[caption id="attachment_5186" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Three-headed crane, designed by TP Kong.[/caption] Happy new year!
From: A Trivial Knot
This is a chapter-by-chapter review of problematic romance novel ‘Walking Disaster’ by Jamie McGuire. Posts in the series will all…
From: Geeky Humanist
In a profound insult to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a racist sexist classist know-nothing soulless shitsack con-man…
From: Great American Satan
There's this song by Triple Six Mafia called Bin Laden Weed. It's actually got some emotional heft to it, for…
From: Great American Satan
There's a guy in the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree named Igon, who is just deeply hilarious. The…
From: Great American Satan
I'll say it out oud, 2024was not my favourite year. Apart from the world going to shit, I had to…
From: Affinity
Part 1: Sir Pervicale and the Quest of the 1/2-20 Wingnut When I had most of the steel pieces cut,…
From: Stderr
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
it's time. electric six, the cheesy sex jokester band of early millennium, was moved by bush II to write a…
From: Great American Satan
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
Did you know that Darwinists are devolving, according to the Discovery Institute? They even have a picture of this devolution,…
From: Pharyngula
Now, both Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker have announced their resignation from the honorary board at the FFRF. Good. They…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75210" align="alignright" width="134"] Actually, in my experience the decay is spread everywhere[/caption] A commenter made me aware of a…
From: Pharyngula
I'm tempted. American Atheists national convention is being held in Minneapolis on April 17-20 in 2025. Hey, that's just down…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a request to help him debunk an evolutionary psychology paper. It's easy: it's evolutionary psychology, which…
From: Pharyngula
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, "Merry Christmas." It took me a few minutes to remember (so,…
From: Stderr
It's only 4 minutes long, but it's just packed with 'clever' arguments for god. If you don't feel like wasting…
From: Pharyngula
In 2018, when my son was two, I wrote about what I, as a secular parent, was going to tell…
From: Daylight Atheism
Just in time for your Christmas shopping list! It seems obvious today that people are operating on different principles for…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to be a bit contrarian. Years ago, one phenomenon that was horribly popular among skeptics was the identification…
From: Pharyngula
Once again, the secular community has been split by Deep Rifts. In a pattern we should all be familiar with…
From: Daylight Atheism
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
There have been many ugly developments following the election victory of Trump. It seems like all the worst elements in…
From: Mano Singham
Sexism in gaming isn't a new thing at all -- good ol' Dungeons & Dragons was full of it. Here's…
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes I miss Twitter. It's the place where you can find the dumbest arguments and most stupid people on the…
From: Pharyngula
It is not easy being the first to break through some barrier, especially in the field of politics. An elected…
From: Mano Singham
A wiser woman than I said we should all give dems the spurs on trans rights, specifically to say we'll…
From: Great American Satan
This post is part of a blogging protest arranged by Julia Serano, in response to not only Republican transphobia but…
From: Geeky Humanist
... because there is nowhere to go back to. It's been two years since my last post here, which shocks…
From: Impossible Me
One of my long-standing frustrations with the Democratic Party is they way they will happily campaign and fund-raise on all…
From: Oceanoxia
Yesterday, I got my Genetics class all set up -- Canvas page assembled, syllabus written, first lecture prepped. Today I've…
From: Pharyngula
We're back from our excursion to Madison -- a day driving there, two days with Iliana, and a day driving…
From: Pharyngula
(Pearls Before Swine) This short video tells you how to do it. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
I've been having a grand time with the family in Madison, but I'm dreading the long drive home. Then, suddenly,…
From: Pharyngula
Now, live from Wisconsin! It's amazing how sharp the boundary is between Minnesota and Wisconsin: you cross the border and…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of every month, I will repost my comments policy for those who started visiting this site the…
From: Mano Singham
Part 1: Sir Pervicale and the Quest of the 1/2-20 Wingnut When I had most of the steel pieces cut,…
From: Stderr
Why try to foretell the future by pawing through entrails when the gods send such a clear sign? Cybertruck on…
