2018
5,182 posts
2018 5,182
December 2018
- The strange fascination with New Year’s Eve celebrations
- The real Louis C. K. reveals himself
- A Long 2018
- End-of-year spider report
- Jack’s Walk
- It’s Terrorism, Stupid
- Bizarre kidnapping case
- Cannibalism: the thought experiment
- What do you think of Elizabeth Warren announcing her candidacy?
- Louis CK is attempting a comeback
- Gingerbread Season – Part 7
- Bird of Paradise
- Year in movies
- Sola cube Micro Volvox
- New banner
- The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2019! (Fiction)
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland, part 5
- Must Be Their Genes
- My Favorite Hummus Recipe… Everything’s From Scratch
- Arts and entertainment figures who died in 2018
- From the webmaster: Our top ten most popular stories of 2018 (Fiction)
- Someone actually gets it
- Just get lost, John Kelly
- The brave little intern
- The old two-step being danced again
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland, part 4
- Gingerbread Season – Part 6
- So relieved that she’s not wearing a red uniform
- Capitalism 101: Asset Stripping Retirement Plans
- Looking at 2018
- Kevin Spacey’s weird video
- A Neck-Gooby!
- TV review: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (no spoilers)
- What is obvious is not always that obvious
- Gingerbread Season – Part 5
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland, part 3
- Friday Cephal…art?
- You Don’t Like Dandelions
- Bath time is such fun
- Reviewing hate crimes in 2018
- Jordan Peterson and friends
- Jack’s Walk
- Caine’s Horses
- Abominable treatment of detained migrant children
- Gingerbread Season – Part 4
- Friday Feathers
- Journalism as a high-risk profession
- How about if we never elect death-cultists, or people who appoint death-cultists, to office ever again
- Smells Like Rotting Justice
- YouTube Video: What Has The EU Ever Done For Us?
- TNET 28: I Hate Winter
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland, part 2
- Please, please don’t let it be of Donald Trump
- Telling truths through stand-up comedy
- Checking In
- Jack’s Walk
- Bernie Sanders and women and people of color
- Attention, podcasters and youtubers
- Youtube Video: The Spitfire’s Fatal Flaw
- Uh-oh, the creationists were almost right
- The World Slides Further Into Nihilism
- Shocking revelation about my core discipline
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland, part 1
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Four
- Everyone’s a critic
- Esteemed scientists and famous cultural figures who died this year
- Jack’s Walk
- Are you planning a conference?
- End of a project
- The Rapture and The Book of Revelation
- Bonsai Tree – Shooting up
- She has already mastered the clenched fist salute
- American inhumanity claims another victim
- Why Do We Trust The News?
- Ph.D. position on evolution of multicellularity
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Three
- The “Be More Cynical” Quiz!
- Lets Get Ready to Tumbleee!
- Jack’s Walk
- For everyone who’s getting ready for Xmas dinner today…
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Two
- Reason’s Greetings to everyone!
- For the spider kids out there
- For the sacrilegious out there
- For the True Spider fans out there
- For the spider fans out there
- For the traditional Christians out there
- Tree Tuesday
- A December Rose for Christmas
- Danger?
- Tummy Monday Flowers, or something, on Tuesday.
- Live by the stock market, die by the stock market
- Not a good day
- Jack’s Walk
- A small but significant shift against US involvement in the war in Yemen
- Withdrawal, A Brief History
- A moment of calm for a busy Monday
- Gingerbread Season – Part 3
- Conflict of interest
- Hope you’re having an unspeakable holiday
- Hope for the holidays: What it looks like when Republicans accept reality
- Updates to the Volvox carteri Wikipedia page
- Reasons to Live Are Good
- The tightly knit but strangely solitary world of QAnon cult members
- Why does Santa come down the chimney?
- Don’t cry for Mattis – he was as bad as the other generals that once surrounded Trump
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter One
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 25 – Christmas
- There is a hell
- I’m with Rat on this one
- LeBron James lashes out at NFL owners
- Calf Bug-ropin’ with Cowboy Vera, Spider-style
- What ending US military involvement in Syria reveals about the War Party in the US
- Jordan Peterson: “venal, ugly, and intellectually dishonest”
- Pointless Guards
- Homeward Bound
- The Heart of Caine
- A music post for 2018
- Slavic Saturday
- Baby spider
- Seth Meyers reviews Trump’s awful year
- Film review: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Jack’s Walk
- Gingerbread Season – Part 2
- So I, too, could menstruate if I eat enough donuts?
- And the political circus continues
- Flowers for Friday
- Macedonia 9.2 – Skopje at Night v2
- Der Spiegel and an egregious failure of journalistic responsibility
- Un-Achable, Un-Breakable
- Stephen Meyer’s definition of intelligent design is unfair, according to Barry Arrington
- Soundtrack to your life: 4
- They Got A What?!
- “The Little Racist Who Could”
- Bonsai Tree – Humble Beginning
- What is Vladimir Putin up to?
- Spider Report: Vera, rodeo star
- Jack’s Walk
- Meth & mental illness
- Everything you might want to know about what you will look like in heaven
- Still Life?
- Youtube Video: Evolution of Armour through the Middle Ages.
- I Amaze Myself
- Gingerbread Season – Part 1
- The “Santa is real” narrative
- Samantha Bee visits the border
- Surely we can do better?
- The Withdrawal Method
- Jack’s Walk
- Wednesday Wings
- The End of Australian Spring
- Uh oh, head for cover! Andrew Sullivan is having deep thoughts again
- Winter Drama
- Where do I sign up to volunteer for this study?
- And the prize for worst not-pology goes to…
- He didn’t just pangburn atheists, he pangburned everyone
- Alex McNabb is every racist scumbag on the internet
- The Right To Act Foolish Shall Not Be Infringed
- Volvox: a colony of cells
- Oh no! The libs castrated the cookies!
- How Europe was discovered
- Spiders in Space
- Donald Trump – not only a grifter but also a cheapskate
- Jack’s Walk
- Great moments in presidenting
- Airports and Timeskips
- Tree Tuesday
- The panopticon is looking more appealing
- Do not ever fake your data
- A Plethora of Wrong
- The latest numbers from Dan Phelps
- Meanwhile in Bizarro World …
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Prologue
- Watch Your Heart – Islamophobia and Antisemitism
- The Israel lobby is seeking loyalty oaths in America
- The Tao: Chapter 7 – Enduring and Everlasting
- Jack’s Walk
- Monday Mercurial: Horses in PJs
- Macedonia 9 – Skopje At Night
- The movie this week was Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
- The short life and welcome death of the Weekly Standard
- Israel has become a sacred cow, and you can guess what I think of such beasts
- December Light
- How come no one gave me one of those awards?
- A quiet backwater
- Satire is dead, again
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review: Final sections and final thoughts
- Soundtrack to your life: 3
- Film review: Roma (2018)
- Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
- We can all stop worrying about climate change now
- The ‘secret’ origins of the search for extra-terrestrial life
- Santa, all I want for Christmas are spider eggs
- A slow-burner
- YouTube Video: Thanks, Santa – A Cold Dose of Reality for the Holidays | The Daily Show
- Sunday Sermon: What Government Shutdowns Reveal About Anarchism
- On our way home
- Great moments in Venn diagrams
- In Your Eyes
- Cracks appear in Israel’s wall of support in the US Congress
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review: Postscript
- Slavic Saturday
- Making Soda the Simple Way
- Call your congress critters on SESTA/FOSTA
- You can’t trust your lying eyes
- High temperature superconductivity record
- Friday Feathers
- Jack’s Walk
- Ignore rumors about Trump quitting before the end of his term
- Flowers for Friday
- Friday Cephalopod: There’s a reason vampire squid aren’t usually photographed with something to indicate the scale
- While we’re at it, the Tooth Fairy…?
- As if America needs more monsters
- Feathering It
- I don’t exist!
- Just what we needed, more Fox News garbage
- Sneaking political commentary into science papers? Glorious!
- The skeptical mythology of postmodernism
- Challenge to ranked-choice voting in Maine thrown out
- Jack’s Walk
- Every time I watch the news. Every time.
- The ethical dilemma of publishing an unethical study
- Betty Boob
- Everything is a religion, according to Andrew Sullivan
- Baby Steps
- A quick question for Douglas Axe
- A tedious old ritual with a new twist
- A match made in heaven
- Jack’s Walk
- David Cameron’s disastrous legacy
- Soundtrack to your life: 2
- Wednesday Wings
- Mushroom Hunting – Part 2
- A solution to the “Baby It’s Cold” problem
- A Matter of Scale, A Matter of Fail
- Jeffrey Beall, academic terrorist!
- Good question
- Jack’s Walk
- Fighting the internet monopolies
- The problem of homology
- How confederate monuments perpetuate the lies about slavery
- Just $25,000 to go!
- Tree Tuesday
- Mornings at the Station
- Aquatic science orgs oppose changing WOTUS
- So Tactical You Can Barely See It
- Brexit shambles continues apace
- What kind of person would take this job?
- Soundtrack to your life: 1
- Flowering Money Tree
- Link Roundup: December
- Jack’s Walk
- Monday Mercurial
- Stunning number of deaths in India due to air pollution
- Roses for Monday
- Different strategies for science communication
- The death throes of Leviathan
- Old encyclopedias are informative in new ways
- For Love of Old Hunks of Precision Metal
- And the best species is…
- Clow UFO Base survives another holiday concert (Fiction)
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review: Chapter Eight, Part 3
- Clenched fist salute to Eric Sprankle of Minnesota State University
- Saturday Night Live on the latest news
- Nobody Is On Your Side
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review: Chapter Eight, Part 2
- Goodbye and good riddance, John Kelly
- The kind of voice you need to listen to more
- From the webmaster: Taking a Holiday Break (Fiction)
- I feel targeted now
- Jeremy Morris is one reason we have a War on Christmas
- Falling for Jesus, if you know what I mean (and I think you do)
- I’m in Boulder!
- Short Tales of Academia
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 24 – LGBTQ rights
- Bernie Sanders appears on Stephen Colbert’s show
- I thought I was in hell, but it’s only purgatory
- Is no sport safe from bad behavior?
- You can contemplate this while I’m flying away
- Skid-marks
- Travel day!
- Slavic Saturday
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review: Chapter Eight, Part 1
- This is why I wish for a Succesful war on Christmass
- Heather Heyer’s killer found guilty of murder
- The GOP Response To The Latest Allegations of Wrongdoing By [insert latest goober here]…
- Seth Meyers looks at recent Republican lawlessness
- Thank goodness that orgy of absolution is over
- The Kevin Hart problem
- Landsknecht and Death
- Friday Feathers
- Classifying sexual violence
- Jack’s Walk
- The battle over Christmas is over
- The death of expertise continues apace
- Never admire anyone, ever
- Let’s end the week with roses
- Reminder: last day to enter the Volvox wall art giveaway
- Cascading Failures
- Open for Commissions Again
- Lies, lies, lies
- Clueless or Asshole? Or Both?
- BuzzFeed News article on Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Jack’s Walk
- Remember Montreal
- Ohio, meet Wisconsin and Michigan
- I was born too late
- I’m either going to get flagged for porn or disappoint a lot of new readers
- Charleston sees the light…or the oncoming legal sledgehammer
- Cloud Service TOS Flip
- And Then There Were Four
- Pharyngula
- How will I satisfy my fetish for “female-presenting nipples” now?
- That’s my attitude too
- Was Benjamin Franklin a serial killer?
- Spider update
- Jack’s Walk
- Contortions
- Another Dead Oligarch
- Ion-driven silent planes
- I did promise you a rose garden
- New York Times, goddamn
- Wednesday Wings
- Something is supposed to happen today?
- Finally, Fox News gets the story right
- “Projection”
- Undergraduate summer internships at the Danforth Center
- More gravitational waves detected
- Who is Scott Free?
- Steve Bannon Engaged in Sex Robot Congress, But Pulls Out Early
- Alternate Version: Psst! Wanna See What $3Bn Looks Like?
- Jeffrey Epstein case takes a surprising turn
- Jack’s Walk
- A tumblr ban hot take
- A Spider Drops in to Visit
- The death that must not be mentioned in mainstream US discourse
- Vanitas of Mushrooms
- Tree Tuesday
- Now I’m terrified of 2019
- Where were the freeze-peachers when Minnesota Republicans took over?
- Psst! Wanna See What $3Bn Looks Like?
- Hasan Minhaj’s latest show was on internet content moderation
- Hard Words from David Attenborough
- I Am NOT Satisfied by Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Response
- Great moments in policing women’s clothes
- A Painting
- Holy crap — I almost feel sorry for Milo Yiannopoulos
- The Clinton road show is off to a poor start
- What kind of weird hell is Charleston, Illinois?
- What does “university-level course” mean?
- Monday Mercurial: Bunnies don’t care for Christmas
- There haven’t been any examples of media hagiography of awful people lately, have there?
- I changed my mind. No longer satisfactory.
- Let’s Start the Week with Roses
- GlamourBees
- Volvox wall art giveaway!
- Bolingbrook First trustee candidate Maripat Oliver’s speech electrifies New World Order rally (Fiction)
- Upcoming projects
- Film: Green Book (2018)
- Uh, Yay?
- A Quick Note on Neil deGrasse Tyson
- FTB is back up
- Science as a Social Construct: Evolutionary Interpretations
- I got Mail: Treasures from Across the Sea
- What are the limits on private science?
- Sorry for the breakdown
- How I destroyed Freethought blogs (temporarily)
- I am satisfied by Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response
- Got a bad cough? Think you might hork up a lung? Don’t.
- WE’RE BACK!
- Teacher’s Corner: Things I don’t have to worry about
- Friday Feathers: It’s always the right time for Great Tits
- Former Cold War CIA director & tool of the elites writhes in Hell today
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids: Chapter Seven
November 2018
- Conan O’Brien gets a new family
- Jack’s Walk
- I am clearly not making enough racist remarks around here
- You will be mocked if you fail to conform
- David Ruston’s Roses
- The one thing you need to know to succeed in life
- The Jeffrey Epstein case is a perfect example of how plea deals favor the rich
- Interview with Jackson Wheat
- Now thinking about starting up a dairy spider farm on the prairies of Minnesota
- From the “Way Cool Job” Department
- No more stonewalling, NdGT
- How the peace symbol came to be
- Jack’s Walk
- Ruston’s Roses
- The new political template based on Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia
- Always ask for permission first, before playing God
- Grandbabies
- A position I can agree with: debate is stupid
- It never gets less creepy
- What to do With a Red-Hot 200-lb Anvil?
- Climate change, responsible governance, and potable water
- Winter Has Come
- Normalizing the haters
- All aliens are welcome to participate in our ExoLife Hangout
- This “gender reveal” nonsense is getting out of hand
- “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong”
- Jack’s Walk
- Is it progress when a self-aggrandizing mad scientist performs a reckless experiment?
- Wednesday Wings: The Story of the Kinglet
- Frozen Bubbles
- The Only Map that Matters
- Well, Yuck
- Why do news shows invite non-scientists to talk about science?
- Tragedy strikes the NRA
- Story of a Sword
- Jack’s Walk
- La Luna
- Roses 3
- We shouldn’t anthropomorphize robots, but I can’t help it
- Well, I guess it was all right then
- Worse than MS-13
- Volvox newsletter
- The Roger Claar Party launches first attack ad against the First Party for Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- De-regulation kills
- The limited power of teaching by mimicry
- This would not have been puzzling for Jonathan Swift
- Can’t forget the kids!
- The space people are getting busy
- A good progressive agenda for Democrats
- Teacher’s Corner: Burn the whole fucking system to the ground
- Jack’s Walk
- So now we’re a country that gasses children
- The ‘good guy with a gun’ had better be white
- Koreans know how to throw a party
- Metal Magic – part 5
- I’m at the shabby stage, but I’m not quite ready to accept it
- Facebook sucks, and it’s too big to die easily
- Monday Mercurial: Hippos!
- Stresses on Steel
- Sunday Sermon: Evangelical Christians show they don’t understand morality. Again.
- The GOP line on current poisonous climate: “Not my fault!”
- Meanwhile in the chess world …
- Working Iron
- Jesus mythicism vs. Jesus historicity: a reply to R. G. Price
- Spiders will just break your heart
- The ongoing persecution of Aasia Bibi by Pakistani religious zealots
- TNET 27 – Charly Says…
- The movie this week was… Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Air pollution solution: We need plants to survive anyway, so let’s make there be more of them…
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Six, part 4
- How adorable
- The ethical dilemmas posed by immortality technology
- The Soundtrack to My Life
- Not Well-Meaning
- New government report warns of dire consequences due to climate change
- Reading list
- Podcast recommendations
- Slavic Saturday
- Breathing water in a warming world: Oceanic dissolved oxygen update
- Why Bob?
- Neo-Nazis come to CWRU
- Happy Spider Report: Vera was preggers!
- Science as a social construct: perceptual genetics
- How GPS systems impact navigational skills
- Jack’s Walk
- Progress Launch Time-Lapse
- The revolution will not be relaxing
- The coming major fight over Medicare for All
- Metal Magic – part 4
- The Sentinelese are not uncontacted primitives
- The real enemies of good science
- Bauska – Part 2
- More Volvox correspondence
- Why Trump is going after the judiciary
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump and Saudi America – following the same old script
- Ruheforst Mushrooms – part 4
- @MrPeterLMorris demands that I explain gender and all of biology to him!
- Teacher’s Corner: Come for the stress, stay for the misogyny!
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Dine-and-dash dater gets his just desserts
- Bauska – Part 1
- You call this is a debate?
- OOPARTS
- Creating the lone wolf terrorist
- Siobhan in Rewire.News: The Rejection of ‘Conversion Therapy’ Isn’t Motivated by Politics—It’s Motivated By Science
- Wednesday Wings
- Don’t confuse Thanksgiving with the Fourth of July
- News from the soybean prairie
- Thanksgiving Coming Up
- Mary Agard Pocock
- Some evolution humor
- The US president is a delusional weirdo
- Slice and Stab
- The never-ending election
- Horses For Caine
- Massive crop failure is coming, and nationalism will kill us all.
- That’s the Pinwheel of Doom
- Youtube Video: Are electric cars really green?
- November Light
- What makes up the mass of the universe?
- Ruheforst Mushrooms, part 2
- The civility trap
- Good Guys With Guns
- Tree Tuesday
- Just asking questions about Thanksgiving (Fiction)
- That’s pretty impressive speed work
- Serial Saudi admissions of lying about Khashoggi murder
- Light Magic
- I Had Plans
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Six, part 3
- The guilt and shame of killing someone
- Funeral Care is Changing and Becoming Green
- Monday Mercurial
- More Bug Faces
- More autumn, less gloomy
- Ruheforst Mushrooms
- Crickets are bad, mmm-kay?
- Family! This week!
- When this guy votes, he votes for Trump
- Happy International Men’s Day!
- Humanity works hard to find ways to disappoint
- I was in Canada
- Mayor Claar leads delegation to Bolingbrook’s sister planet (Fiction)
- Boxing (Keep Your Guard Up!) – UPDATED now with more mess
- Inside the world of social media personalities
- An autumn walk
- She-Ra is pretty darned good
- This is what it takes to wake people up to the fact that Bill Maher is a jerk?
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 22 – Visual Arts
- Exxon lied, crabbing died: Fishermen suing over the destabilization of the climate
- A Bread Scoring Knife
- Impressive trick
- Is ‘trivial’ trivial?
- A Great Pair of Tits
- The backlash against debate is in full throttle
- When long queues can be better than short queues
- Awesome fish, awesome place
- She needs to hire a better joke writer
- They are all my babies
- Now struggling to avoid falling for the naturalistic fallacy
- The blue wave keeps getting bigger and bigger
- Friday Cephalopod: Why are some cephalopods so clever?
- Jack’s Walk
- Taking advantage of the kindness of strangers
- Bumblebees
- Ohio is the gerrymandering capital of the US
- Friday Feathers
- Bugs Bugs Bugs
- CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis in Volvox
- Whose hoods these are, I think I know
- Fighting breaks out in Sri Lankan parliament
- Jack’s Walk
- RCV brings down another Republican
- Youtube Video: A Guide to Imperial Measurements with Matt Parker | Earth Lab
- Family murders in rural Ohio
- Metal Magic
- Fox News has been having the nightmares again
- A Factoid
- Talk in Dallas on Sunday November 18th: The Creative Skeptic
- Now we begin the unseemly gloating
- How to interview a Trump surrogate
- Feeling good
- After hoc therefore … something else hoc
- Case Dismissed
- I AM PARTYING TONIGHT!
- When scams get pretentious
- One of the tragedies of poverty
- Life without rising inequality is very much like life with socialism
- Vera is a beast
- The sexual recession: an ace perspective
- Get ready for lame duck shenanigans
- Maybe if they gave us profs big raises, we’d become more conservative
- Roses 2
- ASMR for engine nerds
- Convergence part 6: the deepest of deep homologies
- Has it really been twenty years? (Non-fiction)
- That’s me
- John Oliver on the past week’s news
- Jack’s Walk
- Goodbye HAL, you were wonderful
- As It Turns out, Good Guy With a Gun Gets Shot.
- Teacher’s Corner: I hate teachers
- Transformation
- Big businesses oppose Trump actions against the transgender community
- Spider poop
- Forest Path Statues – Part 5 – Lamps
- Tree Tuesday
- Volvox email
- Maureen Brian’s funeral
- Academe is a MAJOR THREAT TO AMERICA
- Flawed art
- On The Road
- Moral Relativism
- Inktober 2018, the Rest of ‘Em
- Watching plants move
- How To Sharpen Pencils
- White nationalist Jewish Republican loses in New Jersey
- No more cameos
- Pangburn going down in flames
- Spider Update: Cleaning day (no photos)
- Navy Fall Down Go BOOM
- Justice over manners
- Glib statements about death following tragedies
- Monday Mercurial: expressive sealion
- Don’t declaw your cats
- I think I’ve spotted the problem
- Trump blames self for fires
- This bulldog is better at this than me
- The strange world of advertising
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 21 – Ownership of the Means of Production 2
- The Universal Headline
- Live streaming today
- An interview with Tchiya Amet
- Armistice Day – A hundred years ago
- Take a look at the wide side
- Science as a social construct: arachnophobia
- My sister’s TEDx talk
- Link Roundup: November 2018
- 10 out of 10 for First Impression.
- World Chess Championship live!
- Ranked choice voting in Maine, reversing gerrymandering, and other positive results
- David Kirk obituary from WUStL
- The Beto phenomenon
- Jack’s Walk
- Book review: Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss
- October Light
- A quick spider update (no photos)
- Friday Feathers
- The problem with the American press…
- Good morning, Iliana!
- Maybe he should have grabbed her by the pussy instead?
- Convergence part 5: an embarrassment of riches
- When The Joke Is On You
- The movie this week: First Man
- Hasan Minhaj’s show took on monopolies and Amazon
- What will it take to end this madness?
- I think Peterson is cracking up
- Jack’s Walk
- There are None so Blind…
- Is this a Dinosaur Tooth?
- Good news, bad news
- A Tiny Moth in a Tiny Flower
- Second thoughts on the election – Trump had a bad day, Democrats had a good day
- Spotlight Fever
- Youtube Video: Feudal Japanese vs Medieval European CASTLES
- That’s not really very many scientists
- Uncommon Sense: The Coming Revolt of the Guards
- Jordan Peterson is a fool, Part I’ve-Lost-Track-Of-The-Number
- Web Exclusive: ‘Where’s my (expletive deleted) coup?’: A Babbler post-election special report (Fiction)
- A sign of the impending Apocalypse?
- I failed at jury duty again
- Sea walls vs flood-friendly cities: Boston’s plan to adapt
- Hoverfly
- Results of ballot initiatives
- Wednesday Wings
- The War Press
- Election results review
- Oh, you want air ? And water ?
- Travel grants for Volvox 2019
- Homophobe Kim Davis loses her re-election bid
- Good source for following the election results tonight
- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog goes to Texas
- Samantha Bee urges people to vote
- THEY DIDN’T VOTE
- A bad day in the spider lab
- Resin Art is like Ogres
- Jack’s Walk
- Inside the minds of Trump cult members
- She Asked Me “Does It Matter?”
