2019
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2019 4,769
December 2019
- I totally agree with this
- Jack’s Walk
- View from the Future
- Tree Tuesday
- Color, credits, and Cary Grant
- The Art of Book Design: The Strange Year
- Shades and Reflections
- The strange new turn taken by anti-Semitism
- The Mansplaining Conference
- I Bet Nobody Saw This Coming!
- Jack’s Walk
- The poor persecuted gun owners
- The Title Says It All
- Move over, Santa Cruz
- Violent reaction to Brazilian comedy film
- Hate Kills: Leelah Alcorn died on December 28, 2014, age 17
- Cancer Sticks: The first and last ‘marlboro man’ has died
- A Memory Braid for Caine
- The Art of Book Design: The Luck O’Lady Joan; A fairy Tale for Women
- Bioethics has teeth
- I refuse to be an agent of Ingsoc
- The fanaticism of football players and their fans
- Or he could switch to arguing that those birds are immigrants, anyway
- What a Waste
- You tried, Dave Barry
- Childhood Fears
- The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2020! (Fiction)
- Marissa Explains It All #4 – “Time to Lean, Time To Clean”
- Who are the people in Star Wars ?
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Instead of Star Wars, Watch This
- Cracks in evangelical support for Trump
- Sweet Dreams: A Tummy Sunday
- A Misadventure
- Film review: The Lobster (2016)
- The Art of Book Design: Old Lady and Young Laddie; Two Christmas Stories
- Defining Violence
- From the Webmaster: Worst Ghosts of 2019? (Mixed)
- Stay home, everyone
- Cover To Cover: Juliana Hatfield gets more amazing year by year
- Two Weeks To Go: Taiwan’s presidential election is on January 11, 2020
- Trump pardons a murderer and war criminal
- The New Age: Linus Torvalds turns 50 today
- Fox hunting is apparently still a thing in the UK
- Sign me up, please!
- It’s Still About the Applications
- Love doesn’t always win in the end, as it turns out
- The Art of Book Design: Children of Winter
- Public goods for the public good, not private enrichment.
- The internet can undermine one’s faith in humanity
- Lands on his feet, like a cat
- Uncomfortable Conversations at Work
- Cyberpunk Creativity
- The Art of Book Design: Captain Becky’s Winter Cruise
- Jack’s Walk
- Mall Jesus
- Corbynizing Sanders
- Beauty contest!
- The third letter: evangelical nonsense
- The second letter: our Christmas dystopia
- Protest, demonstration, revolt, uprising, rebellion, or riot?
- The first letter: an atheist complains
- Letters
- Jack’s Walk
- How the US is exporting bad food and eating habits around the world
- Ho Ho Ho…Happy Secular Holiday!
- Bogus productivity cost estimates
- The least sexy porn ever
- Betelgeuse death watch!
- Film review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (no spoilers)
- The Art ofBook Design:
- Where the spiders at?
- Snowy White Christmas Fluffy: Arctic Fox Edition
- The Perfect Pangburn
- Not Paying Disney for This
- Rationality Rules is a Violent Transphobe
- Marissa Explains It All #3 – 3 Professors
- Jack’s Walk
- 99.99% Sucks: I hate xmas ‘music’
- Hello darkness my old friend
- Investigative journalism that gets results
- The Art of Book Design: The Christmas Cat
- Someone was peeking around in my dreams last night
- Snowy White Christmas Fluffy
- Jack’s Walk
- Midsomer Murders and ethnicity
- Pointless Waste: Another reason guns suck
- Today, I Work: Real things to celebrate on December 25th
- Denmark Made Me Who I Am Today (20+ Years Later)
- US Space Force Marines deployed to Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Highly on-brand for a billionaire
- A Xmas pinup #lovespiders
- The Art of Book Design: A Visit From St. Nicholas (‘Twas The Night Before Christmas)
- Bah, humbug
- Foxconn tries to gouge Wisconsin
- Does this man look like a terrorist to you?
- It’s got to be really crowded in there
- Jack’s Walk
- Williams-Sonoma…why?
- Dubbing, subtitles, and miscommunication
- Marissa Explains It All #2 – Overheard at the Zoo
- How old will you be in heaven?
- Art Attacks: Banksy does it again
- Rest in peace, Mr Studly
- A science writer who doesn’t understand the difference between binary and bimodal
- Pete Buttigieg: The ‘outsider’ who is actually a neoliberal insider
- Doors: 2
- I hope they’ve put their best detective on the case!
- God works in mysterious ways, even in Norway
- Always Read the Fine Print
- Let’s Remember; Randy Suess, 1945-2019
- Exegol Makes No Sense
- How much longer must we put up with this?
- Finding the right holiday gift
- An own goal by Andrew Yang?
- At least I got a battery of mindless things done
- When Fascism Continues to Reign
- Trump is mad as hell about being impeached but not acquitted
- The Art of Book Design: Santa Claus on a Lark
- Michael Moore on Mother Jones and the 2020 election
- I have things to do!
- Various Shades of Sexism and Transphobia
- An update About my Continuing Absence (and more) – Charly
- Let’s Celebrate: Happy Rush Day, 21/12
- Doors: 1
- I’m an Atheist with a Mental Illness.
- Australian government absurdity on fires and climate change
- Marissa Explains It All #1 – The Night’s Watch
- That’s a fine head of hair, grandson
- Film review: The First Temptation of Christ (2019)
- The Clock Must Have Stopped: A republican does something decent for once
- Sorry To Say: Chuck Peddle, 1937-2019
- Chonky
- Why does God need a hundred thousand dollars?
- Dominos and disability rights
- Have you been drinking varnish? A continental comment on the transphobic “restroom panic”
- Just Asking Questions, The Atlantic way
- Why Gender-Specific Christmas Gifts Are Terrible
- The Art of Book Design: Story Lady’s Christmas Stories
- Oh, How I Fondly Remember: The Castle of Caglistro
- Fall Colors, xmas 2019
- I Had To Fly: Don’t you hate when everything goes wrong?
- Nature is Queer
- Trump’s deranged rally speech
- Jack’s Walk
- This is what happens because of Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric
- David Silverman is out, again
- Exposing Your Child to Religion
- Christianity Today approves impeaching Trump
- The Art of Book Design: Christmas Stories
- Have you ever had one of those days where you’re relieved to only have to work with things ?
- You can’t go back again in Star Wars
- HSBC and the drug cartels
- Holiday Gifts and the Christmas Shopping Spree
- I’m not one of the grown-ups in the room
- In Which At One Point I Engaged In Some Christmas Trolling, Fa La La!
- How to identify a predatory journal
- Equal Rights
- No spoilers
- Great moments in sportsmanship
- Warning! Pure Farmland Plant-Based Burger Patties!
- Does religious identification change as people get older?
- Jack’s Walk
- New & Improved Xmas Tree!
- Cell biology…done!
- Twitter produced something valuable? Sacre bleu!
- Let the game of chicken begin!
- Adam Driver and I have something in common
- Another test of the upsuck hypothesis
- The Art of Book Design: Is There A Santa Claus
- Ready For The Warfighter’s Christmas
- Sexism
- The menace of private equity firms
- Impeachment? I’m not enthusiastic
- Today is the big day!
- A lot of people think lip service to science is sufficient
- Trump impeached
- Double Dactyl: Impeachment
- Jack’s Walk
- Football team doctors are not the players’ friends
- The Art of Book Design: Beth’s Wonder-Winter
- Female Only Spaces
- Stuff accomplished today!
- I’m gonna need a fax machine
- ‘Tis The Season To Get Stressed Out
- Revealing behavior of the Democratic establishment
- Why hasn’t Rush Limbaugh collapsed into deflated pile of canvas & sticks?
- Chew more gum, for posterity
- But I don’t want to go play in the snow!
- Jack’s Walk
- Secular Santa
- More pun stuff
- #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
- Living Mythos: Molly Grue’s Mistake
- Get a grip, Carly!
- The aftermath of the Bolivian coup
- There’s something wrong with UNC’s business school
- The Art of Book Design: White Snow Bright Snow
- Tree Tuesday
- I didn’t even know John Void was running!
- Quotas
- Snuggly spiders
- The other Ilhan Omar and her politics of ‘radical love’
- Doing it like Monkeys
- Nobody is above the law!
- Should only have two body segments
- Santa came early, and left Steve Pinker a lump of coal
- The Everyday Life of a Midwest Mom
- Weaponizing big philanthropy
- Jack’s Walk
- Billionaires want to control everything
- Love What You Love
- Not a spider
- Scottish National Party seeks referendum on Scottish independence from the UK
- Work, work, work, work
- The Art of Book Design: Prince Jan, St. Bernard
- That’s one beautiful spider
- Why Scientists Should Be Atheists revisited
- I am not impressed with your anti-spider bigotry, Science Times
- This man is not a racist
- Sermon Traditions Around the World
- But I thought they were the law-and-order party?
- Monday Meslier: 96 – There Are No More Detestable Animals In This World Than Tyrants
- That’s how the right-wing mind works
- The network grows! (Non-Fiction)
- Hackers from parallel universe hack into Village of Bolingbrook servers (Fiction)
- The rising Asian-American presence in US politics
- The Art of Book Design: A Prairie Winter
- Sunday Fakespeare: Ipsos Custodes
- Check out our updated roster on FtB!
- Curious understanding of the word ‘divisive’
- Let’s Play a Game
- What to expect from right-wingers after the Labour defeat
- Self-perception is a very twisty concept
- Bait-and-Switch: How Transphobes Manipulate Word Definitions in order to Advance their Position
- Maybe Dr Seuss was right
- The carbon bucket will soon overflow
- “Kind” Does Not Mean “Nice”
- Doesn’t ICE have better things to do?
- The Art of Book Design: The Christmas Fairy
- My guide to drone music
- What is the benefit of remote starting cars?
- Are we screwed? It sure looks like we are.
- This heathen mommy is ready to write!
- The secular predator problem
- Spider story time
- A Rant About the UK Election (They DID Vote In Their Interests)
- How Was Your Boycott?
- I’m Not Celebrating: Happy ACAB day, December 12
- Jack’s Walk
- Dream vehicle
- Double Dactyl: Brexit
- Why scientists should be atheists
- It is the last day of the semester!
- We have a valuable export in this country!
- The Art of Book Design: The Lady of the Snows
- Knives are less dangerous than guns, duh!
- Fungi Friday
- Examining Your Political Views for Contradictions and Double Standards
- Volvox wall art
- Date night at the spider house
- Fake Diplomacy
- The evolution of Menorasaurus
- Jack’s Walk
- Samantha Bee updates us on impeachment
- Justice Demands You Feel Better
- TNET 36 – Narwhal the puppy
- Bad early election news from the UK
- The worst Christmas song while grading is…
- Let’s just give up on patriotism
- The libs who cried wolf: a cautionary tail
- Taken Aback(side): The backlash against Lizzo’s backless shirt
- The Art of Book Design: The Rambler Club’s Winter Camp
- The Harm Principle and its Limitations
- Once the well is poisoned, does adding more poison matter?
- A very important list
- Volvox in Brooklyn
- Pitter patter — the beginning of the end
- Travis Pangburn: Chickenhawk
- Are you boycotting YouTube this week?
- Travis Pangburn, “the Jacob Wohl of the IDW”
- Pointed
- A Revealing Experiment
- Tuning out YouTube? (Non-fiction)
- Web Exclusive: Aliens celebrate after Village of Palatine votes to allow sale of cannabis (Fiction)
- Rules are made for people, not people for rules
- Going Down the YouTubes
- All-North America Summarize Proust Competition
- Jack’s Walk
- Vote for Labour tomorrow!
- Delenda Youtube
- Blissful Silence: Four days without youtube
- The Art of Book Design: Winter Poems by Favorite American Poets, Illustrated
- The financial finagling of the British Royal family
- Imagine how much the spiders hate it
- The Russian Adventure Continues
- Pangburn and Shermer can both crawl into a hole and disappear
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights
- This one is for Marcus Ranum
- How to make your professor cry
- Shocker: The War in Afghanistan Was a Bad Idea
- DON’T LOOK AT YOUTUBE until the 14th
- Baby it’s cold outside
- Message in a Time Bottle
- Non-binary singular personal pronoun ‘they’ is word of the year
- Jack’s Walk
- Quick collective decision making by ducks
- Yikes, Silverman is SLAPPing some more
- Link Roundup: December 2019
- The Cowards Come Home : India’s two new Delhi-terious laws
- As Intended: All your base DNA pairs belong to Verogen
- Add Ads Or Delete: Youtube’s new policing…I mean policies
- The future Johnson-Trump deal following Brexit
- Yay! Atheism+ is back!
- Teacher’s Corner: Fuck Childhood Poverty
- The Art of Book Design: All Among The Loggers or Norman Carver’s Winter in a Lumber Camp
- The lies about the Afghanistan war, just like the lies about previous wars
- The view out my office window
- Why couldn’t this have come out earlier in the semester?
- Tree Tuesday
- Thinking about Xmas presents for the family, on a budget
- Who do you worship?
- Lovely lake, scary lake
- Oh Look! It’s Another Near-Sea-Level Base!
- Commenting Policy
- The greatest mathematician who never was
- The Grift at the End of Mental Health
- Jack’s Walk
- Seems appropriate to me
- Silverman screws up, again
- Afghanarchy Wins: The WaPo’s report is unshocking and awful
- Can I be in Generation Who-Gives-A-Crap?
- The people in the U.S. Border Patrol are scum
- An Atheist Blog
- Uncool. No.
- The Art of Book Design: Marigold’s Winter
- The Spherical Spider
- The massive effort to stop Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders
- Ripples for Caine- Water is Life
- The police could always use horoscopes, dowsing, and psychics to find culprits
- George Church has a fancy hammer. You’re all looking a bit like nails right now
- Chlamydomonas swag
- Clow UFO Base MMA Match between Mayor Claar and former V.P. Joe Biden ends in draw (Fiction)
- Essence of Thought on the Anti-Theism International Convention (Non-fiction)
- Hello Actually Narrow But Vociferous Slice of World!
- Donald Trump is such a charmer
- Don’t Learn, Don’t Think: Uneducated = Uninformed
- Selfishly Motivated: What do anti-vaxxers really want?
- No Need To Wait: December 8 is a day Canada should look back in shame
- NYC grassroots activists call Amazon’s bluff – and win!
- We Are Moving Backwards: The 2019 CIVICUS Report isn’t a feelgood story
- Dang, that’s not an inaccurate picture of how the immune system works
- Yes, He Is: Michael Harriot was right about Mayo Pete
- In case you need an occasional reminder…
- A Totalitarian Playground
- Is Apple trying to drive me away?
- The Art of Book Design: In The Deep Of The Snow
- “What the futz do drag queens have to do with Atheism?”
- Taking advantage of people desperate for miracle cures
- A competition I can get behind
- AAAAAAH! Monsters! Monsters in the basement!
- Guess who is being referred to?
- Measles cases surge globally. Happy now, anti-vaxxers?
- The conversation begins at 2pm
- The Deafening Silence of White Privilege
- Yes, It’s about Heritage
- The Art of Book Design: Sneewittchen (Snow White)
- Want to be president? First become a billionaire
- Drop out, Mayor Pete
- Heritage . I’ve learned to hate that word.
- How Could You Be Wrong?
- Voting
- Speaking the truth when resigning
- Buttheads Should Butt Out: Another reason I hate smokers
- Disappointing sexual performance
- Jack’s Walk
- The solution to yesterday’s logic puzzle
- On the anniversary of École Polytechnique: Speaking of things that do not surprise
- Evolutionary Psychology gets another whack
- Misery Repeats: Meet the new rapists, same as the old rapists
- The Art of Book Design: The Field of Ice
- At least he had some limits
- Academics corrupted by power
- Fungi Friday
- A casual conversation about science
- A little too on the nose: It doesn’t start with École Polytechnique
- A work of prophecy
- Timeline: Rachel Oates and EssenceOfThought
- CO 2 emissions for 2019 will hit record, but rate of increase is slower
- Disaster Animated: “Le Mans 1955” is a brilliant short film
- Jack’s Walk
- Philanthropy as a license to behave badly
- How Quillete packages itself for so-called liberals
- The Art of Book Design: On a Snowbound Train
- One-sided dichotomies
- Nice little brain teaser
- An Architectual Amusement
- Wait! The end of the semester isn’t all that bad!
- Everyone is on edge
- On Billionaires and Charity
- The perfect social medium
- The News Cycle
- Saya Nomi
- “No malarkey”? Really?
- Jack’s Walk
- Wheeeee!
- L’enfant Terrible Tire: tuerie de l’École polytechnique, 6 décembre 1989
- I can’t believe I’m defending Donald Trump
- Justice Still Denied: The Bhopal Disaster continues, thirty five years later
- Shy and nesting
- The Art of Book Design: Winter Pictures
- The Democratic party’s problematic foreign policy positions
- I can’t abide Biden
- The Last Bee of the Year
- Guess what time of year it is
- More Shots Fired in The War on Reality
- ‘We celebrate Christmas in Bolingbrook!’: Mayor Claar sparks protests after changing Clow UFO Base’s holiday concert to a Christmas concert (Fiction)
- Post-election plans for the NHS
- Anti-theism conference imploding
- Pssst…I caught one of my spiders reproducing this morning
- So much for editorial freedom
- Jack’s Walk
- Kamala Harris is out?
- Yes, the Right to Vote
- Say hello to my little friend
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Intro/Chapter One
- The Art of Book Design: Studies of Trees in Winter
- Why I distrust US media coverage of foreign countries
- It’s a what called what, founded by who?
- Tree Tuesday
- No Heroes; No Stars
- That a zygote is human does not imply that it is a person
- More Controversy and An Apology… Also, I Say Trans Rights
- Criminalizing fighting in sport
- Isn’t regular football brutal enough?
- Using anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party
- Origami: Passiflora Ornata
- The government of the U.S.A. continues to suffer from GOP sabotage campaign
- Jack’s Walk
- The Great Paradox of Science by Mano Singham
- Fascistbook Sucks: Another day, another reason to hate it
- Lilith and her shadow
- The Art of Book Design: A Journey to the North Pole
- We had a visitor!
- Arguments are closed, I’m not going to argue with anyone about trans rights
- Moonvine Madness
- Machinists & engineers over machines and MBAs!
- The history lesson we all need
- Rewriting The Holocaust
- How does it feel being the willing enablers of an Evil Empire?
- More support for the crazification factor
- Cobweb construction under way #SpiderSunday
- The Medicine Goes Down: And in the US, it will cost $150 per day
- And So It Came To Pass
- Old School: Producing 8-bit and 16-bit audio in DOS
- Jack Frost’s Little Prisoners
- The Art of Book Design: A Snow Baby
- The dangerous game that ‘moderate’ (i.e., center-right) Democrats are playing
- I get email
- That is the most on-brand thing I’ve ever seen
- Now wondering if my wife is holding out on me
- Where is Patrick Kessler, and how much was he paid?
- Die, Boomers, Die: The more, the sooner, the better
- Sunday Sermon: Delete ‘Failson’ Terminology
- I Watched Frozen 2 (and I liked it)
November 2019
- Billionaires freak out over Sanders and Warren
- Chick-fil-A alienates its right-wing Christian supporters
- Regressive taxes are good!
- Spiders: The Next Generation
- Auction #10 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- The Art of Book Design: Goody Two-Shoes
- Auction #9 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- But what are they going to do about it?
- Let’s Remember: Billy Tipton, 1914-1989, Jazz legend and Transgender Man
- Let’s Backtrack: Tandy’s Deskmate was released in November 1984
- I guess I have to take “Eat the Rich” literally
- What is 2 + 2?
- In Need of Cute
- Jack’s Walk
- Ohio leads again, and not in a good way
- Against the liberation/assimilation lens
- Cry me a river
- A victory video
- Wouldn’t it be nice if the people who wrote abortion laws had to know some biology?
- The Art of Book Design: The Black Dog
- The missing cryptocurrency queen
- Bad sex
- ‘Tis The Season To Get Stabby
- A Very Good Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving awards
- Thanksgiving
- Spider Queen
- Jack’s Walk
- Jonathan Miller (1934-2019)
- The Art of Book Design: Guinevere
- Jeremy Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of secret deal to sell the NHS
- Marketing atheism badly
- All Kinds of Flooded
- Four Persian drivers at an intersection
- The President Is…
- He did it. They finally let Sergio Canavero carry out a head transplant.
- Pete Buttigieg’s smug complacency on race issues
- Jack’s Walk
- Triangles are fine, but Rorschach is lovely
- Facehugger alert
- God must love triangles
- The Art of Book Design: A Saltwater Hero
- Shattering Pyrex glassware
- We’ve both got ugly, giant monsters looming over our shoulders
- A Fire Maple for Caine
- The War on Thanksgiving?
- Tony Robbins, super-creep
- Meanwhile, in More Depressing Times
- King of Anglers
- Jack’s Walk
- The ‘uncanny valley’ and CGI
- Depressing Times
- The Art of Book Design: Earlier Stories: First Series
- Solitary confinement for children
- Re-reading Shadow & Claw
- Happy Birthday, Knut!
- Tree Tuesday
- Mayor Pete gets a bad burn
- A remarkable instance of sneaky corruption
- I wouldn’t want to be a man this fragile
- It’s settled! The Richard Carrier lawsuit is over (Non-fiction)
- The kiss of death
- Anti-social behavior
- We win!
- Jack’s Walk
- Saving the internet
- Belfie
- The Art of Book Design: The Poetical works of John Keats
- Film review: The Report (2019)
- Darn, now I’ve got to watch TV
- Spotting Spiders
- I’ve had analogies run away on me before, too
- Religion is a blight on the world
- There are ways to rid oneself of troublesome professors
- A tragic loss
- The first Thanksgiving: Was it aliens? (Fiction)
- Real Life Intrudes: Excuse my dust
- The existential shock of death
- Minor accomplishments!
- The Art of Book Design: The Thistles of Mount Cedar
- The last debate moderators panel framed their questions in right wing terms
- Citations Needed
- 160 years ago today
- Deep Penetration Tests
- Carrying a metaphor just a little too far
- Tegenaria domestica : a #spider
- Blackberries everywhere
- Why Brexit endangers the British National Health Service
- Administrivia
- The Art of Book Design: Deeds of Daring Done by Girls
- My feelings about fashion
- Behind the Bolivian coup
- The Art of The Cynical Apology
- Grifters are drawn to each other
- Jack’s Walk
- Key features of Labour election manifesto
- Gahan Wilson is dead
- The menace of private equity firms
- Fuzzy and Fierce
- Humans are good for something
- The Art of Book Design: Pemrose Lorry, Campfire Girl
- A few rules for living
- Ok, that does it. I’m done with Pete Buttigieg
- This comic is making me uncomfortable
- Well, that bad sci-fi vehicle might have a weakness
- Academia can be easily exploited
- I Wonder What This Cost?
- Utah Criminal Code Chapter 9 §702-5
- Jack’s Walk
- The making of a ‘best seller’
- Update on the impeachment hearings
- Scott Warren acquitted in second trial
- Beautiful plumage
- Happy Birthday, Caine
- The Art of Book Design: A Girl of High Adventure
- First they took from the poor, then the middle class, then the upper middle class, then …
- What do you mean “boundaries”???
