2004–2026
1,453 posts
2026 25
October 2026
- Seeking God in Science part 13: The Theory of Ontological Categories
- Seeking God in Science part 12: A clean-sheet introduction to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (part 1 of n)
September 2026
- Seeking God in Science, part 11b: Time (part 2 of 2)
- A relativity visualization
- Seeking God in Science, part 11: Time (part 1 of 2)
August 2026
July 2026
- Seeking God in science part 10: The Mind-Body Problem
- Birthright Citizenship Hangs on by its Fingernails
June 2026
May 2026
- Seeking God in Science part 8: Caring
- Seeking God in Science part 7: Information, Knowledge and Belief
- Big News: The Plausibility of Abiogenesis Has Been Experimentally Demonstrated
April 2026
March 2026
- Reflections on dying
- Seeking God in Science part 4: Chairness
- Field report from Maui
- We interrupt this post series to bring you an important weather update
- Debate Post-Mortem
February 2026
- Seeking God in Science part 3: Things Exist
- Seeking God in Science Part 2: Pits and Pratfalls in the Meanings of Words
- Seeking God in Science: First Steps
January 2026
2025 9
December 2025
September 2025
June 2025
- Sigh, here we go again.
- If the Ten Commandments Reflected Reality
- Hating Trump More Won't Make Things Better
May 2025
February 2025
January 2025
2024 22
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
- Ron Prognosticates: Trump is Going to Win
- Have Republicans Ever Actually Listened to the Lyrics of YMCA?
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
May 2024
- My (not) Twitter Account Got Hacked
- Donald Trump is a Convicted Felon
- Truth, Math, and Models
- A Scientific Theory of Truth
- Languages are theories: debunking the new riddle of induction and flat-eartherism
April 2024
- The Scientific Method part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams
- The Scientific Method, part 4: Eating elephants and The Big News Principle
- Three Myths About the Scientific Method
- Feynman, bullies, and invisible pink unicorns
March 2024
February 2024
2023 11
November 2023
May 2023
April 2023
- All together now: the second amendment must be repealed
- Bitcoin's value proposition: screwup postmortem
- A systematic critique of Bitcoin's value proposition
March 2023
January 2023
2022 4
November 2022
- Ten things I grew up believing about the United States that turn out not to be true
- Send in the clowns
- Ron descends from the mountain
April 2022
2021 13
September 2021
June 2021
May 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
- PSA: I'm debating Matt Slick tonight
- The rats are finally begining to flee the SS Trump
- Arnold Schwarzenegger compares the Capitol attack to Kristallnacht
- The Capitol attack was not the beginning, and it won't be the end
- Trump and the Reverse Cargo Cult
- Ron prognosticates: Trump will pardon the capitol rioters
- Faith and Insurrection
- My take on yesterday's insurrection
2020 33
November 2020
September 2020
August 2020
- They knew. They still know.
- Republicans officially endorse a Trump dictatorship
- Here we go again
- Irit Gat, Ph.D. 25 November 1966 - 11 August 2020
July 2020
- The insidious problem of racism
- Abortion restrictions result in more abortions
- Game over for Hong Kong
- Mark your calendars: I am debating Ken Hovind on July 9
June 2020
May 2020
- A review of John Sanford's "Genetic Entropy"
- William Barr's debasement of the Justice Department
- Week-end Republican hypocrisy round-up
April 2020
- Fox news is not conservative enough for Donald Trump
- No, Fox News, the First Amendment does not protect false speech
- Trump advisor Peter Navarro gets owned by 60 Minutes's Bill Whittaker
- Things must really be getting desperate
- The "very stable genius" is no match for the corona virus
- Don't take too much comfort from the stock market rally
- When the going gets tough, the Trumps go golfing
- A Modest Proposal
March 2020
- We're number one
- If you only read one thing about the Corona Virus, make it this
- Don't count on corona virus being seasonal
- Atlantic Monthly: The Gaslighting Vaccine
- Fedex: when it absolute positively has to get lost twice in a row
- Don't let conservatives gaslight you: the chaos to come is Trump's fault
- A glimmer of hope
- Trump administration blocks states from using Medicaid to respond to coronavirus crisis
February 2020
2019 25
October 2019
- Thoughts on a power outage: what worked, what didn't
- Joe Rogan interviews Ed Snowden
- No, Mr. Graham, this is not a lynching in any sense
- William Barr echoes Adolf Hitler, with "militant secularists" playing the role of the Jews
- Whatever happened to "no collusion"?
August 2019
July 2019
- Fedex: when it absolutely, positively has to get stuck in the system for over two months
- The Trouble with Many Worlds
June 2019
- Still think climate change is a hoax?
- How do we know that quantum randomness is really random?
- Quantum transitions take time. This is not news.
May 2019
- An open letter to Christian supporters of Donald Trump
- If a fetus is a person...
- The mother of all buyer's remorse
April 2019
- The Impossible Burger is going to change the world
- We interrupt this blog to bring you a little eureka moment
- Secularity and teleology
- Why you should care about what a YEC thinks
- [Crickets chirping]
March 2019
- Can a Scientist find common ground with a young-earth creationist?
- An atheist and a YEC walk into a bar...
- Something doesn't smell right about the Mueller report
- There and Back Again
January 2019
2018 66
December 2018
- MailChimp deleted my account with no warning or notification
- Trump lies so much that WaPo had to invent a new category
November 2018
- Can Jeff Flake really be this naive?
- Lock her up!
- God doesn't have very good aim
- Without Evidence
- If a member of your own party calls you a "racist pig", maybe you actually are a racist pig
October 2018
- Don't say I didn't warn you
- FBI literally covers up links between bomber and right-wing politics
- A vote for a Republican is a vote for permanent institutionalized corruption
- Where is the body?
- Yet another ominous development
September 2018
- This is what a precious snowflake looks like
- An open letter to Governor Jerry Brown re: net neutrality
- The last word (I hope!) on Fitch's paradox
- The staggering hypocrisy of Brett Kavanaugh and his supporters
- Pardon me while I take a small victory lap
- This isn't resistance, it's treason
- Trump strips more citizenships
August 2018
- Farewell to a great American
- I was wrong. Whew!
