2020
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2020 5,097
December 2020
- Doctors Will Be Forced To Decide: The UK declares ‘disaster medicine mode’
- TV review: Death to 2020 (2020)
- Better Late Than Never: Art Bergmann gets the recognition he deserves
- Salamander stories
- Happy New Year! And Book Update!
- Three Weeks Remain: Playing 45s for Forty Five
- The Art of …
- 2020 24 Hours To Go: Some memes from 2020
- Subdued New Year’s Eve celebrations
- Wrong predictions in 2020
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.20 “Learning from a Pandemic”
- Last day of 2020!
- 28 Seconds in Nashville
- Now I want a car microscope
- You know what you did…
- Three To See: News about the 30th, 31st, and 1st
- A visit from jolly old St. Poe!
- Frustrating morning in the lab
- Misery Always Repeats: White bearer, white error, white terror
- Making Habaki – 2
- Get ready for fun and games on January 6th!
- It’s 9am here, and you know what that means!
- Elamite Finally Speaks: Mesopotamia wasn’t the only one
- Stupid politics → stupid, pointless death
- Republicans aren’t very good at numbers
- Won’t Sombody Think of the Children? Bullshit “ethics” on Covid vaccination
- Defunded And Disarmed: Phoenix cops after threatening murder
- It sure was easy to get outraged at those Catholic sex pests
- Mile High Club: EVA Air isn’t having a good month
- China Admits: Wǔshí wàn, but how many more?
- My talk on the myths surrounding Copernicus
- What Might Have Been: Imagine Van Halen with a different singer in 1985
- It’s mortality assessment day!
- Tumbler Upgrade
- The Art of …
- Why this desire to humiliate by the police?
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.19 “Four-Letter Word” and “Blame and Responsibility”
- Making Habaki
- Now I’m hungry for snails
- Don’t try to tell me it’s not a cult
- Good To Know: Reputable doctors are trying to educate people
- Giliell proudly presents: The Art of Shivia
- Dinosaurs in my yard
- A Glimpse Into The Future
- The Art of…
- Oh no! We may have to throw out the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
- The dark side of randomized double-blind studies
- I am inclined to like this hypothesis
- A Martian Odyssey: The thrilling conclusion!
- Adventures in Creationism and Ethics
- Harry Potter and the Troublesome Ethics
- The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2021! (Fiction)
- Creativity for Skeptics Episode 4: My Word for 2021 and Getting Ready for The Artist’s Way (without the woo)
- Who are the war criminals Trump decided to pardon?
- I really detest theistic evolution
- Look Back: The best and worst parts of 2020 for me
- He Couldn’t Shut Up, Could He?: Racism on top of racism
- Credulity Strained: No, this isn’t a Poe or a troll
- Covid denial
- Harry Potter and the Horrors of World Building
- Christmas, Covid19 and Fatphobia.
- The greatest scientist ever?
- Well, that’s one hotel to avoid in New York
- Dominion and Smartmatic are tired of the Trump lies
- Ignorance of statistics can kill you
- Small town ignorance
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.18 “Self-confidence”
- In which I declare my love for Pokémon Go (instead of a end of year review)
- Why you gotta do me like that, Milholland?
- What’s on my bookshelf?
- Obligatory
- The Art of …
- Nashville bomb
- Waiting To Happen: Opening this will definitely be a surprise
- You Have To Laugh: December memes I’ve seen
- Shonen Knife Cuts: Another of their songs
- The true meaning of Christmas
- Pokémon and the Ethics of Interspecies Relationships in Fictional Universes
- What are you doing the day after Christmas?
- Just A Little Brainfart
- Merry Holymas
- Birthday wishes: To someone who actually existed
- Driverless delivery service
- BFF’s mom has died
- White Wine in the Sun (Non-fiction)
- Worse Than Originally Thought: As if the story of the New Zealand pilot weren’t bad enough
- Jared Kushner’s father is a real creep, gets Trump pardon
- Don’t Starve: If you thought 2020 was bad….
- Now They Know: And they don’t like it
- Now I know it must be Xmas
- Ocean foam invades some Australian beaches
- It’s Xmas Eve, time to try and get in the spirit!
- Holidays!
- Tsk, tsk, tsk, Mr Richards
- Who doesn’t love the Heidelberg Screen?
- So why is this a bad thing, exactly?
- I am powerless!
- Newsmax next to back down under legal threat
- The Art of …
- Trump pardons killers of people of color
- The Missing Piece Of A Puzzle
- You didn’t think Atheist Alliance International was a respectable organization, did you?
- Hardships and Character-Building
- What will happen on January 6th
- Point Proven: And it only took two days
- The Art of …
- More About the SolarWinds Breach
- Et tu, Pat?
- A Selfish Idiot Got In
- Foraging run completed
- Moscow Mitch is lying again
- Trump may end Pentagon support for CIA covert operations
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.17 “Be Different”
- How can we hide the fact that Republican conservatives are first in line for the vaccine?
- Today’s Heartwarming Hospice Story
- It’s official: We are a nation of idiots
- Under threat of lawsuit, Fox News backs away from some fraud claims
- Lakoff vs. Pinker
- 2020 Just Piles On: If you’re looking forward to 2021, I have bad news
- The Art of …
- Dang, I think I know that girl
- Scratch a rich person, find a crook
- So, Howsda Brexit Goin’?
- In which your protagonist discovers the end of her tether
- Are you feeling rescued yet?
- Trump’s incompetence helped speed up vaccine approval
- Has Gary Trudeau been shopping in Morris?
- Unsurprising bad news: Plants are getting worse at absorbing carbon dioxide
- Flashback to 1991: The Replacements survive their final concert at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Creativity for Skeptics (or, I Finally Got Around to Starting a Podcast), Solstice Edition
- But what’s the square footage of the assembly instructions?
- This week, the bad science is from Gad Saad
- How I want to celebrate Xmas
- Look What I Found: The “Music Time In Africa” archive
- The ILGA Report Published: Sex for one, harm dozens of the other
- The Gong Shows: Why bother now?
- Bette Midler should stay in her lane
- Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell is back?
- SolarWinds Breach
- Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!
- Restless in the time of COVID-19
- There are going to be multiple books written on the Trump response to the pandemic
- Do As You’re Told: Quarantine rules exist for a reason
- With 300,000 dead…
- The Diseased Mind: The CDC’s 2021 calendar is bizarre
- Twisty Little Passages We Liked: Remembering Zork
- Cause The Change You Wish To See: Remembering “9 To 5”
- Jonathan Pie on the US elections
- Chores done!
- Trump threatens to not leave the White House
- Kestrel Whoosh
- Chains
- Time to make my getaway
- I protect the galaxy from the threat of invasion from the Evil Emperor Zurg sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance!
- The covid-19 vaccines and prisoners
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.16 “Respect That Freedom”
- How much do I despise this man?
- Volvocine algae on Journey to the Microcosmos
- Death for profit: Herd immunity and capitalist realism
- The New Normal Troubles: Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
- Wait, this is about tradcaths?
- I’m Not Alone – Thank You Great Lakes Atheists
- The Art of …
- Slut shaming a paramedic
- Fill those diapers, Donny boy
- A dilemma for Mike Pence
- I bet you can think of a dozen names to go with this picture
- The Republicans want to kill us
- The Wizard’s Manse and Observatory
- The Art of …
- Trump’s woes mount
- I Fangirled And I Squeed: Naoko Yamano turns 60
- Driving Right-Winged Logic
- The crazies can be dangerous
- How Midwesterners are made
- Q&A livestream tomorrow Today!
- A Glorious Christmas Spider
- Ever wonder why so many people are running away from organized atheism?
- Ethics in Journalism
- Spiders, like me, are just hard to love
- The covid-19 vaccine rollout
- The Texas bridezilla is the worst bridezilla
- Skeptical About Skepticism
- Biden’s victory may have bought us some time, but we’d better make use of it.
- Different Stances Adopted: Comparing the UK and Hungary on adoption
- A basic introduction to Evo Devo
- GOP’s ‘alternative electors’ try to cast their votes
- Kitchen Knives Set – Part 3: A Plan of Changes
- What I Learnt Today: It was 35 years ago that Creative Computing ceased publication
- Moving The Fire
- Vaccines, Catholics, and abortion
- The Christmas season is truly upon us
- Crenshaw is mad
- Hit Or Miss: A hit-piece that misconstrues her words
- The right attitude
- The Art of …
- A Cheerful Cardinal
- Heavy early voting in Georgia
- One of the more horrible ways to go
- I may have figured our cat out
- What happened to those Cuban sonic weapons?
- Agricultural Biodiversity: Bean Days
- Ok, what’s going on here?
- Which came first – moralizing gods or civilization?
- Downward Spiral: Another year of more oppression and less freedom
- Another Legend Lost: Charley Pride, 1934-2020
- Two theses on queer readings
- Tough Little Bastards
- Let the Christmas carols begin!
- Also, hanging
- Let us never forget: The election result was not even close
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.15 “Be Careful”
- The romance is over
- No rest for the weary
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: John le Carré, 1931-2020
- Money Talks: It’s the only way to get their attention
- Can we be done now?
- Election was stolen from Trump again!
- Data Leak: Real life Manchurian candidates
- It’s about time. Cleveland baseball team to drop the ‘Indians’ name
- Why Wait: Cleveland FINALLY plans to change the name
- How Apropos
- Teacher’s Corner: Closing Down
- Waiting for that FULL GLOBAL MARTIAL LAW to kick in
- The Art of …
- The Wall Street Journal opinion pages have always been garbage, anyway
- Oregon decriminalizes possession of all drugs
- Best smackdown of the week
- Jane Orient, conservative quack
- Some Democrats are fighting back against Republican outrageousness
- Remembered Well: The VIC-20 at forty
- Jill Biden and the problem of default authority
- Schematic of Reason
- Rugby and soccer players also have brain injuries
- The Martian Odyssey concludes
- Cyberpunk Dystopia
- A Martian Odyssey: Part 4 (Fiction)
- A Guide to Xenharmonic Artists
- Latin Heat
- Conversations With Dad
- Music Rules: And why homophobia sucks
- Meet some FreeThoughtBloggers! Including me!
- Trump just keeps making things worse
- Don’t travel for the holidays
- What Bubbles Up: They want to be temporary Canadians
- Are people really that excited about so many sequels?
- The sound of spiders feeding
- Kitchen Knives Set – Part 2: Making the Blades
- This will leave you rantin’ and raven
- ‘The big one’ goes down in glorious flames
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.14 “You’re a Mystery”
- Republican is a synonym for Traitor
- We Have No Idea What The FUCK You’re On About, Texas, But Alito & Thomas Have THOUGHTS Anyway
- Another failure for Trump
- If the attack on Pearl Harbor happened today …
- The Art of …
- Pregnant Pause: It’s not much of an improvement
- Some common errors
- A periodic reminder
- I am forming the Resistance Against Disney
- Film review: The Social Dilemma (2020)
- Part 3 of our story chain is now available
- The return of the probability argument
- Old, but gold: Hbomberguy on climate denial
- And the legal circus goes on …
- Shaking All Over: Two big quakes in one day
- These are sick, sick people
- So, this is what it’s like to live in a gerontocracy
- Gingerbread Houses
- The Art of …
- The worst takes on Elliot Page
- Grain
- How many steps a day do you need?
- I tried imagining this, and then I throwed up
- Link Roundup: December 2020
- Pat Robertson has a cunning plan…
- Crashing. Crashing hard
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump is learning what it means to be a lame duck president
- Whimsical magic: Youtube video
- A Story What Is Crucial To Your Existence
- Ha ha ho ho
- If You Build It, They Will Come: Bicycles are winning
- The Art of …
- This is for real?
- Next time you get a schmaltzy card from your religious relatives, reply with this:
- Bullfinches!
- How will we pay for it?
- Revisiting The Queen’s Gambit
- Pinker does automatically love the Patriarchy
- Nothing To Say: Brandy Vaughn died of undisclosed causes
- That was a long day
- The Art of …
- Rebecca Watson on why you can trust the new COVID-19 vaccines
- What the hell?
- Pervert Puns for Justice
- Faithless electors: Another Trump Hail Mary?
- I know why Trump ordered only 100 million vaccines, and now YOU can know too!
- Reinvent Law Enforcement
- Tragic trace fossil
- I need an economist to explain this to me
- How social norms affected behaviors during the pandemic
- Dreading how this could end
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.13 “Give Credit”
- Village of Bolingbrook pulls off remote concert for the ‘doomsday crew’ of Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- This escapes me
- Progress!
- The fascinating story of Wubi
- A Martian Odyssey, part 3
- The Art of …
- What Are The Odds?
- I read popular physics: Explosions at the edge
- The looming vaccine challenge
- Barbie: not anatomically accurate
- Mysterious monoliths appear all around the world
- Back of the line, MAGAts!
- Fundraiser Update: Past, Future, and Present
- The Scientific Method
- Tipping and sexual harassment during the pandemic
- Are we in danger of creating a loony singularity?
- Winterfest Photofest
- The atavism theory of cancer is bunk, again
- The Swiss cheese metaphor for covid-19 precautions
- Alien Worlds
- Auction #31 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- TNET 43: Chess Anyone?
- Free Looting
- Fundraiser: Among Us in Fifteen Minutes
- Things That Delight Me: No More Fucks to Give
- Our victory celebration will be starting soon
- More pun fun
- Winterfest is here! (Non-fiction)
- Join Jack and voyager for a walk in the woods.
- The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s incredulity over the Trump lawsuit
- It’s Winterfest at Freethought Blogs!
- Fundraiser Update: Stardew Valley is Live!
- Winterfest Photofest
- Fundraiser Update: Catching Up
- Creativity without the woo
- Comparing the Biden and Obama administrations
- Winterfest 2020: The Creative Skeptic Video
- Meet a few of our bloggers
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.12 “Sing” and “The Living World”
- Now you have to leave your horse at home when you fly
- Beyond emissions: Shifting the burden of running society
- The Art of …
- Victory celebration!
- Winterfest Photofest
- Are the monoliths part of a marketing scheme?
- Back at the Zoo 6: The Birds of Prey
- This exists
- Syracuse, you still there?
- First Amendment Fuck Off!
- Uh-oh, the young’uns are noticing our incompetence
- Fun times at the Michigan hearings
- A quick announcement of a new YouTube series
- More Bob jokes
- Let the pardon sales begin!
- Let’s all pile on Dawkins!
- Back at the Zoo 5: Fossa!
- Yikes, that’s what a catastrophic collapse looks like
- Musings About Rigging Elections
- The Art of …
- Why Jordan Peterson’s new book should have difficulty finding a publisher
- Winterfest Photofest
- Practice and sight-reading in video games
- Are you ready for Cthulhumas?
- Chang’e-5 lands on the Moon
- The Kraken Went Down to Georgia
- Wear the damn masks!
- Don’t let the Republicans escape the Trump taint!
- Minnesota is #1!