- How Many ‘ologies’ do you Know
- Professor Lying Liar lying
- No gods, masters, saints, prophets, icons…do I really need to make a list?
- Voyager’s Rover
- Truly pathetic
- Richard Feynman on science and beauty
- Jack’s Walk
- Bernie calls it as he sees it: What happened in Bolivia was a coup
- Spider speedrun
- The Art of Book Design: Girls of Mount Morris
- A season for giving
- Catching up on the impeachment inquiry
- Elric
- Making Marmelade
- Every family dies a different way
- Turn it Up To 11
- Someone is unfamiliar with the idea of pareidolia
- Ads that avoid explicit use of sexual terms
- Jack’s Walk
- How even lousy political books can become best sellers
- The Crossroads
- We’re going to have to pay more attention to Nick Fuentes now
- The Art of Book Design: Two Maryland Girls
- Ungrateful wretches
- Slumlord billionaires
- Tree Tuesday
- And now, a word from the Illinois Patriarchy Institute
- In my day, we called it “Helter Skelter”
- How I feel about the philanthropy of billionaires
- Every day is International Men’s Day
- When Downplaying Language Is A Giveaway
- Starving the colleges
- Is it possible Republicans are this dumb? Well, maybe if they’re on meth…
- How unethical do you have to be to resign from the Trump administration?
- Jack’s Walk
- Book review: Moneyland (2019)
- Mayor Claar tells Congressional committee that Trump wanted him to investigate Biden family (Fiction)
- Focus stacking!
- The Art of Book Design: The Carter Girls
- I’m going to have to disagree with you there, Snopes
- October Haze
- How did the so-called rationalist community become so gullible?
- It’s a Nice Day for Some White Welding
- Another year older (Non-fiction)
- Transgender locker room policy passes at Illinois school district D211 (Non-fiction)
- God works in mysterious ways
- Democrat wins governorship in Louisiana
- Post-prandial #SpiderSunday
- The Art of Book Design: Girls
- Teacher’s Corner: How Bizarre
- Demographic changes as a threat to democracy
- Confirmed: We are the baddies
- So, the Royal Family…what a piece of work, eh?
- Maybe It’s Just Showing Off
- Interesting news on the ancestry of Orangutans
- Lazy linking – the Trump circus
- Sporadic blogging coming up
- Can spiders die of over-eating? Asking for a friend
- TheArt of Book Design: Bush Boys
- Eye of newt, toe of frog, might as well fling some tardigrade genes into the cauldron
- Corbyn’s bold broadband plan
- Speaking of Plutonium
- Jack’s Walk
- Samantha Bee on the impeachment process
- Shaming people to act virtuously
- I guess we have to kill all the superstar scientists now, too
- No comment
- Today was supposed to be a feeding day…
- The Art of Book Design: Those Smith Boys
- What exactly is Trump hiding in his tax returns?
- Really? Vaping is the bridge too far for Trump supporters?
- These young peoples sure knows their media…
- Getting Political For a Minute
- Our greatest ally was unexpected
- Jack’s Walk
- Reality and consciousness
- Some important progressive wins
- The Great Escape
- In the weeds with analogies
- Deep Rifts have become gaping, uncrossable chasms
- Bad science tries to drip its way into everything
- The Art of Book Design: The Funnnyland Boys
- CBP wants retrial of Scott Warren to omit mention of Trump policies
- What billionaires actually do
- Did anyone see this movie?
- Winner Take All
- Jack’s Walk
- Yeth, Mithtrethth, I live to therve.
- This is absurd
- You’ll have to come and get me, coppers!
- It’s grifters all the way down
- Thirty eight minutes of ripping on Bill Maher is not enough
- Blog milestone
- Can you spot the lizard?
- Mud fight on the right!
- The Art of Book Design: The Boys of Riverton
- Is it too early to decorate for Christmas?
- HIS EMAILS THO
- The Kunstwistergrabber
- Fall Colors 2019 – 13
- This is what ‘bipartisanship’ really means: Praising bigots because they are your friends
- Jack’s Walk
- A new offense to add to the list of doing while black: Eating
- Swan Swam Back Again: An Autumn Walk II
- Feeding time for the spiders today
- The Art of Book Design: Sea Island Boys
- Today on the Twitters…
- I bet they did not see that coming
- Mark your calendars!
- What killed World of Warcraft for you?
- What happens when capitalists get their hands on innovation?
- Let the Killing Times Roll!
- Clow UFO Base reports record profits from UFO political ads (Fiction)
- John Oliver on the evil of SLAPP lawsuits
- Jack’s Walk
- What happened in Bolivia
- And then…the monster leapt out and surprised me!
- Swan Swam over the Lake: An Autumn Walk
- Nigel Farage executes a ‘reverse ferret’
- Fierceroller
- Hey, John Oliver, do Richard Carrier next
- I would pay good money to see a cage match with Nick Fuentes and Charlie Kirk
- The Art of Book Design: Boys Own Book
- Solitude and loneliness
- How ’bout if we remember our veterans by not starting any more wars?
- You heard the man, up your game
- Garbage in, garbage all over the place
- In case you ever doubted that Uber was evil
- Probably Not What They Are Thinking
- Jonathan Pie on the British elections
- The Art of Book Design: The Oak Street Boys’ Club
- Former Brazilian president Lula released from prison
- Someone gets it
- #SpiderSunday: Pinin’ for Texas
- Link roundup: November 2019
- The garden
- Christian comedian accused of sexually harassing women
- Overcoming entomophobia
- Who the heck is Josh Dietz?
- Capitalism 101 – The Rising Tide of Bullshit
- Parsing Sentences (a Joke)
- I don’t get it
- Treating spiders with the right attitude
- Trump family grifters have to pay fine and take courses
- The Art of Book Design: The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book
- Mayor Pete can go away now
- A town called Anna
- The teaching life, I guess
- John Denver’s Country Roads in minor key
- Bloomberg running for president? Sure, why not?
- Jack’s Walk
- It is easy to believe this is true
- A Dead Squirrel (for Iris)
- Unbroken
- The Art of Book Design: Beyond the Border
- We have enough centrists running for office, thank you very much
- Maybe just stop naming things after people, period?
- More Barcelona
- Ted Rall urges progressives to seize the moment
- Are you a billionaire?
- “Radiating electability” sounds like a deadly condition
- People sure attach a lot of importance to a variable developmental byproduct, don’t they?
- “Drain That Swamp”
- Why the Ocean Sunfish is a magnificent beast
- Pierre Haas on Volvox inversion
- For the Billionaires Bad at Math
- This cook rocks!
- Samantha Bee exults in Trump’s recent string of defeats
- A critique of commercialized mindfulness
- Tummy Thursday: You gotta celebrate them all!
- After atheism, I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop
- The Art of Book Design: Dorcaster Days
- The lesser-known ugly history of sugar plantation slavery in the US
- Virginity is a scam
- How about if we take all the billionaires’ money?
- The Power of Voltaire’s Prayer
- Jack’s Walk
- One final indignity for Trump
- Jesus, the police, and violence
- Intelligent Design Creationism stalwart Philip Johnson has died
- Implications of yesterday’s election results
- The Art of Book Design: Through Russian Snows
- I am giving an exam today
- Elizabeth Warren’s single payer health care plan
- In case you’re wondering where all the spiders go in the winter…
- Phillip Johnson is dead
- There are no victories
- This Is Not Going To Affect Anything
- Psychologizing and insinuation
- Wereskunks and weredogs riot over Valley View 365U recount result (Fiction)
- Why plane tires are so tough
- Jack’s Walk
- Grifters gotta grift: Marianne Williamson edition
- When size matters
- Meet a few of my Texas gals
- Tree Tuesday
- Has the War on Christmas already started?
- Holidays: de fiesta 2
- The Art of Book design: Fancy Work for Pleasure and Profit
- Games rabbis play
- Pretty!
- No respite from the gloom. Must be winter for sure.
- The loneliest little robots
- A Blacksmith Walks Into a Bar…
- Jack’s Walk
- 8chan and the issue of speech on the internet
- Train people are definitely strange
- Appeals Court rules that Trump’s tax returns should be turned over to prosecutors
- If you think I’m hostile to Bill Maher…
- The Art of Book Design: The Mist on the Moors
- Behold! Democratic ‘centrism’ at work
- Explain at various lengths
- Wait…he’s still going on about raking the wilderness to prevent forest fires?
- Falter
- Needs more Nazi-punching
- Sunlight + fertilizer is no longer a good disinfectant
- A Tale of First World Woe
- Volvox at microscopesandmonsters
- Samantha Bee on Trump’s enablers
- So you are an atheist. Now what?
- Guess what my best beloved brought to me?
- Sunday Sermon: Why Not Atheism?
- The Art of Book Design: Sunday Evenings at Elmridge
- The mainstream media’s efforts to ignore Sanders are getting ever more ridiculous
- Fall Colors 2019 – 12
- Gandhi at 150
- The Art of Book Design: That Rock Garden Of Ours
- Rugby World Cup: South Africa emerge champions
- I’d really like to know what Christianity is, then
- A ‘witch hunt’ is not a trial conducted by witches
- What happened to our brave, bold horsemen?
- Handling Plutonium
- The Art of Book Design: When Mother Lets Us Tell Stories
- Say it, AOC!
- A Democratic primary to watch
- British general elections and Brexit
- Origami: 3.6.3.6
- Why are there contradictions in the Bible?
- Breaking news: pipelines leak!
- Shouldn’t we expect social media to practice a little information hygiene?
- People love to be told what tribe they belong to, I guess
- Choanoflagellates with inversion
- This Seems Like A Bad Idea
- Tummy Thursday: Happy Halloween
- On the Muddiness of My Thoughts On Guns
- The Art of Book Design: Amid the Shadows
- You need some Halloween spiders
- Kids sing Bob Dylan
October 2019
- So, he’s the perfect nominee, then?
- Fall Colors 2019 – 11
- Deadspin is dead. Long live Deadspin
- The Satanic Temple takes on the US Navy
- We are #1!
- The extended mind and the problem of consciousness
- I usually lie and say it’s for the grandchildren
- Are you looking for spooky stories to tell tonight?
- The reason I’m not wearing a costume today
- Go Dark, Stay Dark
- Jack’s Walk – A short Admin Note
- Trevor Noah explains to Kanye West the realities of black voting patterns
- Bernie Sanders the optimist
- For all the post-modernism haters out there
- Don’t judge a magazine by its cover (or name)
- The Art of Book Design: The Little Lady of the Horse
- A Learning Experience
- Feeling an urge to carry a pot of blue paint with me everywhere I go
- “Due process” is not magic
- This explains a lot
- Sayeed, and UW-Madison, take another hit
- The Art Of Book Design: The Heart of Hope
- Mirror, mirror on the wall…
- Bernie Sanders and two economics professors explain the benefits of Medicare for All
- The Good Samaritan ransomware fighter
- Following Joe Biden’s money
- A sentiment for Halloween
- It’s strange how conservatives lack all humor
- I am a terrible person, with my own prejudices, but at least I’m not a cult member
- We really need to abandon Facebook
- Everyone likes cute furries more than spiders, I’ve noticed
- THIS is a ‘Chef’s Knife’ – 2
- Jack’s Walk
- Can we just … not?
- Film review: The Last Hangover (2018)
- Beware of the extremists in moderate clothing
- Sitting on the Ground
- The Art of Book Design: Aunty’s Elfin Land
- Why didn’t she get vaccinated?
- The racism in The Searchers and Heart of Darkness
- #Spider legs
- So that’s why he has all these rallies
- How not to train your graduate students
- Assassinating Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi
- Village announces controversial ‘Adopt a zombie’ program (Fiction)
- Seth Meyers on recent developments
- The Art of Book Design: Snarlie The Tiger
- #SpiderSunday : How about some Halloween colors?
- South Africa beat Wales to go to Rugby World Cup final
- The Reverse Underground Railroad
- An account of the Sovereign Nations conference
- Dishonorable and Sad
- Fall Colors 2019 – 10
- Rachel Maddow takes on NBCUniversal
- The real reason Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden
- The Art of Book Design: Eve’s Diary
- World Cup rugby upset
- Playing with a camera today #spider
- The greedy rich don’t care about their image anymore
- Two cents on pansexuality
- How to do reporting when people won’t cooperate
- Pounded in the Butt by Our Carnivore Diet
- Fall Colors 2019 – 9
- Jack’s Walk
- Rugby World Cup semifinals this weekend
- All it takes is a breakfast cereal to trigger a confession?
- US politicians would not last five minutes under these ethical standards
- Meet Katie Porter, yet another sharp progressive congresswoman
- Rule: If the song is about spiders, it should include spiders
- @SciFri is about spiders today!
- Experimenting today
- The Art of Book Design: Extracts from Adam’s Diary
- Climate defeatism: propaganda against a better world
- Dunning-Krueger applies to MMA, too
- Debating the wealth tax
- Weinstein “cancelled”, right
- “No, THIS is a ‘Chef’s Knife'”
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven
- Fall Colors 2019 – 8
- Samantha Bee shoots down conspiracy theories
- Cultured meat
- Did you know Ilhan Omar has a Republican challenger?
- Warren joins Sanders in fighting the undermining of public schools
- I’d love to visit Italy, but I don’t think I could afford the fines
- Classic nutritional quackery
- My beard is already white, the rest of my hair will get there eventually…
- It’s Nice to See
- Jack’s Walk
- Is coffee good or bad for you?
- Power protects power
- Webcomics I’ve read to completion
- Above the law
- It’s tough breaking into the spider porn biz
- The Art of Book Design: A Dog’s Tale
- Film review: The Laundromat (2019)
- The IDW is f*cking embarrassing
- My oven is haunted
- Fall Colors in a Bottle
- Seth Meyers summarizes Trump’s bad week and his inept defenders
- Web Exclusive: Drunk alien crashes UFO in Palatine (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- The implications of the Canadian elections
- Be like Letterkenny
- My latest indulgence
- And … Boris Johnson loses yet another major Brexit vote
- We are all Russian assets now
- Let’s Remember: Louis Riel, 1844-1885
- Fall Colors 2019 – 7
- The Art of Book Design: Editorial Wild Oats
- HBO does good
- Reality TV is corrupting everything
- Lack of access to health care does lifelong harm
- Atheism as a fandom
- G7
- Holidays: ¡De Fiesta!
- The Polls Closed: A tolerable result
- Things to Come
- Fall Colors 2019 – 6
- Another fun Pearls Before Swine comic strip
- Jack’s Walk
- Donald Trump bungles even the simplest photo op
- Does a Nobel Prize Transform Society?
- The polls are open.
- The other battle in the UK over abortion and LGBT rights
- Could everyone just stop about Tulsi Gabbard?
- Local Reminders of Global Warming
- That’s quite the hatchet job on Emily Grossman…she should be proud
- The Art of Book Design: The Jumping Frog
- How the ratings agencies triggered the financial meltdown
- Jarring discovery of the day
- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard takes down Mayor Roger Claar (Fiction)
- The Parade Routes: Taipei’s Pride Parade announcements.
- Fall Colors 2019 – 5
- Surprising backing down by Trump
- The Art of Book Design: Love is Enough
- Boris Johnson acts like a spoiled brat
- Finishing a Depressing Episode in Life
- Amazing genetic revelation
- What happened to Indiana?
- The zombie genre is dead, someone please shoot it in the head
- Paper: On the Racialization of Asexuality
- Why America has ‘low-road capitalism’
- If this gets out, our higher education system will be in trouble
- You’re saying she didn’t melt into a puddle?
- The Syria Stupidpocalypse
- Forced Out And Paved Over: There’s nothing gentle about gentrification
- A Title Well Earned: The ‘Greatest Canadian’ was born today
- Ghost Cats and Gauntlets
- Hostages?
- Scudding ahead of the wreckage
- Fall Colors 2019 – 4
- When speed kills
- It’s been a day
- The Art of Book Design: The Now-A-Days Fairy Book
- Here comes yet another Brexit cliffhanger!
- Get Out And Vote: Sixty hours until the polls close, as I write
- Rugby World Cup quarterfinals begin today
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia: I’m Sorry, I Broke It
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump gets outmaneuvered by Erdogan
- The politics of celebrity absolutions
- The Art of Book Design: Magic, White and Black
- I guess it’s a Blood, Sweat, and Tears kind of day
- Emerson McMullen and the non-existence of history
- Democrats duck from the truth about the American empire
- Why aren’t we marching on Washington? Because we deserve this evil clown
- Too little, too late, too Florida
- It’s a Feeding Frenzy
- Good news: Rikers Island jail to close by 2026
- Vandal grannies
- Fall Colors 2019 – 3
- And now for some good news
- Jack’s Walk
- A doozy of a mixed metaphor
- The Art of Book Design: Princess Sukey
- The need to tighten vaccination mandates
- Cancel culture and celebrity worship
- What a possible Brexit deal might look like
- Tummy Thursday: I’m Bored
- May be getting addicted to Letterkenny
- Anna’s Knife
- Elijah Cummings has died
- We’re hiring a biochemist!
- Jack’s Walk
- A great ad during the debate
- Fall Colors 2019 – 2
- How some of the tax plans compare
- Who is minding the store?
- WHALEFALL!
- TNET 35 – How Women Were Tricked Into Shaving Their Legs
- The Art of Book Design: Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point
- He/Him/His
- Slight Of Hand: Joaquin Phoenix is right handed
- May I take a few closeups of your genitals?
- Name And Address: October 16 is International Pronouns Day
- Welcome: Taoyuan Airport prepared to greet its visitors
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 6
- My reactions to the Democratic debate
- You’re supposed to talk out your cool idea before you embarrass yourself publicly
- Tucker Carlson has learned at the feet of his master
- About Cruise Missiles – more
- Long day, with a reward for me!
- Jack’s Walk
- Great job, US police and immigration services!
- The Great Paradox of Science will be released on November 20
- Just wives
- What does it take to get a victim believed?
- Adventures in Spider Husbandry #arachtober
- The Art of Book Design: Cupid’s Fair-Weather Booke
- Fall Colors, 2019 – 1
- Film review: Official Secrets (2019)
- The capitalist fantasy world
- Speaking of Cruise Missiles
- Jeanne Ives to sponsor ‘Casten you to Hell’ house (Fiction)
- Remind me to never cross Sikivu Hutchinson
- Why I quit Mendeley
- National Weather Service being undermined again
- Jack’s Walk
- The problems with free speech absolutism
- She knows what I like
- Don’t forget our heritage
- When Censors Censor: Because they don’t want anyone to know what’s really going on
- The Art of Book Design: Letters of Thanks
- Libraries: don’t throttle kids’ consumption of books
- I’m sure the College Republicans are thrilled to have made national news
- The Great Paradox of Science to be released on November 20!
- You don’t have evidence for most of your beliefs. Get used to it.
- No wonder the empire fell!
- You know what to say today
- Charly’s Idea
- “nobody is above the law”
- Robert George on Mill and Newman
- Another pun strip
- Iliana is one year old today!
- Marathon records broken
- The Art of Book Design: Salad for the Solitary, by an Epicure
- #SpiderSunday: Steatoda triangulosa juvenile
- History Rhymes – the Betrayal of Kurds
- The annoying smugness of Ricky Gervais
- If we must have celebrities, can they at least have some principles?
- All of my schemes musically exposed
- About That Stealth…?
- Creeped Out: the Price of Being a Woman in Public
- It’s like he’s reading my mind!
- Face Off: Eighteen years in Asia, and I still don’t understand the concept
- Trump snubbed yet again for Nobel Peace Prize
- The Art of Book Design: The Absent Minded Fairy
- Charming child casually destroys my marriage
- Great parallel parking
- All The Eyes That You Can Gouge
- Good one, Elizabeth!
- Keep your shirt on
- Jack’s Walk
- Is this a realistic analysis of the UK political situation?
- Sitting Out: The only thing coming out today is nationalism
- Yet another email scam on the loose
- Our up-again-down-again signs and the College Republicans make the news!
- We are making some progress locally
- The Art of Book Design: The Most Haunted House In England
- Web exclusive: Militant atheist David Silverman to run for Mayor of Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- How awful was last night’s Trump rally?
- George Will goes after Trump and the Republicans
- The parasitic load just keeps getting bigger
- AAI did what ? They hired who ?
- THIS. IS. MOOOORRRISSS!
- Auction #8 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Envy
- Can tiny homes solve the affordable housing crisis?
- Jonathan Pie on the Extinction Rebellion protests
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The Dorrance Domain
- I Mildly Disagree: Sometimes, sexy costumes are good, part 2
- I Mildly Disagree: Sometimes, sexy costumes are good
- Trump revealed once again to be a paper tiger
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 6
- Every conversation with a creationist ever
- Jared Kushner, super failure, given yet another chance to super fail
- It’s that time of year for “sexy” costumes that aren’t
- Another Pretty Butterfly Poses
- They’re erasing our children’s genitals!
- Recovery: The Condition(ing) of Being a Woman
- Jackass
- Qualifications to be president
- Bills must be paid in advance — a good policy for this administration
- The 20 companies that are the main sources of carbon pollution
- Jack’s Walk
- Update on the strange case of Jerry Falwell Jr.
- Silence
- The Ill Defined: What’s the difference between a fetish and a relic?
- The Art of Book Design: The Mermaid’s Message and Other Stories
- Book Review: Mechanizing Proof
- Surprise move by the Trump organization
- We’re still looking for ways to raise money
- What is Zuckerberg’s net worth in rubles?
- New speakers added to Sovereign Nations conference!
- A series of fortunate events
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 5
- There’s some consolation if my house ever catches fire
- Jack’s Walk
- It looks like a smash-and-grab burglary to me
- The Art of Book Design: Daddy’s Widow
- The 2019 Nobel prizes in physics
- Cronus-logically Discovered: Saturn has twenty more moons than we thought
- Football Sucks: Another year, and it takes less than a month to prove it
- Oral arguments today in an important LGBT case
- Destroy: A definition
- Poster wars!
- Joker …I don’t know
- The tortured history of the US-Kurd relationship
- A Magnificent Moon Vine
- The Kurds (Again)
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 4
- What happens when you shuffle a deck of cards
- Jack’s Walk
- Two interesting Rugby World Cup games
- This is a bit much, even for Trump
- A new edition of Morris’s own North Star !
- A Beautiful Butterfly Poses for Photos
- The Art of Book Design: Great Bear Island
- The enduring allure of near-death experiences
- The Discovery Institute is getting better at shooting themselves in the foot
- What do Erick Erickson, Glenn Beck, Lindsey Graham, L. Brent Bozell III, and so many others have in common?
- I Don’t Even Know What This Is
- The president of Finland has invited us to come visit!
- How is Adam ruining spiders?
- Shinya Inoué has died
- Hospi-tales: Stink
- Saturday Night Live asks whether it is appropriate to make fun of Trump
- The Art of Book Design: The Story My Doggie Told to Me
- An atheist recommending a book by a Catholic author about a Jesuit priest
- The private-public exploitation of the British colonies
- What do you get when two bad systems combine?
- #SpiderSunday: Welcome Cliodhna to the colony
- Why does it have to be a science teacher?