- Ron prognosticates: Manafort jury will hang
- Republican tells brazen lie while "apologizing" for telling brazen lies
- Trump fiddles while the West burns
- More from the Republican hypocrisy files
- Trump digs in deeper
- Fitch's paradox
July 2018
- I didn't do it... but if I'd done it...
- For at least one Trump voter, heaven is about new appliances
- Fire TFR update: from bad to worse
- The Republican's three-step plan
- The wheels on the bus go round and round
- I've never seen anything like this before
- Three ominous developments
- Republican voters are completely insane
- I don't even know what to say here
- But what about the witch hunt?
- Remember this day
- Roe is a distraction. The real problem is much, much worse.
- Trump is a personality cult
June 2018
- I have no words
- Damn straight there's a moral equivalence here
- Suffer the little children
- Trump makes it look easy
- If the shoe fits
- PSA: Blogger comment notifications appear to be kerfliggered
- SCOTUS got the Masterpiece Cake Shop decision badly wrong
May 2018
- Blame where it's due
- A quantum mechanics puzzle, part drei
- A quantum mechanics puzzle, part deux
- In your face, liberal haters!
- I don't know where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blows
- A quantum mechanics puzzle
- This is inspiring
April 2018
- Credit where it's due
- Paul Ryan forces out House chaplain
- An open letter to Jack Phillips
- Support Josh Harder for Congress
- The taxi ride from hell: A data point for the rideshare debate
March 2018
- No evidence of collusion here
- Trader Joe's Thai yellow curry sauce contains no curry
- Well, that didn't take long
- Is it time to take the Hyperloop seriously? No.
February 2018
- Devin Nunes doesn't realize that he's part of the government
- Yes, code is data, but that's not what makes Lisp cool
January 2018
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December 2017
- Book review: "A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home and Peace on the Planet" by Dorothie and Martin Hellman
- Here comes the next west coast mega-drought
- This should convince the climate skeptics. But it probably won't.
- I'll just leave this here...
November 2017
- Why Abortion is (not) Immoral: a followup
- A review of "Why Abortion is Immoral"
- 2nd Amendment 101
- A Bug in the KJV
- Battling racism in a free society
- Racism is alive and well in America
- A candid glimpse inside the incredibly twisted mind of Donald Trump Jr.
- Random tweet-length thought of the day
October 2017
- The utter absurdity of the pro-life position
- Trump admits healthcare cuts are political payback
- Donald Trump says first amendment freedoms are "disgusting"
September 2017
- The Bitcoin apocalypse is coming in mid-November to a block chain near you
- Supporting Robert E. Lee is no longer an acceptable position
August 2017
- Supporting Donald Trump is no longer an acceptable position
- You can't say that! It might be true!
- I'm running out of new ways to say "Staggering hypocrisy"
- What an incredibly stupid thing to say
July 2017
- The definition of dishonorable
- Donald Trump shows that democracy is working. Alas.
- Things I wish someone had told me before I started angel investing
- There's yer smoking gun
- A brief history of political discourse in the United States
- McConnell's Monster
June 2017
- There's something very odd about the USS Fitzgerald incident
- Trumpcare and the TPP: Republicans have learned nothing from history
- And the Oscar for Most Extreme Hypocrisy by a Republican goes to...
May 2017
- Trump, the supposedly brilliant businessman, can't do basic math
- Trump hypocrisy watch: it's trifecta week!
- Taking "missing the point" to a whole new level
April 2017
- It can't happen here
- David Dao did nothing wrong
- Civil disobedience and Godwin's law
- Welcome to bizarro world
March 2017
- Hard to say which is worse
- Causality and Quantum Mechanics: a Cosmological Kalamity (Part 2 of 2)
- Causality and Quantum Mechanics: a Cosmological Kalamity (Part 1 of 2)
- A theory of Trump's wiretap tweets
- A climate change counterpoint
February 2017
- How Donald Trump Could Build an Autocracy in the U.S.
- Autocracy: Rules for Survival by Masha Gessen
- I'll just leave this here
- A vicarious deep dive into climate change
- Welcome to your new theocracy
- Let's hope this doesn't become a self-fulfilling prophecy
January 2017
- So many scandals, so little time
- Getting really scary really fast
- Chaos
- Texas mosque destroyed in early-morning blaze, cause unknown
- What did Donald say to Melania?
- So much for playing by the rules
- GOP Quietly Admits There Will Be No Obamacare Replacement
- The pro-life movement should be taken seriously
- Miami-Dade Is the First Sanctuary Domino to Fall
- Pondering the pedagogy of the projective plane
- Vulgar, vile and evil
- Already the wheels seem to be coming off the Trump bus
- Nightmare scenario
- Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
- Credit where it's due
- We interrupt this political rant to geek out about airplanes
- With executive order, Trump tosses a ‘bomb’ into fragile health insurance markets
- New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables
- No tax returns for you!
- There are no lies in Trump's America, just "alternative facts"
- Individual health insurance without a mandate is a scam
- Donald Trump is a legitimate president
- Good news, bad news
- One thing Trump got right
- Amerika uber alles
- Be afraid
- The great information purge has begun
- Dead nation walking
- I'm still waiting to wake up and find it was all just a bad dream
2016 61
December 2016
November 2016
- James Comey may have singlehandedly destroyed modern civilization
- Well, that sure didn't take long
- Trump's America, day 2
- Catastrophe
- Please God, let the Democrats take the Senate
- Hacker News ranking algorithm weirdness
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
- Just in case you're still not convinced...
- You think Trump starting a nuclear war is unthinkable? Think again.
- Yes, Trump could go rogue with nukes and no one could stop him
- Trump campaign catastrophes continue
- Now hear this
- OMG. what a day
- Trump is more dangerous than ISIS
July 2016
- How is this not treason?
- Most incompetent VP rollout ever
- I unbricked my MacBook
- Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the EU
June 2016
- Boris Johnson jumps ship
- I no longer believe in democracy
- Apple bricked my MacBook and there's nothing I can do about it
- The biggest obstacle to Martian colonization isn't technical
- Donald Trump is a moron
- The real tragedy of the Orlando shootings
- ‘Stop using paper checks,’ says agency in charge of them
May 2016
April 2016
- Can Trump win? Let's do the math
- You must now get government approval before you can practice your faith in the U.S.