- Anti-Trans Activism is Anti-Feminst and Anti-Woman
- Is Barr also bailing on Trump?
- Heavy Metal
- Transphobes being creepy, or a day ending in Y
- No matter how much they complain, people will still be people
- Back at the Zoo 4: Miscellaneous
- The Art of …
- Winterfest Photofest
- Birds are cowards
- Rewatching Juno: Page’s Story Is One of the Most Important of 2020
- The Midwest isn’t Mars
- The fight over Biden’s administration choices begins
- The odyssey continues
- Irony triumphs!
- A Martian Odyssey, part 2 (fiction).
- Incredible dog rescue story
- Halos Worn: Good news and bad news from the world of motorsports
- Protein folding problem solved?
- Star of Juno & Umbrella Academy is Trans
- EXCLUSIVE: I’M UP IN UR HILLS STEALIN’ UR GIANT D*CKS.
- Winterfest Photofest
- Sean Bean did it
- Wow. Kevin Sorbo is an idiot
- Origami: Leaf
- Back at the Zoo 3: Roos!
- Can America afford democracy?
- A Martian Odyssey, part 1 (fiction)
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.11 “Person Before Gender”
- Sometimes “The Algorithm” Works
- Richard Dawkins loses the plot
November 2020
- Jack’s Walk
- Why do we even have a football program this year?
- Village of Bolingbrook rejects atheist interactive hologram holiday display (Fiction)
- The violent style in American politics
- Send your winter art photos to us for glory and fame!
- Textures
- Winterfest Photofest
- The Art of …
- Back at the Zoo 2: Squirrely
- Incomplete subset, phrase not appropriate
- TV Review: The Queen’s Gambit (No spoilers)
- Three religions at once
- If television presenters can get to it, where are the archaeologists?
- A Fortress of Solitude
- Fundraiser: Stardew Valley
- Upending agriculture: Advances in vertical farming turn crops sideways for protection from the elements, and better yields
- Curioser and curiouser
- Word
- Absolutely Nothing Nazi-Adjacent Here, Move Along
- Kitchen Knives Set – Part 1: Thoughts and Design
- Autumnal
- Creativity . . . without the woo
- Some Sad Serendipty
- Back at the Zoo 1
- What, you think your god will protect you from getting covid-19?
- I read popular physics: Orbital Aggression
- Jordan Peterson is a woo-merchant
- Amber Ruffin informs me what a Twitter burner account is
- Artist spotlight: Shantilly Spins Shimmering Sounds
- There is no fool like a rich fool
- The Art of …
- The true cop flag revealed
- John Cleese disappoints me
- Are vaccination certificates in our future?
- Cory Doctorow, +1, ☆☆☆☆
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.10 “Glitter” and “Evidence”
- Logic and trolling and blogs, oh my!
- Brace yourselves: The Winterfest Fundraiser is coming! (Non-fiction)
- Meet the newest FTB member (Non-fiction)
- We have made contact!
- It’s almost Winterfest and we want your photos
- Kitty
- Trump’s increasingly pro-forma complaints of election fraud
- The Art of …
- Help Yourself to My Multi-Million-Dollar Brain-Flash
- Meet the new First (shelter) Dog
- Just when you think you’ve seen the worst, along comes Crowder
- Fungi Friday
- Loser Should Not Be an Insult
- I hope Farhad Manjoo’s family survives the holidays
- An irresistible headline
- When good turkeys go bad
- The plot of this drama is building rapidly to an obvious crisis
- I am thankful
- Zine about Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition
- Mortal Jelly
- Thanksgiving
- Reflections on my family
- The Art of …
- What about an online winter celebration?
- Happy Mediocre Thanksgiving Grading Day, or whatever
- A synCReTiC idea CRiTiCized: Fifty years of Canadian Content laws
- Diego Maradona has died
- The Art of …
- Trump emerges from hiding to talk about the stock market
- Almost over…
- This is probably too late, but cancel your plans. Do not travel for the holidays. Do it last minute. Lose the money you’ve already spent, and deal with hurt feelings. I’m not kidding.
- This is so cool
- The only majority that you guys have is the numbers
- Deadly sequels
- What color is your engine check light?
- Once again I am reminded that I am really old!
- Why not move Thanksgiving permanently?
- Bad professor
- Degupdate: Lady Grace of the Lost Toes
- We braved the wilderness to forage for food today
- The Art of …
- The walls keep closing in on Trump
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.9 “Be a Sponge”
- Tree Tuesday
- The Purpose of Morals and Laws
- Smarter than the average bear…
- An unfortunate synchronicity
- A Babbler Thanksgiving (Fiction)
- That’s not a concession
- The Art of …
- These people think they’re hilarious
- Lessons from the past
- Just Wait: The uneducated will be all over this in no time
- So, not the A Team then?
- Four theories to try and explain Trump’s behavior
- Have you no sense of decency, ma’am, at long last?
- Huh. I guess I am a big ol’ prude
- A Story We Should All Know
- Deep truth
- A thorough dismantling of The Bell Curve
- Stay home. Please.
- My poetry book is now available for pre-order on Amazon. :)
- Funny-looking rocks are not fossils
- Cover Up: Now I have to wear masks everywhere!
- Trump’s Pennsylvania case also thrown out
- The Art of …
- They Live On: One biography and one obituary
- Mark Up: What I did on the weekend
- Trapped in Trump Time
- Zoom meeting with Great Lakes Atheists – Come Hang Out with Me!
- Is duck kosher? It’s complicated
- Thanksgiving 2020: A Socially-Distanced Holiday
- A real life Clayton Bigsby
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no.8 “Your Body is Only Yours” and “Ambitions and Dreams”
- When you won’t even appear on Tucker Carlson’s show, then you’ve got nothing
- It’s probably too late for me to join the girl scouts
- I get mail…from Autism Speaks
- Adventure. Excitement. Space Oreos.
- I have a better idea than Geraldo Rivera
- It’s almost as if we could learn from history!
- Was Trump hoist with his own petard?
- The Art of …
- It’s Founder’s Day
- A Bad Dream
- Whinge, Knives, Whinge
- Are you into button porn?
- The increasing isolation of the US in the world
- From the Archives: Evaluating FiveThirtyEight
- Creepy bobblehead farms gullible flock
- You Ought To Be Happy To Know This
- Random Thoughts on Ethnic Stereotypes
- Web Exclusive: Bolingbrook Mayor Mary Alexander-Basta gives her first Babbler interview! (Mixed)
- Democrats vs. Republicans: Why even an empty difference in rhetoric can matter
- Season finale of Last Week Tonight
- State by state analysis of Trump’s legal challenges
- The farce continues: Giuliani cites “My Cousin Vinny”
- The new Minnesota rules
- The Art of …
- What happened to the women voters?
- You know what else is over? The election.
- Huzzah! The last Thursday of the semester!
- One Of Those Stories Where I Wish I Knew More
- Food waste: Free carrots and no sticks
- Drowning, again
- I Jest: A modest proposal
- Music Rules: Blondie’s Autoamerican turns forty
- John Oliver examines One American News
- That settles it — I’ll be cowering in my bunker
- Attention Due: November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week
- Surviving Libertarianism
- Bargain accepted, Brenden Dilley
- Estimating crowd sizes is tricky
- Summed Up: Lawrence O’Donnell says it best
- Empty Words Spoken: You call that an apology?
- They all look like this
- The Art of …
- One. More. Week.
- A Brief Nod To Twitter
- Trump is really going bonkers
- I agree with this sentiment
- The pool boy speaks!
- How Do You Winter?
- Great moments in humility
- How false claims of election fraud spread
- Web Exclusive: ‘Doomsday Crew’ evacuates Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- ‘Tis the season for terrible Christmas movies
- What will the comedians do now?
- The Art of …
- What is Trump’s endgame?
- Get a hanky ready
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.7 “Be Prepared” and “Gratitude”
- Brass Chisel
- Heroism – 2020 style
- Dr Pangloss lives, and she is a creationist
- Editorial: Will Bolingbrook’s government survive the 2021 election with three parties competing? (Fiction)
- Official who oversaw election security fears Trump may fire him
- Serenity
- I Have A Dream: 1000 Drag Performers on the National Mall (Updated)
- All the philosophy you need
- Glass Bacteria and Trilobites
- The Minnesota Nice version of collegiality
- I know the feeling
- The ultimate Hail Mary by Trump supporters
- Resentment in the monkey brain
- Aliens are always fun
- Creepy Sexual Practices
- Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy
- “Ancient Aliens” can go eat a bag of dicks
- The meme that says it all
- Film review: Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 36 – Revolutions
- The whole sordid Falwell saga laid bare
- Living next door to the worst
- The Odd Tale of Allah’s Balls
- The Art of …
- A 2D voting sim
- Delusional Donald’s dubious logic
- The wrong way to relax
- Prototyping Chef Knives
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.6 “Mental Health”
- The Four Seasons debacle reveals a lot about Trump
- A useful video on why Trump’s not going to be able to use the military to seize power
- Entitled no more?
- Trump’s false promises to uncover truths
- The Art of …
- Gladsome tidings!
- Why is the cruise ship industry?
- Mooommm! The Australians are exaggerating again!
- Time is rapidly running out for Q and QAnon and Trump
- Next Elon Musk Wants To Ask About These So-Called “Nipples”
- Tommy Tuberville needs some remedial civics lessons
- Video: Rebecca Watson on the “COVID-19 Risk Map” (Non-Fiction)
- (Link) Trump will leave but…(Non-fiction)
- Climate change is increasing the longevity of hurricanes
- Silicone Science
- Samantha Bee celebrates Trump’s loss
- A Word Coined: What I learnt today
- Another day, another dismal record
- The Art of …
- 50 years ago today, in Florence, Oregon…
- A Predator Poses for Pics
- Grrrr, Cancel Culture: now men are getting fired for masturbating on Zoom, where will this end?
- The American Meaning of Democracy
- Something for us olds
- Et tu, Fox News?
- How did such a stupid idea get even this far along?
- Hit the brakes hard right now!
- This is for YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
- Link Roundup: November 2020
- Good news! Someone’s dead, someone’s alive!
- Michele Bachmann urges her god to use his iron rod
- Veterans Day 2020: Fun, free and low-cost ways to honor U.S. vets.
- Trumpster Dive: The one without dignity is taking it away from others
- Poppy Fascism Sucks: Another year of ignorance and fanaticism
- In a Desperate Search for Voter Fraud, TX Lt. Gov. Offers a Million Dollar Reward
- Comparing US elections with India’s
- Degupdate: Emotionally Overwhelmed Pet Owner
- Not a Bad Dream
- The Art of …
- Call It The “Ambush Vehicle.”
- The new political parlor game: Asking WWTD?
- I’m a Nazi, Says Nazi. World Topples in Not-Shock.
- Village of Bolingbrook defies Trump’s order to demolish Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Hope for the Democrats?
- It would warrant a larger lab and more money, after all
- Hush now — coup in progress
- A worrying appointment by the Trump administration
- John Oliver looks back on a tumultuous week
- Oh my, I have some favorite tweets
- Triabalism Is Rational
- Spider art
- The Supreme Court hears arguments on the future of Obamacare
- You implement preventive measures before the problem worsens, Governor Walz
- The Art of …
- When in Rome, Hunt Trilobites
- BREAKING: U.S. Army Coming Soon to a Street Near You! UPDATED.
- Coincidences!
- Analysis of Latinx, Asian American, and African American voting
- And yet she liked him
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.5 “Limitations” and “Death”
- The Death Squirrel (Not?) From Bethlehem
- How do macroeconomics students cope with those giant textbooks?
- Axios buys my premise
- The Shower (Erotic Poetry)
- Four Seasons Total Landscaping
- The parodies mocking Trump begin in earnest
- No Lawyer Jokes Allowed: Not when the laws are a joke
- Jack’s Walk
- Progressive Democratic candidates did pretty well on Tuesday
- If You Need a Gun, You Are Not Free
- Can Republiclowns Evolve? : And grow a spine?
- The Art of …
- Teacher’s Corner: When you don’t like the results, change the rules
- Oh What a Beautiful Morning
- He’s so special!
- Now can we get back to doing something about the pandemic?
- Last 3 weeks!
- More bad news on the pandemic front
- Good summary, John Oliver
- The Charge of the Right Brigade
- Biden/Harris Won, but the Chair of the Texas GOP wants “a permanent asterisk by their names”
- Wow, Quantum Eraser was even worse than I imagined
- And there was great rejoicing across the land
- Trump’s campaign ends not with a bang, not with a whimper, but as comedy
- Creators and their brands
- Diwali Delayed: The festival of lights may not happen
- Predictions Made: The only thing that disappeared was control
- The morning nothing went right
- What this election revealed about America is not good
- Historical Jesus is a Squirrel
- Why you gotta do me like this, Anthony?
- Dancing in the streets
- The Lonely Hunter
- Mutual aid, 5th edition
- Culling the Danish mink
- A great relief
- Well, that was strange
- Who will bell the cat?
- NYC Happy Noise! UPDATED.
- Finally
- The Art of …
- Joe Biden declared the president
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.4 “Sex”
- End it. End it now
- We should not be too hard on the pollsters
- Another Jesus Mythicism discussion
- Behold! Light box Mk II!
- Trump’s speech yesterday, for the record
- Music Video for a Moment
- Vintage Schadenfreude
- The Art of …
- Take some time to relax and laugh
- Update and a video
- Degupdate: Hello Gracie
- Decision Desk HQ says that Joe Biden is president
- Waking up to uncertainty [UPDATED]
- Trump’s loss poses dangers to the pandemic
- Almost tempted
- Overtime! A Bolingbrook Babbler Special 2020 Election Report (Fiction)
- Spiders!
- GEORGIA!
- Have you ever seen a non-binary adjunct professor of critical race theory?
- The Woke are gonna get you!
- Meyers and Colbert on the election aftermath
- Did native Americans have more equality 9000 years ago than we do now?
- Teacher’s Corner: The Best Negative News Ever
- Trump’s behavior with women is utterly disgusting
- Suck it, Jordan Peterson
- “Thursday,” he moans
- The Art of …
- Eastern Oregon is where the losers dropped out of the Oregon Trail
- The legal state of play after the election
- Bogged Down
- AOC liked this. I do too.
- It isn’t up to us to win
- Let the Trump shenanigans begin!
- WTF America?
- Well, here we are in limbo
- Wednesday Mood
- The Art of …
- Reminder #2
- Reminder #1
- Welcome to our muddled hellscape
- We were warned
- A positive post for a stressful night
- Hallowe’en Reviewed: Best of the year awards
- Some random election thoughts
- Tree Tuesday
- Money Does Not Buy Happiness
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.3 “Religion” and “Small Acts of Kindness”
- Voting In Rural Pennsylvania
- Origami: Three axis woven design
- More Muskrats
- Happy Election Armageddon Day! + UPDATE, + MOAR UPDATEZ.
- The Art of …
- I thought enrollments were supposed to be down?