- Sunday Sermon: China, If You Are Listening…
- Hospi-tales: Pain
- Act Responsibly: MGM Vegas did, gun companies won’t
- Bismuth
- The awful coverage of Bernie Sanders by the ‘liberal’ media
- Reputation Earned: Joe Clark’s was the last conservative government Canada ever had
- #Arachtober: The #Spider Swarm!
- Ben Shapiro, Fascist Rhetoric, and Singular “They”
- I am fed up with these private expressions of misgivings
- The Art of Book Design: Hector the Dog
- What “heritability” actually means
- #WOCBeyondBelief now!
- The pig pandemic is here
- The Christploitation genre of films
- Slavic Saturday
- Hospi-tales: Of being stupid and emergency care
- Jack’s Walk
- The Chinese are such optimists
- Forced obsolescence
- Jacob Wohl and the lime green strap-on dildo
- The CAPS LOCK key should go
- The context doesn’t matter
- Worse than Lovecraft: What if the Old Ones were real, but they’re all extinct?
- The Art of Book Design: An American Dog Abroad
- The unbearable whininess of New York Times columnists
- When did “liberal” become a slur?
- I don’t call that teaching
- I Came, I Sawed, I was Gobsmacked
- Jack’s Walk
- There is a conference for people banned from conferences
- Is trolling public displays of religion a good idea?
- The people who benefit most from Harvard’s admissions policies
- Jacob Wohl gives Elizabeth Warren a lock on the presidency
- You mean whining about being insulted doesn’t work?
- You ever have those mosquitos whining in your ear late at night?
- A Guest In the Forge! – 3
- The Art of Book Design: Beautiful Joe
- The callousness and cruelty of Donald Trump
- Moloch just ate another baby
- There clearly is big money in self-help books and pick-up artistry, though
- Farewell, Midnight
- The Black Coach of Sorrow
- Jenny appears!
- Great moments in religious fervor
- Jack’s Walk
- How Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All plan works
- Fear: 1
- Sanders hospitalized. Relax, it’s no big deal, he has access to modern medicine
- The Art of Book Design: Thy Servant a Dog
- Calvin would never have been this bad
- Sexual abuse in Orthodox Jewish institutions
- Evolutionary Psychology, the favorite discipline of old white men everywhere
- A tangled web of lies about dinosaurs
- Volvox rousseletii in Japan
- Well, ouch.
- Who invented this bad comic book villain?
- The pathetic Trump defenders
- Rugby World Cup: New Zealand vs South Africa
- Botham Jean: A Black Life that Mattered
- My Blood Boils: The Mass Murdering Regime lives down to its name
- How to struggle on $350,000 a year
- Baby #Spider
- Only if I want to die
- The Art of Book Design: Vic, The Autobiography of a Fox Terrier
- Save the whales, save the planet?
- I don’t think my local grocery store carries these
- Imagine the Freak-Out
- Happy #Arachtober! Or is it?
- I wouldn’t want to be in Collin Peterson’s shoes right now
- Master Grifter
- Web Exclusive: Trustee Carpanzano apologizes to the Space Pope (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
September 2019
- Update on British politics from Jonathan Pie
- Why Dawkins fears Rebecca Watson…
- Health insurance as a weapon to control workers
- My first Commission – Part 11 – Finished
- Judge dismisses one of Richard Carrier’s lawsuits (non-fiction)
- Would you like some happy news? DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE!
- A Predictable Cycle
- Wait And See: Is the MLS finally growing a spine and brain?
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- The Art of Book Design: The Dog’s Grand Dinner Party
- Big Spunk makes babies!
- We are living in a state of institutional dementia
- I’ve got two tickets to the Trump rally next week!
- September Light
- Do you have an orange shirt?
- OH RICHARD DAWKINS NO
- ¿Inktubres Conmigo?
- Slow Down: Estonia tries a new way of curbing speeders
- Two major upsets at Rugby World Cup
- 1) Powerpoint Can Be Art, 2) Good Design Applies, 3)…
- The Art of Book Design: Me and my Pussies
- With friends like these …
- Laugh So You Don’t Seethe: Why the US won’t allow Mariela Castro to visit
- I’ll be babbling in St Paul today
- #SpiderSunday: Jenny By-The-Front-Door
- New film satirizes FBI counter-terrorism stings
- More information emerges about the Ukraine scandal
- The Art of Book Design: The Cat and The Mouse: A Book of Persian Fairy Tales
- Bogey Spotted: High speed railing against each other
- As long as we’re criticizing the Democrats…
- Using big data to help ordinary people
- An honest endorsement from Bernie Sanders in 1996
- White-Knuckled Tales of Capitalism: Hahaha, Screw You!
- What’s Up With Me
- Jack’s Walk
- I want to hire this door maker
- Does Newton’s law of gravity work when gravity is very weak?
- The mind of an incel revealed
- Nixon and the Four Days
- The Art of Book Design: Scat the Witches Cat
- There is help for us!
- That’s not us!
- Wall Street fires a warning shot to the Democratic party
- Another of the fruits of the Enlightenment was time travel, I guess
- Thunberg Derangement Syndrome
- I Got Da Powah!
- Raffi sings about climate change
- Unintentional Humor: Codeword Trump
- The whistleblower complaint is worse than I thought
- Spider pigmentation is engrossing
- He learns nothing.
- Jack’s Walk
- Boris Johnson is definitely Trump’s kind of guy
- The Broken Vows: The catholic cult pleads poverty when it’s time to pay up
- Go On, Laugh: Ivan Pavlov, born September 26, 1849
- The Art of Book Design: I am a Cat
- Teacher’s Corner: In case you’ve been wondering…
- Of course there was a quid pro quo
- Make friends with #spiders today!
- Burn them to the ground
- Have you noticed who is leading us on the environment? And who is opposing action?
- How do you feed a baby without rubber nipples?
- Neuralink is 99% hype
- Not The Congressional Action on Guns That You’d Expect
- It looks like Trump’s escape strategy is now obvious to everyone
- Shaming hospitals to do the right thing
- Jack’s Walk
- Squeezed Between: Why South Korea’s LGBTQIA movement lags behind
- Compare and contrast Trump and Rouhani
- A meme that cuts a bit close to the bone
- Children are to be sold quietly to billionaires, not heard
- The Transcript Isn’t A Transcript
- The Art of Book Design: The Louis Wain Kitten Book
- Why the Democrats decided to open impeachment proceedings
- Can You Spot the Parakeet?
- Silverman, Sargon, and the ongoing self-immolation of the atheist movement
- The “Orcish” Slojd
- Legal wrasslin’ indefinitely prolonged
- Fun with neodymium magnets
- Jack’s Walk
- Can Trump’s usual strategy succeed with the Ukraine scandal?
- UK Supreme Court emphatically slaps down Johnson’s prorogation of parliament
- The Art of Book Design: The School for Cats
- Physics envy of economists
- Hundreds arrested during the Clow UFO Base climate strike (Fiction)
- Fuck, Yeah!
- Editorial Board: Time for School District D211 to move forward on transgender locker room access (Mixed)
- Advice for people if they are questioned by the police
- Jack’s Walk
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar weighs in on the Shane Gillis/SNL issue
- Godwin Loses: Dishonest D’souza lives down to his name. Again.
- She’s mad, really mad
- My wife is leaving me!
- It’s Time To Vote: The next Canadian federal election is on October 21
- Where does the word ‘teetotaler’ come from?
- Beauty Costs: Pain is the price of looking beautiful
- A Year Later…
- Shades of Paul Nelson!
- The Plan All Along
- The Art of Book Design: Space Cat
- The Libet free will experiment revisited
- The bane of plastic packaging
- See you in court!
- Nest-building spiders!
- When rationalism goes wrong, it really goes wrong
- Trump suffering from memory loss would be worse than being a brazen liar
- Robert Marks – Five Years Later, Still No Answers!
- Let’s Remember: Mary Mallon, 1869-1938
- The 100 best books of the 21st century
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 3
- Sonic attack? Crickets? Insecticide? Update on the Havana mystery
- Real Seattle pride
- My first Commission – Part 10 – Starting the Sheath
- The Art of Book Design: Gilian the Dreamer
- A good take on Jordan Peterson’s rehab
- Needs more murderous space monkeys
- The Christian right is driving more people into becoming nonreligious
- The Art of Book Design: The Green Forest Fairy Book
- Brought to you by Big Spider
- The whistleblower scandal
- When it comes to starting new wars, Trump’s bark is worse than his bite
- Richard Stallman will not be the last clueless nerd to fall
- Poor Jordan Peterson
- Badger Forge: Why No Updates?
- The whiners in the US and Saudi Arabia
- Friday Spider
- I caught a whole bunch of my students playing hooky today
- Jack’s Walk
- Global student strike on climate change
- Permanent Shutdown: Three Mile Island is now forever closed
- The Art of Book Design: Who Killed Cock Robin
- Fungi Friday
- Where’s Brienne?
- The curious origins of blackface minstrelsy
- So beautiful, it’s art
- The Pragerization of YouTube
- Climate Strike Now!
- Attempting Reparations for Slavery
- Jack’s Walk
- New film explores the life of an incel
- Media gatekeeping on the Palestine issue
- Is this the 21st century, or what?
- YouTube Video: White identity
- Dramatic wars begin with a grievous setback that makes everyone desperate to fight back, right?
- The Depths Of Stupidity, Plumbed Again….
- She Can’t Remember: Riley Horner and her two hour memory
- The ‘singular they’ has arrived!
- Rationality Rules? (Non-fiction)
- The Art of Book Design: Little Beasts of Field and Wood
- Neither Jewish, nor Christian, nor Western. Ben Shapiro is just full of…
- Chess and weight loss
- Casting The Princess Bride
- A shocking development
- Uncommon Sense: Lysander Spooner
- Jack’s Walk
- Rationality Rules is an Abusive Transphobe
- Another late day at work, but it was worth it
- Danger to pedestrians is increasing in the US
- Why is my name so hard to spell?
- This is the best you can be? That’s pretty sad
- Unbelievable
- Now I’m making housecalls
- The Diseased Mind: Anti-vaxxers are calling themselves ‘civil rights activists’
- The Art of Book Design: Among the Pond People
- Utterly revolting treatment of climate scientists by Trump administration
- There’s a reason they call software ‘viruses’
- Life, could you stop finding a way already?
- Why Is This Not More Widely Appreciated?
- Infected passengers from C/2019 Q4 transferred to Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Oh jeez, it’s only Tuesday
- Cokie Roberts, a Villager of excellent standing, has died
- Jack’s Walk
- Goal Scored: The MLS teams owners must be pro-fascist
- Dolor Bill: A study claims atheists would pay for people not to pray
- Religious fanatics in India and Pakistan
- Don’t Silence and Whitewash: Cokie Roberts, 1943-2019
- Let’s Remember: Norman Jewison’s film, …And Justice for All
- The Art of Book Design: To Have and to Hold
- I am disappointed in Marv
- The Gideons are on campus again
- All the lawyers who enabled Weinstein
- First, furry Nazis, then we conquer the world!
- rms resigns
- That’s a “War Crime”
- Jack’s Walk – We’re Back
- Michael Moore and Bill Maher debate socialism versus capitalism
- The grass spiders are invading the science building now
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 2
- The conflict in Yemen heats up dangerously
- Nerdgasms Happen: I wanna buy a new computer
- The Art of Book Design: The Queen of Quelparte
- Auction #7 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Escorting and other things
- The ethics of accepting ‘anonymous’ donations from bad actors
- Auction #6 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Auction #5 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Auction #4 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Biology is always more complicated than you expect
- So…an atmosphere of super-heated steam? Sounds nice.
- Such is the history of it.
- Thoughts and Prayers…
- Political theater: Summoning an ambassador
- The Art of Book Design: Life and her Children
- No-deal Brexit will not be simple
- That’s a long girl
- Spider Carnage
- The big tease
- How’s MIT doing lately?
- How to con scientists and skeptics
- The Holy War Continues: Yemen hit back in a big way
- The Clock Stopped: Amazingly, Cheetolini has done the right thing about vaping
- Moon Shot: And plenty more pictures than that
- Sunday Sermon: Keeping a Memory Box
- In case you’re wondering how Kavanaugh got on the Supreme Court…
- This guy has to stop stalking me
- California Love
- Hasan Minhaj speaks to Congress about college debt
- The Art of Book Design: Celtic Tales Told to the Children
- Introducing ‘the Blob’
- Web Exclusive: Democratic candidates for the IL54 State House District meet Palatine UFO Base staff (Fiction)
- We’re hiring an ecologist!
- Eat at Subway
- Protest ICE & CBP
- The desperate plea of a defeated man
- Suicide of an eminent economist
- Anyone can get on a school board
- Oh no! I have roused a Lesser Swarm of Pewdiepie Fanlings!
- Seax Everyday
- The MIT-Epstein scandal gets even worse
- Friday Spider
- The Art of Book Design: The House of Souls
- When Religion Annoys: Today was Mid-Autumn Festival
- Corden is far too nice to Maher
- Point Made: Only white cishetero people are allowed to use self-defence
- What took you so long, Gregory?
- What To Do, What To Do….
- Sing Along: “Glory To Hong Kong” is a rousing national anthem
- Brief impressions of the Democratic debate
- Refusal to debate…reinforced
- Ken Ham and the spiders
- Heartbreaker 2
- Ohio State University loses trademark claim for the word ‘The’
- For Trump, all refugees of color are potential criminals
- The Art of Book Design: The Principles of Ornament
- The strange appeal of Eastern-styled cults
- Why PZ Myers is not intrigued by Jeffrey Epstein
- Legal Fundraiser closed
- OK, I guess she’s cuter than a spider
- That is not a spider
- Tummy Thursday: Me gusta la cocina mexicana
- The MIT Media Lab is going to be getting some intense scrutiny
- Another way that the insane medical system in the US squeezes money from sick people
- Memories
- John Oliver calls for the abolition of the filibuster
- The Art of Book Design: Mud Pies and Other Recipes
- Legal challenge to prorogation and farewell to John Bercow
- So what is — or rather, who is — the problem with New Atheism?
- The fixer, the preacher’s son, his wife, & two young studs
- David Kirk obituary
- Cheese it, they’re on to us!
- Sadly, “apnotheriopia” is a word I might have to use in the future
- 9 11
- I wonder about this all the time!
- How and why police brutality is institutionalized
- Link Roundup: September 2019
- Monopoly Sucks: And the latest edition doesn’t change that
- Parents risking children’s lives
- Sown and Reaped: Falwell knows full well he’s a hypo-christian
- Bye, bye, John! So happy that you have been kicked out
- Spider identification agonies. Species are lies .
- Holidays: Sagrada Familia 1
- The Art of Book Design: The Country of the Pointed Firs
- He’s not going to last long
- Disgusting
- Gilly’s breakfast
- Everyone must say “Happy Birthday!” to Mary
- Ugh, Al Seckel’s name floats to the top again
- Respect For The “Rule of Law”
- Concentrated comeuppance!
- Beautiful irony
- This is unnerving
- There’s always that day…
- Here we go again, trying to argue that science proves the existence of god
- The Taliban meeting reportedly collapsed because of Trump’s ego
- The Art of Book Design: For Whose Sake
- About Those Taliban Negotiations
- How the repulsive have fallen
- Women’s rights and equality
- We can all do something
- Prophets of Doom vs. Scientists with a Plan
- Web Exclusive: Mayor Claar filming ‘Masterclass’ (Fiction)
- Tactical Flip Flop
- Tuesday Premonitions.
- What racists think racism is
- The Art of Book Design: Coridon’s Song and Other Verses
- Why did Trump cancel the Afghanistan talks?
- Welp, looks like capitalism broke another scholar
- My first Commission – Part 9 – Fitting, Signing, Assembling
- I sure am triggered and owned!
- Resin Quartz Spears
- No, Thanks: I won’t buy apple’s next piece of junk either
- It, Chapter Two reasons I hated it
- The fact that ‘both sides’ criticize you does not mean you are neutral
- Service Denied: Where does privilege end and freedom of speech begin?
- About Face: Revenge porn isn’t the only danger
- Making films in the days before post-production sound
- Them goofy city-folk and their weird ideas
- Play Faster: Introducing “Reduced Scra66le”
- Towards a harmless masculinity
- The Art of Book Design: Fly Away Fairies and Baby Blossoms
- Upcoming talks, and some system maintenance
- Still Alive: COBOL turns 60 years old this month
- Ito out!
- Why you should never listen to the foreign policy establishment on war
- Ito knew , Ito lied
- In-depth look at Tulsi Gabbard
- Holidays: Partial Lunar Eclipse 3
- A remarkably delicious exposé
- Climate change, population growth, and social justice
- Elizabeth Warren shuts down fossil fuel industry talking points
- Fungi Friday
- The Art of Book Design: Spook Ballads
- 42 as the sum of three cubes
- So much wrong in one little story
- Friday Spider
- I’m working on this attitude
- Farcical US attempt at bribery
- Canberra Cowers: First silence, then participation
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 9 – The Heavy Drinkers
- The advantages of not being a NYT subscriber
- A brief history of slavery in the US
- Plant trees!
- There’s a Jeremy Renner app? Why?
- Getting bears out of dumpsters
- Summary of the Democratic town hall on climate change
- Rhetorical Question: Does birth month affect left handedness?
- Left Handed Complement: You were always wrong, we were always left
- Boris Johnson’s terrible, horrible, no-good week continues
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 8 – Just a fly by Guest
- Science, why you gotta do me like this?
- Conan O’Brien goes off to buy Greenland
- A meme is born
- But…but…that’s the whole goddamn problem!
- Biased sources, motivated reasoning, and blithe assumptions: the TERF story
- This is Just Sad
- Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
- The Brexit endgame begins
- Three words: “I was mistaken”
- My children will be heartbroken
- Last minute rush to win the Worst Movie of 2014
- The Art of Book Design: Beasts of the Field
- Jeremy Corbyn’s powerful speech in parliament
- Origami: Orthogonal maze
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 7 – Great Green Bush Cricket
- Name Checking: Who are the most famous people in history?
- Steatoda triangulosa !
- Climate denier pleads irrelevance and infirmity, and a zombie myth shambles on
- The puzzling fervor of some anti-gay gays
- Chemistry and triangulosa
- I bit the bullet and joined MeWe
- Tell us, UK, how did you do it?
- When you look very, very close, every sharp line turns out to be blurry
- Polyphonic Overtone Singing
- The Art of Book Design: Phases of an Inferior Planet
- Yet another day of drama over Brexit
- The Healthy Desire: September 4th is World Sexual Health Day
- A major success against Ebola
- An Admin Note about Jack’s Walk
- Holidays: Partial Lunar Eclipse, 2
- An addendum to the previous two posts
- I don’t understand it, therefore nobody does
- The 1619 Project on the legacy of slavery
- Don’t play theological games with the scientific evidence
- The Adventures of Mud Cat
- How dare he!
- The Art of Book Design: Walled In
- Why people stick with the status quo and how to change their minds
- Another morning, another set of spiders
- Look for the helpers
- How to win with grace
- What if you put on a sh*t-show and nobody noticed?
- It’s time to recognize gun worship as a cult which has the second amendment as its holy text
- Spot the Differences
- Keep Looking: It’s never too late to reconnect with your past
- The Art of Book Design: Candle-Lightin’ Time
- A fundraiser for the defense against Richard Carrier’s SLAPP suit (Non-fiction)
- Mass shootings are getting more and more incomprehensible
- Review: The Family (2019)
- Bee-killer
- Legal Defense Fundraiser: Get your Pretties, part 3
- Legal Defense Fundraiser: Get your Pretties, part 2
- Legal Defense Fundraiser: Get your Pretties, part 1
- The Sound of a Pedestal Crumbling
- Dorian is Category 5
- At least it only took me a few decades to learn to detest debate
- Destroying reputations on the Internet
- Holidays: The Moon, Part 1
- Uncommon Sense: James Baldwin
August 2019
- The Art of Book Design: The Fairy Tales of Science
- More examples of bias against Bernie Sanders in the Washington Post
- August Light
- Rats, I missed the Straight Pride parade in Boston
- The color of cars and accidents
- Fondly Remembered: I kept the childlike wonder
- Walking with spiders
- Growth Stunted: Another good explanation of toxic masculinity
- Honorary authorship is fraud.
- My first Commission – Part 8 – Bugger
- Film review: The Unknown Known (2013)
- The climate models were accurate.
- Suck it up, cupcake
- Who is ‘the White House’?
- Jack’s Walk
- Fungi Friday
- A gross miscarriage of justice
- The challenge of finding community in a secular world
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 6 – Itty Bitty Facehugger
- I’ve had days like that
- The big picture
- Spider Friday
- The Art of Book Design: A Manual of Occultism
- The Washington Post ‘s visible anti-Bernie bias
- Hasan Minhaj: why your public transportation sucks
- I’ll say one thing for the president, he inspires a lot of satire
- Web Exclusive: Mayor Noak tells the New World Order that Romeoville is ‘the village that can’ (Fiction)
- Where to Hold the Next G7
- This is so infuriating
- Jack’s Walk
- A little computer knowledge is a dangerous thing
- YouTube Video: Original Vs Reproduction – Which is better?
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 5 – Bees
- What is a “positive male role model”?
- Hey, I owned those books!
- The Art of Book Design: Love Me Love My Dog
- The Art of Book Design: My Bohemian Days in Paris
- New study suggests that optimists tend to be healthier and live longer
- Tummy Thursday: Senegalese Food
- “Facts, not emotion”
- Reforestation in Ethiopia: This way lies hope.
- Paper ballots everywhere
- But it isn’t even a question!
- The Lawyers Will Come By in The Daimler …
- The dark side of cruises
- Jack’s Walk
- Boris Johnson is going to prorogue parliament
- First day back, and I survived!
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 4 – Bugs
- Conservatives don’t understand this democracy thing
- The Art of Book Design: In the Garden of Dreams
- The future of the religion clauses in the current Supreme Court
- Cornflower
- As long as you rely on billionaires for funding, you are participating in a criminal enterprise
- The endless fight for the future of humanity
- Some news of progress!
- Terror!
- Going To The Dark Side
- The Crisis of the Mediocre Man
- Jack’s Walk
- AOC makes a new friend
- How not to respond to a Twitter critic
- The J-F Gariépy/Epstein connection
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 3 – The Thieves
- Growing up is tough for a spider
- The Art of Book Design: The Handbook of Swindling
- Holidays: Wednesday Wings
- Trump administration seeks to cancel the Flores agreement
- You can’t make it to Dragon Con, either?
- Rich people using charities as a way to whitewash their crimes
- Some people got sick in Cuba. Or did they?
- Why I am Not a “Progressive”
- Nukes on the brain
- Jack’s Walk
- Pete Buttigieg gets a negative endorsement
- Grumpy takes on atheist sayings
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 2 – The Buds
- You are permitted to watch pure joy too rarely in life
- Whose side are the police on, anyway?
- My students survived the first day of advising
- The circle of life
- The Art of Book Design: The Ocean World
- Dude. You read the wrong books .
- Einstein’s debt to philosophy and Hume
- The best philosophy of science video ever
- Joe Walsh tells the Illuminati he’s ‘Trump 2.0’ (Fiction)
- A Short Story About Nuclear War
- Rationality Rules DESTROYS Women’s Sport!!1!