- When did deep-dish showers become a thing?
- Apple UI design has jumped the shark
March 2016
- PSA: Don't attempt to upgrade the built-in openssl on OS X Mavericks
- Heil Donald!
- Man makes musical marble miracle
February 2016
- The FBI can (almost certainly) crack the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple's help
- PSA: Beware of low rate limits in letsencrypt
- The end of an era
- Scalia is dead. Good riddance.
- Is Spirituality Irrational?
- Not with a bang...
January 2016
- Well, this is stupid
- Upgrade or die: Apple's diabolical re-invention of the version ratchet
- Almost forgot...
- Was it something I said?
- West Africa travelogue wrap up
- Travelogue day 14: Madikwe game reserve
- Travelogue day 13: Little Mombo
- Travelogue day 12: Little Vumbura
- Two data points
- What should be done about wealth disparity (if anything)?
- Travelogue day 11: Duma Tau
- Travelogue day 10: Victoria Falls
- My simplified response to Paul Graham's simplified essay
- The pernicious myth of individual productivity
- Income inequality is both a problem and a symptom
- Travelogue day 11: Walvis Bay, Namibia
- Travelogue, day 10: Luanda, Angola
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December 2015
- Travelogue day 9: São Tomé and Príncipe
- So what? They're Jewish!
- Travelogue day 8: Lome, Togo
- Well, at least they've got rules
- Travelogue day 7: Secondi-Takoradi, Ghana
- Travelogue day 6: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- Here's an idea
- We interrupt this travelogue...
- Travelogue day 5: Banjul, The Gambia
- Travelogue, day 4: Dakar, Senegal
- Travelogue day 3: Cape Verde
- Travelogue, day 2: La Palma and Tenerife
- Travelogue: West Africa day 1
- Travelogue: West Africa, Prologue
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
- And the award for the most ironic statement goes to...
- PSA: Beware of sudo on OS X
- Ayn Rand destroyed in six words
- So that's what an enclave is!
July 2015
- A simple way to make your site more secure
- A guest post from Captain Obvious
- Why the data do not support profiling Muslims
- The definition of a no-brainer
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
- Drawing The Line: making the case for idea-ism
- The best way to answer anti-gay bigotry
- This is my kind of church
- Randall Munroe destroys Anselm
- Answers to Tuese's Questions for Atheists
March 2015
- The difference between science and religion, take 2
- Why some assumptions are better than others
- AT&T update: out of the frying pan, into the fire
- A libertarian data point
- AT&T: the saga continues
February 2015
- AT&T just accused me of being a racist
- AT&T: the nightmare continues
- An AT&T service nightmare
- Why QM is the only possible theory of nature
- No, Rudy, this is what not loving America looks like
- 31 Flavors of Ontology
- Free will and moral agency
- Re-reframing theodicy
- The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
- Looking under the hood of the scientific process
- Lyft is even more evil than Uber
- Talk about missing the point
- This is why prominent atheists should not critique religion
- A public service announcement regarding 650-780-9288
January 2015
- The pope backpedals (sort of) on limits to offensive speech
- Open mic night on Rondam Ramblings
- Apparently the Pope needs to read the Bible more carefully
- My parents neglected me when I was a child
- The one question faith cannot answer
- The Parable of the Free Beer
- Reframing theodicy
- Why I believe in the Michelson-Morley experiment
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December 2014
- A cheesy warning label
- The terrorists have won
- Take it from me: all dogs go to heaven
- The cure for ebola
- Yet another reason never to fly Korean Air
- Quantum teleportation demystified
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
- Some Christians show their true colors
- ISIS is a physics demonstration in guerrilla form
- Are parallel universes real?
- This is what religious persecution looks like, part 3
August 2014
- The many elephants in the room in Ferguson, Missouri
- This is what real religious persecution looks like, part 2
- What's wrong with this picture?
- This is what real religious persecution looks like
- Are Christians persecuted in the United States?
- How to get my business
- We have a poltergeist named Oliver
- An innovative approach to helping the homeless
July 2014
May 2014
April 2014
- Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one headline
- Evidence that religion is a drug
- Opposing gay marriage is no longer an acceptable position
- Brendan Eich was not fired for his politics, he was fired for his morals
- The Supreme Court just killed American democracy
February 2014
January 2014
2013 101
October 2013
September 2013
- Ooh, this is not good
- Well, of course if you build a parabolic reflector in the middle of town it's going to cause problems
- The worst possible reason to bomb Syria
- Against war (again)
August 2013
- I want one!
- Obama and Biden's hypocrisy comes full circle
- CNN is paid by foreign and domestic Government agencies for specific content
- Everything you need to know about the hyperloop in 25 words or less
- If you aren't outraged by now you have not been paying attention
- Dropping like flies
- We need more engineers practicing law
- The surveillance state from an evolutionary perspective
- Maybe Americans don't know how to fly airplanes either
- Richard Dawkins's most baffling tweet
- Here comes the cover-up
- Told ya
- Um, maybe there's something wrong with the protocols then?
July 2013
- So that makes, let's see, three accidents?
- What is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
- Court rules journalists can’t keep their sources secret
- Malcolm Gladwell responds to Ask a Korean
- The U.S. takes another step towards becoming North Korea
- Jimmy Carter: The U.S. has no functioning democracy
- Open season
- An open letter to president Obama
- Are Korean airlines unsafe? Ask a Korean
- Do not fly Asiana or KAL
June 2013
- Idea-ism: a rational basis for morality
- Confirmed: the NSA can listen to live conversations
- Travelogue: Galapagos geology
- Travelogue: Galapagos, day 3
- Travelogue: Galapagos day 2
- Travelogue: Galapagos, day 1, Quito
- Oh for three
- Back from radio silence
- Grow up, Libertarians!
- I was wrong. Hooray!