- Remaking classic films
- Numerology + folk etymology? Sheesh.
- Now that you’ve voted, I’ve got another job for you
- You’ve got one job
- Trump goes after … Lady Gaga?
- John Oliver’s closing arguments against Trump
- The last minute campaign frenzy
- The Art of …
- A warning to our Supreme Court
- The Air Force’s New Boondoggle
- It’s a wrap!
- The hate speech conundrum
- The Grand Prize for Pseudoscientific Gobbledygook goes to…the University of Pittsburgh!
- Village of Bolingbrook tells residents not to be afraid to vote (Fiction)
- Gonna Work on a Screenplay
- Samantha Bee on how modern autocrats capture power
- Jebus, I watched some of Genesis Impact …
- One last Halloween Photo as a Gift for PZ
- “Trump is the worst criminal in human history”
- Watching A Car Crash: Foreign journalists talk about the US
- Serenity
- Auction #30 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #29 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #28 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #27 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #26 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #25 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #24 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Fundraiser: Monster Prom
- Don’t Rest on Your Laurels.
- Sunday Sermon: About That Civil War That Is Not Coming
- The case for a single global time
- 2020 Mood
- Fear. 2
- Fundraiser: What’s So Scary about Climate Change?
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter – no.2 “Help Others” and “Follow Your Own Path”
October 2020
- Quiz Impossible: Bodies, Bones, and Things that Go Bump in the Night
- What the corner really looks like
- A neat Halloween idea
- A Dark Web: Part Six
- Fundraiser Update: Crypts Were Necrodanced!
- Sean Connery (1930-2020)
- Teacher’s Corner: Covid lurking around the corner
- The Art of …
- Reasoning with Homo Economicus
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising – The Grand Finale
- A reality check before the election
- Numbers Game: Taipei’s pride parade turnout was huge
- Pumpkin science
- The horror that is the skeptic/atheist movement
- Sean Connery is dead
- Hissy Fit: When hate groups don’t get their way
- Happy Halloween! Check out our schedule!
- We’re Going To Need Size XXXXXXXXXXL
- A Dark Web: Part 5
- And, for this Hallowe’en…
- Spider science lurches fitfully forward!
- Samantha Bee on the children separated from their parents by the US government
- I could not get it done, but maybe you can help
- An attack on one oatmeal eater is an attack on all oatmeal eaters
- Should I vote for the lesser of two evils?
- The Art of …
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- How the AP will call the election
- I’m in a Lio cartoon!
- Maybe the whole dang country has lost its mind
- America’s Mayor, everyone!
- Stuff of Nightmares
- Fundraiser Update: Only Minor Explosions So Far
- The Art of …
- Jared Kushner’s gives advice to African Americans on how to succeed
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Soap Opera Part 4: Season 1 Finale
- Looking forward to our brave new world of Artificial Intelligence…oh, wait
- Analysis of early voting patterns
- Don’t kinkshame the spiders
- Notes About Herd Immunity
- None of the covid-19 metrics are encouraging
- Tummy Thursday: Espeon for the Win
- Oh, Idaho
- Crunchies vs. Squishies: ask the pterosaurs
- Moto Chain Cleaver
- A post-election roundup of media takes on the 2019 Bolivia coup
- First they come for Milo, now they’ve come for Amos
- Amber Ruffin has some thoughts on the black rappers supporting Trump
- Degupdate Getting Snuggly.
- Life in the orchestra pit of a musical
- The Art of …
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Are You Flippin’ My Pancakes?
- The White House is delusional
- The shady relationship between Trump and Deutsche Bank
- Bob Murray is dead!
- The plot thickens!
- I’ve been dressing as Sexy Santa all week, and no one has noticed
- Democrats need fire in their bellies now
- A Dark Web: Part Four.
- Video: Is capitalism devouring democracy? (Hint: Yes. Yes, it is)
- The wrecking of asylum protections
- The stock market will not crash if Biden wins
- The Art of …
- Tree Tuesday
- One more week, maybe
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Vote, but not just today
- A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter no.1 “Be Proud” and “Indoctrination”
- Trump’s boasts of power are not all just hot air
- Marcus Gave Me Wood, Here Is What I Did With It
- The story continues!
- I Lack The Fucks
- A Dark Web: Part Three
- When Shit Hits the Fan
- Men, get to work.
- Some humor to start the week
- The Art of …
- Mein lieber Schwan (my dear swan)
- Massive early voting in Texas
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- You Kids Get Offa My Lawn
- Yeesh, but I detest Collin Peterson
- Two comedies about meals gone seriously wrong
- I’ve been looking everywhere for my FTL drive formula
- Village of Palatine fines UFO for displaying political ad over early voting site (Fiction)
- The story chain begins!
- How are those policies working out for you, North Dakota?
- His bedside manner left much to be desired
- Laws that Regulate Sex Work
- A Dark Web: Part Two
- Turning the corner-Trump style
- Called out by someone I never heard of
- Sign Wars
- On keeping time
- The Best Evidence for an Afterlife? Really?
- The blame was fixed the instant protests against injustice began
- Bolivia, lithium, and Elon Musk
- Mushroom Hunt
- Disturbing deep-water discoveries: Weddell waters warming
- FTB Presents: A Dark Web (Part 1)
- Conservatives Eat Their Own, Hilarity Ensues.
- The Art of …
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Samantha Bee on what to expect in the coming days
- The real Abbie Hoffman
- Trump and white women voters
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm : It was a tuck
- Early voting trends
- Take my money already
- The Sacklers get off easy
- The Art of …
- Jordan Peterson is back?
- Fungi Friday
- Online drama can really be entertaining!
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- I blocked these guys long ago, why are they clogging up my mailbox now?
- Reflections on the final Biden-Trump debate
- The third of November, with aliens
- I bet you can all name a lot of “launderers”
- Ask the women — it’s a power move
- Soap Opera Part 3: I Need Coffee
- Jack’s Walk
- Bolingbrook Antifa repels invasion by the Edgar County Irregular Militia (Fiction)
- Can this be true?
- The Art of …
- Is there something about playing Dracula that makes one a total badass?
- Thor may have heard my grumblings
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- I Can’t Vote for Biden, but I Feel Like I Should Be Able To
- It’s Thursday! The worst day of the week.
- How the AP will call results of the election
- A Perfect Storm
- Creepy ol’ Uncle Rudy
- Tom Lehrer’s Bequest
- Degupdate: Candy Mistaking Herself for a Cat
- James Randi dies at 92 (Non-fiction)
- I snubbed Mike S. Adams again
- Most Important News Story Of The Day
- The Art of …
- James Randi has died
- John Oliver on the WHO
- What to expect in the next two weeks
- Bad Products: Babypod
- Tired creationist arguments, again
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- A loss at the University of Oregon
- Enter the Muskrats
- BREAKING: Smiley Pope almost drags church into 20th century.
- Denying science can kill you
- What Does A Woman Get From Marriage?
- I don’t have a lot of enthusiasm about voting for Biden, but that’s compensated by my need to vote Trump out
- Tolerance, generosity, humanity—we must learn to nurture.
- The gods may have already heeded my prayers
- Kahnawake Support for Sipekne’katik First Nation
- Hyponymy and hypernymy: Why inclusive language does not erase women and cis people
- A Quickie: Auction #23 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Early voting patterns
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Trump tone it down? That’s wishful thinking
- Really, Winter?
- Are you ready for disappointment and betrayal?
- The Art of …
- I’m Suspicious
- A Very Poetic Response To Time Limits
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Bolivia’s return to democracy
- Almost three!
- Stupidity is never a handicap in politics
- Scientists crying about cancellation, again
- The Art of …
- Spiders would be more exciting, you know
- Oh. It’s snowing already.
- My apologies
- Film review: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
- Revisionist History
- Sadly, this satirical prediction made may well come true
- Wisconsin got screwed
- My fate
- In which I program music
- Is this supposed to be satire?
- A graveyard adventure
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Reasons to Revere Reason
- Recipe: How to cook summer squash flowers, leaves, and stems
- Fundraiser: Spooooooky Game Edition, Squared!
- More stuff to worry about
- Le Drool (as they say in Western Europe)
- Stochastic terrorism should be a topic of public discussion.
- We should not normalize this election
- Forever Young
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- What a “fiduciary duty” looks like when the police believe in white supremacy
- How the CDC was subverted by Trump
- Upcycling Old Jeans
- How ignorant can a creationist be?
- Disability, accessibility, and the end of the Long 20th Century
- Doin’ Grandpa stuff
- Terrorism with fire
- Numbers Game: My 1200 beats your 200
- The nice people at the IRS
- That Works: Canada should steal New Zealand’s voting system
- What Black History Month Means To Me
- Imagine, a country that likes its leaders trusting science
- The Art of …
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- TNET 42: Clamp With Style
- Point Made: Heartlessness in the ‘heartland’
- Three Thoughts To Say: Two are mine, one is a quote
- Voting, American style
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Thirteen
- Trolleyology Done Right
- My next post is taking a long time, so here’s a video from @thoughtslime that you should watch
- Making Progress on My Mental Illness Book
- Fun With Fire!
- Why, yes, Trump is someone’s crazy uncle
- An alternative approach to police misconduct
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of …
- The October surprise!
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- First snow!
- Covid cases are rising again in the US and Europe
- Adam Savage on hearing loss
- Evil Cat adresssssesss you. Obey.
- That Does Not Sound Legit
- Insidious Sexism
- A Soap Opera, Part 2: Vanity and Hubris
- Trainee Anagrams Cat
- It looks like Donald Trump doesn’t love me anymore
- “smashing you in the face with a gourd full of spiders”
- Conservatives caught on video owning their $#!+.
- The idiotic plans of the Whitmer plotters
- A Late Endorsement
- Synergy!
- Her power rises at Halloween — help us control the beast
- How the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was resolved
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- How can you tell when a creationist is making stuff up?
- I worry about Mad Philosophers doing Mad Experiments
- A Soap Opera
- Destruction of Homo Economicus
- Holy Shit! Man Walks on Fucking Superconductor!
- I Finally Found an Upside to Covid!
- The tragic consequences of believing that the coronavirus is a hoax
- My Science Cafe talk on The Great Paradox of Science can be viewed online
- The Art of …
- Dr. David Gorski on the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’ (Non-Fiction)
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Don’t be fooled by the Barrington Declaration
- Looking for the magic indicator of election results
- Why would you buy a newspaper if all you want to do is dismantle it?
- Degupdate: A New Sand Bath
- Printable Postcards: Senate Judiciary Committee and Governor Abbott (R, TX)
- I Don’t Care: Cliff Richard is not a ‘guilty pleasure’
- A good question
- You may all wish Iliana a happy birthday
- Voter suppression backlash
- Tree Tuesday
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- Traditions, adapted
- On being on the back foot
- The Art of …
- QAnon and George Soros clash at the Bolingbrook Golf Club (Fiction)
- Welp, that puts everything in perspective
- I’m working on corrupting my granddaughter, too
- The Halloween fundraiser has begun!
- Conception of Homo Economicus
- America’s leadership seems to think the country is collapsing, and they’ve decided to respond by looting it.
- Religion and the Supreme Court Nominee: It’s Not a Cult. It’s Worse.
- Cards for Karens
- Indigenous Peoples Day 2020.
- Rampant incompetence in the White House
- Contemplate the past and how you got here
- The Art of …
- Oh, Great
- Hallowe’en Photo Festival of Fun and Fundraising
- How dare a corporation cater to a market segment that isn’t mine?
- Well all right then, Pennsylvania
- Should we criticize Trump if we think he is deranged?
- The yard sign I need
- Planning Fallacy: The Hidden Depths of Weeds
- 2020 California election positions
- Today, I picked on the bad science of TERFs some more
- Rude
- I Laughed: The BBC are a Bunch of Blundering Clowns
- About Face: The KMT have started whistling a different tune
- Feelings, emotion, and consequences of knowledge.
- Making up a fake identity to attack diversity
- Finally, I Understand: There might actually be some value in tiktok
- Redacting the “Invisible Hand”
- Sunday Sermon: In Which I Argue With a T-shirt
- Take Advantage of My Mistake!
- Nature indicts Trump
- Trump’s reckless behavior before and after the debate
- How’s Your Second Wave Going? Covid and the Myth of Individual Responsibility
- Link Roundup: October 2020
- Good news: Artificial cooling can be made significantly more efficient and environmentally friendly
- What’s up, doc? The ills of race-based medicine.
- Jordan Klepper attends a Trump rally
- No wonder the calendar in my brain was beeping at me
- Rebecca Watson: Masks don’t increase Your CO2 (Non-fiction)
- Trump and the medical VIP syndrome
- What a maroon!
- Adam Smith Means to Say
- The Art of …
- I’ll have you know it’s getting a little too bright and cheery around here
- Get out of my head!
- Strong editorials from Scientific American and NEJM
- The iceberg theory of sexual harassment
- The Tiger Mafia might lose a kingpin
- The arrogance of TERFs
- Perils of international travel
- A Terrible Loss For Trans Voices
- Seth Meyers sums up the week’s news
- [random attribute] + [subjective, complex phenomenon] → BAD STUDY
- A Kestrel on Fire
- More evidence that the stock market is irrational
- Rivers running to the sea!
- Baby spiders are voracious
- The Art of …
- What will Trump say about the Wolverine Watchmen?
- Just a typical day in Australia, I hear
- Dang it, woke up too early
- Check Out My Huge Wood!
- HOW TO STOP RAPES
- Web Exclusive: Ives campaign cancels ‘Casten You to Hell’ hell house (Fiction)
- Trump retreats further into his bubble
- We bearded white guys all look alike
- Should I regret missing the VP debate?
- Vice presidential debate notes
- Woman Artists on Youtube – Movie Reviewer – Jill Bearup
- Perfection.
- The Art of …
- A Bit of Squirrel Cuteness
- Voting in California
- oh crap it’s thursday
- Oh, Ow
- Jack’s Walk
- Well, at Least Nobody Got Hurt.
- I will be giving a talk on The Great Paradox of Science
- Degupdate: They Do Run Run Run, They Do Run, Run, Run
- Sleight of the “Invisible Hand”
- Giuliani Coughs Through Fox News Interview Before ‘Rona Results. LOL.
- The Art of …
- The Case of Cardinal Pell
- Erasure: Women in STEM and Your Liberal Media.
- Catholicism…REVOKED!
- Hares to Today
- Yet another Trump associate accused of sexual harassment
- Jerkfaces uncovered our feminist plan. Meet at the usual place to discuss secret next steps.
- The lies that form the popular misunderstandings of genetics
- The Raccoons of the Resistance have a realistic perspective
- Sometimes, the Nobel Committee does the right thing
- More Voting Deadline Information, Courtesy of Snopes
- Jack’s Walk
- Oceanoxia just turned 10 years old!
- Seth Meyers tries to keep up with fast-moving events
- Gladiatorial games, now open to the public
- How can they tell?