- Tree Tuesday
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 9 – Starting Again
- We voted
- The Morning Was Made of Magnesium
- VOTE! Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote VOTE!
- I know what I’m doing tomorrow
- The migrant caravan as seen by Fox News
- Pakistan blasphemy ruling
- Cutting down on distracted driving
- Me, right now
- Gab is back
- Repost: Message from David Kirk
- Oh Boy, Right Again
- Look on the bright side, UK!
- The election of our discontent: Our readers speak out (Fiction)
- In Need of Some Art?
- Was that really the best photo they could find to put on a billboard?
- Update on the GoFundMe campaign to defend against Richard Carrier’s lawsuit (Non-fiction)
- Jupiter is a big fan of Ayn Rand, I hear
- Another incel killing?
- Sunday Sermon: Tuesday Coming Up
- What does a DW-NOMINATE score of zero mean?
- Teacher’s Corner: Toxic Masculinity
- Incels strike again
- Analyze this statement
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 20 – Comedy
- Bad Female Anatomy: Where was that clit again?
- Fall Colors 2018 – #5
- Some Really Fun Guys from Austria
- Tuesday’s election is a referendum on Trump
- When will people learn that debate is just noise to distract you all?
- I got to play educational games for a couple of days
- America hates immigrants’ guts-literally
- The math behind political polarization
- Elections have consequences, so please vote
- Open for Commissions
- Trump and the Republicans have mainstreamed anti-Semitism
- The Fox problem
- Jack’s Walk
- Bookbinding
- The story of the book of Revelation
- Friday Feathers
- Some Really Fun Guys
- David Kirk has died
- Friday Cephalopod: They’re going to outbreed us!
- Presented Without Comment: Post-Racism America
- Don’t Trust the Process
- Jim Jefferies on Republican fear-mongering
- Sporadic blogging coming up
- Jack’s Walk
- Grasshopper
- Macedonia 6 – This Place Rocks
- Hasan Minhaj’s new show is brilliant
- Evangelical haunted houses
- You’re not a very arachnophobic bunch
- A Problem of Authentication
- Revolog Volvox film
- Tummy Thursday: Under the Sea
- Youtube Video: Medieval ASSASSIN’S CROSSBOW (Balestrino) ASSEMBLED & TESTED!
October 2018
- Fall Colors 2018 – #4
- It’s such a mystery to the pundits
- Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
- I can’t wait for November 7th to arrive
- Happy Halloween! Too bad I’m missing it
- Wednesday Wings: Happy Halloween!
- Old people are busy having this conversation all across America
- Skepticon is baaaaack!
- Inktober Drop Two
- A new science video for Halloween!
- Life, Death and Love
- Jack’s Walk
- You say that like it’s a bad thing
- Testy, condescending, oblivious
- Tree Tuesday
- ZOG, the MAGAbomber, and the Fox network
- That time IFLScience wrote about my field
- Perspective and Nazis
- Methinks the price is still too high
- What Ugly Garbage
- Ed Brayton’s Good Cause
- Oxford University Press is going to publish my book
- Yes, I’ve been having fun
- Jack’s Walk
- Monday Mercurial: Otterly adorable
- A well-deserved slap in the face for Trump
- Foxmom
- Beautiful Rain
- Milo rises from the dead!
- Quantum Misogyny
- Monday Meslier – 138: Faith Takes Root But in Weak, Ignorant, or Indolent Minds
- Convergence part 4: “an epic myth”
- Clow UFO Base bans political display ads on spacecraft (Fiction)
- How Typically American
- The Pacific Northwest is full of witches
- Jesus mythicism vs. Jesus historicity: an argument in favour of the latter
- How and Why (Non-fiction)
- Elite racism can be just as sincere as common racism
- Whom Will They Blame Next, Unicorns?
- I believe in responsible free speech
- Sunday Sermon: The Fisher King
- The River, One Morning…
- Pancakes
- Ireland and Michael Nugent Win One – A Good One & A Big One.
- Rapidly escalating political violence
- Another shooting. Nothing will change.
- Remember when we had a president?
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 8 – First Evaluation
- Another Day, Another Shooting in USA.
- If you thought Australian politics was a web of intrigue and backstabbing, check out what is happening in Sri Lanka
- Hate the implicit teleology…
- God’s convenient rules of real estate
- Looks so cute
- Seth Meyers on Republicans lies about health care
- Chickens come home to roost for the UK
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar On A Point I Missed
- Friday Cephalopod: Falling Octopus
- The Flat-Earther Approach
- Jack’s Walk
- And the suspected mail bomber has been arrested — it’s… FLORIDA MAN
- Hi, Book Reviewer Dana from Glenville!
- Why is it so hard to understand that donning blackface makeup is racist?
- Good Guy With a Gun fails to stop Bad Guy With a Gun because “whites don’t shoot whites”
- Kids need to learn to love
- Convergence part 3: “the Darwinists’ lollapalooza”
- Math Nerds: Activate! Biology Nerds: Not so much…
- Big Bird actor Caroll Spinney retiring
- Seizing the aesthetic high ground
- Jack’s Walk
- Mohammed bin Salman goes into damage control mode
- Accountability Is The ONLY Radical Idea: Oh, and look what we have here!
- Cleveland Orchestra fires two prominent members
- Tummy Thursday: Rfissa
- Youtube Video: Japanese ‘Samurai’ Swords in Period European Eyes
- Do not ever read Steve Pinker’s Twitter feed
- Geneticists have the right answer. Now they just need to work harder to disseminate it.
- Macedonia 5 – Stillness
- Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowgirls
- Fake Bomb
- Thinking about the Cyberpunk Apocalypse
- People who remember every day of their lives
- China builds world’s longest bridge across the sea
- Plausible Theory Wednesday: Donald Trump Sent Bombs To Political Enemies
- Mourning a spider
- Making Kitchen Knives – Interlude 1 – The Little Great Polishing Experiment
- Jack’s Walk
- An offer I can and will refuse
- Don’t count the Ark Park out yet
- Wednesday Wings
- Theatre Project, part 3 – Stonemasonry Heritage
- They Make Their Own Music.
- Who are you voting for?
- Fall Colors 2018 – #3
- Convergence part 2: “exceptions to the rule”
- Body Language
- Presented Without Comment: “I Thought I Was Going To Die”
- This Is Your Megyn Kelly On Blackface
- Must. Not. Reference. Princess. Bride.
- Nature can always surprise us
- Jack’s Walk
- Erdoğan’s speech and the UAE connection to Saudi Arabia
- Outdoor Theatre Project, part 2 – Streets, Houses, Families
- Tree Tuesday
- In your eyes
- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…and Krauss wept and released a dove
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 7 – Assembly and Finishing
- Boom, they all died
- Don’t you worry your pretty little head about Lawrence Krauss
- What does it mean to live like a socialist, or a capitalist?
- Macedonia 4 – Terrible Butterflies
- From the Webmaster: Video from the future? (Mixed)
- Inevitable
- If it’s Monday, it must be spider feeding day
- Why voting matters
- The Trump Administration Tells Me That My Gender Is What’s In My Pants
- He’s a real swinger already
- Simple logic escapes them
- TNET 26: Plastic Dreams
- The Khashoggi case gets even more bizarre
- Jack’s Wallk
- Australian political turmoil continues
- Monday Mercurial: Patagonian Sealions
- An Invitation to Walk and Dance
- Deep, calming breaths everyone!
- All out of sorts now
- Jim Helton in Minneapolis
- Knew This Was Coming
- Convergence part 1: “quite unexpected”
- Acting Clow UFO Base administrator considers accepting transgender refugees (Fiction)
- Vote Now!
- Macedonia 3 – Husks
- Netflix’s ethnic and genre targeting goes too far
- Fall Colors 2018 – #1
- Film review: Three Identical Strangers (2018)
- Let’s defy more science!
- It’s Time
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 6 – Basic Shaping of the Handle
- Down With Superstitions
- Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in
- Ireland to have referendum on its blasphemy law
- Just how bad is evolutionary psychology?
- It’s a very interesting book, too
- Swedes & Norwegians
- Why the Saudis have the US over a barrel-and it’s not an oil barrel
- These are the scariest Halloween costumes ever
- Saudi princes are real GEMs, just like our Republican overlords
- Indicate!
- Inktober 2018 Drop
- Slavic Saturday
- Rihanna stands with Colin Kaepernick
- Gender dysphoria in children – replacing myth with fact. Part Two.
- Biochemistry, it turns out, is not a creationist’s friend
- You live, you learn…
- Constitutional Law Everyone Thinks They Know: That Fiery Theater
- Jack’s Walk
- Why do Nazis equate “free speech” with a right to a platform?
- Friday Feathers
- What people lie to themselves about
- Spider update (no spider photos)
- Was There a Mosh Pit, Too?
- The Celestial Cuttlefish
- Friday Cephalopod: Cuttlefish have such lovely skin
- Macedonia 2 – A Glorious Three-fer
- Ink
- This awkward condition
- This can’t possibly be standard snow leopard hunting strategy
- I knew it!
- The tax cut fairy goes AWOL (as always)
- The peculiar role of spectators in baseball
- The latest Vitamin C scam
- I think we can definitively argue that Elon Musk has a cult
- Glorious Shoes
- Brick wall? What brick wall?
- Youtube Video: Viking Era Swords – How Polished Were They?
- I got interviewed by Tris Mamone!
- What would Jesus say, Pat?
- In Case You Were Wondering
- Stephen Colbert figures out the one restaurant that Tucker Carlson goes to
- You Got Spirit, Kid.
- Right Wing Projection Wave
- The complicated Turkey-Saudi Arabia relationship
- Wednesday Wings
- What does it take?
- When Captain America comes to the aid of James Bond…
- Jack’s Walk
- Yeah, But Does it Help Against Global Warming?
- How Hard is Hard Enough?
- Death penalty declines around the world
- I agree with this review of the Ark Park
- He sure dines out a lot on his uncle
- Are the multicellular volvocine algae monophyletic?
- Can rapes in churches be prevented if priests are allowed to break the vow of celibacy?
- Tony Thompson could use our help (Non-fiction)
- I’m Convinced: Pineapple Does Not Belong On Pizza. Also? Feminism is better than its defenders argue.
- The Feminist Mein Kampf
- Don’t ever play the racist game
- A Republican, pro-Trump pimp has died
- Film review: The Seagull (2018)
- American Justice: Get debt for being human, go to prison for being in debt
- Turkey’s surprising role in the Khashoggi case
- Now the robots are taking our funk!
- Happy Quaternions Day
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 5 – Grinding, Polishing, Buffing
- I tell you, spiders are everywhere
- Great moments in Israeli law
- Tree Tuesday
- Tackiography
- We can be angry for all the right reasons
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Arachnophobia is irrational
- Coal Country: Matewan via Slaid Cleves
- The Boghossian Experience, in Audio
- Now with twice as many grandbaby pictures!
- There’s a heck of a lot more to identity than what genes you carry
- A bid for empathy: Three letters that can make white folks understand non-white fear of police
- Elizabeth Warren
- The story of Edwins
- Jack’s Walk
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 4 – Heat Treatment
- Monday Mercurial
- The morality of atheists
- A Stunning Little Dragon
- Maybe Santa will bring me some high end optical gear for Christmas this year
- Standards of beauty may have changed significantly in 5000 years
- DuPage Township Trustee Oliver defects to New World Order (Fiction)
- Fellowship of Freethought Dallas Gathering: Treat or Trick? Is an Afterlife Possible?
- Peter Norman finally gets his due in Australia
- No, I Don’t Want Germaine Greer Beaten
- Good Scholarship On Gender
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 3 – Basic Grind
- Kara Swisher on John McLaughlin
- Progress
- Don’t tell the students!
- #Unteilbar
- Andy Lewis’ Gendered Gotcha
- Poverty chic
- The Khashoggi case exposes the western media’s true interest
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 2 – Draw, Drill, Cut
- Gender dysphoria in children – replacing myth with fact, Part One
- Iliana Myers Hughart makes me a Grandpa 2
- What goes with anti-vax, flat-earth, and cancer quackery?
- Labels, and the saga of Cornerstore Caroline
- Why I banned Andy Lewis, Maria Maclachlan, and Alan Henness
- Verschlimmbessern
- Watch Carefully
- Even When Not in Doubt Marcus Knows
- Friday Cephalopod: Let’s play a game — everyone, pretend to be a siphonophore!
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 1 – In the Beginning…
- Jamal Khashoggi is neither the first or the only Saudi to disappear
- Jack’s Walk
- Breeding spiders
- Harris’s devious rhetoric dissected
- Brazen moped thievery in London
- Friday Feathers
- Reminder: Foundation Beyond Belief is raising funds for Hurricane relief (Non-fiction)
- Guest Opinion: DuPage Township Democrats say vote no on the Bolingbrook Park Board Referendum (Mixed)
- The Khashoggi story takes a very dark turn
- Jack’s Walk
- I am not a juror today
- Juxtaposition
- Tummy Thursday: Plum Liqueur
- Found in translation
- The madness unparalleled, genuinely epic
- What if she was feeling squirrely?
- Hypocrisy and Accusations of Hypocrisy
- When in doubt rely on Marcus
- A Soviet Heritage
- Hurricane porn
- Jury duty tomorrow
- This Was Published Before Trump Announced His Candidacy
- Great moments in driving
- Happy Geeky News
- Jack’s Walk
- The Problem/Solution Gap
- Spider update (no photos)
- How to mourn like a Stoic
- I would vote for a “radical socialist kick boxing lesbian” in a flash
- Where is all this BS coming from?
- I’ve been possessed!
- Already Getting Inured To It
- Blue Wave Ain’t Gonna Happen
- Real snakes on real planes
- More ominous warnings from the IPCC
- Jennifer Raff and Carl Zimmer are going to explain genetics to you
- Please Please Please Don’t Screw This Up
- After Kavanaugh’s Destruction…
- Water is Life
- The time to pick your lifeboat color is before you leave the dock
- 337 dead whales in Chile
- It’s too damn early for philosophy
- Teacher’s Corner: I hate parents
- Bad genetics exposed
- Songs that look back on life
- Blackstone, Crip Dyke, & The Next Nomination
- Uncommon Sense: Columbus
- Inspired by Giliell: Thoughts on Sexual Orientation
- It’s Indigenous People’s Day!
- Cleveland Orchestra sex abuse allegations
- Jack’s Walk
- History education
- Charly’s Walk
- The ugly entitlement culture of the affluent
- Monday Mercurial
- This is an age of thuggery
- Three weredeer and a wereskunk arrested following an incident at Regal Bolingbrook Stadium 12 (Fiction)
- New Diss for Trumplets
- Okay, who watched the Doctor Who premiere?
- Presented Without Comment: Some Are Good People
- Is it immoral to watch American football?
- Autumn colours
- Some noteworthy aspects of the Nobel prize winners in chemistry
- At the Zoo d’Amnéville 6
- ACCUSED MEN ARE THE VICTIMS HERE
- Planned Parenthood is here for good
- Sunday Sermon: Hammer Fall 2050
- Why Did You not Try to Stay in USA?
- NYTimes: Kavanaugh’s nomination would have been defeated if only some survivors stayed silent
- Sure looks like design to me!
- Not incivil enough
- The disappearance and forced exile of Saudi Arabian activists
- Hacking and Propaganda
- Sawfly larvae
- Are religion and evolution necessarily incompatible?
- Stop, Thief!
- Jack’s Walk
- Why worry? We’re doomed anyway
- Bobbin Lace Masterpiece
- A nice day, topped with nuts
- At the Zoo d’Amnéville
- Some good local news
- And the award for creepiest technological innovation goes to…
- Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose are simply incompetent hacks
- My president?
- My king
- My queen
- Moose Fight
- Out Of Control
- Just two buddies having fun
- Here a Nut, There a Nut…
- Hold My Beer: Kavanaugh Gets Support From A Catholic Bishop
- Trust Amazon to act like a jerk
- You want more speech? You got it.
- Jack’s Walk
- At the Zoo d’Amnéville 3: Gorillas
- Film review: Fire in Babylon (2010)
- Locker room talk
- We’re living in a cyberpunk world
- A Response from Senator Cornyn Regarding Kavanaugh Vote
- The danger of golf
- Funny Animals
- There are reasons I don’t allow students to cite Wikipedia articles
- Jack’s Walk
- Dogs as a danger to wildlife
- Got My First “Presidential” Alert Y’all
- If At First You Don’t Succeed
- The strange academic career ladder
- At the Zoo d’Amnéville 2
- Trumps: Biggest tax frauds in history?
- Wednesday Wings
- Lavender in Life and Death
- Taking out the garbage
- Give it a rest, Boghossian and pals
- Major errors
- Mayor Claar defiant as Clow UFO Base reopens (Fiction)
- Spider party!
- Andy Lewis Is A Stable Genius Who Wishes You Morans Would Get A Brian
- Fascist takeover alert: Brett Kavanaugh and the end of democracy
- Satan: Good Witch or Bad Witch?
- Jack’s Walk
- This year’s Nobel prize in physics
- Hey, I know those cells!
- Hooray! There is no sexism and racism in physics!
- At the Zoo d’Amnéville 1
- How gracious
- C’s Eulogy
- Trump is concentrating hundreds of “unaccompanied” children into a camp.
- Nuts to the Nuttings
- B-B-But STATES RIGHTS!?!
- Little Lies and Big Truths
- Presented Without Comment: Aida Chavez Needs Help
- What survivors of assault by powerful people face
- Origami: Three-form
- Extreme right wing German party wooing Jews
- Jack’s Walk
- Roadside Encounter of the Spider kind
- Betty was HUNGRY!
- “It’s not the heat, it’s the dew point”
- Arguments over the legacy of Howard Zinn
- How to force-fit preconceptions about gender into science
- Gelada baboons give us insight into the history of domestication
- How awful can Alessandro Strumia be?
- The Teeth of a Lion
- That’s what I thought: Senators don’t care about sexual assault, but they might about perjury
- Diamonds On My Windshield
September 2018
- Nose to Blowhole
- Excellent analysis by Colin Jost and Michael Che
- This is the true Republican party
- Masterclass Horsehair Braiding
- Matt Damon captures Brett Kavanaugh perfectly
- A piece of skeptic history on sale – the Cottingley Fairies hoax pictures
- Disability in Advertising
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 19 – Pionýr
- Uh-oh. I get the Tim O’Neill treatment
- Vertical Farms and Automation
- The Fix Is In
- Dishonest or Incompetent?
- Horrible Jokes
- Short film about an incel
- Wooden Ships: Marty Balin
- Maybe if they tried smiling more?
- Why is Brett Kavanaugh scared of an FBI investigation?
- That Wilkins guy loves to rub it in
- Meanwhile, also in the local paper…the chimes still burn Ted Storck
- Let’s distort history!
- Alchemy
- Letting Go of Hatred & Anger
- Amphibian Extinction: Climate change isn’t the only problem
- Samuel L. Jackson steps in while Samantha Bee gets totally ‘Carrie’d away
- Let us not forget Bill Cosby, the monster
- Jack’s Walk
- Friday Feathers: Florence is back!
- The Incomparable Corrupting Influence of Judy Blume (Also: Call Your Senators)
- You know, I’m not going to stop making these spider videos, because they’re awesome
- Rage and Sickness
- Jeff Flake, hypocrite and coward [UPDATED]
- Friday Cephalopod: OCTOPUS ABUSE!
- In which I disagree with xkcd
- Have our senators read their Bible?
- Spider Silk
- Bad memories
- Uncommon Sense: I am Not Your Negro
- Hold My Beer: Lindsey Fucking Graham
- The Brett Kavanaugh senate testimony
- Girls Ruin Everything
- Jack’s Walk
- Christine Blasey Ford senate hearings
- Today is a day that men just need to shut up
- Tummy Thursday: Staples
- Content granularity
- Fall Colors of a Rowan Tree
- Youtube Video: Forging a Viking Dane Axe – With Tord of Thor’s Forge (part 1)
- Why are Brett Kavanaugh’s pants not on fire?
- More Fuel Rats in The News
- Web Exclusive: Former atheist activist David Silverman to open ‘Transformative Humanist Center’ in Bolingbrook Commons (Fiction)
- What Lurks in the Spam Trap
- A message to young people from my generation
- Please Listen: Barriers should be torn down
- Please Listen: Intolerance, impatience and ignorance hurt
- The new lions of Afghanistan
- An Unholy Pit of Horrors Coughs Up Something Amazing [Ed: Updated Link!]
- 8½ minutes in the lab
- Wednesday Wings
- Chinese Fabric Art
- We’ve all known that guy
- When will this genetic determinism dinosaur die already?
- Lions in India
- Ken Ham, innumerate evolutionist
- Pawprints
- Peer review isn’t magic
- Talk me out of this (or into it)
- Boast, and the world laughs at you
- Short quiz on evolution
- Trophy Case: Kavanagh’s high school yearbook is a collection of horrors
- A Busy Couple Weeks!
- Jack’s Walk
- The Kavanaugh saga continues
- Tree Tuesday
- Panic in Spider City
- Anatomy Atlas – Part 24 – Nerves
- What is a species worth? Turtles in decline around the world
- The movies in Morris this past week
- It’s a technical term
- I Wonder Who
- This Is Just to Say…
- John Oliver on the menace of Facebook
- In other Washington chaos news …
- The company you keep…
- I’m worried about David Silverman
- No poors allowed
- Jack’s Walk
- Please Listen: International Week of the Deaf, Sept 24-30
- The dam breaks on Kavanaugh [UPDATED]
- Monday Mercurial
- Affinity is growing
- Why free speech is sometimes a curse
- Monday Miscellany: 24 September 2018
- Are you registered? (Non-fiction)
- Another account
- More on the food truck game
- Lindsey Graham is a sanctimonious weasel
- Weather Fronts: No doubt climate change deniers will latch onto this
- Another one of those spider videos? Again?
- Maybe the Intellectual Dark Web isn’t as profitable as they dreamed
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 18 – Periodicals for Children
- Sometimes simple truths are appreciated
- Lazy linking
- From now on, I’m going to send all those obnoxious Peterson cultists to Adam Rutherford
- Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
- America is Animal House
- How many innocent people must be freed? A sweeping review is needed
- Traps are so manly
- Harakka Island – Chapter 10
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Six, part 2
- Hayabusa-2’s probes successfully deployed
- Remembering the past – skudsmaalsbog
- Great moments in hyperbole
- Amazon’s destructive business and labor practices
- Home-building spiders
- The Worst Horror of Hunger Games
- Stupid old men tricks
- Let Me Grab My Tinfoil Hat
- Reminder to self: Check with siblings before running for office
- This is why I need a 3D printer
- Slavic Saturday
- Web Exclusive: Androids and werecats clash during the IL06 Congressional campaign (Fiction)
- Watch this ad to the end
- Jordan Peterson, fragile little snowflake and misogynist
- Friday Feathers
- A minnow bites the whales
- Jack’s Walk
- Day 4. Spiders grow up so fast!
- Corporations are not friends, my people.
- Friday Cephalopod: The Ecstasy Protocol
- Great moments in bad ideas
- Knut news
- The Brian Wansink saga comes to a close
- They Were Already Unrestrained
- Ulvophyte multicellularity: the sea lettuce genome
- Samantha Bee tells it like it is
- The NYTimes & I Agree on Something
- Fighting back against the anti-woman Republican party
- Jack’s Walk
- Being a white man really is a superpower
- The Queen of Evil’s crown is secure
- SPIDER MADNESS!
- Naomi Osaka and racism in Japan
- Youtube Video: 5 Worst Movie Swords (Historical)
- Tummy Thursday Special: Dreaming Unicorn Cake
- Harakka Island – Chapter 9
- It doesn’t take much to build an online empire
- Having a Snack
- White House Tales – 2
- Highlighting Wonkette Wisdom
- Civil asset forfeiture and race
- Challenge Accepted: I have a new responsibility
- Painted plywood, dirt trails, and a cornpone old guy
- Jack’s Walk
- Spider babies! Still growing fast!