- Joe Biden: vice hypocrite in chief
- Lies, damn lies, and red herrings
- As long as I'm writing about kittens
- Kitten torture part 3: a scientific theory of morality
- Court finds NSA surveillance unconstitutional. Administration's response: keep the ruling secret and carry on
- The morality of kitten torture, part 2
- The government is almost certainly recording your phone calls
- Kudos to Obama for taking on patent trolls
- What part of "No warrants shall issue but upon probable cause" do you not understand?
- It's not the leaks that are reprehensible
- The question libertarians just can’t answer
- On the morality of kitten torture, part 1
- Shame on you, Michelle Rhee
- It's time to end the war on marijuana
May 2013
- Obviously it's different because this time it's OUR state
- We now return to our regularly scheduled Republican hypocrisy
- Stop the presses! A republican has done something sensible!
- The only thing that surprises me is that this hasn't happened sooner
- I'm not a bigot! I'm not I'm not I'm NOT!
April 2013
- Libertarianism ends with a bang
- How's that "profiling people who could conceivably be Muslim" thing working out for ya?
- This is what implementing Sam Harris's plan looks like
- For the record, re: Sam Harris
- Who says there is no justice in Sharia law?
- Bitcoin: passing fad or the end of the world as we know it?
- @samharris: how does someone "look Muslim"?
- Conservatives are wrong about everything
- Enough with the "it's not natural" nonsense already
- You can't make this shit up
March 2013
- OK, I'm game
- Disgusting concessions from the proponents of gay marriage
- That Christian Nation Nonsense
- Join CRMTL to repeal the California MTA
- A simple solution to credit card fraud, part 6: It's the protocol, stupid
- Murray Rothbard was an Idiot
- Cutting to the chase: Repeal the California Money Transmission Act
- A simple solution to credit card fraud, part 4: A primer on elliptic curves
February 2013
- A simple solution to credit card fraud, part 3
- No, it's because he was behaving like a childish jerk
- In the interests of full disclosure...
- A simple solution to credit card fraud, part 2: a primer on public-key cryptography
- An administrative note
- A simple solution to credit card fraud (and why you won't see it any time soon)
- A brief program note and market survey
- [Travelogue] Antarctica, part 8
- How big was the Chelyabinsk meteor?
- It's a doggone mystery
- It's a question of when, not if
- [Travelogue] Antarctica part 7
- Funny you should mention that...
- [Travelogue] Antarctica, part 6
- What is it about the CSS thing?
- This is what leadership looks like
- [Travelogue] Antarctica, part 5, or My Date with Richard
January 2013
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December 2012
- Ecological shocker of the day
- Something peculiar about the reporting of North Korea's missile launch
- Scalia jumps the shark
- Ladybug porn
- It's the capital gains rate, stupid!
- Rebooting the Ramblings
November 2012
February 2012
- So long, and thanks for all the comments
- The Great Recession: Structural Problems, or The Fed?
- On inflation
January 2012
- The US Fed and the Recession
- Did the Federal Reserve cause the Great Recession?
- Something is wrong!
- Labor IS different
- What is "fair"?
- Exploitation (?)
- Macroeconomics and the Great Recession
- What does it mean to "exploit the poor"?
- SkyNet has arrived
- Yes, you can make money without exploiting the poor, but...
- I am about to be silenced
- A very peculiar thing just happened on hacker news
- The absurdity of online "piracy"
- What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing
- How nations shoot themselves in the foot
- It's alive!
- What is your quality metric?
- So much to do, so little time...
2011 154
December 2011
- Happy holidays!
- The Cosmo and Me, Part 3 - How Wall Street screwed me
- ANNONCEMENT: "But for the Grace of God?" available on iTunes Jan 9
- The ants shall inherit the earth
- Newt Gingrich wants to fix poverty by making poor kids scrub toilets
November 2011
- It gets better (geek version)
- Welcome new subscribers
- Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
- Coming apart at the seams
- Travelogue: Free Egypt
- In defense of the Google chef
- Google ate my email address
- Travelogue: The Grand Canyon of Jerusalem
- Travelogue: The Roma in Rhodes
October 2011
- A conversation with God
- RIP John McCarthy
- Travelogue: What's up with the splatty toys?
- Woman arrested for reading the Constitution in an airport
- KC Fed President: Big banks are a threat to capitalism
- Politics: catching up on Glenn Greenwald
- Travelogue: I'm surrounded by Cretans!
- Travelogue: More from the hidden-gems department
- Travelogue: All quiet on the eastern front
- Travelogue: the fine line between irony and serendipity
- Travelogue: A 500 year old practical joke?
- What would you have done instead?
- Travelogue: more from the hidden gems department
- We interrupt this travelogue...
- Travelogue: the best kept secret in Venice
September 2011
- Faster than light? Probably not. But you never know.
- Blood on our hands
- Reinventing the training wheel
- California sales tax fail
- History repeats: the infographic
- Invasion of the killer crabs
- Terry Gilliam: Loki's prophet
- A unified theory of idiocy
- Religion as a (hard to change) standard
August 2011
- Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA
- Stock market reporting is broken
- How about them Dodgers?
- It's getting crowded in here
- Karl Marx was right
- Amateurs
- The Lottery Economy
- Three geopolitical oddities
- Is history repeating itself?
- Yes, software patents are evil (and what to do about it)
- Now I'm really worried
- How to fix the economic mess
- Deja vu all over again
- The right to privacy redux
July 2011
- Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think
- And that's the way it is...
- I'm in good company
- A one-week reprieve?
- Why I'm worried
- Maybe you don't realize how serious this is
- This might have some relevance...
- Are we bankrupt yet?
- Glenn Greenwald to the rescue
- The government is out of control, part N
- "Shoot the nigger!" is Constitutionally protected speech
- Geek corner: A C puzzle
- Obama endorses DOMA repeal!
- The government really is wildly out of control
- The Republican plan
- This is why I'm worried
- The Tea Partiers are extortionists
- The Republican party's number one goal...
- I feel so much better now
- You're all wrong!
- What caused the recent Great Recession?
- Tough call
June 2011
- Doin' what comes natchurly
- Five down...
- Wouldn't it be easier to just pick the lock?
- As long as I am on a tear about the economy...
- Can Ben Bernanke really be this stupid?
- Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
- Wouldn't it be ironic...
