See this previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. For a thought on David…
From: Life's a Gas
I'll probably post a bit about this within a few weeks, specifically what space David Lynch occupied in my heart…
From: Life's a Gas
See my previous post for a communication to any who would join me in writing. Meanwhile, a wee bit of…
From: Life's a Gas
TURBO Writing Weekend is upon us! I said I'd write 50k in four days (17th-20th), starting at midnight PST in…
From: Life's a Gas
I used to raid my dad's library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer…
From: Stderr
By this time next week, I will have finished a novel I haven't even started yet. Yes, fifty thousand words…
From: Life's a Gas
A few years ago, I wrote a blog here, Neil Gaiman and the Lie of Purity. This was mostly about…
From: Impossible Me
ARE YOU PREPARED, MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY, FOR THIIIIS? For most of you the THIIIIS in question will be ignoring my…
From: Life's a Gas
As mentioned before, I’m going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK Jr…
From: Life's a Gas
Didn't get enough sleep and passed out pretty hard around noon, close to an hour. Woke from an intense dream. …
From: Life's a Gas
I used to raid my dad's library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer…
From: Stderr
The Center for Inquiry has been ideologically captured by the wingnuts. We've known this for a long time, since it…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75306" align="alignright" width="233"] The Far Side[/caption] Marcelo Gleiser is a humble guy. The Templeton Foundation just awarded him $1.5…
From: Pharyngula
Ray Comfort is doing his thing, blaming the California wildfires on Hollywood blasphemy. I warn you, this video is a…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Olson has been soaking in the history of creationism, and has come out with an excellent YouTube documentary. It…
From: Pharyngula
A couple months ago, that I don't think AI is going to threaten William Shakespeare's high seat, but it might…
From: Stderr
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
I'll probably post a bit about this within a few weeks, specifically what space David Lynch occupied in my heart…
From: Life's a Gas
As Joe Biden was getting his coat and leaving the White House, he has announced that he has ratified the…
From: Pharyngula
Good. Because I agree with her position on Neil Gaiman 100%.
From: Pharyngula
I know the community here doesn't need to hear this, but… TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN My one reservation about the…
From: Pharyngula
It always seemed like a most excellent liberal arts college, and in particular I enjoyed visiting with the late Jane…
From: Pharyngula
He's denying the worst of the claims, while admitting that he did have sexual relationships with his accusers. They were…
From: Pharyngula
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
My niece is busily archiving a vast pile of family documents to ancestry.com, and I periodically get these announcements that…
From: Pharyngula
I've been saying this for a long time: Musk is a poseur. He's not a great engineer; when he directly…
From: Pharyngula
Kent Hovind must be a real asshole -- he keeps driving women away. Here's a brief history of his brief…
From: Pharyngula
I had previously announced that I was going to retire after 2025-2026. That statement is no longer operational. We looked…
From: Pharyngula
This semester is much better than Fall term (which was hellish), but I have one complaint. Wednesdays are my bad…
From: Pharyngula
If you just want to listen to something soothing because the world sucks so bad right now, I have news…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sorry, I'm just now learning that congress has passed legislation to force the sale of TikTok. This is just…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75315" align="alignright" width="150"] I can imagine much worse, but I didn't want to make you all sick[/caption] You know,…
From: Pharyngula
The idea that we should be able to separate the artist and their art is an idealistic one, but I…
From: Pharyngula
Classes are scheduled to start tomorrow. I'm ready, I've got a couple of weeks of lectures in the can, swarms…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
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: Life's a Gas
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: Life's a Gas
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: Life's a Gas
Ken Ham is proud to announce that Answers in Genesis will be celebrating a non-Woke Christmas. It wasn’t that long…
From: Pharyngula
Horrendous, but spectacularly flamboyant: SpaceX's "Starship" exploded over the Caribbean, producing an amazing fireworks show as tons of debris rained…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
I wasted more time than you know pursuing that city park proposal which was less a proposal and more a…
From: Pharyngula
Black-feathered harbingers of doom all look the same. If you can tell crows from ravens at a distance, you're sharper…
From: Life's a Gas
I used to raid my dad's library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer…
From: Stderr
A meteorite crashing into the ground was caught on a home security camera. Neat!
From: Pharyngula
Marcus reminded me of the common claim: "AI is just remixing existing works". Or the more colorful version, "AI just…
From: A Trivial Knot
The fires that are raging in southern California are taking a terrible toll on lives and property. They have been…
From: Mano Singham
A new species of funnel web spider has been discovered in Australia -- the largest of its kind, and possibly…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Olson has been soaking in the history of creationism, and has come out with an excellent YouTube documentary. It…
From: Pharyngula
A few years ago, I wrote a blog here, Neil Gaiman and the Lie of Purity. This was mostly about…
From: Impossible Me
This post has been a while coming, because I feel really important about this, and don't want to fuck it…
From: Life's a Gas
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Life's a Gas
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
As Joe Biden was getting his coat and leaving the White House, he has announced that he has ratified the…
From: Pharyngula
There is finally talk of a possible ceasefire to end the carnage in Gaza, although the Israeli government is still…
From: Mano Singham
Prior to the election, I think we were all aware that Joe Biden was an ineffectual waffler on Middle East…
From: Pharyngula
As I mentioned previously, I’m going to be doing a speed writing event on the weekend that ends with MLK…
From: Life's a Gas
I used to raid my dad's library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer…
From: Stderr
I spent the last several hours at the city council meeting for Morris, Minnesota, along with a huge mob of…
From: Pharyngula
[Previous: Cars shouldn't be a necessity for living] I've always believed that all interesting moral problems reduce to the Prisoner's…
From: Daylight Atheism
The fires that are raging in southern California are taking a terrible toll on lives and property. They have been…
From: Mano Singham
The civil war sundering the Republican party continues. Steve Bannon minces no words in his hatred of Elon Musk. “I…
From: Pharyngula
One of the more bizarre episodes of the lunatic QAnon conspiracies was the widely circulated 'Pizzagate' story of how the…
From: Mano Singham