- Can I vote for Bigfoot?
- Can I summarize punctuated equilibrium in less than a half-hour?
- Be not surprised, for I bring you tidings that were goddamned predictable
- Harakka Island – Chapter 8
- More details emerge about Kavanaugh
- Wednesday Wings
- When humanists go bad
- Losing Ground
- Fun with numbers!
- THEY HATCHED!
- Jack’s Walk
- ‘Tis the season
- Teen Vogue: your mainstream source for radical leftist politics
- What Kavanaugh is accused of is not adolescent drunken high jinks
- Nintendo ought to sue for defamation
- Persistence is a key ingredient to getting a degree
- Gimme Shelter
- Mystical Experiences @ Death!
- Cladistics Continues Apace, Despite Concerns
- Kavanaugh’s Nomination Should Fail, But Not Necessarily For The Reasons You Think
- Cuba moves to legalize same-sex marriage
- A Reminder About Sexual Assault
- On Asian student groups
- Sometimes It Happens…
- Facebook is not your friend, and it might be your enemy.
- Harakka Island – Chapter 7
- Numberphile Mentions Our Paper
- Obsessing over the lives of others
- Blame the innocent
- Rule of law is an illusion
- I See Tail-Lights
- Occupation of Clow UFO Base ends: Interstellar Commonwealth takes over Bolingbrook’s UFO Base (Fiction)
- Bad Journalism 101: Perverted Motels Edition
- Expect the Trump mob to descend on Kavanaugh accuser
- Squeezing prisoners for profit
- Make it matter
- It’s a Beautiful Morning
- Columnists Go Ga-Ga Over Reagan Letter that Demonstrates What a Tool He Was
- Spider eggs are all fine today
- ‘All politics is local’ comes to Amish country
- Everything Floats Down Here: Responding to Sea Level Rise with the Dutch
- TNET 25: Groove
- Maybe things haven’t changed all that much since 1961
- …too much education fogs the mind up too much…
- Bee Part of the Party
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 17 – Finale
- What’s in the sac? (no spider photos)
- Martina Navratilova on the US Open drama
- The ugliness of New York politics
- Slavic Saturday
- I’m naming her “Ghost”
- Comedian Jim Jefferies on religion
- Technology is trying to kill me now
- Film review: American Animals (2018)
- Straight People Make Me Want To Fight Imperialism & Colonialism
- The myth of scientific manipulation of data
- Jack’s Walk
- Harakka Island – Chapter 6
- Time To Shut Down: Fox Nuisance of the World
- Fluff and … Fluff… and Flowers
- Now I have to warn Canada, too
- Hey, Arizona!
- If this doesn’t scare the hell out of people …
- Bolingbrook United announces their 2019 candidates (Non-fiction)
- The movie this week was…the Prairie Light Film Festival!
- If it’s on the internet, it must be true
- Jack’s Walk
- Wind Storms: Another week, another typhoon. Ho-hum.
- Traditional butterfly shot, and this is what happened to the dinosaurs
- Tide turning against Catholic Church
- Tummy Thursday: Applesauce
- He couldn’t even stammer out “states rights”?
- Pauline Hanson, pick on someone your own size, ya drongo
- Killing god in small town America
- Don’t Do This, Skeptics
- Resistance-American Style
- Rush Limbaugh: Sharknado is Real!
- Jack’s Walk
- Hang Up: Dumb phones are the smart phones
- Sorry, no vampire stories in Nature yet
- US imperialism nakedly displayed
- Harakka Island – Chapter 5
- To engage or not to engage with racists?
- Crying wolf after the sheep are dead: A message to journalists
- Wednesday Wings
- Evils and lesser evils
- Dunning-Krueger, only for racists
- Rewriting religious anticipations of science history
- September 11
- Jack’s Walk
- This could be wonderfully interesting, or infuriating
- Personalities Stereotyped: The origin of MBTI codswallop
- Looking back on 9/11 (Non-fiction)
- Visualization: Ocean currents
- For all the arachnophobes out there
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt: An ignored and forgotten scientist
- No, Jordan Peterson, Genesis is not an accurate scientific summary of primate evolution
- A useless comic
- A Quick State of the Blog Update: Politics, Book News, and a Poem
- The Big Bang: Ten years of the LHC
- Lines Crossed: Duterte may have finally gone too far
- Achievement Unlocked! We don’t know what sexism is!
- Why Leave? : There’s no place like home
- History Rebuffed: A Japanese historical revisionist violated a statue dedicated to comfort women
- Flash Floods: I’m glad I stayed home this weekend
- Monday Mercurial: Making a Splash
- Spider status (no photos)
- Video: The philosophy of Antifa
- Harakka Island- Chapter 4
- Dookie Speculation
- Big step towards open-access science publishing
- A heartwarming tale of redemption for the singer of a shitty Christian metal band
- They’re afraid! And not very bright.
- Link Roundup: September 2018
- Thorium – the kinder, safer nuclear power?
- Rep. Bill Foster leads delegation to meet with Clow UFO Base’s occupiers (Fiction)
- I Did Warn You
- Oooh! It’s a Fiiiiiiiiiggghht, a NON-VIOLENT Fiiiiggghht on FtB
- Dysfunctional academics
- The mystery of the purloined letters
- Sunday Sermon: Regime Change
- People of color associating with white nationalists
- You, thou, they, who?
- How we know what we know: Ice ages
- Interesting. Tennis is a 3-player game?
- Robert Marks: Four Years and Still No Answer — and More Baylor Hijinks
- Shiny 2
- Why TERFs are not feminists
- Inexplicable lapse by Serena Williams [UPDATED TO INCLUDE VIDEO]
- Online abuse against inclusive ads
- Sure, I believe in science, Steven Brust!
- EnlightenmentLiberal Improved My Thinking and Writing
- Explain again why everyone is so horrified by outside meddling in US elections?
- The ‘plaid shirt guy’ speaks!
- A Less Welcome Guest
- Now I know who to blame
- True Facts about DEVO
- Harakka Island – Chapter 3
- Just Go Ahead Now
- When will Elon Musk be fired?
- Congratulations to Nick Fish
- When To Own Your Mistake
- Spider update!
- Fun and games at Trump rallies
- The hunting of the snitch
- Last Sunflower Resident
- Friday Cephalopod: Cockeyed
- Friday Feathers
- Still baffled over the historicity of Jesus stuff
- A Welcome Dinner Guest
- Someone gets me. Someone really gets me.
- Are there no punishments for cheating in baseball?
- The Trump Insider
- Backlash to the NYT op-ed
- Constitutional morality triumphs over Societal morality
- Jack’s Walk
- It’s more diverse than you say, Teratology Society!
- So, what has David Silverman been up to lately?
- You Are Not The Hero
- Indian Supreme Court decriminalizes gay sex
- To approve, or not to approve
- Calories in < calories out
- The perfect description of Jordan Peterson
- I don’t give a good god damn who the author of that NY Times op-ed is
- Not a Good Joke
- Photographic Proof That Centaurs Exist (Updated)
- Why TERFs are (sadly) feminists
- Another surprising win in a Democratic primary
- Hindutva propaganda through Indian medical journal ?
- Jack’s Walk
- Welcome, Larry!
- Elon Musk really is an unpleasant jerk
- Harraka Island – Chapter 2
- Wednesday Wings
- The strange reporting style on the chaotic Trump White House
- Itsy Bitsy, Lean and Mean
- Pollination Party – Beetles
- The Committee Is In Session
- The ontology of historical figures
- In defense of preprints
- Do not ride your bicycle in a typhoon
- Update on the spider soap opera (no photos)
- Jack’s Walk
- I Have Trouble Working Up Excitement
- Tree Tuesday
- Owning the libs, a tale in three acts
- The movie this week is… BlacKkKlansman
- Nothing Bubbled Up: Black fool’s gold
- Grazing
- Don’t do this
- Secular Women Work
- Itsy Bitsy Cave
- Labor Day
- Brooks Mythicists have a point
- Volvox inversion review
- You had me at “hardcore Nazi-killing machine”
- Illuminati covert audit finds no evidence DuPage Township illegally funded interstellar charities (Fiction)
- A great loss to the world
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 16 – Chape
- Excitement in the spider corner!
- Harakka Island, Finland
- Extraterrestrial Scenery
- Parental Bragging
- So many bad arguments for veganism…
- Childish Gambino has released a new video
- Teacher’s Corner: Bathroom Breaks
- The Elephant In The Connected Room
- Gonna do another of them hangouts on Sunday
- This isn’t going to last
- Sporadic blogging coming up
- Origami: Arrow Illusion, v2
- Slavic Saturday
- Learning Curves: You never know how ignorant you are
August 2018
- Trump’s approval rating among African-Americans is a yuge 3%
- Spiders! Now with scale bars!
- Friday Cephalopod: Flaunting it
- About time
- Let’s Remember: Mary King, 1827-1869
- One more test post
- From the Webmaster: Video of the Bolingbrook Pride event (Mixed)
- Friday Feathers
- Itsy, Bitsy, Dance
- Some interesting races to watch in November
- It’s called “Kook Magnetism”
- Book Review: Mechanizing Proof
- What’s a DOI?
- Behold, the beginnings of my SPIDER ARMY!
- Sarah Palin snubbed for McCain’s funeral
- Presented Without Comment: Unattractive Women
- Jack’s Walk
- Crime Waves: The murder of a foreigner in Taipei, Taiwan
- I don’t understand some people
- So that’s how you deal with lobsters
- The itsiest bitsiest spideriest
- Tummy Thursday
- The scandal of Catholic orphanages
- Youtube Video: Handmade Knives – Some Random Thoughts
- That’s not how anything works
- Web Exclusive: Roskam campaign to host Sean Casten themed ‘Hellhouse’ in Wheaton (Fiction)
- Reminding police to prevent crime rather than baiting children into committing it
- WordPress Wednesday
- The ACLU under fire
- Popularity Contests: My experience with MeToo and sexual assault
- Dinner at the Petersons’
- Finally, a police officer found guilty of murder
- Wednesday Wings
- While away….
- Pollination Party – Butterflies 1
- The movie this week is… The Spy Who Dumped Me
- He was a true hero
- Praying for a resurrection
- Village of Bolingbrook executes anti-vaccination aliens (Fiction)
- Scallop wars and French taunts
- How to make church tolerable
- Vatican intrigues
- Iowans with better food
- Jack’s Walk
- I think one important role of the federal government is to shut down the NRA
- More Bad Welding
- Who did this?
- After many harrowing months the redemption of Louis CK has commenced
- Better than syrup of ipecac!
- What exactly is happening with Brexit?
- Anatomy Atlas Part 20 – Lungs
- Why were nuns assumed to be good caretakers for children?
- Itsy Bitsy and Very Lively
- Tree Tuesday
- Jonathan Wells debunks something nobody believes
- Will Ferrell, exotic animal expert
- Mccain
- Q: the conspiracy theory for wankers
- Why no women in the list of people we would be shocked by?
- Jack’s Walk
- Islamophobia is a made up word !!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Don’t be Evil
- Misapplying the protocol for the death of private figures to public ones
- Appropriate academic relationships are possible — ignore the lech in the corner
- Today is National Dog Day
- John McCain’s main legacy
- Radio Announcers Unclear on Clinton’s Concept
- I thought physicists were required to know math?
- At a loss for words
- How to prove you’re not a genius
- Panda on Pause
- Myths about human sperm
- Creationist Physicist Doesn’t Understand Mathematics, Either
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 15 – Cars
- Itsy Bitsy Spider (for real)
- Alas, poor Milo
- This would be very illegal to say
- The environmental impact of animal farming
- One Theory Is That Trump Colored The US Flag Wrong
- Itsy Bitsy Spider (Not)
- How money buys immunization from prosecution
- I got mail
- Harassment of Scammers
- More mass murders of Yemeni children by the Saudi-US-UAE coalition
- Hidden jokes
- If you thought US politics was a den of intrigue …
- When thieves fall out
- On Jakiw Palij
- I could have told them this experiment wouldn’t work
- How did this get published?
- Friday Cephalopod: Cephalopod Empire!
- Meanwhile From The Department of Unsuprising
- Big Bang Theory is ending at last?
- I talk about macroevolution a little bit
- The last days of ‘Peter Bergmann’
- This revelation was no surprise
- A Bohemian Rhapsody Movie? How Did I Not Notice?
- Tummy Thursday
- The well-deserved destruction of Silent Sam
- Body Cams
- Trump’s obsession with Canadian milk
- Siri, show me hell on earth
- SWW this weekend
- Frequentists Don’t Get A Free Ticket
- So what you are saying is …?
- Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for female activist
- NK Jemisin wins, so the haters gotta hate
- Jack’s Walk
- I’ve definitely got to start farming worms
- Who would you be shocked to see accused by the #MeToo movement?
- Wednesday Wings
- Beware the trap of imagining that you are a logical, rational human being
- Tactical Honeytokens
- What a Day To Be Wrong
- Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
- Brace yourselves for a Trump Twitter blizzard
- I think it might be appropriate to rename the Naturalistic Fallacy the Peterson Fallacy
- Correcting false assertions about the history of science
- The trauma of child separation
- A musical interlude
- The movie this week is… Christopher Robin . Why does this genre even exist?
- Sexual economics, a theory in need of reworking
- Yet Another Sunflower Resident.
- Consequences
- A Real Museum-Piece
- How Democracies Die
- Web Exclusive: Rep. Peter Roskam to ignite a ‘bonfire of pants’ on Facebook (Fiction)
- By the hoarders, for the hoarders: Billionaires are incompatible with a democratic society
- Truth is not truth?
- Jack’s Walk
- The Catholic church is wrong about almost everything
- TNET 24: Surf
- I gotta start hawking a supplement of my own
- Monday Mercurial
- The effort to undermine and remove Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader
- History is hard
- Taking a Powder
- Village Board attends the first Bolingbrook’s Enlightened Discussion conference (Fiction)
- Updates and commentary on Ronell case
- So many papers, so many books, and creationists can’t be bothered to read them
- Good luck with that, Russell!
- “This is America, remember. Bullshit always has a chance.”
- Sunday Sermon: Conservatives Keep Up With Two Big American Traditions – Ignorance and Lies
- A change for Submissions
- Why did hell go from being hot to cold to hot again?
- Remembering Caine
- The road goes ever on and on…
- Natural Gas is Immoral: Fracking destroys potable water
- Michelle Wolf’s show cancelled
- Satanic fun and games in Arkansas
- Huh. That’s exactly how I imagined missionaries did their work
- I may have found a mirror universe
- I’d Rather Just Use My SUV
- Donohue: those Catholic priests didn’t rape anyone, and besides, it’s The Gays’ Fault
- Friday Cephalopod: Another sign of the Cephalopocalypse
- An interesting strategy that is likely to fail
- Happy Birthday, Yemmy!
- Fighting ugly with ugly
- That’s a swift death on a cellular scale, not a slow one
- The American Way of War
- The relationship between thoughts and words
- Google is Evil and I Hate Them
- Now we’ve lost Aretha!
- It’s a war over education
- Do we support bombing school buses full of children?
- This is what Nazis get
- Unknowns
- Can organized skepticism do a more spectacular face-plant?
- Who fires a dog?
- Bwahahaha!
- Religion, Trump, and Accountability: A Cautionary Tale
- Red light cameras
- Crip Dyke’s Private Conversations: Tomi Lahren and the “Original Feminists”
- Cancel Your Netflix
- The November elections will be…interesting
- Exploiting prisoners for profit
- The plague is spreading!
- Pickling and Canning
- Asexuality on Breitbart
- Can a feminist or a woman be guilty of sexual harassment?
- Web Exclusive: Columnist Onofrey conducts the first poll of the 2019 Bolingbrook Trustee Election (Fiction)
- The movie this week is… The Equalizer
- Now it’s happening among feminist professors of literature
- I wonder what the Catholic League has to say about the Catholic pedophile ring in Pennsylvania?
- Friends don’t let their friends get into fights
- Ridiculously Complex
- Hitler-admiring bigot wins Republican primary in Missouri
- You know you’re a Republican when…
- You know you’re a liberal when…
- The affirmation I need
- I don’t think we’ll be able to take a nap and wake up at Alpha Centauri
- The Freedom Budget looks like a fine idea to me
- I’m Hella OK
- Thoughts on ABC Freeform’s “Cloak and Dagger”
- Who Knew It Was So Easy?
- Ho-hum, Comma again
- John Oliver on yesterday’s rally and Laura Ingraham’s racist monologue
- I tried microtonal music and liked it
- Gruss Gott! Bienvenido a Morris!
- Not a bang but a whimper
- Proud Boys defeated by Antifa space aliens (Fiction)
- It Ends Sitting in a Car, Thinking About Birds
- Sunday Sermon: The Truth Leaks Out
- Exploding the myths about free speech
- Wait, what? Jordan Peterson says he’s an evolutionary biologist!
- A fair wage for everyone
- Spinelessness
- Pickled Beets
- Hola auf Wasau!
- Slapping Ben Shapiro down
- What I did to earn a degree in the long long ago
- Movie goofs that are not
- Kent Hovind, the broccoli man
- Friday Cephalopod: Oh, to be beachcombing in Oregon…
- It appears that not only horses are thoroughbreds
- They’re all out to get you
- A rip-roaring horror story
- You win the prize, Don Jr.!
- Dozens of children killed in Yemen by Saudi-US bombing
- Obstruction of Justice
- Hitcher
- The pope should shut the fuck up about indigenous resistance
- TV Review: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
- Goodbye Caine. And Fuck Cancer.
- The dogwhistles have become foghorns
- These people exist
- The Koch brothers are not on your side
- Caine: There is never enough time (Non-fiction)
- Caine has died
- Caine is gone
- Jack’s Walk
- Yesterday’s election results
- So…much…bubble wrap
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 15 – Troat of the Scabbard
- Go away, Jenny McCarthy
- There is a convention for citing a tweet in an academic paper?
- More Competence Porn
- Reading the Numbers
- Some interesting elections to watch for today
- Stupid Work
- Dam every river! Chop down every tree!
- Oscar Wilde on the cruelty of prison authorities to children
- There shall be modesty!
- Barcelona, the Zoo 2: Gorillas
- Will we really miss Alex Jones?
- If you like Tommy Robinson, you will love Donald Trump (and vice-versa)
- How the rich virtue signal
- Lifestyles of the nouveau riche and infamous
- Jack’s Walk
- Sacha Baron Cohen makes a fool of Joe Arpaio
- Alex Jones & InfoWars are finally getting slapped down
- Banning Plastic Straws is Ableist
- Let’s Pretend
- An important elected office that few pay attention to
- The Daily Bird #785
- Barcelona: the Zoo 1
- Physicists may have the name game down cold, but they’re weird
- Tech companies are not altruistic
- Volvox the restaurant
- Rich people aren’t like the rest of us
- Wereskunks canvass Bolingbrook for Republican candidates (Fiction)
- The Cold Calculus of Hiking
- Kajioshi – Home
- Jack’s Walk
- Nice headline
- Somebody got carried away
- The Completely Wrong Way to Cook Shrimp. Deliciously.
- Competence porn
- Why Are Watches Still a Thing?
- Barcelona: The Aquarium 4: Creatures of the Sea
- Sourdough update
- Well, that was interesting!
- Prediction: Lawrence Krauss will be resigning
- In which I destroy marriage
- Poor impulse control
- The overlooked danger of overhydration
- Not an Alien Facehugger.
- Fire all the writers
- Jack’s Walk
- Friday Cephalopod: Tiny adorable upside down ice cream cones
- The Handmade Dilemma
- Anyone got any ghost repellent?
- Andrew Sullivan makes Sarah Jeong’s point for her — how kind!
- Flyover
- The emerging Democratic-neoconservative alliance
- Barcelona: The Aquarium 2: Starry, Starry Night
- Oh, look, I just alienated another 42,000 atheists!
- I Can’t Help Myself
- Sexual abuse of men is not funny
- Jack’s Walk
- Lawrence Krauss replaced by a woman
- Joshua Preston for President!
- I’ve been waiting 26 years for this
- What the US did during World War II and the Korean war
- Lunar Eclipse: Hold still you ….!
- The rise of black women freethinkers
- Victim-blaming, an online sport
- Have you been wondering what’s happening in the city of Morris, Minnesota?
- Barcelona: The Aquarium 1
- What if she says “No”?
- Kajioshi – 3
- The absurd state of US politics
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also picks up the baton of The Heritage
- People do not necessarily ‘suffer’ from diseases
- A Tad Messed Up Here…
- He’s only the president of Planet Trump
- Jack’s Walk
- Kajioshi – 2
- More Sunflower Residents
- An inevitable child death in a detention center
- Barcelona: The City 5: Streets
- Speculative Poets in Conversation: Holly Lyn Walrath
- The Daily Bird #780
- Please, evolutionary psychology, just fade away
- A is for Algae
July 2018
- Jack’s Walk
- Medicare For All would be good in so many ways
- Leslie Rutledge is an example of how every Republican has to be slimy
- Should this be a firing offense?
- Kajioshi – 1
- Barcelona: The City 5: Streets
- Maureen Brian has died
- A case of free market capitalism actually working!
- Fleckchen
- Rock Isn’t Innovative Anymore
- Web Exclusive: Mayor Claar punishes Illuminati operative following Casten/Roskam debate (Fiction)
- Village Board celebrates opening of ‘troll farm’ in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- Dinesh D’Souza is at it again
- How to detect a pedophile
- Carrier lawsuit update (Non-fiction)
- Barcelona: the City 4: Streets
- How to freak out your racist friends
- The British Jewish establishment’s attacks on Jeremy Corbyn
- Sunflower Residents
- I think this is a metaphor for capitalism
- Postdoc opportunity studying Volvox !
- Everything Flows
- That strategy is still being used
- This does not surprise me anymore
- Ooh, a moral philosophy test!
- Jack’s Walk
- The Daily Bird #779
- We haven’t heard from Comma in a while, have we?
- Congress only cares about violations of rights when theirs are affected
- Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux: racist provocateurs
- I’m not ignoring the UK
- You won’t get a blue wave if you ignore 99% of the barriers
- Barcelona: the City 3: El Mercado de la Boqueria
- Checking In
- Yep, Non Sequitur pretty much nails it
- Is Trump a racist?
- Losing plutonium
- Work Up That Base
- Dang, we’re still being sued for defamation, and the guy has acquired deeper pockets
- Begin the countdown to the genital identification
- Sunny Spider
- Barcelona: The City 2: La Plaza Catalunya
- Wow. Someone really doesn’t like Elon Musk.
- More Ark Park details
- Lunar Eclipse 2018
- Right wing freak out about socialism
- The strange desire for ostentatious wealth
- A Sunflower Constelation
- The Ark is leaking!
- The problem with liberals
- Friday Cephalopod: Many of these are, indeed, True Facts
- They’re still debating the undebatable at Tuam
- Science in Mexico needs strong leadership
- Daily Bird #778
- Barcelona: the City 1
- You misspelled “Irresponsible reporting”
- Great classics
- Samantha Bee on the Mariia Butina story
- Chadwick Moore, Loser
- Death of a Tiger Lily.
- Former cricketer Imran Khan set to become Pakistan’s next prime minister
- Jack’s Walk
- Tummy Thursday: Hello and enjoy your meal
- The Cloudflare problem
- Ending the menace of money bail
- Demonic Virtual Reality.
- I’d like to move there, too
- Youtube Video: I Smoke Armour
- What part of “promote the general Welfare” do they fail to understand?
- Birth of a Tiger Lily.
- Hollyhock!
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Barcelona: Camping 4: Bougainvillea envy
- Snapping Turtle.
- Elephants and oak trees
- First Amendment Issues are NOT (necessarily) Free Speech Issues
- Another uninteresting nerd gets punctured
- How airports make money
- The growing list of things that black people cannot do safely
- Fascist Policing: Pinellas County Edition
- This looks like a gimmick for a Disney movie
- Jack’s Walk
- How many times has the US intervened in the elections of other countries?