- Py-bcrypt discrepancies explained
- The darker side of bitcoin
- A possible flaw in open-source bcrypt implementations
- Obamacare takes another step towards the grave
- One dollar, one vote
- If there was any doubt in your mind...
- Damn straight
- What if they held a revolution and nobody noticed?
May 2011
- The world will end tomorrow (or is that today?)
- Couldn't have said it better myself
- The Morganza spillway is not the story
- Apple keeps getting more evil
- This may be the Facebook killer
- Also worth noting
- More on Bin Laden's victory
- Go figure
- That didn't take long
- More hypocrisy from the right
- Bin Laden's ultimate victory
April 2011
- Patriotic Millionaires mix it up with Orrin Hatch
- A comedy of political errors
- Is it Lisp or is it me?
- New startup rule: revenue pages should get top priority
- Articles on the web need to be prominently dated
- A split-brain experiment
- Abortion and the Bible
- Oh, puhleez!
- Raising taxes on the rich will not harm the recovery
- Kentucky church comes out in support of gay marriage
- Thank you to my adoring fans! :-)
- Rich people are not the creators of wealth
- Seeking a non-technical co-founder
- Ron rambles on
- To blog or not to blog
- Taking ridiculous to a whole 'nuther level
- Nuclear power is the safest way to make electricity
March 2011
- Pioneer Anomaly Solved
- More hope for the world
- Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution
- Newt Gingrich joins the raving loon club
- Two more ways Obama is like Bush
- The NYT paywall: a digital train wreck in slow motion
- The climate wars have begun
- It's official!
- A exceptionally good summary of what's going on at the Japanese reactors
- The NBC Nightly News Drinking Game
- What Kind of Sick Culture Blames an 11-Year-Old for Being Gang-Raped?
- A bumpy ride through the moral landscape
- Is the Square reader a security hole?
- Did NASA discover bacteria in meteorites (again)?
- Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off the floor
February 2011
- The obfuscater of last resort
- Another domino falls
- How the hell does something like this happen?
- Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
- Republicans are hypocrites
- Glen Beck is a complete lunatic
- If you think sexism is dead...
- The hardest part of getting what you want -- part 3
- Kudos to Egypt
- Maybe it's just a plain ol' conspiracy after all
- The hardest part of getting what you want... part 2
- The hardest part of getting what you want...
- Perspective
- Obamacare is doomed
January 2011
2010 135
December 2010
- The Cosmo and Me, Part 1
- Swing and a miss
- Placebos work even when patients know it's a placebo
- It all makes sense now!
- Who knew?
- The government goes rogue again
- Gee, I wonder why
- The woman I breed with
- Backscatter x-rays are useless
- Ron 1, Obamacare 0
- The government has gone rogue
- It's not about left and right, it's about national bankruptcy
- Everything you think you know about the Quran is wrong
- A lovely little mythlet
- Oh yeah, that will solve the problem
- Bad news for xenobiology fans
- Islamic extremists? No. FBI informants.
- An atheist discovers part of God
- An Atheist discovers God
- Martian invasion -- not
November 2010
- The why-I-want-the-government-to-raise-my-taxes FAQ
- Funny...
- It can't really be that bad... the sequel trailer
- My date with Dom
- What ever happened to "Give me liberty or give me death"?
- Hypocrisy overload
- Can I refuse this search?
- The TSA does NAMBLA proud
- Pope Benedict: condoms good enough for male prostitutes, but not regular people
- Et tu Obama?
- It can't be that bad: the prequel
- A personal banking nightmare
- It can't really be *that* bad... can it?
- Zombies are real
- I'm speechless
- Two interesting creation myths
- Beware the FirmTek SeriTek/SpyderHUB
- Deconstructing a process failure
October 2010
- End prohibition
- Welcome to Zombiewood Pines
- OMG! That's a robot!
- Five things Paul Graham is right about
- Layers of reality
- Five things Paul Graham is wrong about
- Best political analysis ever
- NPR analyst fired over Muslim comment - CNN.com
- Loki is not a joke, and he is not the devil
- Geek dreams
- A myth for skeptics
- An open letter to America's Muslims
- Embracing myth as a political tactic
- Extremism vs. religion
- A brief program note
- The metaphysics of bowling
- The Problem with Faith
- And now for something completely different
- This is intriguing
- Mega memes and the great conspiracy
- How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism
- Ron's new metaphysics
- The Great Conspiracy (without nuts)
- Atheist sectarianism
- Open Mic Night
September 2010
August 2010
- Two pieces of code someone really ought to write
- Blogger has added a spam filter!
- I will no longer support Susan G. Komen
- The AT&T 3G Microcell: YMMV
July 2010
- A singular plug
- A rare win for freedom
- These Chinese spammers are getting pretty annoying
- Why can't we all just get along? Because the laws of physics forbid it.
- Loki is apparently not done with us
- The escrow from hell - abridged version
- Light at the end of the tunnel
June 2010
- Nothing could possibly go wrong with this
- Variable3.com: Design. Print. Web. Steal.
- AT&T takes suckage to a whole new level
- Neutrinos have mass!
- Best Fan Fiction Ever
- I would have given long odds against
May 2010
- And we wonder why they hate us
- My sentiments exactly
- Another step towards totalitarianism
- The right to be wrong
- Facebook goes towards the dark side
- More CSS vindication
- CSS vindication
- The email cold-call HOWTO
- Why I hate LinkedIn
April 2010
- Rosie Jetson, eat your heart out
- It's a miracle!
- Set phasers to stun
- Biggest robotics breakthrough since... well maybe ever
- Oabama orders a hit
- My very own koan
March 2010
- Ron prognosticates: The Supreme Court will overturn health care reform
- We're doomed!
- Whoever writes the history books
- Runaway Prius was (almost certainly) a hoax
- Danger Will Robinson! Rackspace cloud stores your password in the clear.
- I'm going to run out of ways to say "fishy"
- Freakishly accurate Toyota simulator
- More from the Toyota files
- "Everything looks like it was designed... but of course that isn't true"
- Ed Wallace steps up for Toyota
- Six down, 45 to go
February 2010
- More fishy Toyota horror stories
- Xoogler for rent
- I'll see your crocoduck and raise you...