- Let’s Backtrack: The Jonestown Massacre, 40 years later
- Trump should have asked Conan for advice on buying Greenland
- The Art of Book Design: A Book of Sundial Mottoes
- Residence Sunflowers – Part 1 – The Neighbourhood
- England beats Australia in an astounding Test match
- Stupid fly
- Holidays: Park Güell: Straight Lines are of the Devil
- Things I Learned from Nell Irvin Painter
- A prime example of why the British royal family is a pestilence
- Lazy linking
- New podcast recommendation: DeepMind the Podcast
- Trump, Greenland, and Denmark
- I wish to register my hearty agreement with this message
- Add another thread
- The Harvest
- Should We Really Be Celebrating the Death of David Koch?
- The Art of Book Design: Mighty Mikko: Finnish Folk and Fairy Tales, Part1
- For Your Enjoyment: How do you solve a problem like The Donald?
- I Wish: What if lacrosse had become the biggest sport?
- Showing Off: A photo of myself with Chi Chia-wei
- The Althea Gibson story
- Witness the inherent violence of the system!
- Would Russia and China like to see Trump re-elected?
- History Lessened: Why Hong Kong protesters called PRC the White Terror
- How many foreskins are you worth?
- Packs of Goodies
- Jack’s Walk
- The ‘Two Generals’ problem
- My connection to Jeffrey Epstein
- Correcting the opinions of strangers
- The Art of Book Design: Olga Romanov
- Fungi Friday
- A new form of carbon manufactured
- In (reluctant) defense of the atheist movement
- New lawsuit alleges massive sexual abuse in Boy Scouts organization
- One down
- Maybe we need to think more deeply about the ethics of science funding
- Here we go again, another predatory professor
- Capitalism 101: Shareholder Value
- It’s inexplicable
- AI Sportsball: Release the Kraken!
- Growing fears that Trump is unstable
- Jack’s Walk
- Mistrust Deserved: When corporations say ‘people above profits’
- Nerdy biology joke time!
- The bicycle: The vehicle that really should not work
- Spearheads of revolution!
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaieee!
- The Art of Book Design: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Another day, another Brexit deadline
- Holidays: Park Güel, el Dragón
- When did we become jaded?
- The patriarchy has deep roots, it’s going to hurt to dig them out
- Traitors to Collective Humanity
- Separate and Unequal
- The National Embarrassment humiliates us all again
- Jack’s Walk
- Hasan Minhaj on the opioid drug crisis
- Trump’s bizarre behavior on Greenland
- Augmented Reality
- The Sordid Act: FBI files allege Louis Mountbatten was a pedophile
- The Art of Book Design: Nixie Bunny in Manners-Land
- Jeffrey Epstein, shifty and secretive to the end
- What if Robert E. Lee had been hanged?
- I’ve been saying this for decades!
- At least my spiders love me
- He was serious?
- The rock, the clock, and organismal complexity
- Reparations Still Unpaid: August 20, 1619
- Two Faced: China whines about ‘defending freedom of its citizens’
- The Trump administration is consistent in its cruelty
- I have moved to California
- Jack’s Walk
- Holidays: More Park Güell
- Tree Tuesday
- The Art of Book Design: My First Summer in the Sierra
- The Mooch as truth teller
- Synergy: Norovirus will allow you to poop and puke on ecological communities more effectively!
- The system is broken
- If you care about secular America…
- Sweden was always getting freaky
- Hates SJWs, decides to live in SJW Land
- Why Can’t Creationists Do Mathematics?
- Retrospective on Hobby Lobby
- Fierce mama
- We have a plethora of spiders now!
- TNET 34 – Dog Reviews Food
- That sums it up pretty well
- Jack’s Walk
- Fermilab
- The Art of Book Design: Brenda’s Summer at Rockley
- Will the ‘two sleep’ mode catch on again?
- Dismantling a right-wing myth about transgender children
- Is there a competition for weirdest city that we weren’t told about?
- Holidays: Park Güell
- Mayor Pete Buttigieg barely escapes Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- What kind of job is it to work at a student medical center?
- Six Dead Women, One Dead Trans Person
- Babies are like cats
- The strange, strange life and family of Ghislaine Maxwell
- This is what I look like when I’m dancing
- The Art of Book Design: Laura’s Holidays
- Holidays: More Chillin’
- Two Faced: China’s wants its own form of homogeneity
- Preventing another war based on lies
- Sneak Preview: Coming soon, to a theatre of war near me?
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 32 – Money Lenders
- Anyone who claims a medium is “apolitical” is lying
- Portland seems to have weathered the neo-Nazi rally just fine
- On My “Method”
- My first Commission – Part 7 – Sharp!
- Live by the rally, die by the rally
- The Art of Book Design: Winnie The Pooh
- Intrinsic value of choice
- The Christian Ott story is fleshed out, to the chagrin of enablers everywhere
- Gay Republicans think Trump has been wonderful for the LGBTQ community
- Big brains…what are they good for?
- Skepticon: the rifts are full of lava!
- Andy Ngo is a fraud and a right-wing provocateur
- Heartbreaker
- Holidays: Have a sunny, lazy Saturday
- One day and already tired out
- The Falwells and the pool guy
- Neo-Nazis in the news again
- Federal appeals court sides with common sense and decency and against Trump
- Music Rules: Nick Lowe turned 70 years old in March
- The Art of Book Design: Mata the Magician
- Brexit shenanigans get weirder and weirder
- Waltz of the Wallflowers
- Where can I get an army of spider-bots?
- Even Women’s Breasts Are Not Safe From Torture!
- Holidays: Friday Feathers
- Really good deep fake of Tom Cruise
- David Silverman is failing Redemption 101
- We need a nationwide teach-in on the First Amendment
- Man dies in taco eating contest
- A Perv’s Aide Pervades: Randy Andy and the Madam
- Potato-nosed old man with no lips and a spray-on tan fears he’ll never get laid again if rape and incest are criminalized
- 13 days
- The Art of Book Design: Episodes of Insect Life
- My Lunch with Jerry Garcia
- How white nationalism went mainstream
- YouTube Video: Internet Gaming Disorder and The Psychology of Loot Boxes
- Tummy Thursday: Churros con Chocolate
- Probably true, might be an underestimate
- Jesus is the excuse that never fails
- Start your morning with a hair-raising close call
- A Knife for the Drunken Chef
- Holidays: The Eye of the Dragon
- The weird obsession of Ohio State University
- Guns, terrorism, and distortion
- What Jeffrey Epstein’s death reveals about the shocking state of US jails
- If spiders were on Tinder…
- The phony binary choice of conspiracy versus journalistic independence
- I’m feeling this
- Holiday: Cute overload
- The Art of Book Design: The Owls, Eve and Other Poems
- This is the bridge too far for evangelicals?
- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, my ass
- When you put it that way…
- Welcome Guests
- The arctic is melting and is on fire
- The Death of the ACA
- John Oliver on Trump and the NRA
- Bernie has always been Bernie
- Left Handed: Bad science and bad attitudes are the problem, not the left hand
- What is “Terrorism”
- Left Handed: August 13th is International Left Handers Day
- Maya’s experiment
- The Art of Book Design: Canoe and Camp Cookery
- What next for the Epstein investigation?
- That strange feeling when you see your lawyer celebrated in a Ben Garrison cartoon
- The best explanation for the death of Epstein
- Oh, dear. Daniel Povey has been fired.
- The curse of having Wisconsin as a neighbor
- Volvox 2019 meeting report
- Mayor Claar honors QAnon at Illuminati ceremony (Fiction)
- D’Souza must really be an embarrassment to his alma mater
- What Brexit meant in practice was never clear
- You’re Never Really Ready
- It’s the Spider Purge!
- Yes, I’m home from #Skepticon
- Let’s Backtrack: Tandy’s Model 100 portable computer came out in 1983
- The Democratic candidates’ donor bases
- Acknowledging the obvious
- Eat Less Chikin — it’s made from the blood of labor
- Monster Talk has gone independent
- The Art of Book Design: Fishing Tackle
- NYT’s reporter’s corporate ties and sources
- This Gives Me a Creeping Feeling That the FBI is Flat-Out Lying
- Tautologies
- My first Commission – Part 6 – Halfway Through Hell
- The Art of Book Design: The Romance of Zion Chapel
- I reject conspiracy theories
- The problem with e-scooters
- Bonaparte at Gettysburg
- What happens when you attack a Democratic party establishment favorite
- A successful Skeptiprom
- IRIS IS BACK! And cancer sucks.
- Copying Again: Jeffrey Epstein is the american Jimmy Savile
- Dead But Not Buried: Esptein’s suicide must NOT be used to protect others
- How (To) Appropriate: Cisgender Supremacist
- Bling Bling Boom Boom
- Fascist Policing: Crushing the homeless starts with crushing their wheelchairs
- I found a date for Skeptiprom!
- CONFESSIONS OF A DEADBEAT BLOGGER.
- What are the laws against scaring people with guns?
- The Art of Book Design: Tanglewood Tales
- Link Roundup: August 2019
- The Epstein saga continues to unfold
- Jeffrey Epstein is dead
- Skepticon is so good
- Good morning, Christianity!
- Slavic Saturday
- Holidays: In which I declare my undying love for hippos
- Fungi Friday
- Kary Mullis, dead at 74
- The Art of Book Design: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- News from home
- What cowards they are
- Awesome band becomes awesomer
- St Louis got spiders!
- Quillette is deliciously trolled…and they helped!
- At Skepticon!
- Of paper cups and plastic straws
- Please Don’t Do This
- Quite remarkable
- Friday Feathers: Hornbill and Friends
- Samantha Bee keeps it simple
- Getting ready for a no-deal Brexit
- The Art of Book Design: Fringilla or Tales in Verse
- US politicians hide their nonbelief
- YouTube Video: Are Fox News’s Gun Violence Solutions Better for Guns Than for People?
- Weather Report: It’s been an interesting day.
- Leaving my Minnesota spiders behind?
- The progressive agenda was just set by…Tommy Lee?
- The only thing that makes life hard for men is other men
- From the Webmaster: Bolingbrook United’s writeup of Mayor Claar’s campaign fund (Mixed)
- Perhaps We Were Just the Boost Stage
- An ancient saga from the lore of Usenet
- Tummy Thursday: Cumpleaños feliz
- The real domestic terrorists …
- Negative endorsements
- The Art of Book Design: Flowers of Evil
- Final thoughts on Cuba
- The ‘liberal’ media at work
- Don’t blame the octopus
- Chop wood, carry water
- Mni Wiconi- Water is Life: In Memory of Caine
- Again, Video Games
- Teach your children well
- Spiderzilla
- Real men don’t use reusable shopping bags?
- The Art of Book Design: Salome
- Babbies!
- Those Billowing White Clouds
- Dots Connected: How Cheetolini and Fox Nuisance incited the El Paso shooter
- Speak Out: Politico wants you to solve the US’s problems – in 100 words or less
- Free Speech and Artistic Expression…DENIED
- Trump, Fox News, and white nationalists
- Baby Ravens are Adorable
- Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
- Neil deGrasse Tyson said something stupid
- The new Lysenkoism
- High-rise suburb
- Tricksy arachnologist. They lies, they do!
- George Conway has Trump’s number
- Final thoughts: Three verses for the three shooters
- Murdery Rhyme: How many more before US politicians grow a spine
- How Many Deaths Will It Take?
- The Art of Book Design: The Miroir
- I’m Convinced: How vaccines cause autism
- July Light
- What drives walking sims?
- Give It Back!
- Republicans seeking absolution from Trump’s racism
- You may be spared any spider posts today
- What our kids learn in school
- Racist and stupid
- Here be monsters, and we’re lacking in heroes
- A.I.s shutdown WeatherTech for .47 seconds to protest Andrew Yang (Fiction)
- From the Webmaster: At least the New York Times gets it (Mixed)
- Nothing Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote should be perpetuated for another generation
- The 28th Amendment
- Concern trolling
- Odd geek out
- The Art of Book Design: Insects and Insecticides
- The Trump-Johnson deal-making dilemma
- My first Commission – Part 5 – Hell is Forever
- Let’s Backtrack: Breaking Away was officially released on July 13, 1979
- It’s Argiope Day!
- Trump Is Not The Only Problem
- Side Notes: Details about the El Paso shooter
- Here we go again, on an endless loop of mass murder
- Another solution
- A few radical proposals
- The indignities that pregnant women face
- Long term flooding
- Another day in the spider lab
- The Art of Book Design: Korean Fairy Tales
- Out Yourself Or Starve: Canada’s message to victims of anti-gay purges
- Today’s spiderwalk: featuring a patch of prairie
- Let’s Backtrack: Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko, January 13, 1919 to June 28, 1982
- Let’s Backtrack: Georgi Markov was assassinated on September 7, 1978
- Who are the ‘working classes’?
- Rise And Shine: No, my second tattoo doesn’t mean I ‘got religion’
- Let’s Backtrack: The Jericho Mile premiered on March 18, 1979
- David Gelernter Makes a Fool of Himself Again
- Moral Support: How Taiwan is helping Hong Kong’s protesters
- Jonathan Pie exposes Boris Johnson’s sham diversity
- The latest poll on creationism is out
- It’s a maternal time of year
- Spider hunting in the haunted barn
- Let’s Backtrack: Murder a doctor, get only ten years in prison
- The Art of Book Design: Bound by a Spell
- Let’s Backtrack: Visicalc turned 40 in November 2018
- Michael Moore shreds the image of who makes up the working class now
- I have to remind myself that the foundation is not a distraction
- Wanna piss off Ken Ham?
- Women for Trump!
- Defeat With Dignity
- Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault
- Proud mama
- The weird Marianne Williamson boomlet
- When Military Jets Get Feisty
- The Art of Book Design: A Child’s Book of the Teeth
- The second Democratic debate
- Origami: wobbly cube
- My spiderwalk this morning was…walking into my kitchen
- YouTube Video: If Jewelry Commercials Were Honest
- Yesterday is a good movie!
- Marianne Williamson: dishonest and delusional
- Bricks and Mortar and Water – Part 1
- Doom befalls the University of Alaska
- How to frustrate a mad scientist with two-headed dreams
- Texas Sharpshooter
July 2019
- Elizabeth Warren puts Chris Matthews in his place
- All those scientists who defended Epstein? Go jump in a lake.
- What horrors lurk in the past of your sleepy little town?
- Yesterday’s Democratic debate
- Jack’s Walk
- LABORATORY INCIDENT!
- The Flying AK-47
- The Art of Book Design: Are We a Stupid People, by One of Them
- The Republican party has always been the racist party
- Hey! Skepticon is next week !
- How English became the language of science
- Devious racists are experts at hiding
- Not at my university!
- I already knew college professors don’t discriminate against conservatives
- Jack’s Walk
- The weird world of social media: Part infinity
- The story of Monica
- This does not make sense to me
- Responsibility Dodged: Racism and lousy parenting in one fell swoop
- Tree Tuesday
- The Art of Book Design: The Kindred of the Wild
- Dangerous Rhetorical Questions
- News from the spider baby factory
- Wa Handle
- How racist is America?
- Stumped
- Another datum for my hypothesis that children eat spiders
- How To Travel With Grown-Ups
- The rich are weird
- Zero tolerance for new questions and ideas
- Rowdy wereskunks trash Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- John Oliver on Boris Johnson
- Egg sacs are hatching out!
- Poor Spider Didn’t Stand a Chance
- Pholcidae!
- The Art of Book Design: The Art of the Vatican
- Child murderer was a white nationalist
- East Side Park is infested with wild gangs of juvenile mammals
- Trump doubles down on racism
- The Moral Bankruptcy of Gender Critical Definitions of Man & Woman
- Eucalyptus Flowers
- Jared Kushner, slumlord
- Whups
- TESS Primary Mission 50% Complete
- A Mystery Unsolved: The Black Dahlia
- First player advantage
- AXP has been axed
- For Freud’s Sake: Anti-racists are the real racists…again?
- Matt Dillahunty is Garbage
- My first Commission – Part 4 – Welcome to Knifemaker’s Hell
- Optical illusion, or weird injury?
- Let’s See Who Salutes: A proposal for an Intersectional flag
- More on “People Who Call Out Racism Are the Real Oppressors”
- Film review: Hail Satan? (2019)
- Back Up: But will I be consistent this time?
- What should atheists support?
- The Art of Book Design: Lake Ngami
- Thundering spiders!
- Trouble Making
- Scam artists target conservatives for grifts
- Explaining Horizontal and Intra-Community Hostility: Aoife Helps Out
- We don’t normally like caterpillars in our garden…
- The Art of Book Design: The Swedish Fairy Book
- Death to mosquitos!
- Z is for Zaffre
- Whoa — those goons buy their popularity?
- The Cotton Ceiling: The best argument yet that TERFs aren’t feminists?
- One more for the evening
- Jack’s Walk
- Bernie Sanders corrects the record
- But wait! We weren’t done!
- The Art of Book Design: Insect Architecture
- Fruits of our labors
- Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, and Brexit
- Fungi Friday
- How much sleep do we need?
- Why I haven’t been able to watch The Handmaid’s Tale
- Friday Fun!
- Y is for Yellow
- HBO chose wisely
- Our own little basket of atheist deplorables
- Heavy Metal
- Goodbye Rutger Hauer
- European scientific or health personnel, please sign this manifesto
- Cherry Picking
- Jack’s Walk
- Explaining Horizontal and Intra-Community Hostility: An Introduction by way of the FAE
- Donald and John
- You’ll never guess who is a leading thinker and has a great mind!
- Tell me I’m pretty now
- I’ll have you know I’m a very serious heathen, harumph.
- Chess involves luck, and other propositions
- The Art of Book Design: Little Curiosity, The Story of a German Christmas
- Ed Brayton & I Created Overlapping Posts: “The real racists”, then and now.
- Your Horoscope For The Day
- YouTube Video: What Can House Elves Teach Us About Slavery? (Harry Potter Theory)
- X is for Xanthic
- Ian Murphy has died
- The conspiracy theories will bloom spectacularly
- Still true
- Babbler Readers: We have a Facebook Group just for you! (Mixed)
- The Trumpian Defense of Cissexism
- Jack’s Walk
- Literally the best thing I’ve read in the last 10 minutes
- Space spiders, prepare to land and conquer the planet
- Jonathan Pie on Trump’s racism
- Found a new little spider
- Time…to die
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 13 – Headscratching Curls
- The Art of Book Design: Little Curiosity
- Spiders done been fornicatin’ in my garage!
- You cannot possibly take Quillette seriously
- Exposing the ugly underbelly of Democratic establishment politics
- Jawboning
- I hope we can throw this tweet in his face in 2020
- W is for White
- Please, Democrats, listen to Tim Wise
- Mary’s first macro photograph
- Warbler Sitting in a Walnut Tree
- She doesn’t look at all happy
- A short history on US meddling in foreign elections
- Jack’s Walk
- My first Commission – Part 3 – Quality Control
- First order of business: correcting the spelling of my name
- Do dogs have a sense of guilt and shame?
- Tree Tuesday
- The Spider Times
- The Art of Book Design: Trilby
- Boris Johnson? SERIOUSLY?
- Randy Rainbow hits it out of the park
- V is for Vermilion
- It’s what they do, not what they say
- “Send Her Back”
- Monday funnies
- Thirdmill301 and Cis Cowardice
- Oh, and also…webs are neat
- He helped, a little bit
- Brooding…with a vengeance
- Good answer to a health care question
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: Socialist Readings for Children
- Elegance?
- Can someone please explain?
- U is for Ultramarine
- Why am I seeing variants of this same story everywhere?
- Cargo cult science in defense of right-wing bias
- Illuminati endorses Jeanne Ives and Rachel F. Ventura for Congress (Fiction)
- Bernie keeps his eyes on the ball
- First instar, here we are!
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 12 – Playing with fire
- The patronizing attitude of the Democratic establishment and Trump’s exploitation of it
- The Art of Book Design: The Golden Fleece
- The Atheist Experience is going away
- The Progressive Secular Alliance
- On trans athletes
- Stop talking to billionaires, start listening to climate scientists
- T is for Teal
- More Authentic Customer Satisfaction
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 31 – Freedom of Speech
- The Treacherous Center
- The British NHS vs. US health system
- In my heart, I want this to be true
- More tales of the greedy rich
- Farrell’s is no more
- Midwinter Blooms
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 11 – Establishing bevels
- Do not touch the preemies!
- Talia Lavin is tired of Jews being used as a shield
- The Art of Book Design: The Moon Princess
- The Atheist Community of Austin has drifted out of sync with FtB
- S is for Salmon
- Chess With Oil Tankers
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 1 – Reasons and Requirements
- Jack’s Walk
- Home again from Duluth
- Sofi’s choice
- The physics of Dominion
- Fungi Friday
- Jeffrey Epstein’s jail conditions
- The Art of Book Design: Practical Lessons in Hypnotism
- R is for Red
- I’ve got homework ahead of me
- The Democratic charade
- O, Les Dames
- Triscuit
- Rationality Rules Is Delusional
- Brace yourself for a massively racist election
- Jack’s Walk
- Angels in the sky!
- So that’s what a philosophy degree is good for
- Epstein denied bail
- YouTube Video: Why Don’t We Just Be Nice to the Nazis?
- The Art of Book Design: Ballads in Prose
- Q is for Quinacridone
- Should this result about poker be a surprise?
- I Don’t See How This Works
- (R) stands for (RACIST)
- Road trip, with spiders
- Do you want one of the Old Masters to paint your portrait?
- Learning from Nigeria on battling the anti-vaxxers
- I’m heading off to glamorous Duluth today!
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The Epicurean
- The Notre Dame Fire
- P is for Purple
- Yeah, Riiiiiight…
- I don’t think I have enough patience to deal with people this far gone
- Puerto Rico shows us how it’s done
- And the Beat Goes On
- Jack’s Walk
- Pretty, pretty Shae
- Sporadic blogging coming up
- Well, Shit!
- A comment thread that is well worth reading
- It can happen here
- Tree Tuesday
- The eggs came tumbling down
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of Bugs
- The inevitable pedantry over Epstein and the false authority of Pornhub
- It’s the last day of Prime Day… resist!
- Trump’s latest racist outburst
- Antifa, we have a missile gap
- O is for Orange
- Customer Success Stories
- Embryogenesis in Gonium and Tetrabaena
- Brainwashing foster children into Christianity
- A Picture I Forgot
- Thai-Russian relations
- Jack’s Walk
- Practicin’
- MAKE HER QUEEN!
- Spider eggs!
- The Rocket Garden
- Following the Jeffrey Epstein money trail
- The Art of Book Design: Down Spider Web Lane
- N is for Navy
- Asked. Answered.
- If you don’t like punching Nazis, you’re going to hate this
- Bolingbrook IT Department destroys rogue A.I. (Fiction)
- I thought I’d buried the hatchet with Research Outreach
- Begging the Question
- Crank up the right wing outrage machine: The next James Bond is a black woman!
- Spoilery Thoughts on Next Black Panther
- Much needed clarity on what Medicare for All means
- England win cricket World Cup in wild and crazy final
- My first Commission – Part 2 – Conjunction of Projects.
- Mystery Fossil Identified
- The Art of Book Design: How to Fish
- Republicans see migrant detainee abuse. Will they care? Of course not.