From: Pharyngula
This is not an omen. This is just the brain of a 53 year old man-child raised on 4chan, who…
From: Pharyngula
The Aztecs would rip out still-beating human hearts to honor the sun god Huitzilopochtli, so that the sun would continue…
From: Pharyngula
How dare Joe Biden give Bill Nye the Medal of Freedom? Ham doesn't think he deserves it because Nye supports…
From: Pharyngula
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, "Merry Christmas." It took me a few minutes to remember (so,…
From: Stderr
Any kind of nationalism is kinda fucked up and weird to me. Born and raised on stolen land, soaked in…
From: Great American Satan
I saw this film a long time ago, soon after it came out. I did not remember much of the…
From: Mano Singham
For reasons, I wanted to create an image of jeezis that looked like an old Klasky-Csupo cartoon, like Rugrats, Ahh…
From: Great American Satan
The setting is November 1327 in an abbey in the mountains of northern Italy. A highly learned English Franciscan monk…
From: Mano Singham
This post is part of a blogging protest arranged by Julia Serano, in response to not only Republican transphobia but…
From: Geeky Humanist
You gotta get yourself religion And try to serve the lord While the blood's Still warm In your veins... I…
From: Great American Satan
Ken Ham is proud to announce that Answers in Genesis will be celebrating a non-Woke Christmas. It wasn’t that long…
From: Pharyngula
i saw this uncredited and don't feel like tracking down the credit, but enjoy a raw-ass meme about ameriKKKa: [caption…
From: Great American Satan
These black widows always take my breath away with how gorgeous they are. Why doesn't everyone keep these as pets?
From: Pharyngula
As I mentioned previously, I’m going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Great American Satan
I have a new column today on OnlySky. It's about the future of war, and how humans are playing less…
From: Daylight Atheism
Thoughtslime makes many good points here, even if Kurzweil and Andreesen and Musk are cheap, easy, stupid targets. How did…
From: Pharyngula
This is a screenshot from an AI-generated movie titled "Sun Day". I'm not going to show you the short movie…
From: Pharyngula
Way back in the 1990s, I was writing lab software in my spare time, and I was working with a…
From: Pharyngula
As I mentioned previously, I’m going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Great American Satan
We're back from our excursion to Madison -- a day driving there, two days with Iliana, and a day driving…
From: Pharyngula
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
You know how they have birding apps where you can record bird calls, and have them identified? Great. And how…
From: Great American Satan
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Great American Satan
One of the longest running pointless discussions in US politics is about what to do about the federal budget deficit.…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
As is often the case, commenters pick up on some aspect of a blog post that was not central to…
From: Mano Singham
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
State and federal-mandated minimum wages set a floor for what employers can pay their employees. It benefits more than the…
From: Mano Singham
The only good thing for me to personally emerge from the disaster that we are going through is that I…
From: Mano Singham
This has been a somewhat long hiatus from blogging due to being down with flu. That may have suggested to…
From: Mano Singham
A secular sermon for the 2024 solstice season We're living through a time of darkness, both literally and metaphorically. This…
From: Daylight Atheism
As his term of office winds down, Joe Biden is trying to minimize the damage that Trump can do and…
From: Mano Singham
Donald Trump held a press conference this week in which he once again threatened to invade and take over Greenland…
From: Pharyngula
Trump has made a lot of statements about what he will do on day one of his administration, so many…
From: Mano Singham
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Great American Satan
One of the longest running pointless discussions in US politics is about what to do about the federal budget deficit.…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and…
From: Stderr
As is often the case, commenters pick up on some aspect of a blog post that was not central to…
From: Mano Singham
It’s a new year and time for our annual psychic predictions for 2025. Our council of psychics is still recovering…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
State and federal-mandated minimum wages set a floor for what employers can pay their employees. It benefits more than the…
From: Mano Singham
it's time. electric six, the cheesy sex jokester band of early millennium, was moved by bush II to write a…
From: Great American Satan
The only good thing for me to personally emerge from the disaster that we are going through is that I…
From: Mano Singham