- Shilling for Big Vitamin!
- First lab a success!
- Gooby And Bowl
- The Art of …
- Trump just doesn’t care about others
- Ugh. Lab.
- Village of Bolingbrook employees scramble to prep the emergency pontoon boat for launch (Fiction)
- The Failing Journalism is Gullible
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of …
- Am I terrible for thinking…
- Katie Porter exposes price gouging by pharmaceutical companies
- You want media attention? Say that you are an undecided voter
- The shambolic White House strategy over Trump’s illness
- Bloody-minded stupid people bother me
- Old drama, and TERFs revisiting
- I voted last week, and I already regret it
- Racists and Chucklefucks Don’t Understand Genetics
- Do We Need More Proof That There Is No God?
- Toilet silliness
- New podcast episode: Climate grief
- The Art of …
- Where are you going to vote? Time might be up on Monday!
- Not good: Research shows irrigation has limited ability to save crop yields from drought
- Saturday Night Live on the week’s events
- Abominable treatments of cloning in movies
- TRUMP DEFEATS COVID… or something (updated)
- The…. WOODPECKER
- Trump is very weird
- The October Crisis Remembered: Nous pardonnerons ou oublierons
- Chomsky on Friedman’s Freedom
- Permission to Grieve: Miscarriages and Stillbirths
- Sunday Sermon: In Defense of Retaliation
- The forcing out of ‘family member’ Brad Parscale didn’t take long
- “…rather luxurious caves with highly-efficient facilities…”
- I read popular physics: Interstellar Interlopers
- The Crip Knife
- Pope Francis snubs Trump’s attempt to exploit him
- A Member of the Public
- Maybe he should have worn the cassock differently
- The Art of …
- Kaitlan Collins Stunned About This Whole Leopards Thing
- What does the Trump hospitalization mean?
- I possess a little spirit of vengeance
- Death Tolls: The mass murder of Transgender people gets worse in 2020
- Infographics! All about Black Bloc
- The Art of …
- Samantha Bee on the debate
- Johnson Transgressed: The UK’s tories manage basic decency for once
- The Leopards Eating Faces Journalism Society Is Forshook
- Texas Governor Restricts Number of Ballot Drop-Off Locations
- Oh, the irony!
- YOU’RE WELCOME, PEOPLE.
- It’s going to be a good day, I hope
- Future debate plans and schedule
- Funniest responses to Trump’s positive coronavirus test (will be updated as needed)
- Pray for the Preznit
- Rare and tasty: Chaenomeles japonica aka Japanese quince
- QAnon has decided that Trump catching COVID is … a good thing?
- FUCKING ASSHAT HAS COVID-19
- Just Drink Some Bleach
- Jack’s Walk
- Voter fraud! By Republicans Wohl and Burkman
- Trump’s transition plans
- Racists are inscrutable
- Scott Atlas is exactly the kind of ‘science expert’ Trump likes …
- The October Crisis Remembered: The origin, rise, and end of the FLQ
- Have a Pheasant Day
- Not a good look, Dave
- The Art of …
- There’s nothing new about QAnon
- What to look for on election night
- It’s always nice to see some good press for the university
- Just another morning spent cleaning up the garbage
- To Be Fired Three Times Must Be Hired Three Times
- Yet more HP
- Direct action in the face of a warming climate and rising fascism: Preparation without escalation
- Profiling Chomsky
September 2020
- NYPD Beat, Arrest Peaceful Protesters in Planned Assault.
- Late night comedians’ reactions to the debate
- The October Crisis Remembered: Le dominionisme du Canada
- More on Trump’s refusal to condemn white supremacists
- Degupdate: Snugglebeasties and DIY
- Fun Sexy Thoughts
- The Art of …
- A Corvid at work
- A nasty little list — the JK Rowling fan club
- Hypnotism: An Update
- Reflections on last night’s ‘debate’
- Sex toy or religious artifact?
- I like my monsters easily killed and their malignancy easily dismissed
- You Couldn’t Pay Me
- For those of you about to die, I salute you
- Jack’s Walk
- The rigged tax system stripped bare
- The Parscale arrest video
- Chomsky on Playing Fair
- They really hate Ilhan Omar
- The Art of …
- Wow. You rarely see “redhibitory” used any more
- This election should be the clearest, easiest decision you ever make
- Say goodbye to privacy
- Cool story, bro
- Rabbi Adam Chalom’s humanistic messages for the 2020 High Holidays (Non-fiction)
- Video: Babbler columnist survives academic panel (Fiction)
- Making Doors that Look Japanese
- Private detention centers should be shut down
- Printable Postcards: In Opposition to the Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett
- The late, great Catface
- This could have gone very differently, and very badly
- The Crying Nazi is guilty
- The Art of …
- Don’t read this essay
- Ignore the liars and WEAR YOUR MASK
- Trump taxes revealed
- Is it too much to hope this is Trump’s Doom?
- As the Wormhat turns, so goes the nation
- TxtSpam
- Constructed Reality
- Teachers Wanted: Except nobody’s that desperate
- Trump only paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017 – UPDATED.
- Finally I got Something Done
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/09/27/60447/
- Nobody loves me, I’m gonna eat some worms. 👿
- Internet scammers target me with a new strategy
- The Art of …
- Numbers Game: One million dead
- Fundraiser Update: Princess Kaizo Land, Part 2
- Hawks and hummingbirds
- He’s going to kill us
- Auction #22 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #21 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Sunday Sermon: Don’t Worry About That Civil War
- Auction #25 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #24 for Freethoughtblogs “Bail Out”
- Auction #23 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Lost Identities: How White Supremacy Maintains itself
- Have you been donating? You may already be a winner!
- Next up: THE QUIZ
- Science Fiction & Social Justice — online soon
- Stanislav Petrov Day, 2020
- THE FREETHOUGHTBLOGS CARNIVAL OF CURIOSITY presents ‘The Rift: A Bolingbrook Babbler Story’ live reading in about an hour.
- Election transition fears
- The Matinee of Pain starts in about an hour and a half
- Panel discussion tonight! Science fiction and social justice!
- What are you doing?! UPDATED.
- Science fiction: Dining out
- Examples of how anti-science forces use falsifiability
- The Art of …
- The Ways of the Ancients
- Fundraiser Update: Princess Kaizo Land, it is
- Jack’s Walk
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Meet the FreeThoughtBloggers!
- Wow. Silverman.
- Autumn in a Flower Patch
- Climate grief: Mourning a lost homeworld.
- “Vote him out!”
- Rural Minnesota is problematic
- Well, not ever gonna play Fall Guys now
- The Art of …
- Big busy day today!
- A nice survey of research into the origin of life
- Do Without: Because you’ll spill your drink if you have one
- Painting
- Halloween cancelled!
- Philosophy Tube: Climate Grief
- Printable Postcards: Peaceful Transfer of Power and Threats to Voting
- Arguing with evangelicals is like wrestling with a bollard
- Carnival time! (Non-fiction)
- What Did PZ’s Grandchildren Know
- Ideas Forged: Steel is a lot older than you think
- Hilarious episode of This American Life
- Starling
- Texas GOP Sues Republican Governor over Expanded Early Voting
- A Kestrel to Brighten Your Day
- While we’re talking about Breonna Taylor…
- A Painful and Exhausted Degupdate
- Sarah Kendzior tells Bolingbrook’s weredogs to vote and occasionally bite fascists (Fiction)
- You call them monsters?
- The Art of…
- Book Review: The Unnecessary Science by Gunther Laird
- Oh no! It’s another Argiope video!
- Why? I dunno.
- When is violence acceptable in a civil society?
- Propaganda!
- Say It, ACLU!
- Get your booty to the pole POLL!
- Mmmm, tapioca…
- Ditzy DNA and Black Holes at the center of the Earth
- Jack’s Walk
- Black Lives Don’t Matter
- How much physical distancing is safe?
- As a parent of 3 and grandfather of 2, I must protest
- The Art of …
- Q Go Home…to that pig farm in the Philippines
- Radiolab on jury nullification
- The most tin-eared neo-lib proposal yet
- Inject Money Into an Inefficient System, It Does Not Get Better
- Promising news on hydrogen-powered air travel
- Jack’s Walk
- And the test results are in!
- Has the pandemic second wave begun?
- Histrionics Repeats: It’s the Salem old thing
- What’s the matter with Delaware Republicans?
- The Art of …
- A Very Sad Degupdate
- Let’s try this again
- The clever spider and its masterful artifice
- A Hitchhiking ‘hopper
- This is where anti-science fervor leads
- If you want to see socialism in action, just visit your library
- Meanwhile, at the Twin Cities branch campus of the University of Minnesota…
- Kiridashi
- Fundraiser Update: Cancelled Panel + New Target
- My Freethought Blogs CARNIVAL OF CURIOSITY schedule for the weekend of 9/25/20 to 9/27/20 (Non-fiction)
- Man Shows Off Gun In Grocery Store Checkout, Shoots Self In Dick
- In Memoriam: Ed Brayton
- Brief Thoughts on: “That’s right. Psychology isn’t science.”
- Nice example of good sportsmanship
- Pssst: the loons have all moved to YouTube
- Jack’s Walk
- The rise, fall, and rise again of the Brontosaurus
- How awkward
- The Art of …
- The “surreal goddamn nightmare” lives of QAnon followers’ loved ones
- I guess I can’t trust entomologists anymore
- Getting worse!
- A Rubicon of Sorts
- Podcast episode: Mi’kmaq fishing dispute
- Fundraiser: The Panel of Inexpert Discussion
- My voice is hanging by a thread, so I picked an easy target: Kent Hovind
- The importance of down-ballot races
- Frontline on Newark police reforms
- Last Demon Drop
- The very real cost of racism in human lives
- Honoring RBG, a surge in donations to the Democrats
- Energy Transformation & Nuclear Waste
- Calling all readers: the September Fundraiser!
- Gary Larson didn’t do enough cartoons with spiders in them
- The Art of …
- Whinge: Email and Phones
- US shows decline in the Social Progress Index
- Grifters gotta grift
- Another entry in the Carnival of Curiosity: Dr Myers’ Menagerie of Itty-Bitty Monsters
- There’s a Satanic Temple of Minnesota?
- Stand in solidarity with the Mi’kmaq people, and help them if you can
- Wildfire pollution: a personal account
- However did they figure that out?
- More Geomanticarum Demons
- Election voting has begun!
- FtB fundraiser
- The pitfalls of vox pop reporting
- Take a look at our fundraiser next Saturday
- Homonationalism Exists, And It Kills
- The Art of…
- The Wind Cries: Has it really been fifty years?
- Confirming that the Nazis have taken over
- The Sword In The Stone
- Let’s mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- This is not an image of hope
- Printable Postcards: Follow the Precedent You Set, GOP
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead, and we’re the ones going to hell
- Think of the principle
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
- A useful addition to your field guide to fascism
- Trump will solve all problems by November 2nd
- Jerry Falwell’s fall becomes literal
- Friends don’t let friends fall for the Lincoln Project’s lying tricks
- Migrant workers hit hard by pandemic
- Initial Attraction – Person vs. Gender
- The Art of …
- What? Grandma & grandpa were… impure ?
- The interesting history of the Miss America pageant
- Oh no, there’s a chink in my armor!
- Upcoming Auctions
- Ranking on Psychology
- The Trump town hall debacle
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of …
- There is no end to Trump’s assaults on women and decency
- Teacher’s Corner: Talk to Me!
- Ask an Atheist Day? Do I want to do this?
- Last Minute Notice: September 17 is Ask An Atheist Day.
- We just have to find the right numbers, and the problems go away!
- Vulnerability to fake news
- Carnival of Curiosity: Science Fiction and Social Justice
- We need to get rid of Bill Barr, too
- Freedom of Reproductive Choices
- Watch This One
- A Bunch of Latin Shorties
- Jack’s Walk
- Welcome to Hell
- TERFs go home
- They Finally Spoke: Scientific American breaks with tradition
- A little good news on aquifers.
- Carnival of Curiosity: I Have More Than One Pseudonym
- My Little (Stitching) Pony
- Somber milestone of covid-19 deaths
- The Art of …
- Make Believe: Cops co-opt and bootlickers lick
- The 1% have sucked up $50 trillion from the rest of us
- Heron in a Hurry
- Carnival of Curiosity: the Matinee…of PAIN
- Never drive in either of the Dakotas
- Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates stole my money!
- Defunding the Police
- Podcast episode: Global solidarity for the survival of humanity
- Italian Demonds
- Fundraiser Update: Target Met! Long Live the Target
- Carnival of Curiosity: Parade of Bloggers, part II
- Seth Meyers on the latest events
- Where Modern Gaming Began: Ultima IV turns 35
- Day Drinking and Writing – Erotic Poetry
- Jack’s Walk
- Football protests
- DegUpdate: Getting to know each other
- The Art of …
- It’s September Fun, Fun, Fun(d raising)
- Carnival of Curiosity: Parade of Bloggers, part I
- Minutes of The Coyote Committee Meeting, Sept 2020
- Donald Trump’s magical thinking
- I brought another spider home, I couldn’t resist
- Venus must be the science topic du jour
- Nazis. Nazi, nazi, nazi.
- “the most shameful moment in the history of U.S. science policy”
- Biden addresses hostile Space Force troops in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- Effects of Self-Esteem Overstated
- More pun fun
- FtB September Fundraising Event
- We’re doing a fundraiser at the end of this month!
- #slimedidnocrime
- Film preview: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020)
- A Feedback Loop Feeds Back: “Predictive AI” is predictably bad
- Surprising spider industry
- FtB Fundraiser: Creativity Coaching Session Auction
- CARNIVAL of CURIOSITY: Interview with Iris!
- The Art of …
- This Is Hardcore
- How dirty money subverts democracy
- We’ve got to break out of the binary
- Mark Siddall becomes famous for something! Not for what he would have intended
- For the September Fundraiser: A special preview and an auction! (Non-fiction)
- Auction #20 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #19 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #18 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Auction #17 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
- Fundraiser: Super Mario World Edition
- The Sunday State of Play
- Podcast delay, musical compensation
- Useful but Depressing Video
- Trump’s unhinged rally in North Carolina
- Trump still lying about covid-19 danger
- A music theory analysis of SUNN O)))
- The Art of …
- I initially thought this was satire
- Maybe the botox has leaked into his brain?
- He is truly a worthy successor to Kent Hovind
- We need to dismantle the myth of the genius programmer
- Another Has Passed: Shere Hite, 1942-2020
- Welcome to Degustan
- Sand mining and recycling photovoltaics
- Too close to home to be funny
- Does ignoring those annoying robocalls help reduce them?