- I am totally out of sync with my community
- M is for Maroon
- What is David Futrelle disgusted by now?
- Different ways of enjoying fiction
- So… Slavery Did Not Exist?
- We already knew this
- Don’t believe your lying eyes
- I feel valid, too!
- Why, hello Mrs P. tep !
- English cricketer Jason Roy behaves badly and stupidly
- “We are all feminists now”?
- Gardens are savage, brutal places
- Hey baby baby baby
- The Art of Book Design: Pasakas
- Explosive theories emerge about Epstein’s money and friends
- L is for Lavender
- Podcastery
- What’s peeving me ?
- Marching band illusion
- Pinker speaks up at last about Epstein!
- More evidence of drivers with expensive cars behaving badly
- Jack’s Walk
- Knock me over with a feather!
- Florida county cannot ban invocations by atheists
- The Epstein dominoes start to fall
- Acosta resigns
- The Art of Book Design: The Derelict
- Too much truth
- K is for Khaki
- So, what is a racist then?
- False narrative Inception
- Death will find a way
- Thank you, but I really didn’t need a reminder
- Control-Z
- I actually expected Trump to cave today
- Jack’s Walk
- The UK’s miserable options for who will be the next prime minister
- Portal to the void
- England beats Australia in second cricket World Cup semi-final
- The Art of Book Design: Love in Art
- The science of stone skipping
- Sciencing the accusations against antifa
- The entanglement of science with money and crime
- J is for Jasmine
- ICE abhors a vacuum
- Operation Overreach
- YouTube Video: Lawrence Krauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Firing Your Heroes into the Sun
- New disgusting Epstein stories emerge
- OK, National Gallery of Canada, what are you doing with MY sculpture?
- Spider population explosion!
- Jack’s Walk
- Stay classy, Donald!
- Drought, Death, Despair.
- Off to Cape Canaveral
- The Art of Book Design: Jude the Obscure
- Sensational win for New Zealand over India
- Goose and Rhein
- Link Roundup: July 2019
- Totally unsurprising Epsteinism
- Pulp artists needed cephalopod anatomy lessons
- I is for Indigo
- A glimpse into the darkness
- Dance Dance Snowball!
- After “clarification”, a false narrative is still false
- Bolingbrook Antifa unleashes weapon of ‘mass-milkshaking’ (Fiction)
- The Doctrine of Estoppel
- Burden of Proof
- Another fun pun
- Jack’s Walk
- How to cheat at flipping coins
- You missed Convergence?
- Spiders are tiring me out
- Another billionaire leaps into the presidential race
- The finances of the mysterious Mr. Epstein
- An Unexpected Treasure
- When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose
- The Art of Book Design: Meadow-Grass
- Tree Tuesday
- H is for Heliotrope
- History is going to repeat itself, isn’t it?
- Reminder: registration for Volvox 2019 ends soon
- Support your local antifa
- Sorry, it’s Tucker Carlson
- Incredible Goals
- Spider news!
- Jack’s Walk
- The allowed range of debate in mainstream media
- Jeffrey Epstein may be in more trouble than we thought
- The story of money
- Erdwesp at work
- The Art of Book Design: Stained Glass Tours of France
- I’m not even a sports fan!
- G is for Green
- A prosecutorial dilemma!
- Behold the coming of the cyber-baby!
- Would Chris Coons want me to talk about my faith, if I were running for office?
- Roof and Walls
- When we used to get street harassment
- Ich bin zu Hause
- Where does Jimmy live?
- Nancy Pelosi reveals her real constituency
- The Art of Book Design: Invisible Links
- Cricket World Cup update
- Wealthy math teacher faces justice
- F is for Fuchsia
- Uncommon Sense: The New Deal
- Reckoning for Jeffrey Epstein at last?
- So tell us what you really think, Mr. Ambassador
- Would this be allowed in bowling?
- Donald Trump reveals the things the history books don’t tell you
- If you thought the US justice department was corrupt under Donald Trump …
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of Saints & Friendly Beasts
- How I’m spending my day at #cvg2019
- E is for Emerald
- Sherman Was Too Nice
- If Carl Sagan had been a creationist …
- Jack’s Walk
- Rick Snyder faces at least a small consequence for his actions
- The Art of Book Design: Herrmann’s Book of Magic
- The pundits are way behind the times and the candidates
- Birdy
- D is for Desert
- Well, this sucks
- What the Fucked Is Starting to Look Like
- Interviews, Book Signing, and Talk Notes
- “Cat Person or Dog Person?” survey explained
- Jack’s Walk
- Lies of Omission
- Are plants conscious?
- The Art of Book Design: Birdcraft
- YouTube Video: The stropping myth and how to sharpen tools with leather
- The census shambles
- Forging Fourth
- C is for Crimson
- Shameful Fourth of July to you all
- Coming Clean: Full Version Now Available!
- There are always grey areas in the law
- Let us all worship the sacred Dow
- The horrible conditions in speed warehouses
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump might suggest Ivanka to head the IMF
- Jawbone
- Maybe humanity deserves extinction
- Increasing condemnation of US behavior
- The Art of Book Design: Dainty Bits
- B is for Black
- I guess I’m in a band now
- Where to start learning about antifa
- Shermer’s disgrace continues apace
- Before the Water Rose
- Supporting Punching Nazis but Condemning Punching Antifas is not Hyppocritical
- Populism vs. populism
- At the Close the Camps protest in Morris, Minnesota
- Jack’s Walk
- Big win on census citizenship question
- The bizarre world of competitive eating
- Tree Tuesday
- Who are antifa?
- How do you name an AI?
- Motivated reasoning
- The Art of Book Design: Stained Glass Tours In England
- Exposing the rotten core of the immigration agencies
- The struggle for equality never “ends”, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
- Close the camps NOW
- A is for Amber
- Cue The Cries of “Political Correctness” and “Cultural Marxism”!
- Free Carola Rackete
- “Rationality Rules STILL Doesn’t Understand Sports”
- Perverts on the hoof
- How the gospels came to be written
- Jack’s Walk
- If antifa has no recourse but violence, how can you condemn them for taking action?
- What will the Democratic establishment do if Biden falters?
- Just for PZ (and assorted arachnophiles)
- Teacher’s Corner: School’s out for Summer!!!
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- The Art of Book Design: Little Anne of Canada
- An atheist ashram in India
- Respect the spider, don’t fear it
- Origami: Octopus 2
- The Alaskan nightmare
- The Spider Times
- Alphabet Colors: Introduction
- Pup Fur Remover Device
- Mike Gravel arrested at Clow UFO Base during the Interplanetary Democratic debate (Fiction)
- Awkward!
June 2019
- They grow up so fast
- Sunday funnies
- Sunday Sacrilege: Expanding Minds & Inspiring Service
- Why the latest abuses of children by the CBP came to light
- How a Lie Keeps Knocking On
- The Art of Book Design: Japan an Interpretation
- June Light
- Sorting out Abrasives
- It’s too hot, so I’ve been hanging out with the spider babies
- I find the silliest things to be funny
- The Art of Book Design: Arabian Nights
- Marianne Williamson: Democratic debate breakout star
- Slavic Saturday
- Rationality Rules is a “Lying” Transphobe
- The poor media reaction to latest Trump assault accusation
- Jack’s Walk
- Changing unauthorized immigration from a criminal to a civil offense
- It’s Fungi Friday
- I have a secret friend!
- The Art of Book Design: Stories and Interludes
- Musings on the second debate
- The economic theory of rainbow logos
- “Free Speech” is the new religious excuse
- When a glossary speaks truth
- The President Was a Hypocritical Bag of Shit
- What to do instead of watching the debate
- This is how a chief of protocol behaves?
- Jack’s Walk
- Seth Meyers reviewed the first debate
- Words did not do justice to Fabian’s performance
- YouTube Video: Abolish the Monarchy!
- The Art of Book Design: Illustrated book of Poultry
- Special Pleading
- In case you wanted something to do at lunch…
- Can we untangle the bad associations of GMOs?
- Musings on the first Democratic debate
- Apparently, I missed out on the debate
- Did I ever tell you that peer-review is not perfect?
- Fathers and baby girls and our nation of evil
- Creepy Macho-Talking Ignorant Coward
- Jack’s Walk
- Jonathan Pie on the British royal family and their swans
- DING DONG THE WITCH IS…fired, anyway
- When video and audio do not match
- Another upset victory over the Democratic establishment
- “Suffer little children” does not mean what the Trump administration thinks it means
- The Art of Book Design: The Lonely House
- Slab Happy
- Gotta ask: cui bono?
- Anything but those Abrahamic religions
- Knitters & spiders rule, libertarians & centrists drool
- The joys of salmon fishing
- Jack’s Walk
- Rich white men play by different rules
- Trolling the trolls
- Get a job, you wastrels!
- Experimenting with macrophotography
- A good idea from Beto O’Rourke
- The Art of Book Design: Les Papillons de France
- Tree Tuesday
- The Age of Digitalis
- Argument to Extreme Moderation
- TV review: Black Mirror: Season 5 (no spoilers)
- My Fears Regarding Bangladesh
- Morris, Minnesota is Number One!
- La Ikraha Fiddeen
- Bye-bye, dino soft tissue
- What We Need Are Slogans For Ours Rights
- Tired, not wired
- Jack’s Walk
- Wasn’t Bret Weinstein supposed to be the biologist brother?
- Gardens provide fresh vegetables and spiders
- Bernie Sanders slams CBS reporter for suggesting that ‘limited strikes’ against Iran are ok
- MH17, Iran Air 655, and The GlobalHawk
- The reclamation of the Cuyahoga river
- What? Convergence is next week?
- Broodmother
- Bufftoofbrush
- The Art of Book Design: The Parade
- Strong editorials against Trump administration polices
- The Spider Times
- Pretty Dead Things
- And now for the official word from American Airlines
- Trustee Watts prayer duel with former Lt. Governor Sanguinetti ends in a draw (Fiction)
- Holy crap, turn off your irony meters before you read this one!
- It Always Comes Back To Us, Doesn’t It?
- Opposition wins significant victory in Istanbul mayoral election
- The World interview with UN rapporteur on Khashoggi murder
- The Art of Book Design: The Floral Kingdom
- Rationality Rules is “A Transphobic Hack”
- Just one more spider for today, then I’ll stop, I promise
- The kids are alright
- Someday, when I’m a real boy, I’ll be better at photography
- Mary has been busy, too
- Big’un, and busy
- Welcome to the universe, Larry!
- I must be fully recovered if I went on a spider-crawl
- Sri Lankan cabinet minister rebukes leading Buddhist monk for tirade against Muslims
- What do Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, and Jesus have in common?
- A happy vision
- My American Airlines adventure
- Sunday Sermon: The Onset of Fucked
- She’s on Fire
- Samantha Bee gives some advice to the low-polling Democratic candidates
- I Had an Excellent Dream
- “Welcome back to the USA”
- TERFs Harm Women
- The self-described “bitch for God” who is running for president
- The Art of Book Design: Tanglewood Tales
- How Not To Do It: Iran Edition
- TNET 33 – Spring Cleaning
- Who are these creepy old senators?
- Trump’s disappointing re-election rally crowd
- YouTube Video: What is white supremacy? – A Response to Steven Crowder
- Stunning upset in cricket World Cup
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The Witching Hour
- This is where you end up when defending Trump administration policies
- About That “Intellectual Property” We Warned You About?
- So tired, yet so awake
- Jack’s Walk
- The things that matter change with age
- What women clergy hear from male clergy and congregants
- Doctors discover plasticity! Shock horror!
- The case against war with Iran
- The rich are not like us
- Supreme Court rules that the Bladensburg cross can remain
- The Art of Book Design: Notre Ami le Chat
- Victory over bunnykind
- More Bees!
- A t-shirt is all it takes, right?
- Minnesota is slipping up
- Counter-Balance That With “Less Likely to Assault Co-Workers”
- Research Outreach responds
- Great moments in children’s baseball
- Jack’s Walk
- The McMansion menace
- Spider meeting is done
- UN report says that bin Salman should be investigated for Khashoggi murder
- Bees 2
- Plant Portraits
- The Art of Book Design: My Lady Nicotine
- Film review: Salt of the Earth (1954)
- Why carteri ?
- It’s Juneteenth!
- That makes it official
- bob’s Knife
- Doctors advising doctors
- Another day, another overwhelming mess of spiders
- A concentration camp by any other name is still a concentration camp
- Weird and/or Petty
- Climate Change Affecting My Mood
- Cat filters
- How a deal works-Donald Trump style
- Jack’s Walk
- Hello Madame!
- Badger Magic
- Spot the interesting entry
- A window into the mind of an apartheid supporter
- The gendered nature of public space: this is all shit and I’m pissed.
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of Romance
- The incoherence of race and ethnicity
- Tree Tuesday
- Not a fan of Mary Midgley, but even less of a fan of scientism
- You aren’t owed admission to Harvard, Kyle
- My first day really hanging out with arachnologists
- Why would you want to do this?
- Jack’s Walk
- Insulin price fixing
- The Hong Kong Situation
- The Art of Book Design: Easy Guide to the Constellations
- Purple Iris
- The Gulf of Oman oil tanker issue
- Is Weed World coming to Bolingbrook? (Fiction)
- Good morning from the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia!
- Regretful Father’s Day
- Sunday funnies
- The Art of Book Design: Standard Ahiman Rezon and Blue Lodge Guide
- Rationality Rules is an Irrational Transphobe
- More Saudi Arabian atrocities
- No wonder Trump and Netanyahu get on so well
- Crimes Against Humanity
- My first Commission – Part 1 – An Offer.
- Cat person or dog person?
- My Echo Chamber Too Quiet Tonight
- Maybe it’s an alien-planted monolith!
- It’s about time: New York state bans religious exemptions for vaccinations
- The Art of Book Design: Old French Fairy Tales
- The journey begins — I’m off to the @AAS_arachnology meetings
- Disband the Phoenix police force and blacklist all the current officers
- What is The Pentagon’s CO2 Footprint?
- You have to decide which part of the club charter matters most
- Jack’s Walk
- Lying to the bitter end
- Pretty babies
- And they’re off!
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
- So many things wrong here
- We truly are in a dark dystopian timeline
- Anglerfish are elegant and lovely in life
- Read your Bible, Ken
- About That Census Question…
- Exploiting stay-at-home women
- Social Reproduction
- Now I know for sure that Jordan Peterson is delusional
- The cricket World Cup has become a waterlogged mess
- Jack’s Walk
- Lab Spider
- The Art of Book Design: The Romance of Insect Life
- Ignore the polls and the pundits
- Finally famous — we’re in the Stevens County Times!
- Actually, I fail to see a single thing in this paper that would require any textbook rewriting at all
- I don’t know how I did it, but I know I deserve all the credit
- Research Outreach blocked me on Twitter
- And Now: A Message From Your Algorithm
- YouTube Video: How to remove medieval arrows
- What a gaffer does
- Is there something funny going on at Patheos?
- It’s been a fecund kind of day
- Local governments never seem to learn that flag burning is protected speech
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: Die Milchstrasse
- Jury refuses to convict man who gave food and water to migrants
- Mystery Flowers
- A poem that ought to burn social media
- Joe Biden, making promises he won’t keep
- Everything wrong with Twitter in one story
- This is correct, they did not teach us about Phyllis Wheatley in school
- Fur Removal Device
- Is Research Outreach a rebranded Research Features ?
- Residents, aliens and were-dogs enjoy Bolingbrook’s Pride and Puppies event (Mixed)
- I challenge the Queen of England to battle!
- What’s happening in Sudan
- Jack’s Walk
- The other scandal of the Central Park Five
- Get Hard and Stay Hard
- New spider housing!
- The Art of Book Design: Trees Every Child Should Know
- Do you feel the fear of Christ yet?
- The impact of Plessy v. Ferguson
- Tree Tuesday
- My day is all booked up already
- I can’t decide whether this is peak capitalism, or the demise of capitalism
- This Important Research
- Riffing on Reprobate Spreadsheet: Womanhood Edition
- You think spiders are weird? At least I’m not working on turkeys.
- Fight the global tyranny of the metric system!
- My house: ground zero in the Northern Empire of Spiders
- The one true Batman is no more
- Link Roundup: June 2019
- Jack’s Walk
- Rain disrupts cricket World Cup
- Free speech is in danger, call out the military
- The Art of Book Design: The Rules for Radicals
- YouTube Video: Why is Pride Still Important in 2019?
- Get ready for an anti-progressive propaganda blitz
- What paleo diet?
- Sunsets
- Meet the Schlafly Family
- Monday Meslier: 118 – The Deist’s God Is No Less Contradictory, No Less Fanciful, Than The Theologian’s God
- Trams always win in collisions with cars
- HJ Hornbeck being Cool
- TERFs are Incoherent
- The Art of Book Design: Hawthorne and Lavender
- The puzzling stability of cricket bails
- Maine has a state ballad?
- Class Photo
- Puzzling text exchange
- A Silver Lining
- Fortunately for the peace of the nation, no dairy products were hurled
- A gathering of the broflakes
- Now, Get Out!
- Goldman Sachs and sovereign wealth funds
- Entitled comedians should stop taking cheap shots at millennials
- The Art of Book Design: Carrots
- Another day, more spiders
- Slavic Saturday
- Brexit, drugs, and fly-tipping
- The Return of the Mocking Kites
- Stop eating now!
- What is this “pride month” of which you speak?
- Does the missionary position even need defending?
- The risk of being rescued by a helicopter
- Another day of spider-hunting!
- Jack’s Walk
- Story of two Knives
- Having health insurance does not mean you can afford medical care in the US
- Rich people behaving like jerks: Part infinity
- The Art of Book Design: The Mystery of the Sea
- The Danish election
- Schneckenwetter
- What’s the harm?
- Uh-oh. Ticks.
- The story that atheism will never live down
- Jacob Wohl gets neatly eviscerated, probably doesn’t even know it
- Clay
- Reject alcohol sponsorship
- Jack’s Walk
- Spider mission accomplished
- Perpetuating war by exalting its sacrifices
- Brilliant catch in World Cup
- The Art of Book Design: Flowerchild Fairytale of Good and Evil
- T-1 hour
- TV review: Unforgotten
- Welcome to the new wasteland, same as the old wasteland
- That creepy, inelegant metric system
- Hammer Time!
- The Revolution Will Be Intersectional Or It Will Be Bullshit
- The spiders may be the death of me tomorrow
- Ah, the good old days!
- The secret life of checked airline baggage
- Jack’s Walk
- How to Sharpen a Knife
- A (seemingly) Big and Beautiful Spider
- Dark matter anomaly resolved
- Is there hope for atheism?
- Snark: Arrested for Failure
- The Art of Book Design: The Blue Flower
- A milkshake is a moderate, proportionate response
- Perceptual geography
- How Not To Sharpen a Knife
- Remind me not to do that again
- Fungi are old
- How is Trump’s UK visit going?
- An interesting new plane design
- Classic example demonstrating how online polls are worthless
- Jack’s Walk
- Afghanistan has disappointing loss to Sri Lanka in cricket World Cup
- I’m straight, I should get a parade!
- The dehumanizing effect of the Everest crowds
- The Art of Book Design: Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines.
- Tree Tuesday
- I’m told feminism is cancer
- What Matters To You?
- Boorish buffoon baffled by British boobtube!
- Somebody explain this to me
- Sometimes saying sorry isn’t enough
- Cricket World Cup update
- Jack’s Walk
- Can I Get A Squee?
- Lounging Lizards
- Theresa May’s final humiliation
- It always sounds fancier in Latin
- Bubbly!
- Steven Anderson now has something else in common with snakes
- The Art of Book Design: A Houseboat on the Styx
- The Indian Wars never ended, they just changed tactics
- Theft of Intellectual Property
- Bolingbrook covert task force breaks up gay pride toter march (Fiction)
- Fungi are weird
- The effect of the anti-vaxxers
- First, kill all the professors. Second, reap the rewards of knowledge.
- The impact of 2001: Space Odyssey on AI
- At least I had a pretty break
- The Art of Book Design: Hummingbirds
- Looks like the US government and the CPB have never read St. Matthew’s gospel
- Cringey Sunday
- Laboratory nightmare!
- Twinkle, twinkle little spacelink
- Sunday Sermon: From Disappointment to Disappointment to Despair
- Mah Pollard, Mah Coppice
- Origami: Six intersecting pentagonal prisms
- More Pearls Before Swine pun!
- Get your hands dirty for mental health?
- Great moments in irony: Noah’s Ark property damaged by rain
- Whoa, his name really is “Randy Rainbow”?
- Rich people really do act like jerks
- The Art of Book Design: The Velveteen Rabbit
- Godzilla , king of big dumb fights
- Spider party at my place
May 2019
- Jack’s Walk
- The Spelling Bee is broken
- The case against extraditing Julian Assange to the US
- Hindu Right wins Indian election with more seats and votes
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of Lies
- As long as Shermer is a respected skeptic, movement skepticism will be an embarrassment
- Godzilla!
- You’ll probably be disappointed
- Silver Bones
- Feminist Perversions: Sea Shanty Edition
- Rationality Rules is an Oblivious Transphobe
- The hero we need
- How to scare away creationists: be tolerant of gender preferences!
- The deadly Mount Everest bottleneck
- They Are All Up In Your Constitution, Winning Your Rights
- The obsession with fair skin in South Asia
- Jack’s Walk
- Steven Pinker gets the treatment he has earned
- Corruption and greed in cricket
- The Art of Book Design: Ragnarok the Age of Fire and G(r)avel
- Also, how does Santa determine who is naught and nice?
- Yes, Tomi Lahren, I do think. Don’t you?
- May Light
- Jack’s Walk
- Boris Johnson to go to trial for lying to the public
- Freedom’s just another word for…flammable?
- Ending the perks of political leaders
- Nope
- The Art of Book Design: A Book about Bees
- Doctor of doom
- How this year’s Sanders campaign is changing politics
- Wild Orchids
- Project Blitz: another assault on our freedoms
- Just because
- Goin’ to the doctor
- Bolingbrook repels alien weather attack (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- “It’s Always Men”
- A price gladly paid for a new spider legion
- Seeking messages from gods
- Gerrymandering changes blocked by US Supreme Court
- Close Encounters of the tiny kind
- The Art of Book Design: Familiar Life in Field and Forest
- Tree Tuesday
- Man, incels are messed up in more ways than one
- Understanding the European Union election results
- Conjugate variables, in thermodynamics and elsewhere
- The first and only reasonable defense of prayer I’ve ever read
- Egnorance, political propaganda, and transphobia
- The imaginary free speech crisis is a ploy to silence free speech
- Reminder: early bird registration for Volvox 2019 ends soon
- Day 8 of 7: Re Venge of the Re Quench
- Jack’s Walk
- Hell is Hope Hicks
- If you still don’t get it, watch this
- Remembrances
- The Art of Book Design: The Life and Love of the Insect
- Monday Mercurial: Weeeeeee Monkey
- FEMICIDE
- Find your gender-swapped persona!
- History can be horrifying
- There’s obviously an alien inside that twitchy skin bag
- Day 7: Clay
- Yet More Egnorance
- Anvil’s Eye View
- The Art of Book Design: From the Earth to the Moon
- Perfectly on point for Wenatchee
- A Brief Update on the HDD Magnets
- Once Upon A Time in Madrid
- Don’t be shy about calling a Nazi a Nazi
- Comrades! To the barricades…errm, the Dairy Queen!