- Poor dog
- Tears trump facts
- Teach the controversy!
- I wonder who will be taking care of whatshisname?
- New and improved lexicons. Now 50% lexier!
- My love-hate relationship with Apple Computer
- So am I supposed to be afraid or not?
- It gets better
- Don't believe everything you read on the Internet
- Got git?
- I need a sanity check
- Ron prognosticates: The Supreme Court will uphold human gene patents
- Required reading
January 2010
- Gary Trudeau is totally awesome
- The silence of the depressed
- Since I have nothing better to do tonight
- We are well and truly fucked
- What does atheism have to offer Hatians?
- Breaching airport security at LAX -- by accident
- Isis: the plot thickens
- Building git 1.6.6 on Snow Leopard
- A robotic floor cleaner that could actually work
2009 140
December 2009
- Isis update
- Worst. Puzzle. Ever.
- This is disturbing
- Dude, where's my change?
- Soft-selling atheism
- Video, or it didn't happen
- Xooglers rises from the ashes
November 2009
- Inside the A380
- Ron: 1, Dubai: 0
- Life imitates art (I hope)
- Logos, meet Mythos
- Oh, cool!
- [Travelogue] Homeward bound
- [Travelogue] Time zone craziness
- [Travelogue] Back in (western) civilization
- [Travelogue] Singapore: green and squeaky clean
October 2009
- [Travelogue] One night in Bangkok
- [Travelogue] Thai massage, elephant-style
- [Travelogue] A couple of pictures from the Mekong delta
- [Travelogue] Hidden treasures in Saigon
- [Travelogue] Challenging the Chinese
- [Travelogue] Beauty and desperation in Viet Nam
- [Travelogue] Hong Kong
- In which I stomp on Scott Lonklin's stompage of Yahoo Finance
- [Travelogue] The two faces of Shanghai
- [Travelogue] Holy freakin' cow, that's fast!
- Wealth-production mechanisms: a followup
- We still make stuff?
- My new favorite politician
- A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms
- What were they thinking?
- [Travelogue] Whirlwind tour of Beijing
- [Travelogue] Not in Kansas any more
- A tide timing puzzle
- [Travelogue] A whirlwind tour of Seoul
- Who's out there?
- [Travelogue] Cultural and culinary adventures in the land of the rising sun
- [Travelogue] Nothing to talk about but the weather
- [Travelogue] The time has come for us to say sayonara
- [Travelogue] A fish story
- Pearl Harbor truthers rejoice
- [Travelogue] Never a dull moment
September 2009
- [Travelogue] I ♥ Tokyo
- [Travelogue] The many (unseen) sights of Sendai
- [Ttravelogue] Ohaio gozaimas from Hakodate
- In a fog
- Missing the point on health care
- We interrupt this travelogue...
- [Travelogue] From Russia with (unexpected) love
- [Travelogue] A following sea
- [Travelogue] Bye bye to American skies
- A chat with an imaginary friend
- Is it still a joke if no one gets it?
- [Travelogue] Drumming up some enthusiasm
- [Travelogue] Best barbecue west of the Klondike
- [Travelogue] Rain? What rain?
- The rain in Spain...
- And now a word from our thponthor
- [Travelogue] Off to a good start
- A Time Machine time bomb
- CSS sucks redux
- ESata on Snow Leopard
- Blessed are the pacemakers
- God, I love free enterprise
- Snow Leopard is a disaster
August 2009
- Reflections on a fire
- Fire for the impatient
- Living through a brush fire: some lessons learned
- Out of the frying pan
- Evacuated
- Turn for the worse
- The shocking truth about Ezekiel 25:17
- Dodged a bullet
- Going to be an interesting night
- Global variables done right
- Tipjoy RIP
- AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
- The Quantum Mechanics Mystery Conspiracy
- The New Atheists are a Disaster
- Best health care system in the world, part II
- Best health care system in the world (as long as you're healthy)
- HTML is object code
July 2009
- Time Machine and Mail: a match made in hell
- Dog days
- The bus stops here (or maybe not, I can't remember)
- This is really scary
- Some questions for creationists
- OK, I'll bite
- A plea to the powers-that-be at Google
- You get what you pay for
- Sarah Palin: Quitter
- More progress
- Say what?
June 2009
- Gay marriage redux (or is that reduced?)
- My Dinner with Erik
- First Iowa, now Ireland
- Best. Ad. Ever.
- Microsoft does something cool. Frost sightings reported in hell.
- Barbarism in Iran
- Obama, Iran, torture, and hypocrisy
- The opposite of prohibition is not permission
- More on placebos
- A response to quantamos
- Google Usenet archive data lossage
- Am I a bigot?
- Change? What change?
- Why health care reform matters
- Worst president ever: Bush... or Reagan?
- China breaks off diplomatic relations with North Korea (maybe)
May 2009
April 2009
- It's the helium, stupid
- The trouble with shadow photons
- Why I am not a Unicornian
- Hooked on God: Religion as a Drug
- Kids ruin marriage. Who knew?
- Is it marriage or prostitution?
- Dispatches from the jury assembly room
- Another domino falls
- Counterfeiters aren't too sharp (yet)
- CSS is awesome
- Announcing µWiki
- Some perspective on a destroyed career
March 2009
- Fixing Spidermonkey's readline()
- Different band, same old song
- What are the odds?
- A glimpse of the future
- A dog-shaped hole
- Never turn down a sales lead
- So much for openness
- It would be funny if it weren't so sad
- In praise of SpamSieve
- Can OS X really suck this badly?
February 2009
- Fun with numerology and the King James Bible
- The CSS Holy War
- A new look for Rondam Ramblings
- CSS: the last word (I hope)
- On the semantics of HTML
- CSS and the meaning of life
- Why CSS should not be used for layout
January 2009
2008 100
December 2008
- A skeptical look at global warming
- Photos! (Phinally!)