- Cancer Chronicles 22: Ten More Days.
- Roger Waters on the atrocity that Israel has become
- Too true
- My grandson is an alien. Proof!
- Non-Proliferation
- 40% of Americans don’t believe Native people exist?!?
- Do I really want to know “ Who Is America? “
- Barcelona: Camping 3: Lightning
- That Dude Comes Out And Says It
- Uncommon Descent on Elizabeth Pennisi’s Science article
- How reflexive support for Israel aided Sacha Baron Cohen
- Jack’s Walk
- The revolt of the ‘moderate Democrats’
- Republicans Really Don’t Know Their Own Brand
- Death’s Dance: The Recruit.
- The Healing Arts: Envy.
- Complexity
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- What’s in the box, Gwyneth?
- We need a paleotheology department to research this
- Science Magazine is Failing Us
- Barcelona: Camping 3: Friends
- Multicellularity in Science
- An unexpected guest
- “Fuck Batman”
- Classic Contributions to Science Journalism #2.1mya
- Some people are as dumb as rocks …
- Do we really need 4500 words about an unrepentant pedophile?
- Jack’s Walk
- Wanna see Jesus?
- Well, this movie might be fun
- Death’s Dance: The Good And Great.
- Ecclesiasm
- Are you rich? Get it out of your head that it’s because you’re better than the rest of us
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 14 – Covering the Scabbard
- Giliell is now writing at Affinity
- Luna Day Mood.
- Barcelona: Camping 2: The mini farm
- The persistence of nonsense
- Garden Foxes.
- Russian special forces supporting Rep. Peter Roskam’s campaign (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- Seneca Falls: 170 Years Ago This Weekend
- History Quiz
- Batman isn’t supposed to be smiling
- Kansas progressive rallies update
- The Daily Bird #773.
- Barcelona: Camping 1
- Quick Admin Note.
- Jack’s Walk
- League Of The South Goes Russian.
- Death’s Dance: The Urchin Robbers.
- The Healing Arts: The National Political Mad-House.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- TNET 23: Animals.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #772.
- Off to NYC for a Weekend!
- Even harmless quackery kills
- The most evil and powerful atheist in the world
- Barcelona
- Blog hiatus
- Multiple Moons.
- Do Not Do This
- Jack’s Walk
- An altruistic Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Climbing Mount Echinacea.
- Friday Cephalopod: A kinder, gentler threat to our undersea friends
- Death’s Dance: The Catchpole.
- The Healing Arts: Der Arzt. [Nudity].
- Can progressive politics succeed in Kansas?
- Pierre Haas & Stephanie Höhn article on variability in Volvox inversion
- Even tiny brains are complicated
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- It wasn’t Cthulhu after all
- Tiger Lilies.
- I think this is satire, probably
- Abandoned School.
- The Daily Bird #771.
- Punch a Nazi? How About Punch A Sexist Perp.
- This Evening.
- I don’t think he’ll try this again
- Jewdy-ized and homosexual-ized?
- Jack’s Walk
- How did Montenegro suddenly become a danger?
- The Healing Arts: A Tythe Pig No Bad Sight.
- Cats did not evolve 80 million years ago
- The military-sports complex in all its glory
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Wildlife Park, Part 12.
- Showmanship
- Web Exclusive: Space Nazis canvas Illinois 3rd Congressional District for Arthur Jones (Fiction)
- Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
- A Trumpian Trophy. . .
- So, so tired of Christian Atheists
- Jack’s Walk
- Absolute Perfection.
- The complex political legacy of Jackie Robinson
- Word Wednesday.
- Accidental Sunflower
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Reconstructing the fearsome Haast’s eagle.
- The Daily Bird #769.
- Sir David Attenborough’s Real Name: Boaty McBoatface
- Seth Meyers hilariously reviews Donald Trump’s overseas trip
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Sometimes we need a feel-good story, so here’s one
- Science confirms the obvious!
- Trump is just the tool. We’re the ones who betrayed America.
- Jack’s Walk
- Politics, professional sports, and racism
- Richard Dawkins continues to be an embarrassment
- Well, that makes a mess of my day
- Tree Tuesday
- Remember This Old Thing?
- Going Missing (Admin Stuff).
- Cinema Day Shout-outs
- An unusual statement from Trump
- Greenwald and Cirincione debate the merits of the Trump-Putin summit
- Jack’s Walk
- The problem of single-use plastic pollution
- Good Trolling.
- Monday Meslier: 164 – Of Jesus Christ, The Priests’ God
- Death’s Dance: The Careful and the Careless.
- I don’t think I understand baseball anymore
- I wonder if I can move to Scotland?
- With the right lens, I can reinterpret the world
- Space Aliens to be evicted from Americana Estates (Fiction)
- A Quick Note To A Searcher…
- Pursuance Project Kickstarter campaign was successful!
- These are just terrible people
- Babes
- Sunday Facepalm: Demon-strations.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Arming preschoolers? What a great idea!
- Argument Clinic: “DEBATE THEM!”
- Wildlife Park, Part 11.
- Maybe not questioning Israel is one of those bad ideas
- The Daily Bird #766.
- Book review: The Heritage by Howard Bryant
- Laurie Penny vs. Jordan Peterson
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 12 – Police
- Tell me you’re not surprised to learn Elon Musk is a skeevy Republican
- Sunset.
- Web Exclusive Editorial: Really Roger? (Mixed)
- Cancer Chronicles 21: Goop, Goodies, & Other Stuff.
- The problem with viral videos is that not everyone wants to be famous
- Home at last
- 10 Plants: Bulldozed To Death.
- Jack’s Walk
- Flowers of the Sky.
- Death’s Dance: The Statesman.
- The Healing Arts: A Dreadful Attack Of “Presidential Fever” In The U.S. Senate.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Echinacea.
- Prosecuting the prosecutors
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #765.
- Engraving Machine
- Discovery Institute Branches Out Into Comedy
- Ohio is such a weird state
- Why do we think ancient people died so young?
- I’ve Been Gone A Few Days
- The Friday the 13th call for decriminalising prostitution
- Another science conference, another old white man getting honored
- Jack’s Walk
- Democrats need to abandon the idea that ‘centrism’ is the way to go
- Friday Cephalopod: Up close and personal
- American’s Fear of Hearing Foreign Languages Is Nothing New
- They dream of becoming the thought police
- Death’s Dance: The Last Chase.
- The Healing Arts: Circumcision.
- Wildlife Park, Part 10.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Old Farm, Boundaries.
- The Daily Bird #764.
- The Electric Chair: A Perfect Storm of American Nastiness
- Adnan Oktar aka Harun Yahya has been arrested
- Korean must be a very compact language
- Facebook lies
- How the Thai boys and coach were rescued
- Deadly American generosity
- Jack’s Walk
- Watch American Democracy Die, LIVE
- “An illogical yet divinely guided step…”
- Death’s Dance: the antiquary’s last will & testament.
- The Healing Arts: FALLACY of the ORGANIC THEORY of DOCTORS, ILLUSTRATED-BY HYGEISTS.
- The growth of nonprofit news media
- The word you’re looking for is “officious”
- Slow Times Ahead (Admin).
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- My life
- Wildlife Park, Part 9.
- I don’t think Elon Musk reads Pharyngula
- The Daily Bird #763.
- Jesus, Piers Morgan is a terrible person
- This Bears Repeating
- Shermer will slide out from under this — it’s like slime on a slug’s back
- Jack’s Walk
- Contrast
- Death’s Dance: Time & Death Ponder.
- The Healing Arts: Ague & Fever.
- The US Continues To Slide Into Madness
- Word Wednesday.
- Afghanistan opium cultivation explodes
- A suggestion for Elon Musk
- Mushroom Lollipops.
- Release the bears, Smithers
- The “law” used as a tool for racism
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Orange Blob!
- Children in cages, and now…mass graves
- A brand new feature: Tree Tuesday
- Finding a slur for Belgians
- LOLstainless
- Hannah Gadsby
- Man and defender of wife’s killer team up against prosecutorial misconduct
- Penny Arcade & Love Lost
- Let’s all hope the Ark eventually sinks
- Climate change and zombie evolution
- Death’s Dance: Frontispiece.
- Jack’s Walk
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Wildlife Park, Part 8.
- The Daily Bird #761.
- Who makes up the elite?
- Link Roundup: July 2018
- Grass! (Formerly GMO) -more
- Missing In the Morning (Admin Stuff).
- Congratulations to Ben & Abi!
- Jack’s Walk
- Past is Prologue: Keystone brutality was allowed under Obama, but is encouraged under Trump
- Michelle Wolf on abortion rights
- US evangelicals always think the country is going to hell
- Belling the Cat: Chemical Weapons
- Listen to a German explain American race politics
- U.S. F.A.R.T. ACT.
- Using ‘evidence-based science’ as a weapon against progress
- Dance Of Death: Landlord and Cobbler.
- Luna Day Mood.
- Script leaked!
- Wildlife Park, Part 7.
- Something in our culture is creating a lot of naive biological determinists
- Colours!
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Six, part 1
- The Daily Bird #760.
- Rochelle Reader: Rep. Roskam calls for nuking Bolingbrook during debate at UFO Base with Sean Casten (Fiction)
- The Silent Army
- CC Wander, Part 4.
- Unregulated Cops Get Up To No Good
- An expandable round table that remains round
- Jack’s Walk
- The US continues to be a jerk, opposes move to encourage breastfeeding
- All charges dropped against Trump protestors
- Sunday Facepalm: No Pink Knuckles!
- Dance Of Death: Peasant and Painter.
- The Healing Arts: Anxiety, Frustration, Repressed Hostility.
- That was a bar so low I thought they couldn’t possibly limbo under it
- Helios Day Mood.
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Interlude 2 – Measuring the Hardness
- Fire Rose.
- Be worse for greater justice!
- Philippines president Duterte issues a challenge that Edward Feser can meet
- CC Wander, Part 3.
- Fox News and Cubavision: Characteristics of state propaganda networks
- Jack’s Walk
- Homeownership sure seems like a bad investment
- I’m in Seattle
- Dance of Death: Blind Man and Cook.
- What the hell, OSU?
- The Healing Arts: Charles Wright’s Champaign Driving Away Real Pain.
- Raturday.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Wildlife Park, Part 6.
- Kangas.
- The Daily Bird #758.
- TV review: Galavant
- Heading Home Tonight.
- How we describe people’s deaths
- It Is Friday, After All
- The Left will rise!
- Faception is phrenology for the 21st century!
- Jack’s Walk
- A perfect example of the Sam Harris two-step
- Amsterdam: Below The Surface.
- For those of a morbid turn of mind
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- A frighteningly Nietzschean idea: we’ve been training superwomen!
- Wild Park, Part 5.
- Oh, no! Not the geoducks!
- CC Wander, Part 2.
- A Problem of Asymmetrical Knowledge
- I’d Prefer Abe Simpson…
- SCOTT PRUITT HAS RESIGNED
- Pruitt Resigned! Now what?
- Jack’s Walk
- Dividing The UK Twelve Ways & The Most Popular Sauce.
- UMIAEAC!
- “I sent them a good boy, and they made him a murderer”
- The Healing Arts: Taking An Emetic.
- Bawbags?
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Wild Park, Part 4.
- CC Wander, Part 1.
- Web Exclusive: Space Force defeated by Bolingbrook’s fireworks (Fiction)
- The most appalling extension of Lewis’ Law yet
- Trumphotels.org – another example of Trump’s incompetence
- Ded now
- Female sports reporters are routinely harassed while on camera
- Lake Tschida: Damsels.
- Projection isn’t a modern fallacy
- Jack’s Walk
- “I am confused and afraid” – Police violence and police lies.
- Word Wednesday.
- Timothy Geithner is a loan shark? Why am I not surprised?
- Eye of Elm.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Looks exactly like the real thing
- Narcissistic, oblivious arrogance: that’s the New York Times
- Wild Park, Part 3.
- Technical problem: bad link
- A further comment on “Don’t ask for letters of recommendation up front”
- A Shakespeare-Quality Beat-Down
- Has anyone else lost all interest in celebrating the 4th of July?
- Camp NaNoWriMo Strikes Back
- Are you legally prepared for the coming rollback of your rights?
- The Next Generation
- Making it perfectly clear
- “…Wrapped in a flag, and carrying a cross.”
- How do you judge when to stop reading a book?
- Please, stop with the goofy fads
- The alt-right is appealing to young skeptics
- Discerning intent from action: Scott Pruitt and the Republican vision of America’s future
- You Can’t Use the Same Trick Over and Over
- Survival Coffee, Better Than Gold!
- This is the kind of detailed analysis we need
- What is wrong with the National Education Association?
- Anatomy Atlas Part 14 – Hand Muscles
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Jack’s Walk
- So civil!
- Sailing into Uglich
- There’s always an excuse
- The Daily Bird #754.
- Space aliens capture Clow UFO Base and demand fair treatment for immigrants (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- Ron Paul has abandoned any attempt at plausible deniability any more
- What if we planned a sneak attack and a civil war, and didn’t tell anyone?
- Only A Woman Knows That Trumpian Zen…
- Left winger wins Mexican presidency
- Water & Stone, Part 2.
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 11 – The Brewery
- Luna Day Mood.
- Water Is Life.
- Wild Park, Part 2.
- It’s just like fishing for rocks
- The Daily Bird #753.
- But what if we get pig-hitlers riding 30 foot Nazi wolves?
- Sunday punnies
- Oh, That “Dumbest” Law, My, My.
- Are separated children being set up for adoption?
- Jack’s Walk #100
- Uncommon Sense
- Presented Without Comment: Whitesplaining
- TNET 22: Slow Loris.
- Admin Stuff.
- Origami: Cube Plus Alpha
- Sunday Facepalm.
- US hypocrisy on human rights exposed
- Lavia frons Portrait.
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 10 – A Bolster and a Guard
- Helios Day Mood.
- Sun Day: A good refresher on how the sun relates to the current global warming
- Water & Stone, Part 1.
- Hangout at noon today
- Wild Park, Part 1.
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Five, part 3
June 2018
- Signs
- Jack’s Walk
- We need more analysis, less reading of tea leaves
- A good analogy
- Cancer Chronicles 20: “Hi, I’m Five Weeks.”
- Harlan.
- The Chains of Intolerance.
- I guess I’m doing this YouTube schtick until my face falls off from decrepitude
- The Future Of Trump Hotels
- Raturday.
- Book review: Reporter by Seymour M. Hersh
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Stung
- In The Compost…
- The Daily Bird #751.
- Are you in the mood for a little slapstick?
- That says it all
- Have you ever thought the problem might be…hierarchies?
- Truth 2
- Jack’s Walk
- Home 3
- Is this normal?
- FRANCISCO AYALA??!!?!
- Creationists on the move!
- “In the nostrils of God, could it be worse than what we think?”
- Which side are you on? The choice the Democratic party can no longer ignore
- Turns Out Pixar’s Toxic
- Last Night.
- The Open Country of Woman’s Heart & Other Allegorical Maps.
- How fat cells work
- Huh. A complaint worked?
- Just how corrupt is the US government?
- Ice Cream Saloons: A Place For Unchaperoned Women.
- Dance Of Death: Fool and Peddler.
- The Healing Arts: Hunger.
- Disjointed musings from the sidelines of atheism’s internal culture wars
- Milo finds a way to make the news again
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Thankful.
- The Incivility Spreads
- Why do police use excessive force? Because they can
- Space rockets are REALLY BIG
- The Call Is From Inside The House
- Jack’s Walk
- Harlan Ellison is dead
- You think this is amusing?
- Attacks on Ocasio-Cortez begin already
- The Healing Arts: A Wizard.
- Mercury in Permafrost: The waking giant has poisonous breath
- Youtube Video: How To Test A Sword Quickly
- Hey! The Bell Museum is reopening in July!
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Shame on you if you use “Rate My Professors” metrics in your evaluations
- Flora & Fauna, Part 9.
- Dawkins and “Dear Muslima”
- Web Exclusive: New World Order awards UFO bases to Peotone and Palatine (Fiction)
- Hank Campbell did not find Ken Ham objectionable at all…he’s some scientist.
- Will You Fucking Stop With This Silver Lining Shit?
- This woman is always shocked
- Well, my day is done
- Preparing for the future
- Jack’s Walk
- Michelle Wolf on news talk shows
- Hank Campbell and the ACSH have bought out Scienceblogs
- What Is It About Weddings and Hospitals?
- We’re All Dead
- Not even the courage to stand up to chaos
- The reverberations of Ocasio-Cortez’s win
- How to avoid prison: First become rich
- Lilac Potato Blossom
- It’s a shame that we’re relying on 28 year old Latina waitresses to do all the work of saving us
- New student registration day!
- The intelligence hierarchy
- Surprise win in New York Democratic primary
- Monday Miscellany: 25 June 2018
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wins
- Pills, Anyone? (Admin Stuff).
- Shouldn’t red-staters care about declining sperm levels?
- Reality Winner’s guilty plea
- Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Horses of the Apocalypse. Er, What?
- What drives the ‘Flat Earth’ belief?
- Opening Night
- Dance Of Death: Executioner and Mayor.
- The Healing Arts: Complaints, or the Ills of Life, With Their Remedies.
- Water is life: American capitalism is a violation of human rights.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- The Resistance won’t prevail by being “nice”
- Flora & Fauna, Part 8.
- Hindsight is 20/20
- Siobhan in The Edmonton Quotient: The first Pride was a riot
- Machinery Graveyard.
- Scissors
- My sympathies are entirely with the shark
- Swedish soccer team gives emphatic response to racists
- “Be a Hitler”
- Tea for Trump.
- Some Random Orchid
- Jack’s Walk
- Song Ci: The Washing Away of All Wrongs.
- Grass! (Formerly GMO)
- Dance Of Death: Musician and Herald.
- “Kirstjen Nielsen, child snatcher!”
- Radiolab lets me down
- The Healing Arts: Die honigbitter truncken weis,…
- Luna Day Mood.
- Blackberry Flowers and Beetles.
- Flora & Fauna, Part 7.
- Sully discovers appeasement
- The Daily Bird #747.
- Alien protesters shut down Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- A Worthy Challenge
- Fireflies
- Lake Tschida, Part 5.
- Jack’s Walk
- The great escape!
- What Constitutes A Tool? Orca Are Freuding Amazing Edition
- Sunday Facepalm: The Convenience of Conspiracy.
- Lazy Sunday with my dog
- The resurgence of West Indian cricket
- Dance Of Death: Young Man and Young Woman.
- The Healing Arts: The Anatomist Overtaken by the Watch in Carring Off Miss W- in a Hamper.
- If only more cops were like Sam Vimes
- Helios Day Mood.
- Artichoke Thistle.
- Flora & Fauna, Part 6.
- The Daily Bird #746.
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Five, part 2
- Lake Tschida, Part 4.
- The ICE Hymn
- Jack’s Walk
- The Cure for All Venereal Diseases!
- Dance Of Death: Canon and Hermit.
- The Healing Arts: The Gout.
- Film review: Won’t you be my neighbor? (2018)
- Raturday.
- Tune in at noon!
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Flora & Fauna, Part 5.
- Jack’s Walk
- Evidence that I’m an old white guy
- Dialectic, not debate
- Lake Tschida, Part 3.
- Paul McCartney and James Corden tour Liverpool
- Emotions on the internet
- Smarmy Piers Morgan is a fool – example XLVI
- Dance Of Death: Abbot and Abbess.
- The Healing Arts: [Bloodletting Calendar] So man zalt nach der geburt Christ M.CCCCC.XIX.
- Back, Sort Of…
- Presented Without Comment: Secret Answer
- Athletes standing together for justice
- The Daily Bird #744
- Remember the “Brights”?
- Free speech, but only if you aren’t rude to Jordan Peterson
- Termites in the Support Beams: Ecosystem services and biodiversity loss
- The Nightmare Hasn’t Stopped
- Along the Volga River
- The politics of hostage taking
- Jack’s Walk
- HAL has entered the building
- Why I Don’t Write Much About Popular Denigration of Trans Autonomy
- Thawing Thursdays: Antarctica update
- The Trump executive order will make a bad situation worse in the long run
- I get YouTube comments
- As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
- Our president is a petulant little child
- Dennis Markuze is back online
- I Rate It At 6/8
- The Child Catcher: Real Life Edition
- Dispatches From Enlightenment Now: Sweatshop Feminism
- We don’t have to pretend that everything is perfect
- NO KUDOS FOR TRUMP
- The Horrifying, Racist, Greed-Corrupted Profiteers
- Jack’s Walk
- Just Listen To Wonkette, Will You: “Fuck his fucking executive order”
- Hansen Was Right: Checking up on past predictions
- Growing anger at Trump’s child separation policy
- A Minor Major Victory: Trump Steps Back From Child Isolation Policy
- Adolf The Wolf and the Cozy Warmth of America First
- More Metal
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 10 – Various Ornaments
- The Daily Bird #742.
- A former incel speaks out
- Visceral horror
- All those guns were never about defending “freedom”
- Fire All Trump Voters Into The Sun
- What would Liam Neeson do?
- Another hangout this weekend
- Hold My Beer: Irony Is Frozen Inside ICE
- Information Overload, Transition Town Edition: Well-behaved activists seldom make history
- Enforcement of Church Law: A Good Thing For Once?
- “If we’re going to invest billions of dollars in space, please let us do it intelligently?”
- A #NationalStrike? Think about it.
- Yep, they’re Nazis. No more waffling about it.
- Jack’s Walk
- Another charge of cheating in cricket
- These Are The Children: A Child Raped By Law Enforcement
- Muddling the Dunning-Kruger Effect
- US Actions In Light Of The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: This Doesn’t Look Good
- Republicans are Cruel
- The police do not have citizens’ best interests at heart
- The durability of America’s false self-image
- The people in ICE are scum
- Anatomy Atlas Part 12 – Liver, Spleen, Stomach
- Speaking of the humanities…
- There was something we’re supposed to remember, or we’re doomed to repeat it. What was that thing again?
- The Helpless Bleatings
- Happy Juneteenth
- Let’s Talk About Ableism and Intelligence – Part 3 – A Challenge
- Juneteenth is Almost Here
- Presenting His Holiness Saint Ray the Cat
- John Oliver on the cruel Trump policy of separating immigrant children from parents
- Yes, whywhywhy, This Is Torture
- I Couldn’t Be More Disappointed In SCOTUS
- Quick Update.
- Not even a wire monkey
- American Academy of Pediatrics is Not Down
- No hot dogs
- When meanness becomes a goal in itself
- Jack’s Walk
- Stealing Children Is Who We Are
- It’s getting easier to retaliate against the Peterasts
- “Even the gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu.”
- The Stanford prison experiment is not what it seemed
- Oh, great. Now I’m going to be thinking about this all day.
- Conservatives always disappoint, but always in new, surprisingly repellent ways
- Lessons from Mordor
- Mayor Claar’s android double malfunctions at Village Board meeting (Fiction)
- Let’s Talk About Ableism and Intelligence – Part 2
- Are Right-Wing Ukrainians Losing Fight Against Queer Liberation?
- Mr. Dipstick Says ‘We Will Bury You’
- They pass this year’s test
- Creatures of Brain Sorbet & More Admin Crap.
- Ontario Wildflowers
- Jack’s Walk
- Lake Tschida, Part 2.
- Dance Of Death: Usurer and Merchant.
- The Retroscope At Play
- End of life for pets
- Guns Have Nothing To Do With Art-All-Night Shootings
- The Healing Arts: He saw an Apothecary on a white horse…
- Helios Day Mood.
- ‘Bout the Whole Sharp, Pointy, Stabby Things Issue and Guns
- Old Farm, Old Wood.
- Flora & Fauna, Part 4.
- The Daily Bird #739.
- How to respond to a creation “museum”
- Fathers’ Day hangout
- Privileged Explained: I’m Tiny Because You’re White
- Let’s Talk About Ableism and Intelligence – Part 1
- FTA part 4: Anthropic reasoning
- A Paleontologist Gets ‘Off The Hook’ Excited
- Lake Tschida, Part 1.