- Day 6: Flakey
- Teacher’s Corner: The Girl who Cried Wolf
- Press Eye View
- The Art of Book Design: Practical Taxidermy
- Has everyone figured out that Musk is charlatan yet?
- The Spider Squad will be convening next weekend
- Web Exclusive: Village of Bolingbrook to establish ‘milkshake-free’ zones (Fiction)
- Project for the day
- Day 5: The File as Draw-Knife
- Slavic Saturday
- The Zebrafish Go To Eleven
- Jack’s Walk
- James Beacham’s LHC Nightmare: A Love Story
- The last thing an ark-builder would think about is rain damage
- Cap and trade
- I like fighting evil, and reading books
- Tiny Spiders
- The Art of Book Design: Brute (poems)
- The Urban Goose
- Day 4: Stock Removal
- We should colonize Mars, because it is inimical to human life, and therefore we’ll evolve super-fast!
- I approve of the UK dumping Theresa May…
- This isn’t just a cartoon, it’s our Democratic reality
- Rationality Rules is a Transphobe
- Jack’s Walk
- There goes the neighborhood — the FLDS is trying to move in
- I spent a day with…students!
- Light blogging due to travel
- The Art of Book Design: Successful Advertising
- A Marcus Solution for Ronja and Other Hairy Beasts
- All you ever wanted to know about 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Day 3: More Hammering!
- Female salamander gang invades local turf to steal chromosomes!
- Trump Would Rather Have His Racism Than $20 In His Pocket
- How the Democratic party establishment thinks
- It’s been a spidery kind of day
- I’ve wondered how wind turbines would hold up in a tornado
- Jack’s Walk
- Dog Days
- Dungeoneering
- The cruel and inhumane US (in)justice system
- The Art of Book Design: The Friendship of Art
- Meandering about spiders
- Wednesday Wings: Duck and Friends
- Day 2: The Hammering
- Meet the new kilogram and other new standards
- Mythcon devolved
- Why was Betsy DeVos awarded an honorary degree from an HBCU in the first place?
- Jack’s Walk
- Policy and romance? How can I not support her?
- Reactionary Alabama
- There are more spider videos where this one comes from, I guarantee it
- Pardoning war criminals
- The Art of Book Design: Horae Successivae
- Now my beauties. Something with poison in it I think. With poison in it!
- Tree Tuesday
- Day 1: Making Bars
- Coroners in the US
- I feel valued
- The arsenal of democracy and justice
- Blinded by the Right
- Show and Tell
- The next bestseller: my autobiography
- Pete Buttigieg at the Fox News Town Hall
- Jack’s Walk
- What Game of Thrones says about America today
- Appearing soon in a horror movie near you!
- Hey, that’s MY dating strategy!
- Interceptor from Clow UFO Base shot down over Palatine (Fiction)
- Monday Mercurial: Chill
- On color theory
- Degree of passion may motivate EU election results
- The Art of Book Design: The New Day
- Sam Harris shoves his foot down his gullet again
- And Speaking of Military Aircraft Crashing Into Things
- Game of Thrones was a metaphor for the Democratic Party!
- Not a good day
- Unplanned
- Sex Ed for legislators
- The Art of Book Design: The life-history of British serpents and their local distribution in the British Isles
- The Reptarium
- On Twitter, everybody thinks they can be a comedian
- Speaking of Getting Stuck in Mud
- I’m glad I’d already given up on The Walking Dead
- 177 young men
- Liberals sign on to supporting regime change
- Iceland should have won Eurovision 2019
- A sense of dread and impending doom
- Administrivia: Off to Oregon!
- Nature Imitates Art
- 320 students dispatched
- I Thought MK-ULTRA Was About Mind Control
- What does it mean to care about the wellbeing of sex workers?
- The Art of Book Design: Orchids
- Drug price extortion
- The latest big dickhead to be exposed is…
- The Buster Keaton Ballet
- How did he persist?
- I Never Thought I am Going to be Happy About Loosing my job. Again.
- Chelsea Manning Back in Jail
- Watch a robot solve a Rubik’s cube in just 0.38 seconds
- How does she do that?
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: Sketch-book of British Birds
- Do spoilers spoil the fun?
- Labor
- US primarily responsible for rising tensions with Iran
- Green New Strategy
- I can’t believe Biden is the front-runner
- None of us are better than this
- The primary election is the election
- Don’t you love getting mail?
- The mustache of war
- Great moments in merging
- Jack’s Walk
- Springtime for Spiders
- The Fox News dilemma for Democrats
- The Art of Book Design: How to Swim
- People who whine about “post-modern neo-Marxism” or “Enlightenment values” generally don’t understand either
- Have you ever felt like we need atheism more than ever?
- Michael Egnor doesn’t understand free speech
- It’s the malignant stupidity that gets me down
- An Update to My Algorithms
- Oh, Alberta
- From the Webmaster: Second Annual Pride Picnic and Puppies set for June 9 (Mixed)
- Now for something fun…
- How birds choose their location in the V-formation
- John Oliver on climate change and the Green New Deal
- TNET 32 – Making Fire
- Bonsaist’s Nightmare
- Let’s rag on Alabama some more
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raises the bar yet again
- Rural billboards are the worst
- An Iran Scenario
- The Art of Book Design: The Story of the Sun
- It’s not just Alabama
- When dating began
- The lying theocrats are winning in Alabama
- Why was no penalty called?
- Renewed violence in Sri Lanka
- Now we’re all sad and alone
- Jack’s Walk
- Watch the propaganda for war with Iran unfold
- The Art of Book Design: The Arabian Nights’
- The smearing of Bernie Sanders ramps up
- Would you pay $600 for a liter of water?
- Blacklist Acting Funny…
- Whales just want to say hello
- 5,000 year old crime
- Tree Tuesday
- Follow the money
- Heavy Delivery
- Doris Day (1922-2019)
- Anti-choice laws running rampant
- Why and how birds fly in V-formations
- Jack’s Walk
- How do you Catch a Predator…
- Woman from the year 2049 denied access to planning forum (Fiction)
- Exploitation of labor, part 2
- #QAnon discovers the xiphoid process!
- How To Burn Money Like Trump
- The law must be free for everyone
- The Art of Book Design: Stories of Strange Women
- Grifters gotta grift
- We’re going to need an awful lot of eggs
- Sam Harris’ very special pleading
- Up is down. Black is white. Atheism is religion.
- Busy day
- Pi = 3.2 says committee that is surely not at all drunk
- Great moments in union busting
- The narrowness of the US political spectrum
- Wealthy people never realize how much luck played in their ‘success’
- Just when you thought it was safe…(Non-ficiton)
- The Art of Book Design: Spectrum Analysis
- Sunday Sermon: Not A Toy
- Volvox 2019 poster
- Chelsea Manning is Free… For Now
- Republican Robin Hood
- For Your Enjoyment: The Canadian Borg
- The sex life of nuns
- The Art of Book Design: Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
- Future slack
- Blue as the Ocean in a shallow Bay
- sshhh. baby in house
- Jacob Wohl keeps kicking his own ass
- Foundations and Mud
- I guess I’m being sued, I guess
- Jack’s Walk
- Conan O’Brien goes to Australia
- The Queen of All Conniptions
- What the Freud, Bernie Supporters?
- The UK’s EU elections as a second Brexit referendum
- Link Roundup: May 2019
- The incorrigible Madame Nhu
- The Art of Book Design: Das unheimliche Buch
- Archaeological Museum of Macedonia – Part 2: Other Shiny Things
- Spring Peepers
- Urge to join a union rising…rising…rising
- For my colleagues who are in the throes of grading right now
- Friday Cephalopod: Serves you right
- Eternal Flowers
- This Six Year Old Tweet
- Still the one
- Yep, it was just like that for me …
- Jack’s Walk
- The coming generational divide and progressive generational alliances
- Overused Statistic #738: Mental Illness and Violent Victimization
- Wily grandparents set cunning traps
- An honest political ad from the Australien government
- The sad Discovery of the Existence of too much Blue
- Militant medicine
- With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?
- How to make a spider ‘penis’
- The Art of Book Design: Descendant of the Crane
- We Believe in Dinosaurs
- It’s either part of a nefarious plan, or mental illness, or both
- Fake President, Fake News
- Mayor Claar resumes command of Clow UFO Base despite protests (Fiction)
- Work at CNN? Quit Your Job Now
- Poetic justice
- Jack’s Walk
- These are the new American heroes
- How train wheels work around corners
- Aasia Bibi has left Pakistan
- The Master’s Tools won’t take down the Master’s House
- What did these ribs do to deserve public shaming?
- How to make an adult film with help from family and friends
- The Art of Book Design: The Animal Story Book
- I think I’ll go play with spiders for a while
- Everyone knows you have to leaven your evolutionary psychology with Jung, though
- In case you’re wondering why I want to leave the human race
- I need a time machine with a 500 million year range
- Qatar. 2011
- Atavisms aren’t a good explanation of cancer
- Oh, horrors! Mary and Jesus have rainbow halos!
- Jack’s Walk
- TurboTax and H&R Block under investigation
- Beating the drums for war with Venezuela
- Flowers and Aliens
- New UN warnings on harm to the planet
- The Art of Book Design: The Feet
- Postshipping
- Tree Tuesday
- They grow up no matter what you do
- “Inside the Atheist Mind” is more revealing of what’s going on in the Fox News mind
- Lost in Lost Wax
- Dissent is the sign of a healthy society
- The mosque in New Zealand
- For women, fight for independence much more important than entry to temples like Sabarimala
- Great moments in Christianity
- Jack’s Walk
- I hope this opposition to debate catches on
- The chalk favored by mathematicians
- Muslim women and an emerging new politics
- Satanic Temple recognized by the IRS as a church
- Tell me a story, Bernie: Sanders in Sioux City
- The perfect marriage
- Shutting down social media to reduce unrest
- The Art of Book Design: The Summer of Broken Things
- Let’s Play 9: Goodbye!
- Archaeological Museum of Macedonia – Part 1: Little Shiny Things
- The Burqa Issue
- Auctions: a Note
- The new Opportunity Corridor in Cleveland
- Sunday Sermon: Contemptible Politics
- The arrival of ‘pointillist empires’
- Let’s Play 8. Nighttime
- The Art of Book Design: Among English Hedgerows
- Madness in Sioux City!
- The Art of Book Design: Koltok Albuma
- Film review: Knock Down the House (2019)
- Important context for understanding what’s happening in Latin America
- Meanwhile, over in England …
- What? Even in Morris?
- Natural Dyes
- All you wanted to know about the NRA implosion
- May the Fourth!
- Exploitation of labor
- A litany of bad science
- Universal Recipes
- Slavic Saturday
- The express line conundrum
- Ohio gerrymandering struck down
- Jack’s Walk
- Criticism of excessive CEO compensation
- The Art of Book Design: The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use
- Friday Cephalopod: Do not taunt the octopuses while they are invading
- Drug rehabilitation program or indentured servitude?
- Let’s Play: At Legoland 7
- Bye bye, Alex Jones, Infowars, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan
- Australian wildlife is getting weird
- Canyon Matka – Part 7: Miscellaneous and Odd
- Judges Behaving Badly
- A stuck mensch
- Game of Chairs
- Why malign kangaroos?
- Jack’s Walk
- How media leaks can sometimes happen
- Microbiology scares me
- Nothing like a little fearmongering to drag the citizenry into war
- Let’s give Occupy Wall Street and young people the props they deserve
- Please, I would like to hear more and join the Cult of the Void
- Let’s Play: At Legoland 6
- UMM is #1 in something!
- A series of unfortunate life-choices
- The Art of Book Design: The Fairy-Land of Science
- I, satanist
- I am so tired of religious conservatives calling atheists immoral
- A Podcast Recommendation
- A Beautiful G R E E N Morning
- Whoa. I thought having a vagina & no Y chromosome defined a woman?
- Carnivorous plants
- Jack’s Walk
- The US is supporting a coup in Venezuela
- Skepchicks, assemble!
- Roo
- Origami: Skarmory
- How the Indian election system works
- Still not a fan of debate
- The Art of Book Design: Seas and Lands
- Let’s Play: At the Legoland 5
- Wednesday Wings: It’s a Hoot!
- Wow, Jacob Wohl is really working hard to be the poster boy for Dunning-Krueger
- Canyon Matka – Part 6: Rocks
- A Trial Balloon
- “Not as bad as Alabama” is hardly the same thing as “good.”
- Web Exclusive: Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein: Convert A.I.s to Humanistic Judaism! (Fiction)
- AOC confronts IL06 Republican candidate Sanguinetti during an Illuminati event at the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
- The Tactical Kitchen Auction
- Jack’s Walk
April 2019
- This is Spinal Tap – again
- Stephen Moore: Not the Nominee Republicans Need
- Sometimes, I just hate politics
- The deadly dance of death
- Tree Tuesday
- The Art of Book Design: The Dark Way of Love
- I married a Russian bot
- Let’s Play: At Legoland 4, or capitalism sucks
- A great truth
- Not subtle at all
- Jacob Wohl does it again
- April Light
- Wroughtface Bruiser
- Betteridge’s law of headlines, part 2
- Carrier Lawsuit: The case was dismissed but the legal bills persist (Non-fiction)
- Dada Is Dada
- Outsourcing the mailing of letters
- Swept away in a storm of buzzwords!
- Is it good to have pharma ads on tv ?
- Jack’s Walk
- The NRA is fighting with itself and New York state
- Saudi Arabia helps accused criminals flee the US
- Spring Greetings
- Health care and colleges — does Canada have to do everything better than us?
- The Art of Book Design: British Butterflies
- Got any white walkers you need to deal with?
- Contemptible liar
- A Comment on Gout
- Follow up to the Punisher cops: Logo Lawyer is Troubled
- Betteridge’s law of headlines, part 1
- Let’s Play: At the Legoland 3
- Don’t cite logical fallacies
- Old News I Missed: Cops have placed the Punisher skull on patrol cars
- A new documentary about Satanists and the Satanic Temple
- Meanwhile, violence closer to home continues
- Why does Prometheus Books even bother
- Auction #2 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Auction #1 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- What do you think? Are embryos tumors or parasites?
- Sunday Sermon: Hoist The Black Flag
- Update on Sri Lanka
- The Art of Book Design: Robinson Crusoe
- Magnolia
- Let’s Play: at the Legoland 2
- Congregation Chabad: The Blood of Our Children, Perhaps Our First Born
- Why do people broadcast film and book spoilers? (No spoilers!)
- Disemboweling a Phone. And Emboweling it again.
- You have got to be kidding me, George Takei
- Canyon Matka – Part 5: Surfacing
- Third federal judge strikes down anti-BDS laws
- The Avengers: Endgame is Peak Genre (no spoilers, relax)
- Spring Comes to the Woods
- The Art of Book Design: On a Lark to the Planets
- Let’s Play: At the Legoland 1
- Happy 50th Birthday to the SHJ (Non-fiction)
- The new era of living dangerously
- Jack’s Walk
- College democrats urge boycott of DCCC
- Joe Biden See No Boundaries
- A poignant story
- Full Fish Ahead: Part 5
- Friday Feathers: American Birds
- Michael Glance, poster boy for toxic masculinity
- Do I really want to see another comic book movie?
- The Art of Book Design: Spectropia (1865)
- A clever little two-step
- Will this be the end of Carl Benjamin?
- Passovers Past: The One Drop Rule
- Bernie hasn’t changed
- Certain politicians are easily confused with Nazis, I know
- The far side of the moon
- YouTube Video: Did people have bad teeth in medieval times?
- Jack’s Walk
- Stop supporting nuclear power
- “Republican” is a synonym for “petty and stupid”
- Marie Newman will challenge conservative Democrat again
- Spawn 2.0
- Occasional reminder
- The Art of Book Design: The Italian Teacher
- Who benefits from increasing healthcare costs?
- We can just post the same article over and over again!
- More Cops Behaving Badly
- Trevor Noah checks out some of the Democratic candidates
- The Extinction Rebellion protest in London
- Time for a new Netflix?
- Comic-book movies treat arachnophobia!
- University cracks down on predation in the lab, more like it
- Jack’s Walk
- The ‘Stop Bernie’ movement tries to regroup
- Dueling irrelevancies
- Spawn
- Phantom Midge
- I need to send this to my kids
- Relax, there aren’t going to be any zombie pigs
- The Art of Book Design: Book of the Black Bass
- Comments on “Us”
- Selfies
- A lack of ability in the upper echelons
- The US is a great country in which to be a conman
- Sri Lankan situation update
- The authoritarian, profit-seeking people who want to seize the commons are the problem
- Jack’s Walk
- The TurboTax ‘free’ tax software rip-off
- Tree Tuesday
- Why is Ross Douthat still privileged with a column in the NY Times?
- American politics has become a sham
- The Art of Book Design: Birds in Their Homes
- Wereskunks honor Mayor Claar during ‘Great Scampering’ ceremony at the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
- The “Green New Deal” is Soooooooo Expensive
- The danger of using extreme hyperbolic political rhetoric
- Jack’s Walk
- How can this be allowed?
- The books of Gene Wolfe
- Turpins face life in prison
- Slap me in the face harder
- Earth Day!
- Jimmy Carter calls the US ‘the most warlike nation’
- Hey, I guess my vote can be bought
- Wow! Free Advertising for Jesus!
- The Art of Book Design: Beauty in Common Things
- Nurses play cards, cops eat donuts, and other stereotypes
- Darwinism is dying, again
- Update on Sri Lanka
- Another summary of the Peterson/Žižek debate
- The Art of Book Design: The Graymare Romance
- Carnage in Sri Lanka
- Book review: Accelerate
- What to see in Cleveland
- Dara O’Briain reviews the film 2012
- A Year Long Journey
- Trump Is A Coward
- RIP Joe Armstrong, the author of Erlang
- Great moments in political grandstanding
- Žižek vs Peterson: A nothingburger.
- The Art of Book Design: Kate Greenaway’s Almanack
- YouTube skepticism is a sham
- Twisted
- Structuralism does not imply that evolution runs on rails
- Robocall truce?
- John Oliver exposes the Sacklers-again
- If I only had a brain: What I should have written, but didn’t write, but someone else wrote, so you’re saved.
- Jack’s Walk
- Good News! Health care stocks fall
- The media and Democratic establishment attacks on Bernie are taking a familiar form
- Get the Party Started!
- The burden of proof and God
- Yay, archaeologists!
- The Art of Book Design: Spectropia
- The flat earth cult
- An American esthetic
- Tuck, My Fruck is Stuck
- Reporting on the Mueller Report
- Slavic Saturday
- From the Archives 2009: Village of Bolingbrook rejects Google Government (Fiction)
- Game of Thrones mania
- It looks like England needs land reform
- Jack’s Walk
- The Pacific Ocean is big. Like, really, really big
- A vision of the future from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Facebook takes a step in the right direction
- Tummy Thursday: a Sweet Surprise
- The Art of Book Design: Scenes of Clerical Life
- Thanks! And good news! But not enough good news.
- It’s “Ask an Atheist Day”?
- “It’s just a joke” is a joke of an excuse
- A Tangled Web
- “A Message from the Future”
- I have been ‘under the weather’ and ‘one degree under’
- Jack’s Walk
- Meanwhile, Everywhere Else in the World
- The Art of Book Design: A Masque of Days
- No more Gene Wolfe
- The conspiracy theorists were looking in the wrong place
- Intelligent design advocates tell me what I believe
- Ola Bini arrested in Ecuador
- Yo Yo Ma gets political
- Sometimes you just have to be understanding of a little rape.
- Bernie rocks the audience at Fox News town hall
- Jack’s Walk
- Adventures in building science gear
- The problem with counting calories
- Is This What The Bullies Want?
- Weird accounting
- The Art of Book Design: A Floral Fantasy
- Belltower
- Invade Africa — all of Africa — to punish “woke Twitter” for the Notre Dame fire
- Tree Tuesday
- Oh no! I forgot Paul Nelson Day again!
- I wonder where he got those of ideas of masculine entitlement?
- Remarkable resilience of a dog
- Dilbert does not understand random sampling
- Accidents
- Child marriage in the US
- I detest cathedrals and the nonsense behind them
- Sympathy
- Jack’s Walk
- End of the road for civil asset forfeiture?
- A Progression of Beautiful Mornings
- The Art of Book Design: The Salt Path
- Tangled web, check. Woven, check. Deceived…uh, not check.
- Barberry Flowers for Caine
- Reverence For The Law
- A cartoon that needs to go on a plaque in the Ark Encounter
- Sources: Village of Bolingbrook to invest in earth orbiting ads (Fiction)
- Would you vote for this dead-eyed ignorant wanker?
- Two Opposing Camps
- The center is where politics goes to die
- The problem with tainted money
- Sunday Sermon: You Can’t Own All The Problems
- Deliberately making tax preparation complicated
- The Society for American Archaeology acts immediately to create a safe space for the good ol’ boys!
- Boycott Pepsi
- I stand with Ilhan, too
- The Art of Book Design: A Book of Images
- I am a member of a highly privileged class
- Ivanka the Vacant
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 30 – Panslavism
- How a James Bond film went from serious to parody
- The origin of the word boycott
- I’m complaining about evolutionary psychology again
- The black hole: Zoom in, enhance!
- Slavic Saturday
- IRS questioned on its audit practices
- The Art of Book Design: Alice In Wonderland
- Randomness
- Where can I buy one of these?
- The danger to golf spectators
- The size of the photographed black hole event horizon
- Jack’s Walk
- Sexism Poisons Everything
- I’m rubber, you’re glue
- The Julian Assange case and freedom of the press
- Friday Feathers: The Birds of Spring IV
- The Art of Book Design: A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons. There is Death in the Pot.
- Thomas Massie isn’t a scientist, either
- The usual predictable BS about women in science
- YouTube Video: Waking Up to Sam Harris Not Making Sense
- This Could Go All Wrong
- We’ve Been Spring Cleaning
- Netherlands backtracking on sex workers?
- John Oliver on the exploitation of mobile home owners
- Mystical Worlds
- Jack’s Walk
- A final Brexit deadline – until the next one?
- Who wants to live forever?
- The case against metrics
- I think I could use an evening of frogs
- YouTube Video: Turning 2 hex nuts into a Diamond ring
- The Art of Book Design: Reynard the Fox
- Maybe it was a mistake to name a child after the Norse goddess of winter
- There can be only one?
- Pictures of a Black Hole
- Julian Assange: evidence that a man can be a journalist and an asshole at the same time
- No more ads!
- He should have also specified that the execution would be by public stoning
- Minimalism
- Link Roundup: April 2019
- The problem of Trump’s mental state
- TNET 31: First Things First
- Jack’s Walk
- The EU seems to view the UK as a pest
- Astronomers reveal first photograph of a black hole
- Full Fish Ahead: Part 4
- Doing the Lord’s work
- Wednesday Wings: The Birds of Spring III
- The Art of Book Design: To the End
- Black hole!
- Don’t you just love reading myths about yourself?
- At What Point?
- Cthulhu Found In The Depths – UPDATED!