- New release of lexicons code
- Pictures are coming
- There's no place like home
- Obama breaks another campaign promise
November 2008
- Into Africa
- A thought for Thanksgiving
- Off the grid
- That didn't take long
- Travelogue: Richard's Bay, South Africa, and the cultural experience from hell
- Travelogue: Mobassa, Zanzibar, and adventures with T-shirts
- Travelogue: Cochin India, Maldives, Seychelles
- Bush: Faith Leads to 'Common Values'. Say what???
- Travelogue: Mumbai (f.k.a. Bombay), India
- Travelogue: Abu Dhabi, Fujaira, Oman (unexpectedly), and adventures with Indian immigration
- A word about smoking
- Travelogue: Bahrain and Qatar
- Travelogue: Dubai
- Bigotry is alive and well in America
- Dispatch from the other side of the planet
October 2008
- Is it rational to agree to disagree?
- I'm getting through!
- Abiogenesis and the art of persuasion
- Evolution 101 done right
- No wonder people believe in creationism
- The bailout explained
- Reflections on being an AI in a box
- The return of debtor's prison
- It's not that bad (but it could get worse)
- Is this the bottom? Maybe for now. But not forever.
- Caught in the act
- The eyes have it
- Murphy would be proud
September 2008
- I've never been so happy to lose money
- Failure must always be an option
- Racism is alive and well in America
- McCain for the homeless
- Rejected
- No word from SMFF
- A call for help
- Why do smart people do stupid things?
August 2008
July 2008
- How to detect bullshit
- Earthquakes rattle creationism
- Set phasers on stun
- Kids are startups
- iSightCapture secrets revealed
- There are no roads in Israel
- Outrage at Obama is Justified
- I donated to Obama's campaign. I demand a refund.
- Senator Obama destroys my last hope
- No monopoly on idiocy
- A cautionary tale
- Horrific conditions at San Quentin prison
- The witch hunt goes on
- I may have to vote for Ralph Nader again
June 2008
- Say it isn't so!
- A great day for murderers and child rapists
- In Fino Veritas
- A bugged life
- What if they held an impeachment and nobody cared?
- Barbarians, take 2
- Finally!
- Breathtaking chutzpah
May 2008
- Kangaroo court
- How to stop spam from free email accounts
- A Scientific Theology
- Whither free will?
- Why Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Religion
- Can morality exist without God?
- Scientific morality: the trailer
- A Critical Examination of Calvinism
- Untitled
April 2008
- A "conversation" with Tim Keller
- Praise for the Prius
- This is how prophecy is supposed to work
- Like father, like daughter
March 2008
February 2008
- I suppose they think setting the building on fire for an evacuation drill would be a good idea too
- The meaning of innovation
- The litigant that would not die
- Cls
- As ye sow...
- What's the right quality metric?
- This is totally unacceptable
- Z SHRTR BTTR?
- The joy of iterators
- What Python gets right
- What are programming languages for?
- What Arc gets right
January 2008
2007 89
December 2007
- A letter to my house guest
- Peace on earth
- Garden of Eden located!
- Whack! (Whinny!) Whack! (Whinny!) Whack! Whack! Whack!
- The Democrats Just Don't Get It
- "Proof" that blacks are less intelligent than whites
- So much for the free market
November 2007
- Today's immigrant bashers are the children of illegal immigrants
- Barbarians
- Too little too late
- The abstinence-only folks are going to love this
- Can you say "entrapment"?
- A small victory for civil rights
- Here's one we can all agree on
- Neigh!!!
- But don't take my word for it
- On the road again
- Homeopathy: a case study in bad science
- Et tu, Hillary?
- Another data point
- Worse than useless
- Science 103: The virtue of simplicity
- Science 102: epidemiology vs. controlled studies
- Extra! Extra! Fox news opposes Patriot Act. Hell freezes over.
- Science 101
- Musharraf imposes martial law. What a surprise.
- A test for Lynn's theory
- Spineless pussies cave again
- How fascism works
- Beware the plausible hypothesis
October 2007
- I love Leopard!
- First impressions of Leopard
- David Perks misses the point
- Blacks are treated equally. Yeah, right.
- My head is going to explode
- Bigotry masquerading as science
- Well, that didn't take long
- Irony overload
- Sam Harris finally gets it right!
- If the shoe fits
- Conservatives show their true colors
September 2007
- More irony from the Pharisees of reason
- How material wealth leads to spiritual poverty
- The acid test
- Where's my tin foil hat?
- Heil Kerry
- The Northwest Passage is open
- Questioning my own sanity
- The elephant in the environmentalist living room
- The wrong headline
- IAEA confirms the "peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear activities"
August 2007
- Fighting the good fight at JPL
- Spiritual bankruptcy defined
- Dinosaurs, shminosaurs
- My sentiments exactly
- Whoa
- Who says rock stars are dumb?
- This is what happens when you don't maintain your country
July 2007
- Go green! Nuke the world!
- (Some) Data belongs in revision control
- Why storing (too much) data in tables is a Really Bad Idea (tm)
- What if Sara Taylor was telling the truth?
- If this isn't grounds for impeachment, what is?
- Foursquare with Voltaire
- Equal opportunity oppression
- Required viewing
- The real reason the neocons want to attack Iran
- Ron prognosticates: separation of powers is doomed
- Prophecy done right
June 2007
- Ron prognosticates: Kiss Roe v. Wade goodbye
- First Amendment? What First Amendment?
- And the staggering irony award goes to...
- Hello world redux
April 2007
- There were no WMDs. But we knew exactly where they were. And it's Blix's fault for not finding them.
- Requiem for a peaceful world
- The time-travel plot thickens
- If she floats she must be a witch
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
2006 161
December 2006
- Imagine that
- I'm going to have nightmares for weeks
- At least we know he won't hijack the plane
- An interesting experiment
- Proof that God is a Republican
- DNS attacks do happen
- Fuck you, John McCain
- And liberals wonder why no one takes them seriously
November 2006
- Truth and reconciliation
- Confessions don't start with the word "if"
- I've found my spiritual home
- What's so great about evidence?
- Now he tells us
- The elephant in the atheist living room
- Chasing a dream
- The terrorists win
- The chaos begins
- The stakes
- Sniveling cowards
- It just keeps getting better
- Idiocy has a silver lining
- Disaster looms
- Found and lost
- Porn prevents rape
- Voting fraud continues
- John Kerry finds his spine
- Beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning?