- The Art of …
- The fascinating world in the ocean depths
- The sleep of the innocent
- The English Faust Book, Fury
- Low Self-Esteem Is Adaptive
- I Was Like a Fox in the Henhouse…
- Tropic Thunder and the problem of actors in blackface
- New research indicates that the oceans take up more carbon than previously realized
- Web Exclusive Guest Opinion: A FEW THOUGHTS ON 9/11 AND OUR CURRENT MOMENT
- The One That Matters: Commemorating September 11th
- Notes on Hypnosis – 1 Framing
- The Art of …
- Speaking of bugnuts…
- This is what happens with a rotten business person as president
- The people with bugs in their brains are a vital segment of American culture, after all
- Break my heart, Missouri
- Global solidarity for the survival of humanity.
- Building up to a fundraiser
- Jack’s Walk
- My mermaid pedigree?
- UFOs displaying Jeanne Ives ads crash in Naperville (Fiction)
- The devastating fires in the Pacific Northwest
- Self-Esteem is About Others
- The Golden Hoard: A distraction-slash-feel good story
- Link Roundup: September 2020
- The Art of …
- Teacher’s Corner: I beg your pardon?
- Facts that Impact Therapy
- The Super Sekrit Weapons System
- Diana Rigg has died
- The Thursday State of Play
- The dangerous deception
- Oh hi Phil
- Have you had enough yet? Five questions about our future
- The mother of all super spreader events
- Jack’s Walk
- Fox News reporter confirms Trump’s derogatory comments about the military
- Did You Notice? : There’s more than just the headline
- That’s one evil enchantment
- Michele Bachmann resurfaces and hilarity ensues
- Gorillaz + Robert Smith? Yes, please.
- Nice worm
- Recovery Anniversary — Bulimic But Almost An Atheist
- The Art of…
- I’m an atheist, so there’s no way I’d fall for QAnon
- The Wednesday State of Play
- Barr is a liar just like his boss
- Carbon neutrality FTW!
- Reminder: The Crow Scientist kickstarter ends today!
- The bravest Republican in America
- When it matters to locals…
- A mysterious case of data blindness, maybe?
- Muh vaccine!
- Jack’s Walk
- Postmaster General in trouble over straw donors
- Let the hatred flow!
- The Art of…
- An AiG apostate!
- The Tuesday State of Play
- My article was just published in Scientific American
- Parasites flooding the COVID-19 literature with toxic nonsense
- Here There Be Hares
- The Hell is a Hois?
- The plague that won’t go away
- Labor Day in the USA.
- Road Trip: Field Museum in Chicago
- Election night results may be a ‘red mirage’
- The Art of …
- Every step in this sequence is equally stupid
- Where in the World are Voyager and Jack
- Today is a holiday?
- The deadly consequences of Trump’s magical thinking
- The Monday State of Play
- Gender Reveals … A Big Fucking Fire!
- New podcast episode: Hurricane, disaster relief, and rebuilding society
- Where we are now
- A metaphor for the Trump campaign becomes real
- The Panspermia Mafia explains the origin of COVID-19
- QUEASHA HARDY #SayHerName: Black Trans Lives Matter.
- Immoral Christianity: 4 – God Is Transactional And Unreliable
- Trump’s reckless comments on the military
- #Dumbkirk was a glorious metaphor
- One Latin Word Plz, I’m Dyin’ Here
- How pseudoscience companies target women
- Justice Denied: Again and again and again
- An emblematic boat parade
- The long journey of my new computer
- The state of COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research
- MORE! MORE SPIDERS! YOU ARE ALL DOOOOMED!
- Positive Leftist News from Mexie
- Oh My Potato!
- More evidence of the damage from social isolation
- When will the world speak out against Kagame?
- The UK Skeptic magazine changes editorial team
- Close enough to that time of year
- The end of the NRA?
- Self-awareness isn’t their strong suit
- Words Matter: Dictionary.com updated its lexicon
- Isolated Case: The murder of Daniel Prude proves it isn’t.
- Half Measures: Now what about the false arrests and convictions?
- Trying an Experiment
- I know I rag on physicists sometimes, but you’ve got to stop making it so easy
- In the grand scheme of things, we will be reduced to a smear of carbon
- The Art of Book Design: The American Sportsman
- Mind your Words: Why mainstream journalism often fails us all
- COVID and perspectives on causality
- How to build community networks and collective power
- They’ll still vote for him
- The real American Hero
- The amusing quirks of English
- reasonable and humanistic
- Police and white vigilante groups
- BREAKING: Trump pulls funds for disinfecting NYC subways and schools.
- The Old Drunk Fell Down: Good riddance
- Fun with gravity
- Petition to Manhattan DA: drop charges against Derrick Ingram, and hold NYPD accountable!
- Time’s Up: The end of an era in Formula 1
- Something To Say: Two thoughts on the death of Chadwick Boseman
- Somebody else’s legal drama
- The Art of Book Design: The Book of the Ocean
- De-centralized solar power would save lives during disaster recovery
- Scenes We’d Like To See
- Peacock’s of the Air
- What happened in Massachusetts
- Atheists & Christians learn to tolerate the right kind of hate
- I will judge a book by its cover
- This is just the tackiest pseudoscientific ménage à trois ever, someone turn off the soap opera
- The Art of Book Design: With the Night Mail
- The silly fuss over Danbury
- Hurricanes and disaster response: rebuilding society from the ground up
- I’m proud of my home and country accent.
- Mowing Pictures – Part 2 – Bush Crickets
- What to expect in the next two months
- Sorry for the interruption, we resume our regular blogging
- Oy, so much work
- Yay! We live again!
- Wokka Wokka Wokka…
- The Art of Fake Apology
- Olivia (from Origami King)
- Card Weaving
- Endless Beatings
August 2020
- Where we’re at, where we might be heading, and what we can do to help regardless
- The rhetoric that led to the Kenosha killing
- Many people only read the headline before forwarding articles
- Fly me to the Moon
- Be excellent to one another!
- Hey Joe!
- Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
- The Republican ‘suburban housewives’ strategy
- Tensions rise as Space Force and Martian Colonial Fleet increase patrols over Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- The RNC is a racist, criminal organization, and the US is run by a mob family
- It’s another week
- New podcast episode – climate defeatism
- Some guy on YouTube tomorrow!
- Samantha Bee on the Republican fringe
- Rebecca Watson video on terrified conservatives (Non-fiction)
- Time lapse of plants growing
- Mowing Pictures – Part 1 – Butterflies
- The Free Market Speaks
- Michael Moore sounds warning on election
- Elections during COVID-19
- Thanos Ruins Everything
- It’s bad, so bad
- The Legend of PZ terrifies the populace, once again
- Samantha Bee on the awful confederate people honored with monuments
- Chadwick Boseman, Rest In Power. Also, I need you to lie for me.
- Yet another challenge to Chomsky on language
- The Art of Book Design: The Wooing of the Rose and Other Poems
- US loses at the UN on Iran sanctions
- Spider adventure time!
- I’m beginning to really detest colon cancer
- Night moves
- Destructive Four-Year-Old vs. Sensitive Atheist Mom
- Moiré patterns with alternate shapes
- The Art of Book Design: Flower Fables
- Stephen Colbert gives an impassioned monologue
- The Falwells come out swinging, just not in the way you think
- Hello, Hairy
- The deadly menace of Facebook
- What have I gotten myself into?
- A marvel of bias in the guise of objectivity
- Say their names (Non-fiction)
- A Man’s Place Is In The Home
- Woman Educators on Youtube – Mathematician – Up and Atom
- More professional athletes speak out and take action
- And now for something pretty…
- Pandemic Projects
- The Art of Book Design: The Last Leaf
- Scott Adams is making desperately bad arguments now
- You Knew This Was Coming, Right?
- It’s 9:00! I know what that means
- No surprise-Kenosha killing suspect is a Trump supporter
- Kenosha
- The View from The Street
- Hurricane Laura – get out while you can
- Yikes, that’s quite a headline
- More Bob jokes
- Unsettling and Obvious
- You know Abby Johnson is a liar, right?
- The Republican platform: “Owning the libs and pissing off the media”
- What is your problem, fellow men?
- Amazon is cancelling a planned adaptation of the Banks Culture series
- The Scots version of Wikipedia is written by an American teenager
- Therapists’ Inadequacies
- Telling it like it is
- Trump risks overexposure
- Totally tired of Jordan Peterson
- TAX THE EVIL.
- Swan Swam Over the Lake
- The Art of Book Design: Forest Trees and Forest Scenery
- Wingnuts -2
- Overcoming the fear of death the Epicurean way
- This may not go well
- First lab! This morning!
- Where’s my hazmat suit?
- The Art of Book Design: A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great
- From the Webmaster: It’s mitigation time again, Bolingbrook! (Mixed)
- It’s awfully hard to find a reliable pool boy anymore
- Another shoe drops in the Falwell saga
- An occasion when this excuse may actually be true
- Resin Art: Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall (Pride comes before the Fall)
- Time To Defenestrate: 95 at 25
- Lazy linking – tech edition
- Good morning, babies!
- Wingnuts
- Viewing the evolution of language positively
- At least I’m not teaching at Yale
- Palatine proposes haunted parking lot for early voting site (Fiction)
- Today’s agenda!
- There aren’t enough songs about arthropods
- Ding dong the witch is…taking a break
- Size is Relative: When Oversized American Kitchens Are Called “Tiny”
- Podcast episode: Climate and agriculture
- I’ve successfully staggered through another long workday
- An honest government ad about the USPS
- Even Trump’s sister despises him
- Jeez, I have got to get a haircut
- How to Riot – 3
- How Republicans became the White Grievance Party
- May die today
- “I’m Vengeance.” #DCFanDome
- Anarcho Capitalist Heaven – 3
- The Democratic convention
- Punch and Die (and Fun)
- Stop making these types of apologies – they only make things worse
- Faust is Real, or Mephistopheelin’ Groovy
- Blown Away: Was one of the mass exinctions a result of a supernova?
- Santayana Revisited: Did she forget history, ignore it, or is she trying to repeat it?
- The Art of Book Design: A Fashionable Sufferer
- Explaining Roko’s Basilisk
- This does not seem like a good idea
- Odds And Ends: How life is different here
- We are so special
- I ain’t afraid of no “Great Filter”
- John Oliver on how black jurors get excluded
- This would have harshed my mellow, if I had any mellow left
- Is Ben Shapiro’s 15 minutes almost over?
- I am giving a talk on my book this Sunday
- The Art of Book Design: Elementary Lessons on Insects
- If you don’t like being compared to the KKK, don’t act like the KKK
- Climate change and individual action
- Quick! Do some community science before winter strikes!
- See Yale and die?
- Tomorrow is #ApostasyDay
- Do this One Thing for the Climate
- Video: Rebecca Watson on the so-called ‘Neck Gaiter’ study (Non-fiction)
- Bad news – Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act cancelled
- The wall grift exposed
- The inevitable news about Steve Bannon
- The Art of Book Design: A Japanese Nightingale
- BREAKING: Steve Bannon in Federal Custody! HAPPY DANCE EVERYONE!
- Anarcho Capitalist Heaven – 2
- The bizarro world of the stock market
- Grim reaping: Climate change and agriculture
- Manifesting a vision of hell
- Bees Being Busy
- I’m only halfway there, I guess
- The Problem Stated Clearly: Six panels and seven words
- The Art of Book Design: Among the Night People
- White supremacist Stone Mountain demonstration fizzles
- Pair Off: Guess who the republiclowns invited to their convention?
- Anarcho Capitalist Heaven
- A Progressive Couple with Traditional Roles
- Can the Wehrmacht be absolved?
- Effective Altruism: an outsider perspective
- Beware the Claremont propaganda connection
- Lovecraft as useful instruction in the ways of evil
- Trustee Watts survives confrontation with sentient tree bartenders (Fiction)
- I don’t know that I like being on the other side of the microscope
- I Need Latin Skills or Google Fu
- ‘Twas Ever Thus: U.S. Women 100 Years Post-Suffrage.
- John Oliver on the connection between the new birtherism and QAnon
- I Probably Won’t Do This Again…
- Left To Die: Greece now has its own SS St. Louis
- Lights Out: Pete Way, 1951-2020
- Trump attacks New Zealand
- An Example Made: El Salvador does what the US fails to do
- Predictable Result: White christians are more racist than secular people
- Teacher’s Corner: Back to School: Fuck Corona, Fuck the Government, Fuck People
- How to Riot – 2
- The Art of Book Design: The Moose Book
- Atheist Voices of Minnesota
- War crimes! Crimes against humanity! People held hostage! In California!
- oh god oh god oh god
- #InverteFest is coming
- We have lost Janelle Shane in the Meta-verse
- Are you an atheist vegetarian or vegan?
- Well, that was quick
- Skydiving rescue
- Wood Pidgeon
- Dolly Parton’s words to live by
- Oh, Pennsylvania
- The Art of Book Design: Tartarin on the Alps
- I always did like that musical, Camelot
- Morris is Panic City today
- Harris’s background hits a lot of demographic spots
- Safety first
- Sam Harris won’t care
- Soaring Birds of Prey
- Allen Ginsberg Was Only Momentarily Accomplished
- Review of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- Sarah Cooper
- Ugh, New Age creationists…
- The Art of Book Design: Salt Water Poems and Ballads
- Hummingbird Tongues are Weird
- TNET 41: Is The Metric System Actually Better?
- The extinct ‘liberal Republican’
- Defend the USPS
- Sunday Sermon: Stealing An Election?
- A Prelude to a Criticism
- Sexuality in Julius Caesar’s time
- I’ve been doing Instagram wrong
- Marissa Explains It All #11 – Our Shallowest Concept of Religion, Apparently
- I have a podcast!
- There is too much, let me sum up (Edited!)
- Newsweek Shocked to Find Racism In Its Establishment
- The Incredible Bulk
- Minnesota does not have a mask mandate
- Trump’s war on the postal service
- The Art of Book Design: Moriah’s Mourning
- Brambleberry
- They hate us, they really hate us
- Spider Quest of the day!
- The purpose is to inject the poison into the system
- The unfixable man
- Even Marge Simpson is ticked off
- The Art of Book Design: The Fun of the Fair
- Your skepticon schedule
- We need more questions like these asked of Trump
- It’s not just us: Ocean heatwaves are changing the landscape beneath the waves.
- Trump is plumb obsessed
- Ed Brayton
- If you like baby spiders…
- I already hate this game
- Gun-fondlers reach a new low
- A victory for a Republican QAnon devotee
- Something else I’ll be working on this weekend
- You have two things to look forward to this weekend
- This is not a conspiracy theory
- An article from a fellow blogger you need to check out…
- Cake
- Ring Ring! Resin and Opal
- Ed Brayton’s last blog post (Non-fiction)
- Finally, a reporter asks a necessary question
- Stephen Colbert has a funny, incisive analysis of yesterday’s developments
- The expected attacks on Harris begin
- Senator Harris and the no good, terrible … yeah, whatever.