- Confirming what we already knew
- Shed no tears for Kirstjen Nielsen
- I almost felt pity for evolutionary psychology
- Iran plays tit-for-tat with the US
- Jack’s Walk
- Not Good
- The hidden, ugly face of US empire
- Wildly exaggerating dinosaur technology as a recipe for attention
- The Art of Book Design: East of Eden
- The new generation of sexbots aren’t as enticing as I expected
- Tree Tuesday
- Minnesota is drunk. And it’s a mean drunk.
- Splat
- Volvox Esskultur
- I thought CNBC was supposed to be slightly “liberal”
- John Oliver on Trump’s nominees to the Federal Reserve
- The Immigrant, The Idiot, and The Judgement
- Coronation Street finally gets black residents
- Jack’s Walk
- John Bercow is not leaving the building anytime soon
- How technology can improve without increased understanding
- The Art of Book Design: The Yellow Book
- Schools and privilege
- Making the rounds
- That’s quite a headline
- A Thing I Would Like to See
- My knee is much better this week, thank you very much
- Woman exiled from Bolingbrook after trying to sell fake Dead Sea road salt (Fiction)
- EssenceOfThought on Trans Athletes
- Natalie Reed’s “Trans 101”
- Jet lag asymmetry
- OMG, he has Anime Hair!
- The Woman with Lapislazuli in her Teeth
- Calls to end use of statistical significance
- That’s just how capitalism works
- The Art of Book Design: The Water Babies
- Best meme ever
- Donald Cline, criminal serial inseminator
- Migrants
- Australian politics on TV
- The further adventures of Phillip Blair, ranting evangelist!
- The imperial mindset of the US on full display
- The entitlement mentality of the wealthy
- The Art of Book Design: The Saturday Book (1951 no. 11)
- Australia’s got the attytood
- What could be more British than a mutual sense of despondency?
- How …. Expected
- Locker room behavior
- How the debate over minimum wages has changed
- Calvin & Hobbes: Still Relevant
- How did we wind up with a country in which Republicans are allowed to interfere with science?
- Vanity license plates
- Hey, @carinbondar and Olivia Judson!
- Congress votes to cut US support for war in Yemen
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The History of the Devil and The Idea of Evil
- I, for one, welcome our new Scottish overlords
- Bad science on vaccines from a so-called science fiction author
- 100,000 page views!
- Let Me Stake This Out
- Down with Cis Meme
- Ryan the Clueless
- My responses to TERF concerns
- A new stage in whale evolution discovered
- More drama on Brexit
- “We’re first!” A Bolingbrook Babbler post-election special report
- Very Curious Artform – Strandbeest
- Jack’s Walk
- Signs of Spring (spider edition)
- Guess who gets tax audited the most?
- The Art of Book Design: All The Birds, Singing
- WND in its death throes!
- Looking for some fun reading?
- The State of The Hot Shed
- Over-dependence on GPS
- Checkmate, Flat Earthers!
- In private meeting with AIPAC, Cory Booker fawns over Israel
- Jack’s Walk
- The color of prehistoric animals
- Reviews of The Favourite (2018) and Green Book (2018)
- In case you were wondering why Quillette is a hacky web site
- Wednesday Wings: The Birds of Spring II
- The Art of Book Design: Too Curious
- The new astrology, accepted by True Skeptics
- How much does NASCAR love America?
- Ask The Strategic Genius: The Hammerstein-Equord Algorithm
- Excuses, Excuses
- John Bercow’s greatest hits
- Uh-oh, does this mean a rise in ‘incels’?
- Transfeminism and its origins: a personal retrospective.
- The life of a film extra
- Why this should be is a total mystery
- Discovery Channel is evolving into the Men’s Pulp channel
- Jack’s Walk
- Tucker Carlson is simply a dumb, sexist bully
- Tree Tuesday
- Congestion Pricing
- Russiagate and the new Red Scare
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of Wonder
- If aging doesn’t kill me, irony will
- Today, my knee is all swole up like a balloon
- Well, that was nice.
- Brexit means Brexit means ….????
- The scandal of professional wrestling
- Origami: Truncated octahedron
- Taking a lighter look at Brexit
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Jack’s Walk
- Atheism and agnosticism in Asia
- The “Summary” That Wasn’t
- I thought the Battle of Wakanda was tactically stupid
- Baltimore is a lovely place to visit, a real arachnotopia
- Beto
- Oh no, the Dutch have the disease, too!
- Monday Mercurial: Bee happy!
- Alex Jones is suffering
- The Art of Book Design: My Garden in Spring
- A fourth vote on May’s plan?
- We Get Letters: The 2019 Consolidated Election edition (Fiction)
- Lost Without the Advertisers
March 2019
- The history of Brexit through yoga
- Spider Update
- Why US-North Korea talks collapsed
- Searching for La Migra
- Sunday Sermon: The Mad Mullahs of Nihilism
- The Saudi spying operation in the US exposed
- Interesting data…for what it doesn’t say
- I hate April’s Fool Day
- Copenhagen Skeptics in the Pub is starting up again
- The Danish election is approaching
- New Drawer
- Podcast recommendations
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 29 – Crime
- Let’s smoke out some more TERFs
- Behind the scenes of Blackadder
- A case study of radicalization
- In praise of limited runs
- The problem with Jordan Peterson is his archaic, ill-informed essentialist world view
- Don’t Cross the Beams
- Slavic Saturday
- The socialist menace is everywhere you look
- When we need to “put a handle on it”
- Lot’s wife found?
- Jack’s Walk
- Friday Feathers: The Birds of Spring
- Movies with Mikey + Baby Driver?
- May goes down for the third time
- Full Fish Ahead: Part 3
- What the storm did
- Oh, god, Peterson is such a fool
- Precious Tulips
- Goodbye, Strumia, don’t come back
- Does This Work On You?
- When You Let George Zimmerman Get Away With Murder …
- I have the same problem
- Your Moment of Zenlike
- Rising tensions in Venezuela
- For Your Enjoyment: Alexander Tolstoy’s Masterpiece
- “You might think that’s OK”
- Brexit keeps oscillating between tragedy and farce, with farce mostly winning
- YouTube Video: Mandala Wall Art
- But what if that’s the future we want?
- Jacks Walk
- In which Marcus enters uncanny territory
- Jesus! Stop her from bearing false witness, Jesus!
- Signs of Spring
- How long does it take a man to collect his semen specimen in a busy infertility clinic?
- Cui bono , Brexit?
- Speaking of “Oh Boy, Right Again…”
- About the Mueller Thing
- Brexit memes and physics
- Solution found to problem involving the sum of three cubes
- Chelsea Manning is Being Tortured
- Wednesday Wings: The Last Birds of Winter
- Jack’s Walk
- More Brexit drama
- Quote of the day
- That’s the fanciest Keurig machine I ever did see
- A study in contrasts
- I get email
- The face of evil
- Spring Flowers
- Ladies and gentlemen…the American senate!
- Jesus, just give it a rest, will you?
- Jack’s Walk
- Marcus suggests a solution to something that has also puzzled me
- No Ads? How Do I Stretch My Toes in This Grass?
- Theresa May continues to lose control of Brexit
- PZ’s Pull Quote Leaves Me Cold: Racism, Sexism, & the Adjunct Crisis
- Bicycle face?
- Enjoy the new AD-FREE Freethoughtblogs
- The perfect metaphorical image for spider taxonomy
- The Democratic party establishment tries once again to crush insurgents
- An inspirational story?
- Tree Tuesday
- We’re here to teach and do research
- The ghost of atheist past
- Debunked by the Institute for Creation Research
- The Hangup Calls
- Rhawn Joseph and a new silly claim about extraterrestrial life
- Media reckoning following the Mueller report
- The myths about ‘meritocracy’
- Jack’s Walk
- YouTube Video: Bamboo Furniture Build
- The ‘deep story’ white conservatives tell themselves
- Jazzlet’s Eye-Gouger
- Dang it, I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole and it’s going to take me a while to get out
- March Light
- Finally, someone in my family is cool
- The Best Thing Yet Written About Captain Marvel
- Vandalism is still not acceptable in Bolingbrook or anywhere else (Non-fiction)
- Isis
- Ugh, Not Again
- Brexit to Hell: A Manchester Mumbler special report (Fiction)
- Mercenaries as proxies for direct US military involvement
- The secret weapon to stop Brexit
- Chelsea Manning in solitary confinement – again
- The Crank Family Robinson
- Uncommon Sense: The Laws
- Now that is a play
- Death
- Hunter/Gatherer Serial Killers: Guess who hunts their victims & who gathers them…
- Ophelia, Call the Police
- Shining a light on how Congress really works
- Happy Emmy Noether Day!
- The petty cruelty of the US prison system
- SPLC going down in flames
- The menace of philanthropists
- A small Blogversary
- Conservatives always have pyramids in their heads, I guess
- So, it’s “Atheist Day”
- Jack’s Walk
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Seth Meyers’ show
- Rich new trove of Cambrian fossils found
- Inanity signaling
- What were they thinking?
- On Schizoid Personality
- The colossal waste in the Pentagon budget
- Full Fish Ahead: Part 2
- Hell hath no fury like a Canadian Kermit snubbed
- A free society does not imply that no one has to compromise
- It’s a world-wide pandemic of brain-eating parasites
- Ask The Strategic Genius: How To Win in Afghanistan
- Even More Books…
- PragerU is just another creationist garbage heap
- The ‘Nones’ keep growing
- Watching “Us” Tonight
- Unlike Jude, Theresa May takes a sad song and makes it worse
- On being a Muslim with a Jewish name
- Jack’s Walk
- YouTube Video: Tod’s Workshop
- Book review: Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Mechanics is Different by Philip Ball
- A Spider Battles the Snow
- Another ecosystem, another parasite
- The Templeton Foundation honors another gullible apologist
- Review: The Seven Five
- Pete Buttigieg is worth taking a close look
- New Zealand is not free of racism and bigotry
- Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
- The Brexit shambles has exposed the UK in more ways than one
- Hasan Minhaj on the Indian elections in May
- Jack’s Walk
- Wednesday Wings
- Teacher’s Corner: All You Need is Love (and other bullshit)
- A Spider Puzzle
- Iliana plays with spiders!
- The best gods are the spider gods
- It’s Shopapalooza!
- s/creationist/fascist/
- What’s the etiquette for wearing ironic fash bling to a memorial service for people killed by the fash?
- More on the New Zealand tragedy
- Living gay (and ace)
- A Correction on “Us”
- The US shields its own war criminals and those of its friends
- I thought The Onion was a satire site
- Why Dan Lipinski must be defeated in the next Democratic primary
- Jack’s Walk
- Tree Tuesday
- The meritocratic lie
- What a Mess
- The Middle Ages and the periods before and after
- Do you have to know the constitution if you’re just a member of congress? Devin Nunes asks Hannity to hold his beer.
- Drill
- Follow The Love Cow of Perfidy, Not The Gourd
- A hangout about science communication
- Is ‘litigiosity’ a word? It ought to be.
- The most beautiful feet in the world
- Editorial Board suggestions for Village Trustees (Alternative Parties): The Al Gore Party and The Zero Tax Party (Fiction)
- Editorial Board’s suggestion for Village Trustees (Mainstream Parties): Bolingbrook United (Fiction)
- Devin Nunes and the Love Cow of Perfidy
- You call this socialism?
- Public shaming
- Gaslit by the alt-right
- Uh-oh, one Brexit option shut down by speaker
- Jack’s Walk
- “Why I am a creationist”
- The electability question
- We aren’t giving the internet enough credit, or we’re giving people too much credit?
- True Facts about the bolas spider
- I wish Michael Behe would get as tired of his nonsense as I am
- Is This One Different?
- A flow chart for understanding Brexit
- Racism in Australia
- The godless life
- What were the crimes committed in the Varsity Blues case?
- Racialization of Muslims
- Sunday Sermon: “You Have Friends in High Places”
- I’d almost forgotten what a terrible atheist I am
- Do you believe in love?
- Our useless social media
- Names and Faces
- Spring came…and went.
- Low emotionality
- A metaphor for Brexit (and other messes)
- How not to keep in touch
- Rush Limbaugh has a theory
- I guess we’ve got to start hatin’ on another class of immigrants
- Mass murder as a device for garnering media attention
- Slavic Saturday
- The Power Of Rhetoric
- Pharyngula
- The hero we needed
- Christchurch
- It’s Time: Nail Youtube’s Ass to the Wall
- The strange rise of Beto O’Rourke
- Well, duh! Of course flipping the bird is free speech
- Students call for global strike to demand action on climate change
- Jack’s Walk
- A new answer to the Fermi Paradox, which is not a paradox, and doesn’t need an answer anyway
- Paratropis , Stormtropis
- Carnage in New Zealand
- Ablation zone found, also identified some firn
- Full Fish Ahead: Part 1
- Worth Its Weight In Steel
- Brexit Revisited v2
- Fraser Anning says, “hold my beer.”
- The worst take on the Christchurch mass murder
- Friday Feathers: A New Sighting
- Islamophobia – Still Real, Still Deadly
- Nazi terrorist on murder spree in New Zealand
- Baxter the Wonder Dog enjoys the early arrival of spring temperatures
- Tucker Carlson wins a negative Grand Slam
- From the Left Side of the Barn
- OMGOMGOMG, Have You Heard Trump Talk Lately?
- Jack’s Walk
- Stranded dog rescued from snowy mountain ledge
- Everything is rigged to favor the wealthy
- Youtube Video: Brexit, Briefly: REVISITED!
- Wow, That’s a Turkey
- Anyone got a cow handy?
- John Holbo drills down to the contradiction in the Peterson/Shapiro axis
- Healthy living
- Another day, another Brexit vote
- Killing and Dismembering an HDD
- Beau of the Fifth Column loves MAGA hats, and we all should to!
- Attempts to discredit AOC continue to flounder
- Jacob Wohl may have Smolletted himself
- Jack’s Walk
- The US is targeting independent journalists
- Nuke college athletics from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
- Mood: Eat the Rich
- I hate this blue gay flag
- Puncturing the myth of the elite college
- How The Old School 1% Lived
- Wednesday Wings: That’s it, I move to Portugal
- The Doppelpocalypse is Nigh
- John Oliver on robocalls
- Another crushing parliamentary defeat on Brexit for Theresa May
- Great moments in political grandstanding
- You can’t leave Earth until you clean up your mess
- I am looking forward to a bright future after Trump
- Jack’s Walk
- The role of identity in selecting candidates
- Brilliant Marketing
- Tree Tuesday
- Some good news, kinda, from the upper midwest
- If I could change one word…
- John Oliver ponders a difficult problem
- Some memories never fade
- Theme Music
- Fish falling from the sky
- Tucker Carlson the sleaze bag
- Jack’s Walk
- The lies paving the road to an attack on Venezuela
- Sure is purty and slick, though
- Dragonfly Delight
- May have to give up spider research, since I’m not a spider
- “We on the left”: Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, and Tucker Carlson
- Capitalism: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose – 2
- Aliens charged with dumping a whale carcass on the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
- You don’t want to make Idris Elba angry
- How police lie
- First you struggle, then you get coopted by religion, and then you die
- Sunday Sermon: Antisemitism
- Trying unsuccessfully to convince flat Earthers
- The storm is over!
- Link Roundup: March 2019
- Thanks for all the birthday wishes!
- Strumia’s disgrace continues to be public
- Mould Making
- Do people really do this?
- The strange power of superstitions
- Fox was never news
- I don’t think this trumphotels.com hack will be up for long
- La Chose Du Jour
- Women’s Day – It comes and it goes
- Film review: Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
- My wife is a harsh taskmistress
- A Day at the Zoo: The Birds of Prey
- Kree, Skrulls, Flerken, and Marvel — and a fine time was had by all
- Why I (Almost) Always First do and Then Learn
- The Plural of Mermaid is Moremaids
- Chelsea Manning is in Jail Again
- Good Omens
- Samantha Bee shines light on the Sacklers
- Happy International Women’s Day. No chocolates, though
- The growing list of behaviors that become suspicious when done by black people
- Eyes
- Jack’s Walk
- The Peterson/Zizek debacle to come
- Cyber Crimes Against Humanity?
- International Women’s Day
- What else do you hate? Asking for a friend.
- The fight over Medicare For All begins in earnest
- If you poke a sewer rat in the eye, it doesn’t respond rationally
- Another Bob joke
- Spider update!
- I Think I Get It
- The intimate relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News
- A funny thing happened on the way to the Omar inquisition
- Doom, doom, doom, doom
- Jack’s Walk
- I can’t take Slavoj Zizek seriously
- A tiny Snail
- The US is seen around the world as the greatest threat to world peace
- TNET 30: Woke Brands
- My confirmation classes missed an opportunity
- American medicine has a problem
- They’re all lovely! Every one!
- Good Morning Spider!
- Undesirable Excitement
- Hasan Minhaj on the attacks on civil rights
- Bernie Sanders’ popularity with black voters
- Good choice to head Planned Parenthood
- What happens when philosophers & biologists talk about a movie? Turns out they don’t talk about the movie much
- Jack’s Walk
- Further evidence of the Sackler family’s utter rapaciousness
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 17
- Hey! I’m a professor at one of those universities no one has heard of, too!
- Canyon Matka – Part 4: Botanicals!
- I’m not worried about Ilhan Omar. I worry about the other guys.
- Another good Pearls Before Swine strip
- Why did no bankers go to jail?
- Jen Sorensen has found the formula
- Jack’s Walk
- Something about education everyone should know
- On becoming old enough to die
- Tree Tuesday
- Chillin’
- Congratulations on joining the club, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!
- “A surprising amount of death of small vertebrates in the Amazon is likely due to arthropods such as big spiders and centipedes.”
- Canyon Matka – Part 3: Underwater Worlds
- I’m not enthusiastic about enthusiastic consent
- Web Exclusive: Palatine police arrest their first alien (Fiction)
- That’s what friends are for
- Reminder: Hangout at 7pm Central tonight
- False metaphors should be retired
- Jack’s Walk
- A Day at the Zoo 16: Motley Crew
- The neoliberal attacks on Bernie Sanders begin
- I ☠️ flat-earthers
- The world will be a better place when Rupert Murdoch dies
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 16
- Registration is open for Volvox 2019
- Frosted Balls
- Canyon Matka – Part 1v2: Pathways cont’d
- I’ve always liked Emma Thompson
- Spring Came for a Visit
- Mayor Claar hires wereskunk security detail (Fiction)
- Cue cards
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s effective use of Twitter
- A Day at the Zoo 15: A Different Kind of Tit Picture
- Heaven is in vogue these days
- Batman doesn’t smile enough
- Atheist “comedians” joining the ranks of conservative “comedians” — not so funny any more
- Canyon Matka – Part 2: Reflections
- Thus I Enter my Grumpy Old Manhood
- Blog Blog Blog Bloggity Blog
- The shocking scandals of the Democratic presidential candidates
- Let’s talk about alien biochemistry some more
- So much missing the point
- I feel for my students now
- The alliance between anti-vaxxers and white nationalists
- A Day at the Zoo 14: I don’t know if any of them is called Alvin
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 15
- The inspiring story of Balto
- Did you expect brand loyalty from a spider?
- Canyon Matka – Part 1: Pathways
- In 5 Years There Will Be Moaning and Wailing
- Katherine Helmond (1929-2019)
- Seth Meyers has a great interview with Bernie Sanders
- You probably shouldn’t eat ET
- Origami: Double-pointed VWXYZ Squares
- The viral video of the Feinstein meeting had a big impact
- Jack’s Walk
- A Day at the Zoo 13: Budgie does as Budgie can
- Medicare For All takes shape
- It all began with Reagan
- I’ve got to stop paying any attention to the news, for my health
- Hey! It’s March!
- New Books to Read Arrived
- A Solution to A Problem
- Ernst Mayr on the importance of definitions
- The Michael Cohen hearings
February 2019
- What fresh hell is this?
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Eleven
- BBC: Badly Behaved Cranes
- A little project on the side
- Andre Previn (1929-2019)
- A Day at the Zoo 12: And my Friend said to the Peacock…
- Jack’s Walk
- Tummy Thursday: Omas Faasekiechelcher
- Mass mobilization of the previously ignored is the way forward
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 14
- February Light
- Welcome to Up-Is-Down world, where “Free Speech” doesn’t mean what you think it means
- What’s Alex Jones up to nowadays?
- A New Front Opens In The War On Authenticity
- Trevor Noah on the recent news
- Behold, how the government works!
- Excerpts from the defense of George Pell
- Jack’s Walk
- A Day at the Zoo 11: The Goat and the Peacock
- The shocking defense of convicted child abuser cardinal George Pell
- The 43rd Midwest Philosophy Colloquium Race and Gender in Analytic Philosophy! Here on campus! Tonight!
- Big Nothing
- Reclaiming the word ‘centrist’ from the extremists
- Catastrophes and annihilation
- George Pell missed an opportunity
- A Public Service Announcement
- Who said we were playing?
- Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act on student loan debt
- Jacob Wohl: In the running for dumbest person on the internet
- If you are a miracle worker, you should go big or go home
- Race in Horizon: Zero Dawn
- “Oh, isn’t that nice!”
- A Day at the Zoo 10: If they’re Un-Gulates, what’s a Gulate?
- “Truly I say to you…you will deny Me”
- TERFs are Haters
- Jack’s Walk
- Growing pressure in support of the Green New Deal
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 13
- Tree Tuesday
- I Like Politicians That Are Funny, Not Stumbling Sociopaths
- All right, what do I need to do to get a woman to look at me like this?
- Oz and Phil are a disgrace to their titles
- Some deer are not very smart people
- Catholic Child Rapist Pell convicted
- John Oliver on psychics
- Teacher’s Corner: Introverts, extroverts, shmextroverts
- The Stinking Beauty
- Jack’s Walk
- We can only hope that he is right
- Journey’s End
- Now to print a few of these out and post them around the science building…
- Tactical? What’s “Tactical” About This?
- A Day at the Zoo 9: Life in Technicolour
- Bee Happy
- Oooh, I’m a disruptor now!
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reduces income inequality among her staff
- And the Oscar goes to…
- What if Snow Crash was actually a documentary?
- Administrivia: Dim Sum
- A helpful translation
- Bored billionaire to back Bolingbrook First party (Fiction)
- White savior films
- The economics of the Green New Deal
- Blizzarding
- A Day at the Zoo 8: All in White
- Those Evil Unelected EU Bureuaucrats!
- More on the toilet paper puzzle
- Sunday Sermon: Making Markets More “Efficient”?
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 12
- Blondie defends manual labor
- The world of cricket is topsy-turvy
- A Day at the Zoo 7: I don’t know what you’re doing, but it looks like fun
- One more Wohlism
- Ali: Bat Ang
- Hasan Minhaj on drug pricing extortion
- One more example of the sterling inanity of Wohl and Loomer
- Jacob Wohl and Laura Loomer are in Minneapolis. Be still my heart.
- Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week bloggin’
- A More Pervasive Problem
- A Little Bird Mix
- Unbelievable!
- Not your typical Lincoln image
- Oscar nominees for Best Picture
- Nice example of burying the lede
- I’d try it
- Can this be true?
- A Day at the Zoo 6: Hi, Aena
- How Trump supporters protect their hero
- Jack’s Walk
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 11
- Manufacturing controversy
- How to annoy Ken Ham
- Here are some awful Red Pill stories, but hey, did you know feminists are just as bad?