- Another professor behaving badly
- Jack’s Walk
- Film review: The Death of Stalin (2017)
- Police and Pride Parades
- Dance Of Death: Nobleman and Noblewoman.
- The Healing Arts: A Study of Proportions.
- The little-known story of the San Antonio Four
- Raturday.
- Kronos Day Mood: Powerless.
- Flora & Fauna, Part 3.
- The Daily Bird #738.
- Maybe it’s just neurobiology departments that suck…
- ICE Hit & Run vs Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation
- What the heck is going on at the University of Rochester?
- Bill Maher Gets One Right
- Don’t Be This Wrong: Salon Spreads Serious Misinformation
- Pursuance Kickstarter project begins today
- Jack’s Walk
- What does it take to get a cartoonist fired?
- How a child can have DNA from three people
- Don’t Start Reading The Story In The Middle
- The Most Annoying Weed Ever
- Einstein’s controversial views on race
- Quick Blog and Personal Update (That Ableism Post I Promised)
- Come entertain me on my lonely Fathers’ Day
- Jayne’s Day Out, Part 2.
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids – reprise
- Credit Due
- Dance Of Death: Physician and Cripple.
- The Healing Arts: The true and lively Pourtraicture of Valentine Greatrakes Esq…
- Protesting Iran’s headscarf rule
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- On vacation
- Flora & Fauna, Part 2.
- The Daily Bird #737.
- New college students are independent adults. Respect that.
- Rebecca Traister on Bill Clinton
- Uncommon Sense
- From the Webmaster: Clipped (Video)
- That was…interesting.
- Jack’s Walk
- Loving Day
- Zach Galifianakis has Jerry Seinfeld Between Two Ferns
- A Case of Bad Timing.
- The great raccoon adventure
- Dana Loesch Sends A Love Letter to Richard Dawkins
- Sure, Macramé Your Hair, Why Not?
- Preferential voting in Maine wins
- Ask The Strategic Genius: The North Korean Threat
- Jayne’s Day Out, Part 1.
- The curious Cuba-China-Russia conspiracy theory promoted by the New York Times
- Youtube Video: 15th century sallet – a popular medieval helmet
- RIP Anthony Bourdain
- Dance Of Death: Lawyer and Councilman.
- The Healing Arts: The Evil Spirit Of The White House.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Dear Leader
- Police Handle Creepy Woman-in-a-Suitcase Situation Correctly
- Flora & Fauna, Part 1.
- Jurassic Park is fiction, someone tell Jack Horner
- The Daily Bird #736.
- Jack’s Walk
- Why does Jordan Peterson hate education?
- Trump, Trudeau, and G7
- Went Out, Came Back.
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Interlude
- Fox News On The Most Persecuted People In America: The Dukes Of Hazard
- It has happened
- The imperial mindset on display
- Deer Oh Deer.
- Breaking down the barriers
- Fires In The Sky.
- The Daily Bird #735.
- Red Deer Reporter: US covert operatives spotted in the area! (Fiction)
- Quoted for truth
- I don’t know whether I’ve been doing something right, or something wrong
- The Moscow Canal
- Jack’s Walk
- Link roundup: June 2018
- Brain in a bucket: or, when hype meets ethics
- The US-North Korea summit agreement
- Dance Of Death: Count and Knight.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- The Healing Arts: Nightmare.
- Played like a chump
- Instinct
- Sunday Storm.
- Jack’s Walk
- Bill Donohue, ghoul
- The US president is not the commander-in-chief of all Americans
- Holy Freuding Freud, Alabama: Your Court Elections Are Partisan?
- Dance Of Death: Duke and Duchess.
- The Healing Arts: A Medical Inspection. Or Miracles Will Never Cease.
- Ladybird & Thistle.
- Equine Beauty
- Who wants to do a live chat about abortion on Saturday?
- The Daily Bird #733.
- Why would North Korea believe US assurances?
- Raining!
- Has anyone ever been inspired by a school administrator?
- Wow, That Sure is … inCONVENIENT…
- Admin Stuff.
- Jack’s Walk
- Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem. [NSFW]
- The awesome beauty and power of a tornado
- Identity Whistling
- TNET 21: Badger Has A Bath.
- Ain’t Nothing Wrong
- Tools
- Dance Of Death: Cardinal and Bishop.
- Morris just became a little more civilized
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 10 – Sex Ed
- The Healing Arts: Vegetable Intrenchment!
- Chattin’ at noon
- Helios Day Mood.
- Medieval Market, Part 5.
- All Sprinkled With Pollen.
- The Daily Bird #732.
- Sometimes, old people have strange ideas
- Sunday Sermon: Deconstruct Yourself
- From the Webmaster: Why we need events like the Bolingbrook Pride Picnic (Mixed)
- Jack’s Walk
- Paleontology Day Continues: Devonian Antarctic Tetrapods!
- The flagrant abuse of the bail system
- Stupid Is…
- A Weather Warrior Staff and Authority Over…Nothing.
- Pursuance Project initiates a Kickstarter campaign
- Dance Of Death: King and Queen.
- The Healing Arts: Macassar Oil, An oily Puff for Soft Heads.
- Retired for “health reasons”
- Hate doesn’t necessarily win elections
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 9 – Inscriptions
- If a squid could talk, what would it say?
- Raturday.
- Describing a problem isn’t an explanation
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Medieval Market, Part 4.
- Hawk Moth.
- The Daily Bird #731.
- Defending Star Wars and Cinematic Universes
- When Anthony Bourdain went to a Waffle House for the first time
- Jack’s Walk
- FTA part 3: Ignorant hypotheses
- Excellent critique of Sam Harris
- Dance Of Death: Emperor and Empress.
- White 3
- Rocket Propaganda
- BILATERIAN EDIACARAN ICHNITES!
- So, Canada…
- The Daily Bird #730.
- Anthony Bourdain was the same age I am
- Sometimes The Headline Is Enough: RWW/Alex Jones Edition
- Web Exclusive: Roskam campaign accuses Sean Casten of being a space alien (Fiction)
- Ugh
- Don’t Even Think About Semiotics
- American Police Logic: Threaten to kill someone first if they try to kill themselves.
- I Dare You To Read The Comments They Don’t Allow!
- Big fish on the hook. I repeat, BIG FISH.
- Dance of Death: The Ossuary and The Pope.
- What’s the difference, Rudy?
- Jack’s Walk
- Hold My Beer: Giuliani Explains His Own Statements on Credibility and Respect
- Noam Chomsky on anarcho-syndicalism and libertarianism
- Wake up. Dr Oz is a quack.
- Have you ever noticed how often the origin of breasts is explained as “for men”?
- Rock, Paper…Plant.
- You Dropped Something
- The Healing Arts: A Cure for Lying and a Bad Memory.
- Youtube Video: A special Wilkinson sword & a story from the Siege of Sevastopol 1854
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Medieval Market, Part 2.
- Shades of Hyacinth.
- Writing synopses of science articles is hard
- The Daily Bird #729.
- I think Tina/Nora has given up on me
- Dispatches from “Enlightenment Now:” Poverty
- Are there ghosts?
- The Lord Moves in Mysterious Ways
- Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons
- The wild Californian primary system
- Jack’s Walk
- CC Notes: I’m Not Sorry.
- Killing people to save them
- “The true meaning of covfefe … is love.”
- Word Wednesday.
- The Healing Arts: Poisoning The Sick At Jaffa.
- The end of the British Empire is nigh
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Medieval Market, Part 1.
- What planet is this guy living on, and can I move there?
- Currants.
- Speculative Poets in Conversation: Jeannine Hall Gailey
- The Daily Bird #728.
- Don’t ask for letters of recommendation up front
- Aliens to offer free UFO rides at the first Bolingbrook Pride Picnic (Fiction)
- Persky Recall Preliminary Numbers
- Road rage-Canadian style
- Kelly Marie Tran Harassed Out Of The Galaxy
- Florida spends $1 billion per year on miseducating kids
- Tonight, 9pm Central…the conversation is here
- Socialist makers of ads for progressive candidates
- Jack’s Walk
- Review: In the Year of The Pig (1968)
- The Colorado same-sex cake ruling
- The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll.
- Anatomy Atlas Part 10 – Sinuses
- The Healing Arts: Medicine.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Hold the presses! Maybe Americans aren’t so cruel after all!
- Rhododendrons.
- All I see is that you think America is special and exceptional
- The Daily Bird #727.
- A suggestion
- Above the law
- Flattered, then humbled
- The Real Victim in the Brock Turner Rape Case: Aaron Persky
- When The NSA Did Propaganda
- TV review: The Good Place
- Niall Ferguson, queer theory, etc.
- Robert Menendez is a symbol of what is wrong with the Democratic party
- Wild Turkey Watercolour.
- Jack’s Walk.
- Who wants to ask me questions?
- Bad American Blood.
- Israel guns down medic and seeks to criminalize reporting on atrocities
- This Black Cloud Called Trump.
- Today I learned that Iowa is full of pigs and one’s figure legends must be precise and unambiguous
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 8 – Buffing
- Monday Meslier: 178 – An Atheist Has More Motives for Acting Uprightly, More Conscience Than a Religious Person
- The message of feminism is WHAT??!?
- The Healing Arts: The Company of Undertakers.
- Luna Day Mood.
- Reddish Wild Chives.
- What makes for a good homage?
- Waltzing Volvox
- This Week in “Free Market” Capitalism: Government-picked winners
- Jack’s Walk
- Web Exclusive: Village of Bolingbrook posts cryptic videos on its webpage (Fiction)
- Justice For Sale: Reality Winner, National Security, and Constitutional Rights
- More on how clocks are affected by gravity
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Five, part 1
- The obscure words of the Spelling Bee
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Argument Clinic: Cunning Stunts
- The Healing Arts: Le mal de tête, La Colique, Le Cure.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Tiger Lilies.
- Decor
- The laws of karma and retributive justice aren’t actually laws, you know
- When the mask slips…
- This Could Get Me Interested In Sports
- It’s a Simple Choice, Deferring it is Deadly
- In My Driveway
- The Fossil Fuel Lobby: Killing people for fun and profit
- Jack’s Walk
- Why Don’t Victims Report Rape? (Part Eleventy-Eight)
- When was modern science invented?
- Advantages of an Unkempt Lawn
- The Healing Arts: A Cure For Drowsiness Or A Pinch of Cephalic.
- Cancer Chronicles 19: Eight!
- Give all moms a raise right now
- Bit and Pieces
- Raturday.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- The Storm and Afterwards, Part 4.
- The Daily Bird #724.
- Starbucks racial bias training video
- Jack’s Walk
- Unclear on the Concept: No-Platforming at Stanford and the Right Wing
- Roseanne Barr thought Valerie Jarrett was white?
- Seymour Hersh shows the difference between a reporter and a stenographer
- Flowering Sedum sp.
- The Healing Arts: The Last Gasp Or Toadstools Mistaken for Mushrooms.
- King of the Marsh Marigold.
- A Story About Dogs
- The Storm and Afterwards, Part 3.
- Oh So Yellow.
- The Daily Bird #723.
- Alternative patterns of explanation for major transitions
May 2018
- I still get email
- Venezuela: Fucked by Capitalism, Fucked by Socialism
- Time for another case…
- pseudo-Socratic Politics
- The US kill list
- Jack’s Walk
- Demonization and Ridicule and Mockery, Oh My!
- The Healing Arts: Die Schwitz = Kur.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Whatever It Is.
- The Storm and Afterwards, Part 2.
- The Daily Bird #722.
- Mexico will never pay for the wall
- Youtube Video: Medieval Sword Scabbards – Matt & Tod
- Because We’re The Good Guys, That’s Why!
- Home. (Admin Stuff.)
- The story behind Portugal’s decriminalization of personal drug use
- Jack’s Walk
- A Terrible Argument Against The Resurrection
- Dick Tuck, political prankster (1924-2018)
- Racism Not Among Known Side-Effects
- Would you accept this person as an expert scientific witness?
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 8 – Fretworks
- Word Wednesday.
- The Healing Arts: L’Equilibre du Verre.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- The Storm and Afterwards, Part 1.
- Big Sky.
- Thorns.
- It’s a cult
- Extreme variation in male Volvox carteri from Taiwan
- Dispatches from “Enlightenment Now:” Intellectuals
- Zero Fox Given: Stephanie Walter
- We can’t say we weren’t warned about Alexa
- It seems to be a good day for waving bye-bye to jerks
- If I had to guess cause of death…
- Well, that was a surprise
- You mean there are limits to how racist you can get on TV?
- Luciferian Advanced Beings and Pharaoh-God Kings!
- Pewdiepie is up to his old tricks again
- Jack’s Walk
- Dementia news not as grim
- Camouflage
- Anatomy Atlas Part 9 – Mouth
- Hollywood problem squared
- It’s all men’s fault
- Pale Indigo.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Every ecosystem has its parasites
- Vanitas.
- We Are In Bat Country: Launch! Launch!
- Attraction and emotional granularity
- I think he’s going to grow up to be a biologist!
- Chives.
- Incredible rescue of a child
- Memorial Day, 2018
- Dead Soldiers Woulda Loved Me!!1!
- Lacking Confidence
- Atheism and caste based job reservation
- I forgot how much work babies are
- Jack’s Walk
- Fascist Policing: Sacramento Edition II
- Beware The Dolls!
- The Healing Arts: Heelmeester & Kopster.
- The senseless cruelty of some people
- Immigrant children relocated to Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Luna Day Mood.
- Age Creeps…
- The Daily Bird #719.
- Ground Beetle
- Do not play gotcha games with @upulie, even if you are a billionaire
- This is what we do
- Volvox video by Jasper Kuipers
- Michelle Wolf’s new show
- He’s never going to be a movie star at this rate
- That’s my Buoy
- Gambling in sports: the cricket fixing scandals
- Getting To The Point.
- Why the Democratic party leadership is so awful
- Jack’s Walk
- The Healing Arts: Broad Grins, or a Black Joke.
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 8 – Work vs. Employment
- Waiting for apples…
- Helios Day Mood.
- Tuesday Storm, Part 3.
- The Daily Bird #718.
- Churches Complicate Everything
- Fuck Yeah, She’s Worth $1 Billion.
- Great American Satan Too Quick On The Draw: Valve Just Killed Good Faith, Again
- Ireland’s Success and Catholicism’s Failure
- Jack’s Walk
- NOW You Can Celebrate
- The drug problem is going to get worse before it gets even worse
- Heather Mac Donald’s coded racism is not at all subtle
- We can only hope it ends like the movie did
- Friday Cephalopod: That’s how you get blue-ringed octopuses, you know
- Ireland repeals the prohibition against abortion!
- Marcus Ranum listens to Sam Harris so you don’t have to
- Best. Headline. Ever.
- Taking Saturday…
- Terrorist protected by the US has died
- Jack’s Walk
- Breaking up is hard to do: The US-North Korean summit debacle
- Jordan Peterson gets burned hard
- Exquisite Rot: The Lost Art of Intarsia.
- The Healing Arts: Humbugging and Hocus Pocus.
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 7 – Starting on the Scabbard
- You mean one of these jerks might actually get a proper comeuppance?
- Cuteness!
- “Harris’ moral landscape is cratered with artillery and pock-marked with bullets.”
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Sam Harris on “Why is That You Never Criticize Israel?”
- Totally irrelevant
- Tuesday Storm, Part 2.
- Boys
- What good is a washing machine on Arrakis?
- Why Gamers Should Hate Valve
- From the Webmaster: Transparent Expedition blogger celebrates his son’s graduation (Mixed)
- Open video chat — tonight, 9pm Central
- Samantha Bee on the Georgia governor’s race and shutting down ICE
- Jack’s Walk
- #YouToo, Morgan Freeman? And Jeffrey Tambor?
- The Threats to Free Speech are From Right Wingers, Not From Trans* Advocacy
- Canadian Fascists
- Medieval Sex Tips.
- Art Beats Hate: Paint Back!
- The major role that luck plays in success
- We need better Democrats than these
- Colours In Old Norse.
- A Little Palate Cleanser After Alt*Hero Comic
- The Healing Arts: Tabitha Grunt, or the Walking Hospital.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Tomi Lahren is all wet
- Shiny Beetle.
- Tuesday Storm, Part 1.
- The Daily Bird #715.
- This should be interesting
- Hot Take from Sean McElwee
- FTA part 2: Prediction distributions and inflation
- Games! For Science!
- TNET 20: True Facts About The Tarsier.
- That’s our newspaper of record
- Philip Roth (1933-2018)
- Motivation for vegetarians
- Don’t expect anything good from Senate Democrats on foreign policy
- Hibiscuses
- For Your Enjoyment: Laura Lemay Learns Lessons
- How not to respond to complaints about handsy guests at a con
- Jack’s Walk
- Oooer, A Psy-Op Blender! Wait…
- I Thought It Was A Harness
- Film review: Spectre (2015) (Spoilers!)
- Word Wednesday.
- I’m liking the Greek navy
- The Healing Arts: New Discoveries in Pneumaticks!
- Z Is For Zinnia.
- How to solve the incel problem
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- A martyr for Shermer
- Apple Blossom.
- The Daily Bird #714.
- Volvox barberi “flocks”
- John Oliver on the addiction rehabilitation industry
- Back to Basics
- If this is not who you are, then how could this happen?
- The venerable police of my city are bracing for backlash
- Jack’s Walk
- Anatomy Atlas Part 7 – Rib Cage
- Good news from our little home on the prairie
- Fascist Policing: Cops Have Lost The Morel High Ground
- Are You Ready For Alt*Hero Crackdown?
- The Healing Arts: The Gin Shop.
- Primaries matter
- Fairy Tale Art.
- Understanding recent developments on Korea
- Y Is For Yellow.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Get out of my head, Eiynah!
- Kitty
- The Daily Bird #713.
- The new gun control plan is going in very strange directions
- They’ll do anything to avoid regulating guns
- Floating in a Sea of Propaganda – part 5
- Registration for Chlamydomonas 2018 ends Saturday
- Agents of Shield Wimps Out
- Jack’s Walk
- DNA is Chinese to Jordan Peterson
- Floating in a Sea of Propaganda – part 4
- Hey, Better Than Pharaoh!
- If we can accept western technology then why not adopt their modes of protest too?
- The Healing Arts: A Man Mid-Wife.
- On Israel, satire in The Onion gets closer to the truth than the news media
- A Sad History of Monopoly.
- Speak Dakota!
- More Doodle
- X Is For Xerophyte and Xerófito.
- Adorable.
- PLoS ONE retraction
- Illuminati honors Professor Jordan Peterson (Fiction)
- An Unexpected Non-Surprise
- Authorial intent is magic!
- Why is Jordan Peterson so unreasonably popular?
- Jack’s Walk
- Since Rosa Parks Wasn’t Rosa Parks, Who Was? Irene Bad-Ass Morgan, That’s Who
- Blowback from torture
- This Was Supposed to Be a Post About the Runoff Election in Texas
- Taking advantage of young people’s passions
- Is the first rule of science communication “Be mealy-mouthed”?
- May Is Mental Health Month: What To Read.
- Windjammer, Restored.
- The Healing Arts: Love In A Tub, Three Women in the Bath. [NSFW]
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 7 – Racism
- That is one happy boy
- W Is For Wings.
- Bari Weiss, official sycophant to Marie Antoinette
- Helios Day Mood.
- Sunshine In The Grass.
- Floating in a Sea of Propaganda – part 3
- The Daily Bird #711.
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Four, part 4
- E-Cigarettes, Wet Lung, and the US vs the UK
- Jack’s Walk
- Anti-heterosexual hate crimes are not a thing
- Just Saying ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Four, part 3
- The Healing Arts: Blue Devils, Bumpology, Cholic, Headache, Indigestion, & Jealousy.
- How Facebook enabled Buddhist vigilante violence in Sri Lanka
- I just had an idea for a movie: SQUIDNADO!
- If You Have A God’s Protection, Why Do You Need A Gun?
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 7 – Doors and Windows
- Raturday.
- V Is For Violet and Violeta.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Wild Plum.
- “Grave of the Fireflies” is a timely movie, all the time
- The Daily Bird #710.
- Floating In a Sea of Propaganda – part 2
- The Science, Space and Technology Committee is run by dull stupid clowns
- The Antichrist Will Be…
- It’s too hard to ban guns, so we should ban doors
- Yet another mass school shooting
- Jack’s Walk
- Don’t Learn About Jasmine Saavedra’s Victim
- CC Notes: When Prolapse Happens.
- Some More Spring Blossoms
- The Healing Arts: Mixing A Recipe for Corns.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- U Is For Uranium and Urgeiriça.
- The Daily Bird #709
- On acknowledging ignorance
- What’s going on in the streams and lakes and ponds around here?
- You may be pleased to learn that Eastern Airlines dissolved in 1991
- I think the deplorables want a participation trophy
- Floating In a Sea of Propaganda – part 1
- Those beautiful Research Features articles? The authors get £50.
- Basic White People Are Racist… Part II
- John Woo on Netflix
- Jack’s Walk
- People should ask him for his papers
- The damage done by bullshit jobs
- Colonoscopy complete. A bit of a letdown, but I’m probably going to live
- Youtube Video: More on the Medieval Rondel Dagger
- On Bigoted Use of the Word Nazi.
- Hop On the Upgrade Train!
- The Daily Bird #708
- Kevin Jackson Fails History
- Sam Harris, Hypocritical Coward. Allegedly.
- Sorry, gone for a while…
- Hurricane Harvey & The New Normal
- Colonoscopy phase II: Completed!
- Learning to live defensively
- Jack’s Walk
- The things I don’t know
- Colonoscopy, Phase II: The nasty stuff
- Milo’s fate
- For Your Enjoyment: Carefully Crafted Art Criticism
- The Fine-Tuning Argument: A walkthrough
- The strange behavior of clocks
- A Resolution Against Social Justice, It’s Evil!
- The Healing Arts: Le second mois, Le Neuvieme Mois.
- Word Wednesday.
- How to Logic
- T Is For Tranquility and Taralhão.
- It begins: colonoscopy time!
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- More death and destruction
- Spider Cherry.
- The Genius Excuse
- The special effects in the Hugo train crash scene
- Jack’s Walk
- 3 Years
- Christians In Prison: Pushing Anti-Transgender Policy.
- We all have to have our little niche
- Hold My Beer: Jordan Peterson Does Skepticism
- Merit-based points system for immigration
- Anatomy Atlas Part 7 – Pelvis
- No. That’s Just Wrong.
- The Healing Arts: Les Mangeurs d’Huitres, La Luxure, Le Magnetisme, Les Lunettes.
- S Is For Spirulina.
- 60 Gazans murdered, 2000+ injured
- Dose of Cuteness.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Plum & Bee.
- Cops vs Volunteers: Race Has Nothing To Do With It, Of Course
- The Daily Bird #706.
- The poster child for the invulnerability of white men
- The scouring of Lake Sammamish
- Uncommon Sense
- Jeffress in Jerusalem: Hyperbole is Insufficient
- The physics puzzle of curling
- Goodies!
- Head Full of Thorns.
- Scott Pruitt’s dangerous religious extremism
- Scott Lively: The Voice For Authentic Conservative Homosexuals.
- Look what you made me do!
- The Healing Arts: Les Sangsues, La Gourmandise, La Felicité Parfaite, & Les Ivrognes.
- Its crimes in Gaza are increasing Israel’s isolation
- Jack’s Walk
- R Is For Redstart and Rabirruivo.
- Luna Day Mood.
- The Walnut Lives!
- The Daily Bird #705.
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 6 – Die Fachwerkhäuser
- Fuzzy individuals
- Science lesson: What you want to be true ain’t necessarily so
- Tropic of Chaos: Old Wars Never Die, but Rise Again to Feed on the Flesh of the Living
- Anonymous Sources: Rogue Township trustees set fire to IKEA solar panel (Fiction)
- Freethought!
- Jack’s Walk
- Love at First Bite
- Comments May Be Wonky
- Another One
- End the punitive cash bail system
- Oh, It’s That Day.