- On randos
- The Art of Book Design: Giles of the Star
- Truth 2
- Tuffy the Snowflake (Content Warning)
- Trump is already interfering in the election
- The Squad remains undefeated and even grows
- Disclosure
- Never go back in time to read old books
- Ed Brayton has died
- Food Exploration
- Success! My First Resin Ring
- Hands Up: Left handedness and video games
- Hands Up: ¡ʎɐp sɹǝpuɐH ʇɟǝ˥ ʎddɐH
- Jack’s Walk
- Yes, again…
- Review of my book
- David Silverman and “Woke Math”
- BREAKING: Iris goes woo! Read my first psychic prediction!
- Talking Chinese
- The Art of Book Design: The Magic Slippers
- Biden’s pick of Harris makes life difficult for Trump
- Storks Doing Stork Stuff
- Why I think Kamala Harris is a plus mark for the Biden candidacy
- Arecibo wrecked!
- I intensely dislike dishonest presentations of data
- Not the humanists, too!
- Frustration
- Fuck the DA
- (Link) How the Trump Administration is trying to link political opposition to foreign terrorist groups (Non-fiction)
- I can live with Kamala Harris as VP
- Trump is clearly increasingly desperate
- Trump seems to have a problem with persistent female reporters
- When It Rains, It Pours: Even if TGD doesn’t collapse…
- My terrible game
- The Art of Book Design: The Brown Castle
- For the finale, feed Trumpy Bear to a shark
- The complex issue of cultural appropriation
- I didn’t chuckle even once at this McSweeney’s article
- Strange bedfellows
- The Legend of Ant Log
- 425 Million Year Old Mystery
- Time to get uncomfortable; Let’s talk about Racism
- The scientific history of the North American continent
- Link Roundup: August 2020
- How about some butterflies?
- College football season likely to be canceled
- Does anyone have any experience with AA?
- Nothing Makes Sense
- The Art of Book Design: Cactus and Pine; Songs of the Southwest
- March from Milwaukee to DC shockingly encounters racism
- The weird QAnon cult
- I have a cunning plan to get rich
- Web Exclusive: Interstellar court arrests conservative lawyers for attempted genocide (Fiction)
- Miraculous image of Ed Brayton appears in front of the Church of Christopher Hitchens (Fiction)
- If you’re not into spiders, what about crows?
- A Rare and Special Hummingbird Encounter
- Not the agnostics, too!
- Criminalizing opposition: DHS targeting antifascist activists with weapons designed to combat international terrorism
- Luxury, or What We Did on our Holiday
- A slight improvement to bad odds: Satellites spot previously undiscovered emperor penguin colonies
- Hasan Minhaj opens up conversations on race among South Asians
- The Art of Book Design: Chickadee-dee and his Friends
- Let’s Remember: Henrietta Lacks, 1920-1951
- Target Practice: So they can get used to shooting kids
- Gimme: What’s old is new again
- Finally, my political stance has a label
- The absurd punishments in the US legal system
- The grift, oh the grift
- A sad announcement from Ed Brayton
- Looking for Argiope in West Central Minnesota
- Things That Delight Me: Lightsaber Kendo
- More pun fun
- How to avoid being seen with Trump
- The Art of Book Design: Letters That Live
- What was Jerry Falwell, Jr. thinking?
- One rule for you, one for me
- Reminder: we’re playing Minecraft tomorrow at noon central time
- My mission for the day
- Canada has lost its last fully intact ice shelf
- Jack’s Walk
- Lissenup, SJW Scumbags!
- BLM and the state of the USA’s constitutional protections in Utah
- Seth Meyers on the news
- Antici…pation
- Spider Math
- Pot, meet kettle
- Well, It Sucks, But…
- The Art of Book Design: Polly, The Autobiography of a Parrot
- I’d rather put something in the mail than sacrifice myself for Donald Trump
- There goes Andrew Sullivan again
- The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and its aftermath
- Project Degus: Houses
- Think like a Sponge: Global warming intensifying rainstorms in North America
- Death’s Little Helpers
- The Art of Book Design: Love and Shawl-Straps
- The Uighurs
- The spider struggle continues
- Woman Scientist on YouTube – Astrophysicist
- Has Sean Hannity not seen Monty Python’s Life of Brian ?
- North Paulding High is the epitome of professionalism!
- Lasers and eye damage
- The Quack-in-Chief is dispensing dangerous medical advice again
- Content Warning: Led Zeppelin
- (Link) New Scientist article on what caused the Beirut explosion (Non-fiction)
- The Art of Book Design: Summer at Baden-Baden
- Why we need to teach real US history
- Mighty Huntress
- Big win for progressives in Missouri
- Defund Police FOUNDATIONS.
- Playing games, again
- Unknown Materials!
- This is why I don’t talk to mammals anymore
- The Great Filter of American media
- The US should follow New Zealand’s lead for dealing with the pandemic
- Siblings wrecked my sleep last night
- It’s strange to be living on an alien planet
- I read popular physics: Quantum Leap
- The Art of Book Design: Bird Stories
- Seth Meyers on the US’s failure to adopt a national pandemic plan
- Trump flounders badly yet again
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Not a Bee Butt
- A Letter to My Daughter About Death
- And Now For Something Completely … I’m Not Even Sure
- ENCODE is back, and Larry Moran is on it
- The new Cold War with China
- BethAnn McLaughlin is now famous, in a bad way
- Green Lifestyles and Pseudoscience
- (Link) Ed Yong’s ‘How the Pandemic Defeated America’ (Non-fiction)
- In Which We Go on an Expedition
- Trump’s supporters may need big rallies even more that he does
- Justice for Saraya Rees (Non-fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- This Was Not Supposed to Happen – Quality Control and Salvage
- The Art of Book Design: Dream Days
- Oh boy, it’s a vertigo day!
- Another attempt to rescue free will
- Can You Identify this Bug?
- Bolingbrook Mayor Alexander-Basta confronts COVID-19 ‘zombies’ at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
- Newest Jeanne Ives ad? (Fiction)
- Let’s call a buffoon a buffoon
- The TikTok Affair
- Reminder: Skepticon is less than two weeks away
- All the Pretty Little Flowers 4: The Residents
- When did all the cool kids get into spiders?
- An Important Petition from Iris
- Another case of life imitating art
- How To Vaccum Chuck
- But what if I want to tame a spider and ride it around?
- Removing confederate statues from the Capitol building
- We are so screwed
- Maybe We Shouldn’t: Reopening is bad, starting is worse
- Opt Out: Expect more to follow his lead
- First Draft of The Septagram, Finished!
- Anyone up for a group minecraft session?
- Sheesh, I missed the worst bit of the Hugo awards
- Trump draws a massive crowd of maybe, uh, 30 people?
- Everyone needs a pet spider!
- Nobody Learns: Taiwan is obsessed with “reopening”
- Film review: Starship Troopers (1997)
- Hugos announced!
- Let’s Remember: Alan Parker, film maker, 1944-2020
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures: Bellflowers
- Best Crip Dyke Update ever: BLM WINS.
- Positive Leftist News Roundup from @mexieYT , plus a couple additions of my own.
- Why there is no national plan in the US for dealing with the pandemic
- BLM Won – Just wait til they win some MORE!
July 2020
- I read popular physics: The darkest particles
- Silver
- #Justice4Saraya – Set Her Free, and Hold the Police Accountable (Petition)
- Spider feeding day!
- Trump’s distraction ploys are increasingly obvious
- Planning To Fail: How Kushner condemned an entire country
- Let’s Backtrack: The Amiga 1000 at 35
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Meanwhile, elsewhere in Oregon…
- A Few Pretty Butterflies
- The Gohmert stupidity never ends
- A good point but…
- The Lincoln Project is not your friend
- Interview with a YOUNG HOT GAY
- How do you respond to “I’ll pray for you”?
- A Painful Lesson When You Have a Mental Illness
- Crip Dyke Reporting from Portland
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Cartoons for these times
- TV review: The United States of Conspiracy (2020)
- Bends And Tears: No honour on those cops’ badges
- Just Watch: Cheerful Hypocrisy
- Spiders of the Industrial Wasteland
- Portland – Required Reading
- News Break: Herman Cain, dead of COVID-19
- I wonder which of the fervent Republicans at the rally infected him?
- Dispelling the aura of danger around spiders
- We can open the bars, but oh, no, we better delay the election
- Good riddance to Andrew Sullivan and Bari Weiss
- I’m trying to engineer social media to give me ads that won’t make me puke
- Doggy
- So…you’re saying we’ve been living in a police state for decades?
- Still a step away from Pinkerton’s, but it’s bad .
- All the Pretty Little Flowers 3: The Downstairs
- How To Riot
- Past the expiration date
- You shall listen to me until I get it right!
- The US is still in the first wave of the pandemic
- AG Barr: Crip Dyke is a “violent rioter and anarchist” hijacking the Portland protests!
- Jack’s Walk
- Trump’s wall keeps falling down
- Storks on the Hunt
- Brain ipsa loquitur
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Too many babies
- I demolished Hobbiton
- Trump’s pandemic press conferences are pointless
- How did we get here?
- Music Rules: “Back In Black” turned 40
- All the Pretty Little Flowers 2: The Slopes
- Exploring the Wilds of Scotland
- Have you ever tried to force yourself to believe?
- Being Uncomfortable
- Seth Meyers on what the next 100 days might hold
- Answers in Genesis gets everything wrong
- SIGNAL BOOSTING: More from Crip Dyke in Portland
- Different Hardening Methods for N690 – Experiment
- How pathetic can you get?
- Anyone got a black helmet to share?
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Quacks are thriving nowadays
- Cannister
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the singular ‘they’
- Where da boaters at?
- Only we call them “contract security personnel” rather than “mercs”
- All the Pretty Little Flowers 1: The frontyard
- Web Exclusive: Race for interim Mayor: Trustee Jaskiewicz holds narrow lead in the latest Babble Poll! (Mixed)
- What’s up with the tear gas, Feds?
- Listen to the Flower People
- On avoiding war: Another must-watch video from @BeauTFC
- A Wee Bit of Bee Butt
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- John Oliver on the Portland protests
- Is is okay to let your kids swear?
- The bipartisan war machine
- Data In Motion
- She’s ready for her closeup
- Trump is getting more walls, but not the kind he wants
- Aliens and Illuminati sponsor an emotional and extravagant retirement party for Mayor Claar (Fiction)
- Sunday Night Protests: A wee spot of bother and a chaotic video
- Just an ordinary TERF talking about biology
- Warnings
- Musical interlude
- Female athletes take the lead in fight for social justice
- Quenching Jig
- Oooo That Smell… Can’t You Smell That Smell?
- Tell me again how evolutionary psychology is not a con game
- Where is the informed discussion of alien life on the internet?
- Fighting the new forms of the poll tax
- Minnesota has mandated face masks in public
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, eh?
- The Impossible Guide to the Galaxy: MONEY
- If I Ran the Zoo Left
- You should know what is happening in Portland.
- ’tis the season
- Advice for Yoho and other boors like him: Don’t mess with AOC
- The feds are trying to saturate Portland with tear gas
- Ain’t Got Nothin’ to Hide, Right?
- Trump’s manifest insecurity about his cognitive abilities
- The NY Times version of spin isn’t at all subtle
- Home decorating tip
- Desperate for some Tear Gas Video? I have you covered!
- What do you need to know about the Portland protests?
- What happens when you offer free masks
- Please watch this video
- Hungry hungry spiders
- Reality Check: We can do better
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – A Seriously Tiny Spider
- Trump bats 0 for 3 on Thursday
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- The Current State of the US
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- How and why the Mississippi flag got removed
- I don’t even know what’s going on in atheism anymore
- I Can Hear The Muffled Giggling From Here
- Reporting from Portland
- Humorous Interlude: I am not saying …
- FTB’s real on the ground reporter in Portland (Non-fiction)
- I am a wimp: Portland, July 22
- An important source of information from on the ground in Portland
- Crashing the Fence: Portland Videos, July 22nd
- Comfy, Cozy BFFs
- Samantha Bee talks to Masha Gessen
- SIGNAL BOOSTING: Crip Dyke in Portland.
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Another Bumblebee
- AOC does not let Yoho off the hook
- SO MANY SPIDERS!
- That Yoho yahoo got his butt kicked
- IRIS ♥️ AOC SO HARD.
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley. Le Morte Darthur
- I can’t always muster the energy to read pseudoscience
- More on the government kidnapping squads
- The way he’s talking about it, I suspect this is the first time Trump has passed any test
- I’d say you can stop asking me these questions now, but I know they’ll continue
- Data At Rest
- It’s a reproductive sort of day
- The Story of July 21: Three offensives
- I’m a proud papa!
- John Oliver on conspiracy theories
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – A Beetle on a Lookout
- About time, Minnesota
- The mysterious life of eels
- I don’t usually cheer for Velveeta, but…
- The chaos of tear gas
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Early morning spidering
- Exposing what is behind the ‘cancel culture’ meme
- At some point, we’ve got to stop singing and do something about these bozos
- The contradictions of anti-SJW atheists laid bare
- You Know What Else They Call Methane?
- Michael Brooks -1983-2020
- 99% of Portland Moms “Not angry, just disappointed”
- Gonna find some virtual spiders in an hour or so
- Seth Meyers comments on the latest news
- Scarred for life
- Progressive wins in Republican areas
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Roadside Desert
- I endorse this message
- If only he’d shot himself a day earlier
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- A Small Collection of Winged Things
- Matt Taibbi and the disappointing lack of cultural awareness
- Squick and Squeam At Fox
- Increasing signs that Trump is desperate
- Setting records in Minnesota
- A cis child gives her opinion on anti-trans myths
- John Oliver on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories (Non-Fiction)
- I have questions, Marriott and Enterprise.
- Bolingbrook Antifa rescues Trustee Michael Carpanzano (Fiction)
- Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes
- The military, defying Trump, bans confederate flags on all its properties
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Yellow Toadflax
- Now, We Wait: It’s likely when, not if TGD collapses
- Yuck, grocery stores
- How To Barricade
- Film review: Disclosure (2020)
- Let the wildflowers bloom
- Way to undermine my sense of relief, guy
- In Case You Missed It
- A few more pics from Portland
- Birth Rates: The world’s is in a slow decline
- A perfect storm
- Razed, Not Raised: A failed attempt at recruitment
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Germany and Japan
- The Second Best Time To Plant A Tree
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – A Bumblebee
- Why medical offices still use faxes so much
- Yes, Please
- Doomsday arrives in November
- Planning another evening of Minecraft
- A minor jailed for not doing her homework
- Deborah Birx’s reputation will never recover
- Exactly what I’d expect in Portland
- The State of The San Mai
- Pictures from Portland
- I’m Joining MelinaPendulum in Saying Goodbye to Harry Potter
- I am in Portland. I am acting.
- Seth Meyers looks at Trump’s campaign strategy
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Pseudonyms On The Internet
- The Women’s-Only Spaces Myth
- What next? Death squads?
- Looking for Lizards?
- More spiders! But only trustworthy spiders, please
- Trump tries to wash his hands of his even stupider wall
- I’ve had about enough of 2020
- Cold Comfort
- Environmental rights, human rights, privatization, and climate change: A podcast conversation, and supplemental article.
