Agenda - Okay, so this is for my journal club, and…
From: A Trivial Knot
A few weeks ago, I saw a movie called Normal. It was a violent shoot-em-up set in a small Minnesota…
From: Pharyngula
In our hypothetical scenario, despite the carbohydrate-heavy diet, caloric excess and a lack of exercise would not be things that…
From: Affinity
Once we've primed the AI pump with our brains, university doesn't have to pay us anymore. rizona State University soft…
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
It has come to my attention that a disturbing number of people think that ethnostates, or ethnocracies, are fine as…
From: Oceanoxia
Trump has fired the secretary of the navy John Phelan. Phelan's only qualification for the job seemed to be that…
From: Mano Singham
Whatever one's views are about the Catholic Church, there is no question that it takes its doctrines seriously, devoting enormous…
From: Mano Singham
When I posted about pope Leo criticizing warmongering leaders, I added that that it was only a matter of time…
From: Mano Singham
Although he did not mention any leaders by name, it is pretty clear who was the main intended recipient of…
From: Mano Singham
Atheism is not an intellectual achievement. Maybe for some people it can be, people who grew up in an environment…
From: Life's a Gas
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
The above question has been a long-standing source of debate. 'Discovered' means that the structures of mathematics exist objectively and…
From: Mano Singham
A bunch of links to interesting content that I have come across on the internet Public Health professor’s ‘Coverage Denied’…
From: Pro-Science
The post I had intended for today is simply not ready yet, and I'd rather not put half-finished work out…
From: Oceanoxia
I was trying to read while sitting in my sunny garden, but I kept getting distracted by all the spiders…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the world transitioning away from fossil fuels, with or…
From: Daylight Atheism
I am busy today and in lieu of an original post, thought that I would post an old article of…
From: Mano Singham
The sun is out, the spiders are flourishing. Maybe it will be a good summer? [caption id="attachment_79265" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Phidippus…
From: Pharyngula
Most of us take some steps to look our best selves, especially if we are going out in public. Usually…
From: Mano Singham
I have always struggled a bit with the "rewards" part of Patreon. I have limited time and energy, and with…
From: Oceanoxia
The foxgloves are big in my yard. Not as big or numerous as last year, but bigger than they're supposed…
From: Life's a Gas
Even as his poll numbers nationally sink to historically low values, Trump's grip on the Republican base seems to be…
From: Mano Singham
The abuse of immigrants by agents working for government agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection…
From: Mano Singham
A bunch of links to interesting content that I have come across on the internet Public Health professor’s ‘Coverage Denied’…
From: Pro-Science
The post I had intended for today is simply not ready yet, and I'd rather not put half-finished work out…
From: Oceanoxia
Cigarettes and other smoking-related products are, as has been pointed out, things that can and will kill you even when…
From: Mano Singham
Remember the craze just a few years ago over Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)? People were paying millions of dollars to purchase…
From: Mano Singham
It has come to my attention that a disturbing number of people think that ethnostates, or ethnocracies, are fine as…
From: Oceanoxia
I am a socialist. I have no reservations about saying so. In Sri Lanka, that would be entirely uncontroversial since…
From: Mano Singham
As a former security guy, it's hard to imagine an end-user who's worse than the current dumbass-in-chief. He's the kind…
From: Stderr
When I read that the secretary of defense Pete Hegseth had summarily fired the army chief of staff Randy George,…
From: Mano Singham
The abuse of immigrants by agents working for government agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection…
From: Mano Singham
What the hell were all the previous New York mayors doing? [caption id="attachment_79306" align="aligncenter" width="500"] First Dog on the Moon[/caption]…
From: Pharyngula
To no one's surprise, the summit meeting between Trump and Chinese premier Xi Jinping did not produce any major agreements.…
From: Mano Singham
A bunch of links to interesting content that I have come across on the internet Public Health professor’s ‘Coverage Denied’…
From: Pro-Science
The internet has been talking about this red vs blue button problem. Since I've been talking about game theory lately,…
From: A Trivial Knot
The post I had intended for today is simply not ready yet, and I'd rather not put half-finished work out…
From: Oceanoxia
In the US, local media has been on a steady decline over decades, with local newspapers either closing or being…
From: Mano Singham
Trump, currently in China for a summit meeting with the Chinese president Xi Jinping, is definitely in an inferior position.…
From: Mano Singham
Oooh, pretty. That's something called the Athena Bowl, a treasure recovered from a buried hoard in Germany. In 1868, soldiers…
From: Pharyngula
You should find this image of the location of rich people's planes soothing and reassuring. It's part of an Apocalypse…
From: Pharyngula