- The Healing Arts: Consultation de Medecins & Les Grimaces.
- I am back
- Do not yield
- Helios Day Mood.
- Sunny All Over.
- Bigots don’t know they’re bigots, I guess
- The Daily Bird #704.
- Conservatives, classical liberals, libertarians : all dishonest frauds
- Attempting murder by cop
- How many rabbis do you need?
- “Infinity War” – Infinite /facepalm
- Seth Meyers and Samantha Bee on the Iran deal and torture
- Caitlyn Jenner Has No Privilege, It’s Just “Privilege”. Also, Jenner Discovers Trump Sucks.
- Mormons abandon Boy Scouts
- Jack’s Walk
- Film review: Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
- The Two Cultures, as per Steven Pinker
- The Healing Arts: Mary Toft, Stones In The Head, Elephantiasis.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 6 – Polishing
- Raturday.
- P Is For Posing and Pisco.
- Hydrangea.
- ContraPoints does it again
- The Daily Bird #703.
- I Welcome Complete Falsehood
- Anti-immigration paranoia is just another form of racism
- Jack’s Walk
- Diplomacy, Trump style
- The Return of COINTEL-PRO
- The Philosophy of Beards.
- I get email
- So Thirzzzzzzty!
- More politicians should behave like this
- The House of Dreams.
- TNET 19: Stems.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- O Is For Ocean and Onda.
- The mole people are taking over
- Pretty In Pink.
- The Daily Bird #702.
- Ideas That Don’t Quite Work
- Chapter review delay; Red Alert for Net Neutrality
- This is America.
- Wearing a MAGA hat is like being openly gay in 1950! Really!!1!
- Body Cams in Virginia
- Religious affiliation continues to decline in the US
- Jack’s Walk
- Government thuggery on full display
- If you have a chronic runny nose, maybe your brain is leaking out of your skull
- Alternative Bullshit.
- Attack of the Censorship Monkeys: Hear no science, see no science, speak no science.
- I still think the Intellectual Dark Web moniker is going to increase the ridicule
- True democracy put to the vote in Maine
- Be Best? More Like Be Plagiarising.
- Continued Fractions
- Stitching Medieval Manuscripts.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Youtube Video: Your Ancestors Tried to Kill Each Other!
- Link Roundup: May 2018
- N Is For Nectar and Narciso.
- Do they also ban diet Coke?
- Beautiful in Burgundy.
- I haven’t ever fantasized about this
- The Daily Bird #701.
- Accuracy Is Not The Objective
- From the webmaster: Bolingbrook Pride to host ‘Pride Picnic and Puppies’ on June 10 (Mixed)
- If I were Roman Polanski …
- Feelin’ Floral.
- The Democrats ‘rotate the villain’ strategy
- The Intellectual Dark Web is an object of ridicule, again
- Jack’s walk
- “If you join a gym, don’t join one with gay men in it.”
- Larry Krassner leads the way on prosecutorial reform
- A palate cleanser for that terrible NYT piece about the “Intellectual Dark Web”
- Word Wednesday.
- Gingerbread Bonsai
- A Naked Protest
- M Is For Meadow and Margaridas.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- The martyrdom of the most privileged people in America
- All the Flowers.
- Required reading for our graduating students who plan on pursuing a career in science
- The Daily Bird #700.
- The NPT
- Well, what if we put a golden calf on a white horse?
- Rebecca Watson is podcasting again (Non-fiction)
- In case you have forgotten what ‘normal’ used to be like …
- The grackles are courting
- Happy Birthday David Attenborough
- Seth Meyers on buffoonish Rudy Giuliani
- Jack’s Walk
- Oh, christ, another self-appointed set of thought-leaders
- “Aggressive, unpredictable, unreliable”
- Striking without harming the public
- The Afghanistan war is now on autopilot
- Cancer Chronicles 18: Water Is Life.
- L Is For Lichen and Líquen.
- Aliens would be stranger than you imagine
- Terror below!
- Anatomy Atlas Part 6 – Shoulder Skeleton
- Oh hey, Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) released a new video!
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Persimmon Tree.
- All Hail The Cuteness!
- The Daily Bird #699.
- Ethical Black Hole: Fossil Fuel Interests Still Use Astroturfing to Subvert Democracy
- Spoiled Infinity Yak
- What happened to car ribbon decals?
- Wave! Wave like your life depended on it!
- Jack’s Walk
- Corn-fed cherub-cheeked cheerful malignity, that’s us!
- The Most Powerful Prayer!!1!
- Great moments in evangelical hypocrisy
- St. Julianus Murdering His Parents.
- A Warm Welcome
- K Is For Keyhole.
- Youthful Yellow.
- The Daily Bird #698.
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 5 – Streets and Alleys
- The transition to liberty is not swift
- Must every rebellion evolve into an evil empire?
- Book Reviews: Tropic of Chaos, Chapter 1
- Sources: Bolingbrook to implement ‘Social Credit System’ (Fiction)
- I am relieved
- Leaving Moscow
- David Pakman Show: How Climate Denial is Funded
- Star-studded Saturday Night Live
- Jack’s Walk
- Checking in on Local Politics
- So now Native Americans are “creepy kids”?
- This is what an apology looks like
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 5 – Environmentalism
- J Is For Jealousy and Jardim.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Winsome White.
- The Daily Bird #697.
- Postmodernism Ain’t Say That
- Eeeeeew!
- Going mobile!
- Signs of Life.
- The First Beak: A Bird in the Hand Merits Closer Inspection
- Film review: The Young Karl Marx (2017)
- Jack’s Walk
- Unclear on the Concept: Lou Dobbs’ Constitution
- Women’s Suffrage Mapped.
- Saint Agatha’s Breasts.
- “Going to the Dogs?”, Workshop.
- I Is For Iris and Iridescência.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #696
- Knifesharpenophobia
- The curious case of Tom Brokaw
- The Clay Johnson saga
- We’re in bigger trouble than I thought
- Isn’t nature lovely?
- My kind of humor …
- One Way To Keep The Civilian Casualty Count Down
- Why is Giuliani still around?
- The ethics of educational experiments
- The laziest professor in the world!
- Wacky Winter and a New Hope
- Has anyone ever seen a good science stock photo?
- Jack’s Walk
- Political ad goin’ viral!
- Friday Cephalopod: Nice house
- The lies of the Customs and Border Protection agency
- Fancy Bats.
- Worst marketing of an identity ever
- H Is For Hose and Horta.
- Hackamore Miniature.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Way to be on top of things, UVA!
- Web Exclusive: UFO crews forced to play Representative Peter Roskam’s ads during abductions (Fiction)
- Cobra Kai ARGGGGGH
- The Two Cultures, as per C. P. Snow
- Jack’s Walk
- Baby goats
- The Daily Bird #694.
- Hitler’s American inspiration
- You don’t need ResearchGate to access a preprint
- Something for the Reading List
- Home 2
- Jack’s Walk
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 4 – Schloss
- You too can be an exercise champion
- For Your Enjoyment: An Unexpurgated Headline
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Four, part 2
- Violence against indigenous peoples at home and abroad
- Tennessee Republicans: War on Women.
- Telling the truth about politics and the media
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- G Is For Gladiolus.
- Word Wednesday.
- Majestic Purple.
- Two Trees.
- I must be getting old and jaded
- The Daily Bird #693.
- George Mason University, bought and sold
- Speculative Poets in Conversation: Christina M. Rau
- The magnificent Glenda Jackson
- Jack’s Walk
- Novel Things
- Cheddar Gorgeous: Let’s Get Visible!
- Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death.
- The Book of Exposition: The Secrets of Oriental Sexuology.
- A solution that illustrates the problem
- F Is For Fantail Warbler and Fuinha-dos-Juncos.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Biodiversity in the Fava Bean Field 5.
- Very Tactical
- The Volvox 2019 website is live
- Two job openings, and we aim to fill them NOW
- Harbingers of Spring.
- The Daily Bird #692.
- NO COLLUSION, right?
April 2018
- Preach, brother! But maybe at another time and elsewhere
- Jack’s Walk
- Sexual Normalcy?
- The White House physician debacle
- Cancer Chronicles 17: Struggling.
- E Is For Eucalyptus.
- Yet another under-reported hate crime
- Biodiversity in the Fava Bean Field 4.
- David Berlinski crawls out of his spider hole to sneer at science
- Luna Day Mood.
- Sistine Chapel.
- When Good Soap Goes Bad
- Web Exclusive: Our readers speak out (Fiction)
- Feeling the Research
- Jack’s Walk
- Michelle Wolf at the WHCD
- The Incel delusion
- Humans evolving? At least their gametes are.
- Peterson IS Freud
- The FBI remains an awful organization
- Abstinence Only. Again.
- D Is For Dandelion and Dente-de-Leão.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Biodiversity in the Fava Bean Field 3.
- The Daily Bird #690.
- Sunday Sermon: The Deep State
- Why is Jordan Peterson popular with atheists again?
- Remembering the ugly, not-so-distant past
- Jack’s Walk
- The Korean joint statement is a big deal
- Raturday.
- C Is For Cockatiel and Caturra.
- Sistine Maps, Part 2.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Biodiversity in the Fava Bean Field 2.
- My mind says no, but my heart says yes to Satan
- Thorn & Jake.
- The Daily Bird #689.
- Propaganda
- Splurge
- Found my plans for the evening
- Jack’s Walk
- So many questions…
- Seth Meyers gives another of his informative and amusing reviews of the news
- The impossible dream of the ‘incels’
- The Most Important Thing: Covering Up!
- Any serial killers/rapists in my family?
- B Is For Blue and Branco.
- The Avengers’ inflationary universe
- Red Hippeastrum Upgraded
- Tessellation symmetry
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Peter Madsen sentenced to life
- Sistine Maps, Part 1.
- Biodiversity in the Fava Bean Field 1.
- John Oliver on the Iran deal
- If only greenhouse gasses were visible to the naked eye…
- What is it with BMW drivers?
- U Might Not be Aware of…
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 5 – Bounce
- Guilty, guilty, guilty
- Jack’s Walk
- Girls! Icky, Evil Girls!
- The Smithsonian Presents Interactive Androids.
- Speaking of redemption for the irredeemable…
- Youtube Videos: Capwell & Easton: A medieval knightly effigy in Dennington, Suffolk
- A is for Ambush and Aranha.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Where are Vinz Clortho, The Keymaster and Zuul, The Gatekeeper?
- More Mokume
- Shining Spring!
- How to profit from your own sleaziness
- The Daily Bird #687.
- The devaluation of knowledge accelerates
- Three Jackdaws
- Knut is looking very handsome today
- Where were our leftist riots?
- Fame at last! Ok, maybe not so much …
- Jack’s Walk
- Dear Jim Bakker, Go Fuck Yourself.
- Marzipan Tits (Safe For Work)
- Film review: Phantom Thread (2017)
- I Suppose “At Least We Weren’t Shooting People” Is An Excuse
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- A good response…a bit late, but good
- Scandinavian Letters: Öga.
- I’m back!
- Like nabbing Al Capone for tax evasion
- The Daily Bird #686.
- Why did I suddenly think of Sam Harris when I read this?
- How to Become a Radical
- No blogging, taking a sick day
- I can…canoe?
- Of Course They Will
- Jack’s Walk
- Grave Matters
- Sam Seder vs. Jordan Peterson
- Moscow sunset
- The magic roundabout
- The construction of emotions
- What belief in hoaxes tell us about ourselves
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Four, part 1
- Poor Man’s Belt Grinder – Mark 2
- Jack’s Walk
- Hell under siege in the film Come Sunday (2018)
- Tulips 2
- Off For The Day.
- TNET 18: Don’t Die Curious.
- Way to annoy the Mormons, Orrin
- Luna Day Mood.
- If you ever wondered why Minnesota has a Democratic-Farmer-Labor party…
- Scandinavian Letters: Äng.
- I volunteered for this?
- Faces of the Vatican.
- I don’t think I’ve ever read Writers of the Future
- Spam is Lazy
- Interstellar court dismisses Michael Shermer’s lawsuit (Fiction)
- Chocolate Fudge Cream Soap
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 4 – Hardening
- Russia, China, and North Korea could hand Trump a second term.
- Russia – Famous Graves
- Meet my Ohio neighbors
- O my fellow Academics, this poem will rip your heart out with its truth
- Sunday Facepalm: Deep State, Witches & Warlocks, Oh My!
- Universal basic income
- Scandinavian Letters: Å.
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 4 – Healthcare
- Sunday Soap Day
- Helios Day Mood.
- Leafhopper.
- Go Spring Go!
- How to deal with a Shermer attack
- The Daily Bird #683.
- “Evangelical” is just another word for “hypocrite”
- The Laziness of Steven Pinker
- Idioms & Expressions.
- Jack’s Walk
- Saving A Tree, One Drip At A Time.
- Great moments in racism
- Raturday.
- The Beautiful Town Idstein – Part 1 – Town Square.
- Z Is For Zuge.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Nüsschen!
- One does not simply walk into Nazidom
- That’s Richmond, Ohio, not Richmond, Virginia
- Rewatching To Catch A Predator: Rape Culture Makes Accurate Predictions
- TESS Has Reached Orbit
- The devil queen licks her chops
- People are willing to pay higher prices for restaurant food
- Ark Park stats
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 3
- The Purpose of the Universe
- Jack’s Walk
- News from the prairie
- What is an apology?
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Three, part 3
- The Sleep Paralysis Of Nicolas Bruno.
- The domino effect for evangelicals
- Feathering Nests
- Which side was Michigan on in the Civil War?
- Y Is For Yachting.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Bunny! Part 2.
- The Daily Bird #681.
- Maybe we should take the train
- Origins of the sexes: more on MID
- Dang it, Bob, don’t tell everyone the plan!
- Chunk of Novel
- Web Exclusive: Bolingbrook’s covert budget posted on village website (Fiction)
- From the Webmaster: Trav Mamone ask a good question about skeptical communities (Mixed)
- Jack’s Walk
- Indian Country Today Is Back!
- Shoulda Gotten Apple Care for the Maintenance
- You can’t repair churches with public funds in New Jersey
- Accuse Everybody
- Trav & I seem to have had a Vulcan mind-meld
- Trump Ups his “Kill the Poor” Game
- Your stereotypes are not helpful
- Framed for murder by your own DNA
- Squids from SPAAAAAAAAACE!
- Youtube Video: Medieval Living History
- X Is For Xylem.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Bunny! Part 1.
- Capital: Valuations and Market Caps 101
- Omniology fails to check Snopes
- Jack’s Walk
- Have you ever wondered why the #MeToo movement hasn’t caught up with Michael Shermer?
- How bullet-proof vehicles work
- Does the GOP have room for anyone not totally loyal to Trump?
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 2
- The Inquisition Tentacles Are Spreading.
- To A Burnt-Out Activist
- Word Wednesday.
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- The Speculative Poetic Justice Series: An Introduction and FAQ
- Annie Laurie Gaylor on David Silverman, harassment policies, and all the usual issues
- The Cops Have Not Always Been This Bad
- The strange saga of the Rajneeshees
- Bobbin Lace Bonsai
- W Is For White.
- Rachel Carson vs. Men of Industry
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Wings, Flora and Fauna.
- A curious phenomenon
- Camp NaNoWriMo 2018, Part One
- When You Hide Something, Remember Where You Hid It
- Why wouldn’t we want to be related to them?
- Jack’s Walk
- Goddamnit Morrissey
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts.
- The White Privilege Tax Deduction.
- Siobhan in Shadowproof: “Prosecutors Invoke Union Memberships to Criminalize Inauguration Day Protesters”
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Anatomy Atlas Part 4 – Skull
- V Is For Vår.
- Botanical Walk.
- Butterfly and Tulips.
- If only she’d said “no” 9 1 times…
- The Daily Bird #678.
- This is what a steady diet of poison will do to you
- FailDay
- Ken — you’re backsliding
- Monday Miscellany: 16 April 2018
- The Second Law and its misuses
- I Have Ninjas
- Jack’s Walk
- Sean Hannity?!?!
- Making a Rondel Dagger – Part 1
- The great tax scam
- Listen to the Rhubarb!
- It’s Universal Soldier!
- Boaters & Bowlers
- The Times Are A-Changin’, But History Repeats (The End Of The World Comes Next Monday)
- U Is For Urban.
- Luna Day Mood.
- Another Doodle
- The ship’s not there any more
- The Daily Bird #677.
- Esoteric: intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest
- Monday Meslier: 79 – A God Who Punishes The Faults Which He Could Have Prevented, Is A Fool, Who Adds Injustice To Foolishness
- Bolingbrook’s Art Bell Party demands answers (Fiction)
- Irreduciblablabla Complexidoozits
- Russia – The Novodevichy Nunnery
- Why? Why? Why?
- Sunday Sermon: Buddhism Sucks, Too.
- Daniel Pešta.
- I think I stepped into a time machine and fell back into the 90s
- Thomas Jefferson on the separation of church and state
- Jack’s Walk
- Weather Stormy
- T Is For Tiili.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Fun in the Field.
- The Rapes at Kathua and Unnao
- Jack’s Walk
- Aro/Ace Atheists panel
- Flattery will get you smacked
- Film review: The Shape of Water (2017)
- Might I Remind You of a Couple Things?
- A double-wide in Pahrump, Nevada is haunted now
- Did you miss “How to Incorporate a Secular Values Message into Your Advocacy”?
- The US as a rogue world police force
- You’re a pervert, you’re a loser, you’re ugly, You have penis envy!
- Raturday.
- Us Soy Boys should be relieved
- S Is For Sikinsokin.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Ice Crystals.
- Explosions In Damascus
- Remember when…?
- Kobi Libli confronts a crisis actor playing Alex Jones. Or does he?
- Jack’s Walk
- David Silverman fired from American Atheists
- David Silverman fired as head of American Atheists
- Is this my Facebook-free future?
- Inside Cancerland: Distortion Series 2.
- Uh-oh. This might just turn everyone gay.
- Why FOSTA might do far more harm than good
- Colonialism in Eurogames
- Angry White Men.
- The Harris-Murray two-step
- Banned by Answers in Genesis!
- Friday Cephalopod: I want to be able to do this with my skin
- Someone has finally figured out Jordan Peterson
- There Is Such Thing as Too Much “Weapons” Regulation
- Spring Has Sprung
- Some Thoughts During “Ready Player One”
- R Is For RO-RORO-RO.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Californians, do the rest of us a favor
- Botanical Garden Walk.
- I Come To Praise Wonkette, Not That Other Thing
- Conservativism = Cowardice and Greed
- OrbitCon starts tomorrow!
- Every Late Night Talk Show Ever
- Jack’s Walk
- So tell us how you really feel about Trump …
- My Optimal Test Taking Approach
- Distant Thunder
- What the Flynn effect tells us about intelligence
- CC Notes: Almost Back To Life.
- Q Is For Quench.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- African Daisies 6.
- The Daily Bird #673
- It has always been thus
- Arrgh, Bergman!
- I’ve attacked religious beliefs…using science!
- A New Blog?!? What the Heck is Nathan Doing?!?!?
- OrbitCon schedule
- Advances in Technology
- If the NRA’s slippery slope argument is extended …
- Jack’s Walk
- Go Local
- Poor Man’s Belt Grinder – Mark 1
- Somehow, I think this republican and Malcom might agree on some things
- Good riddance, Paul Ryan
- The Daily Bird #672.
- Winning! So hard!
- The David Silverman case
- LGBT youth and child welfare
- Origins of the sexes: Eudorina and Yamagishiella
- <gasp> I forgot Paul Nelson Day!
- A fine demonstration of unpredicted consequences
- On the Bench
- Someone noticed
- Heavy Metal
- Russia – The Kremlin
- One sign that students are being effective
- The bombshell will detonate soon
- Some reflections on the Secular Social Justice conference
- Jack’s Walk
- Link Roundup: April 2018
- Israel kills large number of unarmed protestors
- Swedish House-Gymnastics (1913).
- P Is For Pörhistää.
- Anatomy Atlas Part 3 – Upper Limb Skeleton
- African Daisies 5.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Two hours of Sam Harris whining
- Oh, Spring! 6.
- Creationists once again flustered by evidence
- “Its Rightful Position.”
- I’m going to OrbitCon! (Non-fiction)
- Monday Miscellany: 9 April 2018
- Jack’s Walk
- It’s all just a social construct, man
- About Your $600 Million Cut…
- Cancer Chronicles 16: I Just Don’t Care.
- O Is For Omaisuus.
- A Doodle
- African Daisies 4.
- Luna Day Mood.
- Bad people can abuse good ideas
- Oh, Spring! 5.
- Naughty!
- The economy must be about to swirl down the drain if get-rich-quick shows are popular
- The Daily Bird #670.
- Steven Pinker fails to inspire the New World Order (Fiction)
- Anybody Want A Kidney Stone?
- Hyper-specificity in Animal Cognition
- I’m home!
- Jack’s Walk
- Sunday Facepalm.
- What a waste of time
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 3 – Religion
- N Is For Näkyvyys.
- African Daisies 3.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Oh, Spring! 4.
- Framed!
- The Daily Bird #669.
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Three, part 2
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Three, part 1
- Jack’s Walk
- The Last Fiction.
- African Daisies 2.
- Waking Up
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Busy yesterday, busier today
- Istanbul (Not They Might Be Giants)
- Another Matter of Policy
- Sporadic blogging for the next few days
- Jack’s Walk
- Inside Cancerland: Distortion Series.
- TNET 17: All We Do.
- L Is For Landmark.
- African Daisies 1.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #667.
- The Things We Find
- Sleepy Thoughts on Cannibalism
- Administrivia: Markup
- Seth Meyers on the Trump’s obsessions of the week
- Jack’s Walk
- The Titan : Netflix can still make terrible, awful, no-good movies
- Religious entitlement
- Good news, everyone!
- Christianity, Ever and Always Twisted.
- K Is For Käytöstä poistettu.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- This hasn’t been a problem in Minnesota…
- Oh, Spring!
- So, so tired of Jordan Peterson
- My Powerpoint Presentations Are Going To Rule, Now
- In Honor of Down with Cis Day
- Who’s as ready as I am for a weekend of Secular Social Justice?
- Atheist celebrity culture: you’re swimming in it
- When appliances run amuck
- Einstein’s letter on education
- Why can’t it be all the things?
- Jack’s Walk
- A useful compendium of Petersonia
- Compare and constrast: American Atheists from two different perspectives
- I’m Fully In Favour of Fivity.
- The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565).
- Poor Sam Harris has been misunderstood/defamed/libeled again!
- So that’s what they mean by “falling upwards”
- Gingerbread Easter Eggs
- J Is For Juoni.
- Dana Rohrabacher says what the Republicans think
- Word Wednesday.
- That’s a pretty good summary of The Bell Curve
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #665.
- Telling it like it is
- This is So Wrong
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump Behind Bars.
- Jobs! Biology jobs!
- The drearily predictable resurgence of the race and IQ debate
- Freeeeedom! Freedom In My Veins!
- The pay gap is painfully real
- I Is For Ilma.
- Anatomy Atlas Part 2 – Lower Limb Skeleton
- Who came up with this stupid idea?
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- First step in writing about others is self-awareness
- Memories, bottled.
- The Daily Bird #664.
- Nuclear Tropes Refuter
- Illuminati honors Qanon at the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
- Monday Miscellany: 2 April 2018
- That’s it. Take his guns away forever.
- Jack’s Walk
- Maybe it would help if we fired all the oracles and listened to the criticisms
- The Neulasta On Bod: Dissected.
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Someone tell the Christians that April Fools is over
- On Jordan Peterson being a Rorschach test
- Trump, Ever The Good Christian.
- Sullivanian mendacity
- A Tree
- H Is For Hanhi.
- Luna Day Mood.
- The Neulasta On Bod.
- The Daily Bird #663.
- True believers in Easter
- Kook syndrome
- Sylvester Stallone’s Brother Is Quite Exceptional
- Russia – Red Square, Moscow
- Jack’s Walk
- Origami: Basket Weave
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Prosecutors need to be held accountable for their abuses
- Taxonomy when you’re on the water is always easiest
- Why I have come to detest April Fools Day
- Behind the Iron Curtain Part 2 – Education
- Helios Day Mood.