- Fruit of our evening walk
- The Goya company should re-think this endorsement
- Snyder Remarks: If you thought the racist name was bad….
- Where Did The Time Go?
- My Take: She has no friends here (aside from the flying monkeys)
- There goes the neighborhood
- White House press secretary inadvertently tells the truth
- Women Artists on YouTube – Violinist
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- The large audiences Trump craves keep eluding him
- Violent anarchists, where are your standards?
- Astroturfing education
- It was never about “state’s rights”
- Coal Country: 200,000+
- How We Roll
- Jack’s Walk
- The utter irrationality insanity of the anti-mask hysteria
- Let me make this perfectly clear
- Cut Costs So Cuts Cost: Seattle’s plan for all-white police force
- Lie, Deny And Decry: Cheetolini’s latest mishandling of COVID-19
- 6 Lessons Learned from a Secular Recovery
- Hater’s Obsession: I Feel Like a Fucking Celebrity
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Trump is flailing
- Our educational system is detached from reality, I guess
- This Spider is a Cutie Pie
- Grass spiders taking over
- Project Badgermascus – Part 12 – The Final Badgering
- Constant Revolution
- Tummy Thursday: Tahin Caramel Shortbread
- I Wonder
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – The Male Fern
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- A scathing critique of the US response to the pandemic
- Rediscovering the Words of Frederick Douglass
- Atheists in the US and around the world
- Project Badgermascus – Part 11 – Stitch This!
- Rub it in, Canada, why don’t you?
- If you’d attended a virtual arachnology meeting, you could look this good
- Rush Limbaugh’s coronavirus advice
- The rise and fall of demagogues
- This is a barroom conversation, not a publication
- The center will not hold
- A Note on Trans Issues
- Wednesday Wings: Haven’t you grown?!!!
- The Bathroom Myth
- The United States Eviction Crisis of 2020, and some resources that might help people.
- More Good News Arrived: Roosh has been kicked off youtube
- Bail denied for Ghislaine Maxwell
- Will History Repeat: July 14th is Bastille Day
- Whined And Opined: Bari Weiss quits the New York Timid
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures: Jay Feather
- Tucker Carlson ‘goes on vacation’ after his racist aide exposed
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsly: Le Morte Darthur
- Fortunately, I am of an age that has outgrown this temptation
- Long day ahead
- Trump’s re-election strategy involves gambling with people’s lives
- My job has always been toppling idols
- Auction #16 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Defense Fund
- Auction #18 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Defense Fund
- Auction #17 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Defense Fund
- Power Fantasies
- Resin Art: The Jewellery Board
- Positive Leftist News from Mexie!
- You can’t complain about spiders when ichneumonid wasps exist
- A Year Of Wonders?
- Intent versus effect
- Making Do: When you’re not rich, you have to
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Bottoms Up!
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- But of course Lawrence Krauss has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
- A New Scam
- Film review: All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
- Interesting scenario of presidential succession
- Capitalism and sexism wrecks comic books now
- You’re a dope. #sorrynotsorry
- When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Weird
- Space aliens will not enroll their children in Chicagoland’s schools due to COVID-19 (Fiction)
- Setting up for Fundraising Round 2
- Darwin cancelled?
- Project Badgermascus – Part 10 – Leather, Stomping, Dying…
- Maxwell Housed: From penthouse to penitentiary
- When leaders don’t lead
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Ant Venturer
- TheArt of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- I can fix this plan!
- Immoral Christianity: 3 – Forgiveness
- Test cricket is back
- Regeneration — it’s a good deal
- Don’t touch other people’s dogs without the owner’s permission
- A long and shameful tradition.
- Keep Out: An RSVP to the US
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Boss B*tch Fight Challenge II – THE RECKONING.
- Why did I ever leave the lab?
- Really CVS?
- Richard Wolff on Venezuela and socialism
- Supreme Court rules on Trump’s tax returns
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Larch Cones
- Doom doom doom doom.
- Mummy Deerest Came to Visit
- If you thought the McCloskeys were horrible people before…
- Trump’s re-election campaign off to a wobbly start
- Went looking for Vikings at the Rune Stone Park, only found…
- Forget Body Cameras
- Tribal Gooby
- Big win for Native American sovereignty
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Mossy Hills
- Gussying up creationism with math doesn’t make it valid
- Project Badgermascus – Interlude 5 – Making New Tools, Learning New Skills
- Top military chief condemns the confederacy
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- My brain unconsciously turned to spiders
- Link roundup: July 2020
- The weird border wall being built privately
- An Example of Doing it Right
- I guess we’re in the midst of tornado season
- Cultivating a British flavor of narrow-mindedness
- Rights and Wrongs podcast: Environmental Rights
- Sending The Little Petri Dishes Back To School
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Some Yellow Fungus
- Death of the Author, J.K. Rowling, Orson Scott Card, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Putting Out: TISM’s most famous song was released in July 2005
- Women Scientists on Youtube – Physics Girl
- Pratfalls are entertaining, right?
- Jack’s Walk
- There is no limit to the Trump family grifting
- How important is it for your partner to have the same political/ religious/ social views as you?
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- The Sally Hemings story
- More sweetness and light!
- How about some happy news?
- The history of genetics is too often a horror story
- The Atlantic’s Link Farm
- Tummy Thursday: You Gotta Eat it All
- Looks exactly like my office
- Hypocrisy Abounds: Mary Kay Letourneau, dead at 58
- Jack’s Walk
- Why the Tulsa massacre is not better known
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – Thistle
- It’s like an intelligence test for institutions
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Dakota Access Pipeline -Finally Some Good News
- So…this is “cancel culture”? I don’t see the problem.
- Project Badgermascus – Interlude 4 – New Tools
- The big question
- Christian vs. Christian
- Perhaps you need to see an example of a good letter?
- Weaponized ambiguity
- Egging Along
- New Projects!
- Prestigious List of Fragile Assholes
- The new tell-all Trump book
- Ghislaine Maxwell now in NYC jail
- Hang it up, Steve Shives
- Mushroom Hunt Pictures – The Finale
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Le Morte Darthur
- Maintaining Hegemony
- Implications of Supreme Court decision on ‘faithless electors’
- I submitted my final manuscript!
- Foraging
- Looking on the bright side of the pandemic
- Never annoy the bard
- How to Deal With Confederate-Named Military Bases
- Plastic Free July
- Film review: Chasing Coral (2017)
- I Cried: Over a two minute stop motion Godzilla film
- Let’s Remember: Ennio Morricone, 1928-2020
- Normal body temperature
- Seriously, the signature issue of the Trump campaign will be…save the statues?
- The orbweavers are coming into their own
- The FBI ‘Investigates’
- The Art of Aubrey Beardsley – Le Morte Darthur
- How Cleveland police instigated violence and destruction and lied about it
- Jeanne Ives’s canvassers spread beyond Illinois’ Sixth Congressional District according to eyewitnesses (Fiction)
- ACAB, Seattle edition
- This Could Trigger a Universe of Conspiracy Theories
- I can’t believe we still have to argue against Kent Hovind in the 21st century
- I read popular physics: A planet is born
- Why the virus is resurging in the US
- The emergence of black militias
- This is not a spider
- Lost Link
- The Art of Book Design: Le Morte D’Arthur
- YouTube Video: Performative Wokeness
- Project Badgermascus – Part 9 – Almost Done
- The deep roots of racism in the US
- With friends like these: Krauss, Quillette, and systemic racism
- Delusional
- Conservative Christian Roommates
- Where is ‘teaching a class of 50 students’ on this scale?
- Show And Tell: What I did on Saturday
- Even Fox News is having a hard time with nutty Republican congresspersons
- Breaking News! Jackie Traynere announces candidacy for Mayor of Bolingbrook (Mixed)
- The Enemy of Old has taken the land, so I must garden in the sky
- And now, the Cleveland Indians think of a name change
- The Art of Book Design: The Latch Key of my Bookhouse
- Project Badgermascus – Part 8 – To Peen or Not to Peen…
- What we have here is a shocking failure of imagination
- A solution to the pandemic?
- Someone noticed Pinker’s sleaziness
- The presidential campaign will be about…statues?
- Two Words To Strike From Your Vocabulary
- Mental Hygiene
- The Art of Book Design: A Modern Love Story
- Video: Stephanie Goldfarb on “At the Intersection of Queer & Jewish: Why It’s Tough Out Here for Some of Us.” (Non-fiction)
- Samantha Bee on Trump’s war on the media
- Infamy Remembered: RB Bennett, 1870-1947
- How the mighty are fallen
- Project Badgermascus – Part 7 – The Pinkening
- What Does It Take: For a crimes against humanity charge?
- Well now, isn’t that a depressing article
- Confessions of a has-been atheist
- TNET 40: The Power of the Pentatonic Scale
- The Ghislaine Maxwell puzzle
- The Right To Privacy Is The Right To Do Crimes
- The Art of Book Design: Love Never Faileth
- On this day 157 years ago
- I know what kind of poetry I like
- The next crisis is already here
- Ghislaine Maxwell arrested in Jeffrey Epstein case
- Women Artists on Youtube – Jack of All Trades…
- The “Home of the People Lovers” is going to kill us
- I’ll be coming for your neutrons, Brian
- Jeffrey Epstein’s procurer has been arrested
- There’s no drama like YouTube drama
- More changes caused by the recent demonstrations
- Punching Rhawn Joseph some more
- I Blew Right Through My Own Holiday
- Capitalism, global warming, and the fear of change
- Reminder: Ending fossil fuel use will cause a short-term increase in temperature as the air clears.
- Project Badgermascus – Part 6 – Trials and Tribulations
- How will Covid19 pandemic end ?
- Jon Stewart talks about the current unrest
- I keep telling you, I refuse to get into ants
- Resin Art: there’s different roads to success, but infinite ways to fuck up
- He’s not wrong, you know
- “No shirt, no shoes, no masks – no service”
- I like this James O’Brien guy
- Tell me the truth, doc
- Crawl back in your hole, Peterson, you’re going to get spanked everywhere
- Anti-Science Kills
June 2020
- Google Doodle: Marsha Johnson
- How newspapers are being destroyed
- Music Rules: The years certainly have gone by…
- The Art of Book Design: Eben Holden’s Last Day-A-Fishing
- So, I told my boss that I’m an atheist.
- Covid in India
- Hi again
- The racist counter attacks begin
- It’s a palace! A SPIDER PALACE !
- Who’s ready to EXPLORE?
- Comma comma comma conspiracy, You come and go, you come and go
- Repost: Geoengineering is dangerous, irresponsible, and unavoidable
- Same Idea, Different Visions
- The word from on high: WEAR A MASK
- Yesterday’s abortion ruling was underwhelming
- Freezepeach warriors discover the terrible truth
- You Suck: Thumbs in the womb as predictors of handedness
- Black, POC, BIPOC
- The Grumpy Old Fart Routine
- Rich people fight!
- This Is Quarantine!
- Cleanup in progress
- Another sign of the new player solidarity on racism
- Russian special forces soldiers distribute fireworks in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
- I could get used to this style of conference
- The archaeologists are getting alarmed
- The Art of Book Design: Doris Cheyne; The Story of a Noble Life
- New York Police Department is the poster child for abuse
- Do academia next, Jim
- Uh-oh. I’m going to be glued to my chair all day #arachnids20
- Guest Opinion: IF…then more Americans would be alive today. (Mixed)
- Other people’s vacations
- When Life Imitates Art
- Last Gasp: Cheetolini knows he can’t win
- The evangelical vote and Biden
- Itsy Bitsy Spider (Really)
- I regret to inform you that Jordan Peterson is writing again
- Progressives did well on Tuesday
- Lazy linking – there is a lot going on
- Hello! I’m Still Here… I Swear…
- The Art of Book Design: Where the Blue Begins
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- The symbols of the confederacy
- Project Badgermascus – Part 5 – Handle Scales
- A Milestone Reached: 10,000,000 COVID-19 infections worldwide
- What I Saw: My trip to Chiayi last Sunday
- Why Try? : To Milwaukee cops, Black lives still don’t matter
- I am not going to get into ants
- The deep-rooted nature of police brutality
- Start your weekend with some happy news
- The enigmatic fungi
- $6,000,000,000.00
- Oceanic temperatures are rising and oxygen is in decline. What does that mean for sea life?
- Poetry Book Update — The End is in Sight!
- Legalistic fixation in atheism
- TV review: Opiods, Inc
- Project Badgermascus – Part 4 – The Great Flattening
- How Police Spend Their Time
- The Loch Ness Monster still does not exist
- A level-headed look at CHAZ
- Humanists Report: Freethinkers at risk in 2020
- The Art of Book Design: Another English Woman’s Love Letters
- Ask a NY paramedic how we’re doing
- A big question following the court’s LGBT decision
- March
- Racist statues explained
- Have I been training cannon fodder?
- Israel, Black Lives Matter, Jewish Whiteness, and this Historical Moment’s Call for Justice
- Damn, They Gorged: How soon will the Yangtze flood?
- Samantha Bee on the Supreme Court’s historic Title VII opinion
- Emesis alert
- Project Badgermascus – Interlude 3 – Blackness Achieved!
- Ok, this is even more stupid
- Woman Artists on Youtube – Miniature Painter
- I get it now
- Shower partner
- Watch this video by The Serfs.
- Spider fans gather at #Arachnids20 today!
- The Art of Book Design: The Kinship of Nature
- Resin Art: Fun and Failure
- Mythicist Milwaukee is back, and I can smell the stench all over the midwest
- The parties really know how to pick ’em
- Get Your Shai-Hulud On
- Summer Solstice Celebration
- The Aftermath of Prepping Horseradish
- Love it or leave it.
- Totally accurate
- John Oliver on the prison scandal
- The logistics of ending capitalism: Will the Revolution be funded?
- Expressing disgust and fear on facebook.
- NYC to paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ in front of Trump Tower. LOL.
- Is the word ‘welsh’ derogatory?
- Project Badgermascus – Interlude 2 – Practice Makes Perfect (Allegedly)
- A lesson for all you gentlemen out there
- Gut-Wrenching Reading
- The Art of Book Design: An English Woman’s Love Letters
- We are witnessing a sea change in racial attitudes
- At least Mothman never owned slaves
- The data is suggestive
- The cops sure are working hard to craft a victimhood narrative
- Cornelius Frederick Was Murdered. What will we do?
- Another meme, still struggling to write…
- Late night talk shows are relishing Trump’s rally flop
- Project Badgermascus – Interlude 1 – Sciencing How to Patina on Brass
- California covid-19 cases rise as people flout safety guidelines
- Still To Come: What I did on Sunday
- Blackguards Guard: Why does Derek Chauvin need a “whites only” detail?
- Shut up, Shaun King
- Not an Ugly Duckling in Sight
- AAS Meeting starts Thursday!