- The First Nuclear Reactor on Earth
- Peter Tork (1942-2019)
- Seth Meyers on the Green New Deal and Trump’s lies about it
- The class war is now in the open
- Alexander Acosta broke the law
- Money can be mesmerizing
- The female breast as a threat to public order
- A Day at the Zoo 5: Charly the dog
- Jack’s Walk
- Carlson gets his hat handed to him by Bregman again
- Up and Down Mt. Lofty
- Good atheists of the world, unite and speak out
- YouTube Video: The Snowflake Generation? A Response to Thoughty2
- I had no idea how sleazy Manafort was
- John Tyler Bonner announcement from Princeton
- Whatever Happened to “You Can’t Outrun a Radio”?
- Rutger Bregman is a hero
- Rutger Bregman hands Tucker Carlson his hat
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Ten, Part Two
- Jack’s Walk
- Bruno Ganz (1941-2019)
- Why video games are so flammable
- Positive signs of the zeitgeist
- A Day at the Zoo 4: Just for kestrel
- I should have cited Ed Yong
- Some Much-Needed Follow-up
- Oh, jeez, it’s like a disease
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 10
- Amazon deal collapses and guess whom Amazon blames?
- We haven’t had a spider in a while…
- What Kestrel Does – Supersized
- Panglossian Naziism
- “They may have the money and power. We have the people.” Bernie runs!
- That was a l-o-o-n-g return journey!
- Jack’s Walk
- Be it resolved
- A Day at the Zoo 3: ¿Cómo se llama?
- Tree Tuesday
- Sheep tumbling off a cliff
- KKK < Nazis?
- Reminder: tomorrow is the deadline for the Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation travel fellowship
- This Is Not A Modest Proposal
- How Brexit happened and what lies next
- I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, voidmother
- A Day at the Zoo 2: Dholes
- Jack’s Walk
- New goal in life
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 9
- It’s Like End Times All Over Again
- It’s the biggest burnt offering of all time
- Whisper Network vs. Old Guys’ Network
- Say hello to Volvox zeikusii !
- Zombie skunks terrorize Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Intellectual anti-intellectuals
- A Day at the Zoo 1
- Ask The Strategic Genius: When They Go Fast, You Go Slow
- Now that’s a good apology
- Wheee! It was off to the emergency room with meee!
- ‘Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Preface and Introduction.
- Bonsai Tree – More leaves
- ‘First Amendment auditor’ gets shot
- I joined YIMBY
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 8
- Some Goldfinches
- Let’s hear it for Winky, the Bichon Frise who knows what’s important!
- We now need laws for government to practice basic human decency
- Jack’s Walk
- Convicted liar Elliot Abrams angered when reminded about his lies
- Hometown Klan
- Here’s how you evaluate the scientific rigor of a field
- Are you thinking of trusting the internet?
- Web Exclusive: Atheist missionaries invade DuPage Township (Fiction)
- Mustn’t Upset the Pope!
- Light blogging due to travel
- Trump’s emergency is yet another lie
- It’s World Bonobo Day
- Oh my god, I’ve been in Minnesota for too long
- Behe’s polar bears
- The Green New Deal
- Jack’s Walk
- A whole thousand!
- Youtube Video: Flat Earth OR Why Do People Reject Science? | Philosophy Tube
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 7
- Finally, some good news on the environment
- Memories of Snow 2
- Winter ‘shroom
- Lyndon LaRouche is dead!
- All the Rogan I need
- Circling Overhead
- So that’s how ‘Executive Time’ is being spent
- Don’t mess with the ‘Women of Congress’
- Religion as an axis of oppression
- NASA declares Opportunity Mars rover legally dead
- Great moments in nuclear war planning
- Jack’s Walk
- Spider silk
- Wednesday Wings
- Memories of Snow 1
- Universal moral values
- No, I never heard of him before
- Well, the ventral nerve cord is in the right place
- Vanderbilt is working hard to destroy its reputation
- Lithuanian Street Art
- Lutefisk really isn’t that bad, but Nigerians might have a better idea
- The importance of promptly speaking out against bigotry
- “The system is fundamentally broken”
- Strange airline ticket pricing
- Jack’s Walk
- Tennessee – a state where hopeless causes never die
- Happy Darwin Day?
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 6
- Travel fellowships for Volvox 2019
- Tree Tuesday
- Remember The Outraged Cries of “Antisemitism!”?
- #WomenInScience Day
- MAGA Hats, White Hoods, and Swastikas: One Big Happy Family
- Anti-vaccination alien terrorists spotted in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Born in the Right Time
- Hasan Minhaj’s show Patriot Act is back
- How medical care drives people into bankruptcy
- Jack’s Walk
- Contrasts
- How to make a public apology
- David Klinghoffer thinks Science had to gang up on Behe
- A Bright New Week
- Michael Behe declares victory after being stomped flat
- Strange people, those ancaps
- It’s been a bad couple of weeks for developmental biology
- That was some week that just ended
- Chuck Tingle at Convergence!
- My flabber is now gasted
- The Bezos case should not overshadow the invasions of privacy by Amazon
- Link Roundup: February 2019
- FtB has never had internet drama like this
- Encouraging signs on climate change
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 5
- Behe…yeah, he’s over and done with
- Time to Get More Careful About Travel Options
- The End Is Nigh
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 28 – Guns
- When is a clap not a clap?
- ASOTV’s Battle Visor
- Ocasio-Cortez faces challenges from all sides
- Slavic Saturday
- A puzzling Hubble discrepancy
- Darwin & the Web of Interconnectedness
- Open the Floodgates! Grease That Slippery Slope!
- Hope that efforts to remove women fails
- World Hijab Day!
- Even Women’s Breasts Are Not Safe From Torture!
- The National Enquirer business model is blackmail
- The right wing dilemma about the rise in socialist ideas
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Ten, Part One
- John Tyler Bonner has died
- Jack’s Walk
- Just because you dislike Trump does not mean you are not a jerk
- Friday Feathers: Woodpecker plus bonus
- Iliana can’t believe what’s going on here
- Avoiding plagiarism
- “It was an earlier time”
- Harakka in Autumn : Chapter 4
- Let’s Confuse Them A Little More
- Jeff Bezos versus the National Enquirer
- Knut seems to like Elmo
- Ethical Meat
- Warren is to the left of Sanders (and other observations)
- Another case of misleading people by picking a starting point
- Jack’s Walk
- Love Is Metaphysical Gravity
- You shall not pass!
- How Donald Trump broke up a marriage
- Fossil Find
- Busy busy busy
- Trusting Providers
- Web Exclusive: Protesters throw ‘goop’ at Mayor Claar (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- Alex Acosta might have to answer for his kindness to criminals
- Another in the series of puzzling cartoons
- Record high temperatures
- Another Look from Mt. Lofty
- How I did not lose a finger (twice)
- The rifts were widening everywhere
- Wednesday Wings: Starlings
- Another sign of the shifting political zeitgeist
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 3
- Whence comes the madness?
- Exercises in Tacticality – Tactical Toxic Masculinity Edition
- The story so far of “New” Atheism from Kerala
- Is ‘billionaire’ now seen as pejorative?
- The Brexiteers must be really desperate …
- Keeping the Democratic party honest on health care
- Jack’s Walk
- Coming back again
- Exercises in Tacticality – Practical Tactical
- Venezuela, Simon Bolivar, and US interference in South America
- Tree Tuesday
- January Light
- The exception proves the rule, right?
- It’s getting so I’m shy of atheists any more
- Travel Day
- Atheist movement postmortems
- The Adventures of Coffeebucks-Man
- The scandal over drug prices in the US
- Meme War @UMNMorris!
- Jack’s Walk
- The uncertain future of particle physics
- Nobody gets abortions because they’re fun, or they hate babies
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 2
- Those must be like the imaginary “good genes” that make him very smart
- You evil bastards
- Evil polyps enslave innocent algae using light
- We Need Better Liars in Office
- Game Day!
- Great moments in climate science
- For your entertainment: Jordan Peterson debating himself
- ‘Tax the rich’ is going mainstream in the US
- Capitalism: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- Some Bullfinches
- The Daily Show on the recent freeze
- The danger of rugby
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Nine
- Is this the future liberals want?
- Rutger Bregman speaks out against the tax avoiders
- How dare the APA refuse to recognize that men and boys are violent creatures of instinct
- Harakka in Autumn: Chapter 1
- Urban Rainbow
- Caring About The Workers
- Report on Transphobia in Health Services Silenced?
- ‘Centrist’ does not mean ‘not a far-right extremist’
- Web Exclusive: Frozen alien de-thawed by doctors at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- What kind of person does such a thing?
- Bobsleigh, #YouToo?
- The New Atheism gets another bashing
- The War Party springs into action
- Jack’s Walk
- The Transphobic Comments Of Dr Jacob Edward Les
- More on commercials as windows to the zeitgeist
- Origami: Life inside
- A lifetime of science!
- Better Examples
- The Little Ice Age was anthropogenic?
- A Guest In the Forge! – 2
- The other things on John Bolton’s notepad
January 2019
- Violating parking etiquette
- TNET 29: How to Dial a Rotary Phone
- And the prize for a complete lack of self-awareness goes to…
- The tax competition ramps up – and that’s great!
- Jack’s Walk
- Survivor!
- Just this once…
- Harakka Island in Autumn: Introduction
- These so-called philanthropists are really ruthless monsters
- Who would win in a battle between Florida Man and Minnesota Man?
- I guess this is as sensible an explanation of anti-vax crap as any
- Youtube Video: The Golden One: A Measured Response
- Inference : Dracula is a creationist and climate change denialist
- The Adventures of Florida Man
- The difference between weather and climate
- Drinking, smoking, hanging out in saloons, following sports and the stock market — it’s a nightmare world!
- Down memory lane with the Beatles
- I didn’t realize that after-credits scenes are now a thing
- Handy guides!
- Jack’s Walk
- Fuel Ratting Lao Tze Style
- Microbiologists don’t need labs, apparently
- I swear to…who?
- Calgary Physician Calls Transgender People “Demented, Distorted”
- Wednesday Wings
- If you liked the shutdown, you’ll love the default
- Surprise! A billionaire’s favorite graph is one that justifies billionaires!
- Should he have done more?
- Great moments with deluded billionaires
- The real purpose of the 70% marginal tax proposal
- Jack’s Walk
- Tree Tuesday
- The problem of mandatory sentencing laws
- I would have guessed Tom Brokaw was one of us…he isn’t
- Season of the Ice Sculpture
- New Volvocalean phylogeny
- She may be sprouting tentacles soon
- Reagan Redux
- A Guest In the Forge! – 1
- A dangerous mix: ‘First Amendment auditors’ and armed police
- Get ready for new fraudulent claims that the Earth is cooling
- Jack’s Walk
- Monday Mercurial
- I keep turning down these honors
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 11
- The breakdown in political norms in the US and UK
- Hmmm… A Slow-Moving Freeze
- Inference – A “Journal” Exposed
- Advice for new professors
- Get Ready to Rumble
- The most disturbing news yet
- I do enjoy a good Pinker-dunking in the morning
- Moose War
- Chicagoland braces for brutal Russian weather attack: A Babbler team report (Fiction)
- Mediterranean “Nachos” (And Tehina Sauce Nutrition Facts)
- Those wacky billionaires!
- One area where Trump is clearly the leader
- Great moments in Brexit solutions
- There is no crisis on the border that justifies a wall
- Generalizing Behavior Between Species – Part 1
- Michel LeGrand (1932-2019)
- A sensible and long overdue plan to prevent government shutdowns
- Alt-right trollery deciphered
- My favorite Baby Hippo has a Birthday
- A competition I can fully support
- Identifying birds by sound…
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 10
- Torture Gordon Ramsay!
- Help #ExposeChristianSchools
- A Short Note on Product Photography
- Measuring musical dissonance
- Lifestyles of the rich and empathy-deprived
- Afterthought on the Trump capitulation
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump caves to Pelosi, proposes end to the shutdown without wall funding
- He blinked
- The Gender Games: Nancy Pelosi versus Donald Trump
- The train wreck that was the New Atheism
- It’s like watching dominoes fall in slow motion
- Cheating
- Samantha Bee is back!
- Snippets: Trump caves to Pelosi, journalist upset by rhetorical strategies
- Always gotta get it white
- Jack’s Walk
- Who is falling for QAnon?
- Teachers Corner: Bullies
- Shocker! Wealthy people do not like higher taxes
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 9
- Now you too can comprehend QAnon
- YouTube Video: Forging an EPIC Leaf!!!
- Algorithms are only magical oracles if you don’t understand them
- Red Hats = “malevolent, murderous goblin”
- Sex, Torture and the Nazis
- Mandrel!
- The Adventures of Tariff Man
- Oh man, can Donald Trump get any more pathetic?
- The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world to pay him lots of money & ignore the lives he ruined
- On wearing religious garb
- My free time
- Jack’s Walk
- How the US got into Syria and now can’t get out
- Finally, I understand Australian history
- The hypocrisy of Boghossian’s academic defenders
- What do biologists really think of sex and gender?
- Drool, Drool
- “It was I who destroyed Ehrenberg’s theory”
- What Lunar Eclipse?
- Problematic Conclusions
- Jack’s Walk
- I think we can safely say #gamergate is dead
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 8
- Remember the Alamo!
- Tree Tuesday
- Nature’s greatest terror!
- Kamala Harris is a cop
- Cracking the Iron Curtain
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Eight
- Another televangelist exposed
- Oh, no. Not my University of Washington!
- Jack’s Walk
- When strategic silence must give way to truth-telling
- Stuff About L. Frank Baum
- Mt. Lofty
- I don’t understand 2019, and that’s OK
- Purity pizzas taste of self-loathing
- Not a Solution
- My conversation with R. J. Downard
- Bolingbrook’s minor opposition parties respond to the 2019 State of the Village Address (Fiction)
- Bolingbrook United’s reply to the 2019 State of the Village Address (Non-fiction)
- Waiting for the Super Blood Wolf Moon!
- Delayed joke recognition
- The failure of the Iraq occupation revealed
- “Turning the page” – how the GOP has gotten away with a series of criminal presidents
- Beyond Character representation
- Trans Activism and the Success of the Victim
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 7
- Book Review: Ramp Hollow
- This is a great deal maker?
- Fearless Tit
- The Fyre Festival was a trial run of the ‘B’ Ark
- Driftwood Art
- Welcome Our New Oligarch!
- Wait, these are supposed to be bad things?
- So that’s what they learn in private Catholic schools
- Avoiding a war with China
- Slavic Saturday
- Ah, the stupidity! It burns …
- I maked a video
- Why the moon landing could not have been faked
- Jack’s Walk
- The Brexit crisis is more about the UK and less about Europe
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 6
- Wittgenstein’s ‘defense’ of religion
- There actually were some good movies released this past year
- Friday Not-A-Cephalopod: Not an octopus
- Oooh — “super blood wolf moon” coming
- Are they all racists on the right side of the aisle?
- It’s not so bad to be Tiffany anymore
- Convergence part 7: convergence in Volvox
- Video of the 2019 Bolingbrook State of the Village Address (Non-fiction)
- Did You Like Ministry and KMFDM as a Kid?
- Who says that government is boring?
- How straight can you shoot an arrow?
- I wanna go to Mexico now
- Louis C. K. has decided to embrace his inner jerk
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Seven
- Mornings of the New Year
- Light blogging due to travel
- Milo Yiannopoulos meets the Church Militant, and a love-in follows
- Paper: Gaming’s Queer Economy
- The Death of Handicraft
- Learning from the pros
- Screw-Ups
- You aren’t a real man until your beard is soaked in blood
- It’s As If They Bombed a Hospital or Something
- Vicious
- More dishwasher misconceptions
- When reality conflicts with wish-fulfillment fantasies
- Taking the fight to Republicans
- Jack’s Walk
- You had just one job, Chinese space botanists
- Nancy Pelosi knows Trump’s weaknesses
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 5
- The Singal problem
- Wednesday Wings
- The miracle of selling razors
- A new way to follow Fierce Roller
- Ceiling Mod
- Product ads are a guide to the zeitgeist
- Debbie Goddard is the new vice president of American Atheists!
- May’s Brexit deal goes down in massive flames
- Surprise! Republicans actually take some action against King
- Jack’s Walk
- Stealing Ideas
- Trying to figure out why this spider appeals to me
- A Trio of Summer Roses
- The return of the undead
- Bad people should be called bad people
- And the award for Slimiest Cult goes to…Scientology!
- Tree Tuesday
- Worst advertisement for McDonald’s ever
- Postdoctoral fellowship in the evolution of multicellularity
- A screw bolt that will drive you nuts
- ‘The Girl Survives Cancer In This One’ is more than the ending (Non-Fiction)
- The ethics of music in public spaces
- The state of the union …
- Brexit cliffhanger in the UK
- I Wonder if This Was Written by an AI?
- Jack’s Walk
- Monday Mercurial
- As the electioneering gears up, keep this in mind
- Spider update
- You’d think everyone would be over the UFO nonsense by now
- Why did it take so long for Republicans to criticize Steve King?
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 4
- How hard is it to get your garbage paper published?
- Help Vyckie Garrison
- New World Order opens UFO bases in Palatine and Peotone (Fiction)
- Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s nonsense
- A brief summary of what we know about cosmology
- Reinterpreting Propaganda
- The Aryan Race is unhappy that James Watson has been exposed
- Why Ocasio-Cortez scares the political establishment
- Bonsai Tree – First Leaves
- How About a Nice Game of “Top This!”?
- Forest bathing baloney on Living on Earth
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 27 – Propaganda
- Searching for the McConnell
- Time to talk more about Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose
- Against contrived surprise endings to crime mysteries
- Thoughtslime: The conservative war on individualism
- I hope I live to be 90 before all of my sins catch up to me
- Why are the Flat Earthers taking such a big risk?
- WAKE UP NOW
- A Handsome Dude and a Little Tit
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 3
- Goofus and Gallant
- I know how to fix the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “problem”!
- If ever you doubted the existence of media bias…
- Dick Measuring
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Six
- The only way to endure listening to Trump is by laughing at him
- Breathe
- The realignment on war policies
- Link roundup: January 2019
- Jack’s Walk
- Friday Feathers
- Friday Cephalopod: It’s good to be squishy
- No. A Portland professor is not being railroaded.
- The danger posed by extreme minority rule
- Speedwell, Veronica
- No, I Think I Won’t Do That
- … and Ophelia Benson
- “We’re #1” – Not
- A day at the science fair
- Computer Security is a Pit of Despair
- Clarification on the Brexit situation
- Jack’s Walk
- YouTube Video: CASTING A BRONZE SKULL!!!
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Chapter 2
- Maybe this could end the government shutdown
- A Field of Marigolds
- Jordan Peterson gets email
- Tummy Thursday: Book recommendation
- Startling prescience
- One-stop shopping
- Meanwhile, looking across the Atlantic …
- Perfect
- How not to clean up the ocean
- The shutdown should be called the Trump-McConnell shutdown
- Call to arms, Minnesota!
- Jack’s Walk
- Wednesday Wings
- They Have Me Beat
- Piers Morgan. Can he get any more repulsive?
- A Little Snow
- Trump is losing the shutdown battle and he knows it
- Marigold
- Ken Ham wants to argue that his fake boat is an objective part of a secular program of education
- I also don’t read the Daily Stormer. Wonder why?
- Up Against The Wall, Donald
- Oh my, Trump is offended by bad language! Who knew?
- Ethical review of academic hoaxes
- Fighting Trump on all sides
- The US health care rip off
- Jack’s Walk
- Stepping Out of the Silence
- Boghossian in a panic!
- Surrounded by Rocks: An Exploration Series, Introduction and Chapter 1
- You’ve Got To Get An Album Out, You Owe It To The People…
- Bad day in the lab
- It is very obvious: ‘No Labels’ = ‘Problem Solvers Caucus’ = Republican
- Hawkweed
- Tree Tuesdsay
- “Sort of like a mass of crickets”
- Web Exclusive: Bolingbrook Skeptics declare ‘Woo State of Emergency’ following botched Bears field goal (Fiction)
- Tensions flare at the Clow UFO Base Village Trustee Candidates’ Forum
- The great cricket scare
- I’m afraid
- Jack’sWalk
- On the obsession with penis size and race
- Religion’s last refuge in the face of scientific progress
- I knew my biology degree would be worth something one day
- Monday Mercurial: Fleckchen has grown!
- First bill in the US Senate is to punish BDS supporters
- Sunshine and Rainbows
- Potential
- They’re not all fools down in Kentucky
- Portuguese Geranium in winter
- I get YouTube comments
- This person doesn’t know many Darwinists.
- Colin Kaepernick protests affect Super Bowl
- You go, “little girl”!
- The man who says he knows everything really knows nothing
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland: part 7
- Sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads, and they still managed to screw it up
- The effect of increases in the minimum wages
- Voici Le “Poop Pig”
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 26 – Five Year Plans
- Trans Athletes, the Existence of Gender Identity, …
- Deep disappointment
- Crimes against mankind: fat women existing
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Five
- I trust Piglet on this
- Powerful program on facing up to ugly historical realities
- The kindest critic of them all
- The Democrats are talking about actually doing things?
- These ‘tough guys’ are such snowflakes
- Problem Child
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 10 – Shaping the Outlines
- Great moments in car usage
- Alaskans desire to protect their precious bodily fluids is going to cost them
- Against apologies
- Jack’s Walk
- Oh, Those Poor Snowflakes!
- Even Dick Cheney needs his cable fixed
- NBC and MSNBC are not progressive media
- Wow 2
- If they actually were logical, it would be easy to crush them
- Friday Feathers
- Early winter wildflowers
- Commie know-it-alls can dance, but Republicans can’t?
- Nailed it!
- Ego Strokes
- When you don’t have enough hands or faces to palm.
- These women look ready for action
- Those stupid Irish and their inferior brains
- YouTube Video: A Super-Material You Can Make In Your Kitchen (Starlite?)
- China lands space probe on the far side of the Moon
- It’s the season! Making bird food.
- Jack’s Walk
- Hasan Minhaj’s critique of Saudi Arabia censored by Netflix
- Daisy, daisy…
- Will scientists be smarter than atheists?
- Finally, an artist really gets me
- Good analysis of mu69…and did you know the Chinese landed a probe on the moon?
- ‘Watson Decoded’ didn’t do much decoding
- Tummy Thursday: Gumbo or what makes an easy meal
- Speaking of The Poops
- A Year-End Wrap Up
- I might throw things at James Watson on my TV
- A word to avoid
- Jack’s Walk
- Impressive demonstration by women in India protesting temple ban
- Spider update: I peeked
- Odd rock 4.1 billion miles away
- Film review: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
- Wednesday Wings: Hunting Kinglets
- Spiders aren’t the problem, arachnophobia is the problem
- Accidental Moments of Honesty
- Why do people think this is funny?
- Ruining national treasures
- Attitude readjustment
- Happy New Year!
- Speaking of Gratitude…
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Jack’s Walk
- Ragnar Lothbroke Was Here
- Tree Tuesday
- Pharyngula
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland, part 6
- Everything’s Coming Up Rainbows
- Hello, 2019