October 2006
- Voting fraud begins
- So... can I send you my business plan? Advice for the cash-strapped entrepreneur
- This is the way freedom ends...
- It's a miracle!
- Einstein, eat your heart out
- Now we know
- On the virtues of doubt
- All your space are belong to U.S.
- A Biblical bombshell
- Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off the floor
- Deja vu all over again
- I hate to say I told you so...
- They're mad as hell
- What's wrong with this reasoning?
- The whirlwind tour
- Inside the mind of a fundie
- Your tax dollars at work
- Fascist America redux
- If it quacks like a fascist...
- When all else fails...
- Gone fishin'
- And so it begins
- Now I get it
- Republicans oppose the nanny state? Wanna bet?
- A picture is worth...
- Why I bash Democrats
- Why I bash Republicans
- Top ten geek business myths
September 2006
- Water-boarding 101
- A puzzlement indeed
- Slouching towards Nuremberg
- Who would Jesus torture?
- So that would be a "yes"?
- It's a miracle!
- It doesn't get any clearer than this
- What more can I say?
- Beware the ides of October
- More than a little scary
- Well at leat there's... never mind
- Downfall
August 2006
- What a relief
- A nice problem to have
- The end of free speech
- What the Bush Administration doesn't want you to know about the war on terror
- Extra, extra! Murder suspect drinks a beer!
- Now he tells us
- Now this is getting creepy
- Carrying too much cash is a crime
- No wonder the Chinese are kicking our butts
- How indeed?
- Security as Kabuki Theatre
- Two down, eight to go
- In other news...
- Careful what you wish for
- Space aliens like open-source software
- Crazy news roundup
- Nuf sed
- And we wonder why they hate us
- Rosie Jetson has arrived
- Another good reason to smoke pot
- It sucketh not
July 2006
- I hate to say I told you so but...
- Blackout blackout
- Ho hum?
- At least he's not a hypocrite
- A little too happy?
- Too much of a good thing
- Bad days
- Guilt by association
- Birthright
- I am a criminal
- A day in the life of a pair of socks
- Another homeless Michael
- A trailer for the homeless
- There but for the grace of God...
- Five things I hate about iMovie HD
June 2006
- All quiet on the musical front
- They all look alike to me
- The stupidest leaflet ever
- Music licensing adventures continue
- Music license quote quest part 3
- Beware of light bulb
- Music licencing adventures, chapter 2
- It shouldn't be this hard to get someone to take my money
- Has America gone completely insane?
- Does this prove God doesn't exist?
- Missing the point again (and again and again and again and again)
May 2006
- Toe the line or lose your job
- Stop the presses!
- Don't they have anything better to do?
- Scared of lung cancer? Toke, don't smoke.
- Nibbling away at the Constitution
- Someone really needs to get a life
- Iranians not Nazis (yet)
- It can't happen here redux
- People go in, but they never come out
- Think it can't happen here?
- Never again? Think again.
- The light dawns
- Protest the government - go to prison
- How convenient
- Required reading
- Sieg Heil!
- Chernobyl proves nuclear power is safe
April 2006
- George Bush is no Christian
- The FDA squanders its credibility
- The right way for religion to critique science (and vice versa)
- I couldn't have said it better myself
- Whaddya know? I'm not a lone nutcase!
- A sober view of global warming
- Why vs How - a false conflict
- Brilliant!
- If abortion is murder redux
- The fear-mongering begins
- Global warming is a myth -- NOT!
- You've got to fight for your right to be a bigot
March 2006
- Better late than never
- Self-confidence indicates incompetence
- It's official: George Bush is a dictator
- Haven't we learned anything redux
- Shooting the messenger
- Is killing cancer cells murder?
- A modest proposal
- And now, a baby alpaca
- Escape from Peru
- "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion"
January 2006
2005 30
December 2005
- The "S" word
- 21 Grams
- And another thing....
- Why do atheists have to be so obnoxious?
- A fine bit of irony
- On Writing
- Queasy about Christ
- Welcome to the new PC
- Suddenly feeling the pressure
November 2005
- ID and economics
- The God Who Wasn't There
- Becoming one with the pipes
- Where are the good guys?
- It's official
- Now why didn't I think of that?
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
- The ink blot test
- What if they elected Saddam?
- The First Amendment takes another hit
- What part of "Thou shalt not kill" did you not understand?
- ID in schools, round 2
- Is Intelligent Design science?
April 2005
March 2005
2004 68
November 2004
October 2004
- Leprechauns are real!
- Are we still the good guys?
- We've won the war on terror
- Just in time for Halloween
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
- A time and a place for everything
- Well, that's a relief
- Elections postponed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and ... the U.S.
- Free to do anything you want as long as no one objects
June 2004
- Knock me over with a feather
- And another thing...
- Things that need saying
- The last thing we need
- A happy day for HMOs
- Slip-slidin' away
- Why I use a Mac
- An unlikely advocate of states' rights
- The rules of Republican politics
- Shhh... we're hunting wabbits (on Mars)
- How science really works
May 2004
April 2004
- The end of the world as we know it
- Picture of U.S. dead costs job
- Couldn't have said it better myself
- Techno-idiocy 101
- Burying the lead
- Where in the world is Battle Creek?
- The ghost in the machine
- Fool me once
- Debate at Slate
March 2004
- Chicken little was right
- Wow, people are reading my blog!
- Baby shortage? What baby shortage?
- This is progress?
- Maybe pigs really do fly.
- Logic envy?
February 2004
- How many?
- But is it murder?
- So wrong
- Someone needs to get a life
- I see right through you
- Life immitates art
- Ronstradamus prognosticates
- There must be a pony in here somewhere
- Better late than never
January 2004
- A test of character
- It's white on one side
- Poor Dubya
- Blogspeak is dead. Long live blogspeak.
- One small step for Big Brother
- A requiem for Paul O'Neill
- Putting the lie to the Big Three
- Oh what a tangled web we weave
- Back in the U.S. of A.
- I'm moving to New Zealand
- Skeletons in the file drawers?
- What was that mission again?
- Security insanity
- Climbing Mount Email