- Freesia.
- Dangerous and Incompetent
- Capitalism Rocks
March 2018
- Laura Ingraham loses advertisers, goes on ‘vacation’
- Did Chinese Children Evolve To Take Tests After Breakfast?
- Pulse nightclub shooter’s wife acquitted of all charges
- Jack’s Walk
- A Quick Note.
- Questions from Joel Settecase – Part Three
- The Black & White of Voter Fraud.
- Surprising twist in the dark matter search
- Bill O’Reilly on the comeback trail!
- F Is For Frozen.
- Eve
- Hunting
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #661.
- Snownonono.
- Still Snowing.
- Racial differences in average g are not known to be genetic. Or even known to be. Seriously.
- Diplomatic tit for tat kabuki
- Jack’s Walk
- E Is For Exile.
- “Clock Activated. Red Castle. Green Castle.”
- Why is there no war on Easter?
- Stephen Shames.
- Finding The Perfect, Paint Worthy Egg.
- Rachid Alexander.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #660.
- A Few Spring Flowers
- I let my kids watch Ren & Stimpy!
- Science and reason tell us that everyone outside Massachusetts and California are genetically flawed
- The BIG Storm…
- Destabilizing The Genetics Of g
- Jack’s Walk
- Cancer Chronicles 15: The Takeover.
- I’m going to be in Washington DC next weekend
- D Is For Dimma.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Nüsschen.
- The Daily Bird #659.
- YouTube video “People who like martial arts and weapons are normal”
- A useful guide for spring accidents
- Hey! What happened to the usual jokes?
- I guess I oppose them in everything
- For someone who doesn’t like to be called a racist, Sam Harris sure writes a lot of racist stuff
- Questions from Joel Settecase – Part Two
- I Know How PZ Would Answer The Question. Or Maybe I Don’t.
- The incredible double life of Clarence King
- But is it art?
- The citizens of Morris may die of excitement
- Scientology’s diminishing expectations
- Russian Adventure
- Secular Women Work successfully funded
- Racism in cricket
- Undervalued
- Overpriced
- That’s hunting?
- C Is For Clouds.
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Music.
- It takes a village…to make a toxic atmosphere
- The Inevitable Bitcoin Posting
- Talking About Obama’s Birth Certificate. Again.
- Antlers
- British foreign secretary gets blasted for sexism by the speaker of parliament
- No, It’s Not Always A Sexual Predator
- Transgender and third gender in Pakistan
- Capitalism, Heaven, and Hell
- Jack’s Walk
- Cy Twombly: Extravagant Synesthesia.
- Why this cricket cheating scandal generated such widespread outrage [UPDATED]
- Musings on cultural food
- Anatomy Atlas Part 1 – Spine
- 60 Minutes didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know
- B Is For Basilika.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Local shenanigans
- Windflower.
- Just when you think the youth are getting their act together
- It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.
- Stephen Colbert on the 60 Minutes interview
- Missile Defense
- These students keep impressing me more and more
- Nazis: All About Taking Guns Away.
- Jack’s Walk
- How Cambridge Analytica got people’s Facebook information
- A ‘Separation Of LGBT And State’.
- Need popcorn, this is going to be better than the original creationist movie
- A Is For Arbetarrörelse.
- Luna Day Mood.
- The allure of Steven Pinker
- Oh, Deer!
- An Island
- The Daily Bird #656.
- The social media dilemma
- New professorial challenges for those teaching philosophy
- Uncommon Sense
- Go play with Tiktaalik
- Building A Future From The Trash Heap Of History
- Monday Miscellany: 26 March 2018
- Geese protests continue to annoy Bolingbrook residents (Fiction)
- The sad thing is that this is almost plausible
- Working On and Slobbery Dogs…
- How do you make a large cruise ship even larger?
- Jack’s Walk
- Scandalous behavior in cricket
- Sunday Facepalm: AFSS.
- Behind the Iron Curtains Part 1 – Growing Up
- So that’s what lesbians do!
- Helios Day Mood.
- Tulips.
- Ankleflower.
- Mad Mike Hughes actually did it!
- The Daily Bird #655.
- Sunday Sermon: Distraction
- Spring sprang! Time to get nerdy on the deck
- That was a powerful rally
- From the Webmaster: Help make the Secular Women Work conference a reality (Mixed)
- Fascist Policing: Yet Another Modest Proposal
- A very brief introduction
- From evolution wars to climate wars in the classroom
- Do you want to fight about movies some more?
- Kristi Winters + Kevin Logan + me, complaining
- #MeToo and centering perpetrators
- “You left us to die on battlefield like William Dafoe in Platoon.”
- Reports on March For Our Lives [UPDATED with new live video link]
- Jack’s Walk.
- The Colours of Memories.
- Bubbles & Flowers.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #654.
- I can’t believe they’re making a movie of Ready Player One
- Capitalism: Heads I win, Tails I win
- Lazy linking – Teen Vogue edition
- Focus on the Family is not happy with John Oliver
- The State of the Vaping Union
- Friday Cephalopod: Female cuttlefish are conspiring together!
- Student push for sensible gun control measures
- Listen while you still can
- The gun-fondlers have now found a more appropriate venue for their videos
- Tyranny! Anarchy! Humanistic!
- TNET 16: A Wee Bit Crowded.
- Spring My Ass.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- A critique of Jordan Peterson’s views
- Cherry Blossom.
- Jack’s Walk.
- Watch out for pretexts for war!
- The Daily Bird #654.
- Jordan Peterson is a bit touchy
- Progress Man!
- Redefining secular ethics…or not
- Web Exclusive: Russian agents spotted at Will County polling sites (Fiction)
- John Oliver tries to explains cryptocurrencies
- The Austin bomber’s views
- Role models for the modern man
- Nwa
- PZ is Right in Everything He Says, But He Didn’t Say Everything
- Sucks ASS to be a Right Wing Martyr
- Nazis & Satanists: A Match Made In Hell.
- For all the political nerds out there
- The madness of the Iraq war signals the twilight of America
- New Game: Foundation.
- European & Asian Borders Throughout History.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- When Elon Musk heard the word “colonizer” in Black Panther , did he think it was a compliment?
- Flower Sculpture HDR.
- Bouquet.
- Are all evolutionary psychologists this bad at thinking ?
- The Daily Bird #653.
- Joe Biden is a Thug, and not the good kind
- My Reward.
- Cancer Chronicle Notes.
- Lunuganga
- Questions from Joel Settecase – Part One
- I have a feeling I’ll just be ignored if I mention this to the administration
- Sleeping Beauty and Quantum Mechanics
- The Best Justice System Money Can Buy
- The Austin bomber is dead
- Free speech is a nice sharp sword
- There have only been two openly gay male cast members in the 40+ year history of SNL
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Panda Finds A Home.
- The Daily Bird #652.
- That’s quite the just-so story you’re selling, Atlantic
- Latest OK Go video
- Join the Outrage Brigade today!
- Terry Gilliam is totally wrong
- CBS News fawns over despotic Saudi prince
- First Day of Spring My Ass.
- A Wee Bit Late.
- Banksy Blitz NYC.
- 2018 Sony World Photography Awards.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Beautiful Flowers!
- The Daily Bird #651.
- I wish to see this version of The Little Mermaid
- Ho hum. It’s Morning in America!
- I look forward to Jordan Peterson’s inevitable decline into dishonorable obscurity
- John Oliver trolls Mike Pence in classic fashion
- Doesn’t anybody vet the people in the Trump administration?
- Hernia Comb.
- The Overton Window Can Serve Progressives?
- There is such a thing as a stupid question
- What lesson did this teach students?
- I Saw Black Panther
- Stephen Hawking, Demon Puppet.
- “Shameless” implies that there is something to be ashamed of
- Today 2
- Luna Day Mood.
- Spring Flowers.
- Maybe the alt-right is non-binary
- The Daily Bird #650.
- Wereskunks promise not to disrupt Bolingbrook’s garbage forum (Fiction)
- Poor Richard.
- Antifa is making the neo-Nazi movement not fun anymore
- Magic-Angle Graphene Superconductors
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Helios Day Mood. (Wow).
- Knee Tree.
- The Daily Bird #649.
- Oh, no, it’s the last day of Spring Break!
- An honest atheist’s reply to Ted Wright – Part Two
- An honest atheist’s reply to Ted Wright – Part One
- O Hai
- I threatened you with niche construction
- The need for cognitive empathy to avoid war
- Trophy Hunting: an enhancement to foreign wildlife conservation and survival.
- Raturday.
- There are many ways to be a science communicator
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Water, Again.
- Petty and vindictive
- This Would be Pretty Cool
- The moon continues to create a sense of wonder
- Friday Cephalopod: Pugnacious
- The kids have the right idea
- Cristina Rad is back!
- Stephen Hawking
- Does 18 Make For A Shithole?
- Helping People
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Words to chill one’s bones
- Water 2
- The Daily Bird #647.
- Chlamydomonas 2018
- Republicans really do want to destroy higher ed
- March madness coming up
- Stephen Hawking
- Invoking the Nuremberg defense for torture enthusiasts
- Bombings in Texas
- Behold the Crown Jewel of the Internet
- By the end of the story, I was ready to chop him up myself
- Oregon, you’re not supposed to tell them!
- Comedic round up of the news
- The criticism Jordan Peterson deserves
- Video game censorship and feminist criticism
- Chumps
- A Confirmation Question for Gina Haspel
- Taking the day.
- Any ace panelists?
- YouTube comments sections are a cesspool
- Don’t get cocky
- Time for this hawk to fly
- Laying down the homeschooling burden
- What a surprise! Ben Carson is a liar too
- Trump seems scared of firing people
- Gosh, How Responsible!
- Space Force!!1!
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- School walkouts today!
- Bubbles.
- Cultural Marxism is nothing but a conspiracy theory rooted in anti-semitism
- Old blog shut down
- The Daily Bird #646.
- Stephen Hawking dies (Non-Fiction)
- Nokie Edwards (1935-2018)
- The Trump slide continues
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg has a new book, and he’s a man
- A refreshing self-examination by National Geographic
- Capital: Asset Stripping and Leveraging 101
- He did what?
- Why you should always heed developmental biologists over paleontologists
- Guns
- The cruelest cut against evolutionary psychology
- What Does A God Need With A Government?
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- I’ve Been Told…
- The Daily Bird #645.
- Profiteers
- Monday Miscellany: 12 March 2018
- Jessica Jones Problem
- 3D printing of a house
- And the siren sings…
- Lawrence Krauss responds to abuse charges
- A question for Elon Musk
- Sporadic blogging coming up
- I ought to be getting used to atheists embarrassing me
- Pantherpedia: An Essay Guide.
- Roentgenizdat: Bone Music.
- Von Wright’s Scandinavian Birds.
- At least he’s an honest transhumanist
- Luna Day Mood.
- Horses & Ponies.
- It’s nice to wake up to an affirmation
- Truth
- American Government Dragged, Kicking and Screaming, a Little Closer to Realty
- Satanic non-profit vows to help Bolingbrook’s ‘at-risk youth’ (Fiction)
- Straight Outta Sheffield
- Whoops, I made another video
- The Fight.
- Oh, no! I’ve been doing Twitter wrong!
- On being a victim of hacking
- Happy Birthday, Lisa
- On the wings of time…
- Skypixel Winners!
- Helios Day Mood.
- So, atheism is becoming a refuge for people who learned biology in kindergarten?
- Carnations.
- Good morning! Thanks for the birthday greetings!
- Sunday Sermon: It’s Gone. It’s Gone.
- Tiny Wonders
- Primary politics in Texas and Illinois
- How the mighty have fallen
- Oh, The Morality!
- A Love Letter To Bolivia.
- Seductive Sins: 100 Years of Ads.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #642.
- Link Roundup: March 2018
- You can watch Abacus: Small Enough to Jail online [UPDATED}
- Why, what a nice birthday present
- The Thinking Housewife goes full-on massacre denialist
- The Medieval Method of Cooking Octopus.
- Film review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)
- Friday Cephalopod: Kleptopirates of the deep!
- Yearning for the days of patriotism, Christianity, decency, and Emily Post!
- David Lynch Teaches Typing.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #641.
- What will destroy America now?
- Pssst…wanna see some deplorables?
- Just when you were thinking the skeptic movement couldn’t get worse
- Students succeed in gun control where adults have failed
- I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It
- Exposing the bogus ‘viewpoint diversity’ of the New York Times
- I think it’s a metaphor for what people do to the Earth
- Adeline Harris Sears.
- The Chemo Book.
- Gary Cohn’s government work is done
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Crow with Fish.
- The Daily Bird #640.
- It’s International Richard Herring Explains to Clueless Men That 19 November is International Men’s Day Day
- It’s not just the internet
- Claymascus
- From the webmaster: The first OrbitCon is April 13-15 (Mixed)
- Leave the NRA and join Scientology!
- What is Glorification Anyway? Shannon Watkins Seems Unclear on a few Concepts
- What happens to whipped cream in a vacuum chamber
- #WhoAgainstGuns – Doctor Who Fans Unite for Gun Control
- The Lawrence Krauss fallout continues
- Ken Ham has some peculiar ideas about taxonomy
- Thinking like a biologist again
- Most Minnesotans would like better gun control laws. Most.
- Can men and women just be friends?
- Cancer Chronicles 14: Chemo Brain.
- The Bracero Program.
- How quickly a reputation can unravel
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- What are those crazy liberal college campuses doing now?
- The Daily Bird #639.
- The Original Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Asking the wrong questions: still no evidence of a sonic weapon
- West Virginia teachers win pay raise
- Why do these people care so much?
- Lindsay Graham the monster
- Who for Minnesota Governor?
- “Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive, ah, ah, ah, ah,”
- Storing books in libraries
- Remembering Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael
- U.S. Government Abuse: Manzanar to Guantánamo.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Snowprints.
- I Remember Those Days
- The Daily Bird #638.
- Rod Dreher gets email
- How decadent is your aristocracy?
- Cat Owner Question
- %eb%b0%b1%ec%9d%bc
- Cops Behaving Badly
- Jimmy Kimmel’s excellent Oscar monologue
- I get email
- Why do I have an office window?
- Charting the travails of the skeptic movement
- Anyone know where I can order this?
- Whoa, RDF/CFI says the right thing
- Would someone care to write a standard inclusion rider for conference speakers?
- The statewide teacher’s strike in West Virginia
- Everyday American Hell.
- Neanderthals Have Done It Again.
- EST+Scientology+Ayn Rand? Sign me up!
- Luna Day Mood.
- Foxes
- An interesting development
- The Daily Bird #637.
- I despise quacks
- Chapter 50: Love of Life
- Bolingbrook to bid on the 2042 Winter Olympics? (Fiction)
- Praise the Dogs
- Whale evolution through deep time
- Talking about epigenetics and evolution
- The Fight: Progress.
- Only the stock market matters for the oligarchy
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Sunday Sermon: Blogger’s Disorder
- Quilts: Tools For Resistance.
- Helios Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #636.
- One Hundred Prisoners
- The Firearms Purist
- Who’s The Comedian?
- The abomination of the death penalty
- Stick Up for Your 2nd Amendment Rights
- The brutal suppression of the Indian uprising
- Angel Armies vs Deep State. Or Something.
- Raturday.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- I’m sensing a theme here
- 35 Degrees South: End of Summer.
- The Daily Bird #635.
- Even with electoral victories, we have to worry about being undermined by the media
- He Looks Like A Nice Guy
- Clearly Enunciated
- Coincidence!
- The utterly corrupt Trump administration
- Factory farmers fight push for humanely produced eggs
- Friday Cephalopod: TRAITOR!
- Working On: Progress.
- Christians: Just Like Menopausal Women.
- No evidence that Planck graininess slows down light
- The joy of raising children
- The Awful Goodbye.
- Shameless plug
- Don’t need no history, social studies, art, music, foreign languages, and communications!
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #634.
- I guess I can kiss my wikipedia page goodbye
- Of Course This Was Going to Happen
- That beautiful animalcule: Andrew Pritchard on Volvox
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- That’s just what we don’t need
- Waffles with toxic syrup served
- Shaolin monk pierces glass with a needle
- Origami: Pair of dragons
- The Revolution
- The dawn of the universe
- Aron Ra vs. Kent Hovind, tonight
- The Ark Park and Creation “Museum” are raising their admission prices
- Least surprising discrimination lawsuit ever
- A study in hiding truth behind a lie
- Web Exclusive: Illinois Sixth Congressional District Democratic candidates debate at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Yes, America is a deeply racist country
- The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Trump
- More pun fun
- I must have cursed National Geographic by accident
February 2018
- A handy alert system
- Botanical Wednesday: Maybe it’s a trojan horse
- If you read one thing today, make it this
- The Closest He Ever Got to a Blast Furnace…
- The reality of reality shows
- Why are you praising Dick’s Sporting Goods?
- This is how you do it
- Silent Bob is modest about everything except what goes on in his head
- Rebecca Watson tells it like it is
- Trump’s fantasy world
- What happens when we die
- Secular Women keep on working
- Books 10
- The other side of the story
- Electromagnetic Witchcraft & Techno Demons, Oh My!
- Sculptures of Wishes.
- Fuck zoos
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Spring Dream.
- The Daily Bird #632.
- David Brooks, the Times, and well-deserved rudeness
- Challenge is one thing, stacking the deck is another
- Zombie Volvox on PhysOrg
- So that’s what the word means
- If you’re wondering what the obstacle to change in the atheist movement might be, here it is
- With all due respect, why don’t we get rid of business schools?
- Appropriate and inappropriate workplace behavior
- Working On…
- Darwin’s Polar Bear.
- Sylloge Tacticorum.
- Who Doesn’t Love Balloons?
- Taking the work in a different direction
- Luna Day Mood.
- Iris 2
- The Daily Bird #631.
- Public toilet etiquette
- Marketing is not science
- An exercise for the reader
- Center for Inquiry responds to harassment allegations against Lawrence Krauss by firing its feline fellows (Fiction)
- Three Feminist Myths
- It looks like winter out there
- More fun and games at CPAC
- Sunday School: Let’s Deconstruct Some Pinker
- Iona Craig wins Polk award for her report on the killing of Yemeni civilians by the US
- I’m going to Scandinavia for a few months!
- First Reaction.
- Sunday Facepalm: All Ya Need Is Nice.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Sparkle.
- Tamil Nadu’s Medical System is Making Me Sick
- The Daily Bird #630.
- A comic that seems to be topical, somehow
- Baby Winter Olympics
- Data? We don’t need no stinkin’ data! Skin color is enough!
- And now for some good news
- Ask the Strategic Genius: Honesty Under Pressure
- C. S. Lewis’s moral argument – an ironic postscript
- Putting Noah to Shame
- The ugly face of Billy Graham
- Skeptic and atheist organizations suffer a failure of leadership
- TNET 15: Fox and the Whale.
- All American Boy For America.
- Cancer Decor: Contrast.
- Time for some Secular Social Justice
- Kronos Day Mood.
- I guess it’ll be another IMDB credit for me
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #629.
- Stephen Colbert nails it
- Doing the right thing
- Not An Optical Illusion.
- Secular Social Justice 2018 Conference
- These kids know how to deliver a good burn
- The Lawrence Krauss affair
- Cancer Chronicles 13: Breakdown Days & Fuck That Noise.
- The Proud Party of Homer Simpson.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Carnations.
- The Daily Bird #628.
- Inequality Baked Into its Very Bones
- Do you really want to give me a gun?
- Early Voting Begins in Texas and Democrats Turn Out
- How was this done?
- Extortion and revenge porn are illegal in Missouri? Who knew?
- Our glorious Trumpian educational future
- The failed attempt to smear Jeremy Corbyn
- Random notes on male victims of sexual violence
- Homo sapiens is going to go extinct soon, aren’t we?
- Brace yourself for more allegations against a prominent atheist: Lawrence Krauss
- 19th Century Board Games.
- The importance of hope and the danger of cynicism and pessimism in politics
- Whatever happened to the Furbies of yesteryear?
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Infusion Center.
- Fluff
- James O’Brien sees right through them
- I could take up surfing!
- The Daily Bird #627.
- I guess I just can’t be happy with bad data
- Steven Pinker, “Historian”
- I wonder what the difference is
- From the Webmaster: Do psychology and evolution mix?
- That’s no way to treat a dog
- Oughta be better than Sharknado
- Well, that got icky fast
- What the Hell Else Did They Expect?
- There are six of them?
- Another NO: Religious Tax Exemption.
- Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons
- A Merry Christmas Thank You…
- Billy Graham is dead
- Chemo Day…I Hope.
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Biohackers: irresponsible showboats trusting homeostasis to keep them alive
- Nüsschen 3.
- Contemptible disinformation
- Volvox 2019 dates and location
- The Daily Bird #626.
- NO.
- Where have all the thagomizers gone?
- First Reaction: Bad Flash Update.
- A responsible gun owner
- How not to teach
- Bill Donohue is now writing about Jesus sucking His own dick
- The problem with C. S. Lewis’s moral argument – Part 2
- Raising A Government For A Nonexistent God.
- Everyone should know by now that Twitter is a bad company
- Bill Donohue has a tantrum about a show on Comedy Central
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- White-Tailed Jackrabbit.
- The Daily Bird #625.
- Normalizing the intolerable
- How can you screw up an appeal to the alt-right?
- I knew what that was as soon as I saw it
- Uncommon Sense
- EvoPsych and Scientific Racism
- Park District robot deactivated after arguing with Mayor Claar over his Rum and Coke (Fiction)
- A different response to the latest massacre
- The Dora Milaje had an actual historical inspiration
- Paper: Asexuality in China’s Sexual Revolution
- The Havana mystery
- I don’t even want to imagine
- How come when Republicans talk about free speech it’s always about silencing me ?
- Money Shot. (NSFW)
- Escape!
- Mother’s Nightmare.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Poor James Damore — losing again
- Nüsschen 2.
- The Daily Bird #624.
- Some anniversary
- This Is Going to Be Interesting
- Canlit, harassment, retaliatory defamation
- Give me Fuel, Give me Fire…
- Says. It. All.
- In things that never happened
- Garbage in, garbage out: Foerster misinterprets the Paracas skulls, again
- The Beauty and Art of Cells.
- Sunday Sermon: Tax Guns, Require Insurance, Ban High Capacity Magazines…
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Oglaf has got to quit reading my mind
- Helios Day Mood.
- Yellow.
- The Doomsday Preppers of New Zealand
- Nüsschen 1.
- The Daily Bird #623.
- Exeunt Satans
- Screaming into the Void: Or, a Letter to Senator Cruz
- All in favor
- Web exclusive: Producer vows to bring ‘The Bob Jaskiewicz Show’ to BCTV (Fiction)
- An A+ rating from the NRA ought to disqualify you from political office
- I’ve been learning advanced physics today!
- First Reaction, A Bit of Progress.
- How the Republicans will win the next election
- Is there art in artificial intelligence?
- Roe v. Wade: The Movie.
- Raturday.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Quick Answers To Search Queries II.
- Cow Bells.
- Bunny 2
- The Daily Bird #622.
- Why MCMC Works
- The World’s Best Job: Moose Rescue
- Chemo Drawing #1.
- Oh, yeah, Black Panther
- Why do I never recognize the universities hated by conservatives?
- Things I liked about grad school
- Mass killing victims so far are simply not rich or important enough
- The Map of European Culinary Horrors.
- Friday Cephalopod: So that’s what octopus porn is like
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- A Place To Hide.
- The Daily Bird #621.
- What if I don’t want to debate you, G Man?
- Feet are Weird
- A Demonstrated Talent For The Job
- Is a cat’s time really that valuable?
- Who all is going to see Black Panther this weekend?
- Black People Excited About Black Panther: BAD!
- Illustrating Carnival.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Evergreen tweet
- Snowdrop.
- The impact of Deep Learning on our lives
- First Crocus.
- The Daily Bird #620.
- Drunk for the first time
- Didn’t see it coming
- The Monsters In Charge
- Academia Premium: don’t waste your money
- “Oh No, I’m Going to Fall Down Again!”
- The alcohol problem
- Sperm! Everywhere Sperm!
- Word Wednesday.
- No V.D.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Garden Flowers.
- Playing games…for Science!
- The Daily Bird #619.
- Flagellar synchronization in Chlamydomonas
- Social Justice Is Core To Atheism/Skepticism
- Syria: Slippery Slope and Other Metaphors
- Is grad school doing what you love?
- That’s courtesy
- Jew or Jewish?
- Cancer Chronicles 12: Creeping Isolation.
- Christians Just Love Trump Fan-Fic.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Water Play.
- Engaging Jordan Peterson is enlightening and frustrating
- Interference
- How far we’ve fallen
- Film review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Couldn’t happen to a nicer organization
- What is the highest point on Earth?
- Books 9
- Oh gods, I Got Rats!
- Colour In The Middle Ages.
- Tuesday Is…
- Tatsuya Tanaka: Miniature Calendar.
- And now for some good news
- Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Mother Love
- Luna Day Mood.
- Behold their fine plumage
- Promise.
- The Daily Bird # 617.
- Hell yeah Steve Bannon
- But every day is Doubting Darwin day!
- If you really want me to not trust you (a rant)
- Larry Nassar and transformative justice
- Clow UFO Base withstands snowstorm (Fiction)
- I’m not a big fan of the Lobsterians
- Let’s Get the Conspiracy Theorists on This One, Stat!
- New species found under the Antarctic
- Caption Fun.
- The Weird Story About Russian Hackers and The Pee Tape
- A tale of two pitches
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Quick Answers to Search Queries.
- Helios Day Mood.
- Yet Another Baseless Claim about Consciousness
- Sacred Lotus.
- Fire & Grass Trees.
- The Daily Bird #616.
- The Toronto Village
- Theological and biological concerns in the cloning of Jesus
- Nice .. For the Olympic Welding Event
- How to know when to shut up
- Books 8
- Rats: Cooperative and Kind.
- Film review: Seeing Allred (2018)
- What A Load of Shit.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Raturday.
- Squirrel Antics 5.
- The Daily Bird #615.
- Now That’s Strategic
- “Where is my flying car?” may soon no longer be a joke
- Next on the White House soap opera …
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Squirrel Antics 4.
- The Daily Bird #614.
- But can’t you see? Your prayers have not worked!
- Cancer Chronicles 11: Home.
- An Extra Dose of Luck
- Friday Cephalopod: Happy birthday!
- FBI dismisses sonic weapons in Cuba “attacks”
- Trump has professional hair stylists stumped
- Oh, Look, Now We Are Bombing Syrian Government Troops
- Oy, travel day
- Just the kind of person that Trump would hire
- Missed Opportunity!
- Racists meet a more powerful foe – Girl Scouts
- A surprising development
- The New York Times Is An Utterly Shameless Establishment Propaganda Channel
- I Thought We All Agreed On This One
- You guys have no decorum. There’s no level too low to go to.
- A major mystery solved
- Bi people who date one gender
- Uncommon Sense
- Some background on North and South Korea in the Olympics
- In Hospital.
- Now if we can just get a few more women and dark-skinned people on the research team
- How the government coerces people into becoming spies
- Treasures of Darkness!
- I’m skipping class for a few days…what will my poor students do?
- The Beardiest Beard of Them All.
- Word Wednesday.
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Squirrel Antics 3.
- Vegetables will kill you!
- Quentin Tarentino, happy hero
- More coverage of the Tetrabaena genome
- Distinguishing between unaware, suspicious, and antagonistic
- I now hate Quentin Tarantino and his films even more
- We May Have a Winner!
- What kind of weird science-fictiony stuff is this?
- When is a riot not a riot?
- Maybe #MeToo Has Gone too Far, But That’s a *Good* Thing
- Forry too
- Colour Me Treasonous.
- Mermecoleon.
- TNET 14: Human Fountain.
- Selective, self-interested outrage over civil rights abuses
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Squirrel Antics 2.
- I suspect cancer would just bring out the worst in me
- It is proposed: ban all mammals from singing
- Who Knew They Were So Cheap
- “Nonviolence means refusing to work with the police”
- Mary’s Monday Metazoan: The feminist crayfish
- Didn’t you see the sign, Michele?
- The controversy over Thomas Kuhn’s ideas about the nature of science
- Latest Loot.
- Back to Moscow with me!
- Don’t use MLK to sell capitalism — he’s going to rise from the dead and bite you
- Gay Bob: I Think It’s Time For A Comeback.
- How can this guy not have a primary opponent?
- Adamas Stone.
- Luna Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #611.
- I must have low testosterone or something
- What are you going to do with the jerks in our midst?
- The Fan is Getting Hit in Afrin/Manbij
- Gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives accepts Illuminati endorsement (Fiction)
- I actually read the youtube comments on my own videos
- The big stories that Robert Parry broke
- Symmetrical coloring theorem
- A Buck Fifty!
- Dictator Style
- Prayer in school
- Cancer Chronicles 10: Standards & Stories.
- The problem with C. S. Lewis’s moral argument – Part 1
- David Brooks rides again
- The problems with self-driving vehicles
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Altered Carbon : Interestingly problematic
- A work of prophecy!
- The Sortition Solution: Representation by Randomly-Chosen Representatives
- Sandy Blight Junction
- Grow a Tactical Heart From Your Own Stem Cells
- The Nunes Memo
- Is Fun a Mark of Intelligence?
- Numbering Years: BT and AT.
- Do you want to play a game?
- The major lesson of Vietnam will never be learned
- Toy Trends.
- Of The Age of Man.
- Raturday.
- Blame and credit goes to humanity, not holy books or secular screeds
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Look Them Ears!
- Consumer Reports on naturopathy
- Friday Cephalopod: Can you smile with your eyes?
- Puzzling things about the Invisible Man
- Unprincipled loyalty switching
- Facebook, Oh Facebook: L’Origine du monde. (NSFW)
- Flu Shot Jesus.
- Doug Hofstadter, Flight, and AI
- “we live in a loving, compassionate, exceptional country.”
- The ‘Palestine exemption’ to free speech
- For Rojava
- Black Room.
- Design Crime: Art & Social Justice.
- Abdominal Organs, Genitals, Semen, Menstrual Blood, Fetus, Heredity.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #608.
- Charles Darwin and every scientist ever
- Caucusing while brown
- We are not as unique as we think we are
- More Pearls Before Swine fun
- Film Review: Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005)
- There’s a metaphor in here somewhere
- Eagles & Patriots fans: watch your behavior if you’re in Minneapolis this weekend
- Origami: Cube Tessellation
- Interesting term
- Police propaganda and deception
- Making an eye
- Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (1420).
- Spleen, Gallbladder, Intestines.
- Clues to the evolution of multicellularity from Tetrabaena
- What has Adam Corolla been up to lately?
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Tearful.
- Scooped science gets a second chance
- Lazy linking
- Jon Del Arroz tries so hard to promote himself
- Yes Means Yes
- There are more Stephen Millers out there
- On Writing: Drafting, Revising, and the Critique of an Ever-Shifting Present
- The State Of The Union (Is Scary)
January 2018
- Replaying Iraq warmongering rhetoric with North Korea
- No heroes — unless we’re all heroes
- Asshole vs Asshole: “Bloodsports”.
- Jehovah, A Very Stable Genius.
- Lobsters are not people
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Word Wednesday.
- Do some faint wisps of shame still waft through the minds of Republicans?
- Blood, Veins, Lungs, Liver.
- Is That A Mouse In Your Pocket?
- Secular Social Justice — we need more of it
- The Daily Bird #606.
- What might a matriarchy look like?
- I think I might look a bit more blissful
- WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE ORANGUTAN!
- I had to check the bottom of my office chair
- How the drinking bird works
- The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
- What Does God Need With A Blood Right?
- Isidorus On The Nature Of Man.
- How to make people believe you have psychic powers
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #605.
- How to demonstrate your love of animals
- For sale: one country
- The Thick Gets Plottier
- Illinois gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy vows to shut down Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Jordan Peterson does not understand evolution, nervous systems, or logic
- Monty Python animations
- Winning Hearts and Minds
- Good riddance to Chief Wahoo
- There Just Isn’t Enough FUCK YOU.
- Are all mentalists frauds?
- Scratch Wallace State off your list of prospective colleges, everyone!
- Trees 4
- Luna Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #604.
- How did this guy become a darling of the conservative skeptic/atheist movement?
- And that’s the good news?
- It’s always even worse than you can imagine
- One year at FTB (Non-fiction)
- Oh, Boy! Airport Security!
- Recommendations sought for Batman film
- There is no culture of violence, Elon Musk is just selling flamethrowers for fun
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Those old reliable scapegoats
- Score another win for Satan
- All my life, the Republicans have been evil stooges
- Here begins the account of fish.
- Helios Day Mood.
- You Better Have A Treat…
- The Daily Bird #603.
- The Fake News
- Talking Sexual Assault
- Conan O’Brien learns and then shares some Haitian history
- Funny but not funny
- Giving names to gods
- Cancer Chronicles 9: Anger.
- Drowning
- Trump the Revelator.
- Here begins the account of worms.
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #602.
- Welding and Drilling
- Manbij, Again
- One ghastly person interviews another ghastly person
- Second acts for abusers
- Blogging anniversary
- Just watching this left me exhausted
- Cancer Chronicles 8: One one thousand, Two one thousand…
- Friday Cephalopod: Standing tall
- Hindu extremists get mad over a film
- Of The Nature Of Snakes.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Snowshape.
- The Daily Bird #601.
- Never gonna believe anything ever again
- I Wish Sazz Could See This
- Oil up the guillotine
- The felt sense model of consent
- Smearing Ahed Tamimi and her family
- Salamander, Saura, Newt.
- What makes something black?
- Cancer Chronicles 7: Shock & Silences.
- Damn Those Meddling, Ugly Women!
- Who has the snake-filled head?
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Such wonders you can observe in the 21st century
- Cool Pope makes unintentionally funny tweet
- Dollar Bill Origami: Multiple Bill Folds.
- The Daily Bird #600.
- We made the list!
- How did I miss this?
- Argument Clinic: White Supremacists
- Ursula K. Le Guin: An Appreciation
- What is the point of an apology?
- Subtitles? We don’t need no stinkin’ subtitles!
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Two, Part Four
- Garrison Keillor exposed
- “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837).
- If you don’t realize this is creepy, maybe the problem is you
- Word Wednesday.
- The dead-enders who are stifling the Democratic party
- Siren, Seps, Lizard.
- It shouldn’t matter if we can ever truly know if lobsters feel pain
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- I’d rather be a Thespian than a Spartan
- Lost in the swamp between Dunning-Kruger and Imposter Syndrome
- Interesting Spin
- Sabotage the institution, then blame it for poor performance
- Hugh Masekela (1939-2018)
- TNET 13: Park Conscious.
- Ursula Le Guin? Dead?
- Picking on the weak and hopeless
- RIP Ursula Le Guin
- Haitians respond to Trump
- Surprising result
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Two, Part Three
- Coach Dave: “I Had A Dream!”
- Film review: Death of a Gentleman (2015) and corruption in cricket
- Badger In The Woods.
- Boa, Jaculus.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- That’s some payoff
- Dollar Bill Folds.
- Hiding behind Pepe isn’t very effective
- The Daily Bird #598.
- Zombie Volvox !
- Who gets to be a brave survivor?
- Bolingbrook’s ‘unofficial’ political parties respond to the 2018 State of the Village address (Fiction)
- A guide to sexual violence terminology
- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
- How Trump is enabled
- Gloria Allred’s story
- Mary’s Monday Metazoan: A horror story
- When you meet a Trump supporter up close
- Cadet Bone Spurs gets burned
- Scitalis, Amphisbaena, Ydrus.
- Luna Day Mood.
- Squirrel!
- What being a man means to Andrew Sullivan
- Some Stuff About Nuclear Reactors
- The Power Of Representation
- Paleontologist in training
- We are all Florida now
- How the shutdown is viewed in China
- Climate Crocks: If the planet’s warming, why am I cold?
- Scenes from a march
- The Missing Raturday.
- Dig into the racist circle jerk
- Pence & The Luciferians.
- Bad, not mad
- Asp
- Helios Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #596.
- That Was Too Easy
- Web Exclusive: Illuminati investigates Clow UFO Base following Women’s March in Chicago (Fiction)
- The comedians are having a field day with the story about Trump being a naughty boy
- Feminist Movies: The Mark of a Dying Civilisation.
- What to do if you are trapped in quicksand
- Cancer Chronicles 6: Tired and Tunneled.
- Viper
- Kronos Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #595.
- Bolingbrook United responds to the 2018 Bolingbrook State of the Village address (Non-Fiction)
- Ugly joke, uglier reality
- Oh, This Old Thing?
- Self care Saturday, January 20: When I step outside on the first day of spring
- The wisdom of Rick and Morty
- Trumpers don’t like being called a cult
- Why are there so few asexual men?
- The strange story of triplets separated at birth
- Burn it all down
- Why is our government such a mess?
- Friday Cephalopod: It’s a colorful way to go, I guess
- Forcing students to attend classes
- How to cheat your way into a successful (?) scientific career
- The Gender Inclusivity of Diverse White Privilege Equity
- The important role of the cricket pitch
- Not a good look, St Cloud
- How to make a light painting robot.
- Basilisk.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Squirrel!
- The real grounds for immediate impeachment
- Hacking AI Classifiers
- Trans feminism and the law
- I always wondered what Forbes magazine was good for
- Samantha Bee discusses the backlash to the #MeToo movement
- And the Whiteness Award goes to…
- Christian group seeks to roll back transgender prisoner rights
- I finally broke down and got a digital subscription to a newspaper
- Aziz Ansari and the plight of Good Men
- Fear of Pizza.
- TV review: Black Mirror Season 4 (2017)
- Yet more legal expenses arising
- Dragon.
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- Probably Not A Bird.
- The Daily Bird #594.
- Uncommon Sense: An Antidote for America
- More evidence for co-option in the evolution of soma
- Canadian exceptionalism
- The best communion story ever
- Little Fentanyl Stories
- Are You As Smart As A President?
- I get email
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Only a crazy system could allow this to happen
- Ooooookaaaaay…
- Backlash to the #MeToo movement
- Word Wednesday.
- Poe: Colour Plate 8.
- Perindens.
- Moors are lovely places, no werewolves at all
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Snowscape.
- The Daily Bird #593.
- Another one for the Streisand Effect
- Yet More Subby Stuff
- Jordan Peterson, Jack off of all trades, Master of none
- A reminder for the first day of classes
- Gender analysis of Ex Machina
- More appalling stories of ‘the greatest health care system in the world’
- Thirteen lives wrecked
- So that’s ok then
- Responding to the “Can you explain that?” challenge
- Yes, I do accept guest posts!
- Books 7
- Y’all are reading the wrong book
- Poe: Colour Plate 7.
- FOOBAWL
- Bees
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Hey, Offa My Lawn!
- The Daily Bird #592.
- What Did They Know, and When?
- It’s that bad
- Mayor Claar locks down Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Letter From Birmingham Jail
- From the Webmaster: Martin Luther King Jr’s March on Chicago
- Mary’s Monday Metazoan, for real: Turtles are achieving the feminist ideal!
- Mary’s Monday Metazo…wait, no, that’s not it
- Kylo Ren is this week’s undercover boss
- Chelsea Manning announces candidacy for the US senate
- The opposite of Disneyfied
- Genes are not a justification for racism
- Stealing everyday items
- Yet More Incoherent Thinking about AI
- Stealing Fire.
- Bagged.
- Poe: Colour Plate 6.
- Eagle
- I’ve totally lost track of how many ‘strands’ are in DNA
- Luna Day Mood.
- Bathing Jay, Part 4.
- The Daily Bird #591.
- Erasing women from media
- Scaring young people with stories of the Rapture
- Remember The Days When The US Used Nuclear Weapons Against Americans?
- Another Day, Another Bag 2.
- Sri Lanka backtracks on allowing women to buy alcohol
- Working on…
- Who are the women who work in the Trump White House?
- Sunday Facepalm.
- Guys. Guys. You should be terrified of this new development.
- Poe: Colour Plate 5.
- Peacock.
- Bad Canada, good Canada
- Helios Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #590.
- Sunday Sermon: The Republic Goes to War
- Man, I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to exclude cops from Pride
- FEMINISM ISN’T SCIENCE!11!
- Witness the greatest health care system in the world in action
- Quench
- Another Day, Another Bag.
- How to speak hip-hop
- Things that bug me: gluten
- The history of racism in rock and roll
- That Ol’ White Magic.
- Leading Democrats support and enable Trump’s warrantless domestic spying
- Poe: Colour Plate 4.
- Ducks
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Raturday.
- The Daily Bird #589.
- Association with a sex worker should not be a criminal charge
- How Did I Not Hear of This Before Now?
- Self care Saturday, January 13: Sim Gretina
- Deeper and Deeper He Goes
- Friday Cephalopod: How does a cephalopod poop?
- Benched
- Swift global blowback to Trump’s racism
- Cancer Chronicles 5: A Refusal.
- A trivial point about selection that some people just don’t get
- Stephanie Zvan on Recovered Memories
- Why is ice slippery?
- Steven Pinker and the New York Times are making us dumber
- A Movie Spells The End of Civilisation As We Know It!
- Poe: Colour Plate 3.
- Swan
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- Crows on the Railing.
- The Daily Bird #588.
- I’d rather not have my meals spiced with bullshit, thank you very much
- You Want It Darker?
- Crazy trans woman syndrome
- Trump goes flat-out racist
- I don’t understand their objection to “shithole countries.”
- The Norwegians cover their eyes, embarrassed to be singled out
- Revolutionary Left Radio and anticapitalist sectarianism
- Are you depressed enough yet?
- A breakthrough against Israeli apartheid at the New York Times
- TNET 12: Despotism (1946).
- Poe: Colour Plate 2.
- Crow
- The kitchen as a metaphor for the war against the patriarchy
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #587.
- No, Oprah is not going to be a viable Democratic candidate
- Reminder: Get your flu shot
- Cissexist vocabulary
- Recovered Memories and Sexual Assault – Part Two
- So that’s what hi-fi means
- Seth Meyers catches up on the news
- The right take
- Link Roundup: January 2018
- This Trump legal maneuver will fail
- I had no idea that this law existed
- Recovered Memories and Sexual Assault – Part One
- Chloroform, consent…they’re both the same thing, right?
- Most accurate description of the current state of the internet ever
- Word Wednesday.
- Taking a more holistic approach to treating depression
- Poe: Colour Plate 1.
- Quail
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- I guess I’m not the only one disenchanted with movement atheism
- The Daily Bird #586.
- “Mandated free speech” was supposed to be a joke
- For Your Personal Protection
- Trump as Calvin
- Oh, sure, that’ll go well
- It is hard to imagine how people can fall for this, but some do
- A Puzzle for Humanism
- If you ever doubted that Steven Pinker’s sympathies lie with the alt-right
- Cold Case Christianity For Kids, mother and daughter team review – Chapter Two, Part Two
- Why would a school in Washington state be named after Robert E. Lee, anyway?
- A new euphemism for goofing off
- Why you shouldn’t drink moonshine and why your dog should avoid chocolate
- Landor’s Cottage.
- Caladrius.
- Tiw’s Day Mood.
- Sleepy Puppy.
- I know we’re not supposed to have heroes, but some teachers deserve the title
- The next Mythicist Milwaukee con will be worse than the last
- It’s Worse Than You Think: Big Brother Coming to Stay
- Sources: Bolingbrook to investigate the Clintons (Fiction)
- Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Just a little nibble
- Catch Criminals, Tactically
- Hard to believe the attempt to vindicate Sandusky retroactively continues
- I have a serious question for Kansas Republicans
- Memo to James Damore
- The Hot Dog Code.
- Stuff 7
- How To Play Your Food.
- Three Billboards and Oprah Winfrey at the Golden Globes awards
- Have An Apple Tree? Get Out Your Toast!
- The Cask Of Amontillado.
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
- Phoenix.
- Luna Day Mood.
- Squirrel.
- The Daily Bird #584.
- Don’t dump and run
- Oprah gives a phenomenal speech
- Intriguing Theory on the Pay Gap
- Seth Meyers at the Golden Globes
- Innocent even after found guilty
- CamperForce documentary on elderly migrant workers
- An animated Oglaf!
- Anti-Clericalism in Medieval Persian Poetry.
- The Spectre of Future Meltdowns
- Atheist “gods”
- Why does Trump tweet like a teenager?
- Sunday Facepalm: Trump Is NOT An Artist.
- I can’t bear a modern American church service
- The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar.
- Coot
- Helios Day Mood.
- Richard Hoppe has died
- Liam Neeson will play him in the movie
- The Daily Bird #583.
- Sunday Sermon: The Republic – Project Management
- How Sarah Silverman responded to a troll
- 1001 Inventions and The Library of Secrets.
- Ganda the Rhinoceros.
- We have video of Trump tweeting
- Raturday.
- Couriers of the Incremental Apostasy.
- This is good news?
- The Premature Burial.
- Finally!
- Kronos Day Mood.
- Skeptic Magazine: rots from the head
- Snow
- A Thesis
- Self care Saturday, January 6: Gotta adjust the settings on your human sometimes
- Surprise withdrawal in Ohio senate race
- FOR FREUD’S SAKE, YOU GET TO DISCRIMINATE!
- Friday Cephalopod: Time to rejoice
- Feelin’ Pyro.
- If you’re multicellular, you can’t help but be mosaic
- How science is helping eliminate false convictions
- I have found my people
- Trump the Thump.
- The “intellectual dark web”
- The Black Cat.
- Partridge.
- Frigg’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #581.
- Things Get Complicated Sometimes
- Bluebird
- Una Pregunta sobre Chicharrónes
- Holy Fuck, Carol Tavris: Sexual Assault Apologetics
- A few things I expect you to know if you want to talk about evolution
- Lifestyles of the rich and drunken
- A Slow Revolution.
- Art Prep.
- China uses Trump to plot its own rise
- A Weird Stress-Dream
- Lego Hell.
- The Gold Bug.
- Heron
- Thor’s Day Mood.
- The Daily Bird #580.
- We’ve been building Kook Magnets!
- The Essential Tension
- Steamrolling Charter rights in street surveillance
- We get letters: HJ Hornbeck and other matters (Fiction)
- Kremlin Watch: Papadopoulos, Fusion GPS, and Fake Americans
- Speechless
- The Tell-Tale Heart.
- The Atheist Conference is looking a bit shaky
- Goose
- Odin’s Day Mood.
- Dave Chappelle continues to make bad trans jokes
- Sharp and Shiny.
- The Daily Bird #579.
- Some responses to “A cautionary tale on reading phylogenetic trees”
- More money than sense
- Kick him out of office already
- We’re all going to deteriorate and start leaking someday
- I’m not publishing bad comments (except for the one I’m writing about in this post)
- I asked God, Michele, and he said “NOOOOOOOO!”
- Just Say No, Minnesota.
- Relax, Oregon
- The Pit And The Pendulum.
- Nightingale.
- Tīw’s Day Mood.
- Pepper.
- How can you show that something does not exist?
- The Daily Bird #578.
- Chlamydomonas monograph
- I Saw a Stranger in the Mirror…
- Holy Fuck, Carol Tavris: Moral Panics
- Remember The Days When the US Used Nuclear Weapons Against Americans?
- Cancer Chronicles 4: Pathology & Expression.
- Nephew
- 2017: The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World.
- A Diverse Eye Chart.
- The Masque Of The Red Death.
- Jay
- Luna Day Mood.
- Fire and Foliage.
- The Daily Bird #577.
- Sonic weapons on Skeptoid
- Mammals? Using mammaries? Shock. Horror!
- Goodbye Peter Capaldi… Hello Jodie Whittaker
- Holy Fuck, Carol Tavris: Manufacturing Dissonance