- Scouting out potential field sites
- The Art of Book Design: Cones for the Campfire
- What else happened in Tulsa
- Uncommon Sense: History Always Has a Perspective
- Dreaming about mushrooms all night long
- Illinois Policy Institute to release nuclear war economic recovery plan (Fiction)
- Time for some laughs
- I Wish I Were This Strong
- Want to gauge Trump’s fortunes? Look at Lindsey Graham
- A new temperature record, why hot years matter more than cold ones, and threat multipliers.
- Auction #15 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Defense Fund
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- The Art of Book Design: The Romance of the Sword
- 10C Above Normal
- Is no statue safe anymore?
- The spectacle of Republican cannibalism is always entertaining
- Loot 2
- Could people please stop reducing evolutionary phenomena to single, all-encompassing causes? Like, now?
- The Tulsa fiasco is the gift that keeps giving
- Seth Meyers excoriates Bolton and the failed capitalist system in the US
- A fitting climax to Trump’s very bad week
- Project Badgermascus – Part 3 – Polishing and Etching
- The Art of Book Design: Ruthie’s Story
- They Should Have Seen This Coming
- Primary races to watch on Tuesday
- Is there hope for November?
- Probably
- Resin Art: The Archipelago Necklace
- Handle It
- The gang that can’t shoot straight
- Great moments in driving
- Project Badgermascus – Part 2 – More Failure
- The Onion on the 15% of Americans who are just plain bonkers
- The Art of Book Design: The Lilac Fairy Book
- Trump’s no good, very bad, horrible week
- OK, Mother Iowa, maybe you could tone it down a bit?
- Catholic rabbit holes are the creepiest
- Hsu resigns his vice presidential appointment
- Wait, wait, wait…there are people who protest against Juneteenth?
- Schoolhouse Rock version of the formal end of slavery
- The 1921 Tulsa massacre
- Juneteenth, the movement cycle, and the long struggle for liberation.
- The Art of Book Design: Make Your Own Hats
- Trump reeling from two Supreme Court defeats
- Kids Being Brought Up in Abortion Debates
- As if we’ll now forget Galton and Pearson
- Chlamy masks from Chytridoodles
- Quench 2
- How to make a comedy show during the quarantine
- Dr Fauci has an insight
- This tells us a lot about the Trump White House
- We were not eaten by grues!
- Tell us something new, John
- Shown For What He Is: The racist is an ex-cop
- The Art of Book Design: The Prairie Farmer Horse Book
- Women Artists on Youtube – Sculptor
- Trump and Pence have to eat crow on Kaepernick
- Our adventure today: the Ecostation
- Nice art
- Look for the helpers: Hsu has some peculiar friends
- Profiling
- John Oliver on the dangers posed by facial recognition technology
- Why Did They Wait?: More companies are removing racist symbols
- Dead And Buried: Prince George’s Sandblast
- Advantages of Being an Atheist
- These people really, really hate the LGBT community
- Dave Rubin is a first class twit
- Officer Karen was victimized by the Hamburglar
- Stephen Hsu strikes back!
- The Art of Book Design: Flora’s Lexicon
- The Karen bestiary
- Guess who gets to go into the hospital this morning?
- “Death of the author” dies at age 53
- My first Pirate Spider
- More Welding
- Seth Meyers looks at the momentous changes taking place
- Jack’s Walk
- Operation: Dragon’s Breath
- Hachette Buried: The TERF’s book got trashed
- A disturbing collection of police abuses against protestors
- Brainwashed!
- Will Anybody Watch? : A last minute pride event for 2020
- The real terrorists
- When will we learn to do remote socializing?
- The Art of Book Design: Steep Trails
- Looking deeply into the Supreme Court’s LGBT opinion
- What did Satan do that was so bad?
- A baffling philosophical question
- Hsu is rightfully embattled — he shouldn’t have any authority
- 3 Strikes and You’re Far Out
- Monday Mailings: 15 June 2020
- I am Cassandra, Part 1: SCOTUS textualists read the text of the CRA!
- Newspaper film clichés
- A Guest At The Forge
- Big court win for LGBT community
- How do physicists get away with publishing this crap?
- The Art of Book Design: The Prophet of Martinique
- Sudden reversal on sports and patriotism
- Bolingbrook Weredog accused of attacking Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk (Fiction)
- We have too many important things to do all at once!
- Does anyone on FtB think Rowling has a point? No.
- Kent Hovind thinks he’s going to win a half billion dollars in a lawsuit
- The Scientific Method
- Bad Genetics
- Trump’s appeals for money get even more pathetic
- Black Lives Matter Protest Chelmsford
- RIP to Harry P fans, but…
- A writer’s perspective on primal instincts, human nature, and capitalism
- Violence-prone police
- To J.K. Rowling: A reply to your letter on transgender issues.
- Project Badgermascus – Part 1- Three Pieces of Steel, Two Kinds of Failure
- Bonsai Tree – Growing Fast
- The Art of Book Design: Jack Tenfield’s Star
- Trump has lost the plot on racism
- An immense honor!
- A Grafting Knife
- Snide and funny!
- Defining “Women” as “People who Menstruate”
- Is The Gender Critical Movement a Cult?
- In The Parking Lot
- White Supremacy and COVID-19 – some thoughts, and an excellent video from Mexie
- Time for some physics nerd humor
- Medicare for All right f***ing now motherf***ckers.
- The Art of Book Design: The Orange Fairy Book
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 22 – Second Evaluation
- Black Lives Matter: Picture’s from today’s rally
- Sarah Cooper exposes Trump’s incoherence
- Have a flower for your weekend
- Deliberately Chosen: Trump loves anniversaries as much as Al Qaeda
- I iz in Ur haus stealin’ Ur stuf. UPDATED.
- Riots and commemoration
- Appeals Court strikes blow against qualified immunity for police
- If you need further dissection of JK Rowling…
- Waste Not, Want Not: Both sides of the border (patrol)
- They’re afraid!
- Lazy day on the Pomme de Terre
- How “out” are you?
- What defunding the police means
- Primary races to watch
- Trump to hold rally in Tulsa – what could possibly go wrong?
- The Art of Book Design: The Dorcas Club, or Our Girls Afloat
- Review: Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020)
- Work!!?!
- Transphobic trolls are not tolerated here
- NYC pushing kinky COVID sex!
- Terry Crews talks about being black in the NFL
- Questions from Brother Kent Hovind
- Bobbin Lace – a Doily
- Mitt Romney and his father
- Pulled Over: Art from Woodrow White
- Her name is Larry
- Women Artisans on Youtube – Fabricator
- The Art of Book Design: The Cruise of the Albatross, or When Was Wednesday the Tenth?
- Paula Jean Swearengin wins Democratic primary for WV senate seat
- I’d forgotten that our state capitol even had a statue of Christopher Columbus
- Fly any flag you want at NASCAR! Maybe.
- Eww, ick, gross
- The Dune Experiment
- Police Violence: It Is Not Normal
- Dr. Jennifer McCreight on Gender Identity (Non-Fiction)
- I’m never gonna get my jaw up off the floor again
- Seth Meyers on Trump and the police reaction to the protests
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 21 – The Last Six Knives
- Interrogation of claims.
- How racism and injustice interfere with climate action
- The pandemic may be the death of the coal industry
- My precious!
- Suicidal Trolling
- The Art of Book Design: Starboard Lights
- If Sex is Real, How Come I Haven’t Had Any in Ages?
- The same old media misinformation story repeated in Bolivia
- I’m bustin’ out of this joint this morning
- The COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for charlatans on all sides
- The patient didn’t make it, doctor
- Link roundup: June 2020
- Powerful show on police brutality
- What kind of world? Global warming, extreme heat, and the shape of society
- Creationist bashing opportunity!
- Video analysis of what happened before Trump’s photo op
- What Might Post-Police Policing Look Like?
- Links to good causes
- COVID Chic!
- The Art of Book Design: Isles of the Sea, or Young American Homeward Bound
- Rats deserting the Trump ship
- You might want to skip this montage
- Can I be her when I grow up?
- Yay, Belgium!
- Lawless police
- I think I’ll just post pics and memes for a while
- Fundraising Update 1
- Jack’s Walk
- Now that really would be a heavenly place
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 20 – Three Finished Knives
- Examining racism in the Asian community
- Linux goal for the day: iMovie replacement!
- People who Menstruate: Or why the transphobic insistence on “women” is both creepy and wrong
- The Art of Book Design: Drifting Round the World
- Speaking of Dune
- Monday Mood
- Trump finally gets his wall – around the White House
- Let there be change at last
- Did he think he’d go to heaven?
- Hallelujah!
- Resin Update
- How old are the brown algae?
- Mayor Claar considers replacing Bolingbrook police with wereskunks (Fiction)
- The Voters Spoke: It’s time to go, Guo
- Seth Meyers on Trump’s authoritarianism
- Black Lives Matter: And what people here are doing about it
- Music Notes: Songs for Donald Trump’s birthday
- Music Notes: Birth and death notices
- Black Lives Matter Worldwide: From a not so small protest in a small place
- Cops Gone Wild
- I dislike holidays
- The Art of Book Design: Sailing Under Sealed Orders
- Breaking news: young white men…also bad
- Immoral Christianity: 2 – Inherited Blame
- The NFL abandons Trump. That has got to hurt
- True equality at last: white women are as bad as white men
- I shake my shaggy head at yet another creationist
- Trouble Keeping Up
- “We are living in a police state”
- I’m a backslider!
- How many stories are there like this?
- The Art of Book Design: The Olive Fairy Book
- How many abusive police does it take to make the police culture toxic?
- Writing About My Childhood Part 2
- An honest government ad from Down Under
- Seth Meyers on Trump’s deranged response to the George Floyd murder
- The mayor of Washington DC is on the ball
- The police killings continue
- So that’s what the University of Minnesota is doing in the fall?
- Magnetic Chuck for Grinding Bevels
- I also hate The Washington Post, reason #4,208,341
- Treacherous physicality
- Law and Order Are Not Intrinsically Good Things
- The Art of Book Design: Little Blue Book 145, Great Ghost Stories
- The police are often the problem, not the solution
- Yes. I need more limbs.
- Liberal Arts FTW!
- The police can no longer rely on extortion to get support
- Definitely a Bad Idea
- I hate the New York Times, reason #6,858,944.
- Support Your Favorite Indie Musicians
- Fiction: The Pumphouse
- The Expanding Colony
- Fake news is all over the place
- Reciprocity and social contracts.
- Twitter thread: police violence
- Your black colleagues are most probably not okay right now
- Pretend It Never Happened
- Women Artisans on Youtube – Resinator
- A must-see video from Hasan Minhaj
- How to recognize a fool
- I learned today that my county has spent a million dollars on a “mine resistant vehicle”
- The Art of Book Design: All Aboard for Sunrise Lands
- “Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide”
- The police are a mob of bullying cowards
- Blackheaded Cardinal Beetle
- Pinker parodies himself
- What Should I Do?
- Worse Than a Kick In The Nuts
- Guest Video: How did Bolingbrook survive this BLM protest? (Mixed)
- “I do not have the words” (Non-fiction)
- Mail-in voting
- A reply to Lenny Esposito of Come Reason
- Voices and images from the protests
- A Lawyer Talks About Lafayette Square Gassing
- A Fledgling Comes to Visit
- The only good cop is an ex cop
- A stroll across the street to the university
- The Art of Book Design: Waste Not, Want Not, and Other Stories
- Caught Out: If someone hears you, claim someone else said it
- The pandemic has not been the CDC’s finest hour
- Gas Chambers: ICE is HDQ Neutral Evil
- I have good news, and I have bad news
- Progress on Linux
- Some Numbers
- Good Morning, America! The sun is shining upon us!
- A useful video on riots
- Hiding behind a Bible: A statement from Jews for a Secular Democracy (Non-fiction)
- The Art of Book Design: The Forest Beyond the Woodlands
- “Conservative Novelties” is a Category Error
- Why there is so much police brutality in the US
- Looking for Linux advice
- Tree Tuesday
- Freddie Gray
- Kneel To Your King, America
- “Wie ein Hund” – Murder Imitates Art
- And Lo, I beheld a mighty hunter…
- George Floyd’s last words
- I am antifa.
- An Updeerte: To the Reh-scue
- Cashing a check that was past due
- I am antifa
- I Wonder: Who are the real terrorists?
- Of course he’s going to do the very worst thing for bringing peace
- More Fun With Resin
- The Art of Book Design: Ethel Morton’s Holidays
- Trying to understand the riots
- A little optimism, plus a little Ben Shapiro puncturing
- If this is restraint, just wait until the cops are unleashed
- More Adorable Fluffiness
- Space Force attacks Chicagoland UFO Bases and aliens (Fiction)
- Notes on Taking Responsibility and Apologizing
May 2020
- Guest post: Activism, ability, fear, and guilt
- Link debunking the hoaxes and misleading posts about the nationwide police brutality protests (Non-fiction)
- Don’t pretend you care about riots America.
- How to properly destroy businesses
- Here come the grooms
- The Art of Book Design: The Prattler
- Astronaut drops hammer and feather on the moon
- I threatened to start showing spiders here again
- If you’re unclear on who the enemy is…
- Realizing that I am the weird one
- Fawn-tastic
- I read popular physics: Quantum Steampunk
- Please Note: May 31 is World No Tobacco Day
- A TERF Turfed: Rowling is a three time loser this week
- Convergence postponed!
- This Ain’t Your Race War, Jackoffs
- Uh-oh, warning about future content
- How the very stable genius deals with crises
- The Whackening
- Tips for protesters/activists. Copy and share without attribution
- Great moments in driving
- What’s the Message, Here?
- Scientists team up with Kalaallit Inuit hunters to record foraging narwhals
- Even More Disappoint
- This Little Fellow Gave Me Quite a Start
- The Crimson Fairy Book
- Biff loses his office lease
- All right, that’s quite enough nonsense from you, 2020
- Bad news day.
- A video on the charges against George Floyd’s murderer
- What the hell?
- The murderer of George Floyd has been arrested and charged with murder
- Minneapolis police and Trump make a bad situation worse
- Writing About My Childhood: Bad vs. Good
- I wish I were that pretty
- The Art of Book Design: The Show Girl
- Corona Crisis Crafting XV: Gotta Craft Them All
- How my free time disappeared
- The racial profiling never ends
- Why Mars?
- Adorable Balls of Fluff
- It’s Finally Flower Season
- Justice only looks like chaos to the unjust
- 4.5 Questions for Alberta Health
- Living with nature is getting to Samantha Bee
- The aftermath of the George Floyd killing
- Sources: Village replacing furloughed workers with wereskunks (Fiction)
- Women Artisans on Youtube – Resin Crafting
- My name is not Ernst Haeckel
- You Can’t Spell: “Lysol drinker” without Lysenko
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 19 – Two Finished Knives
- The Art of Book Design: Lucky Penny of Thistle Troop
- Maybe the city deserves to burn
- Horned Creatures
- The mystery surrounding the world’s longest-lived person
- A politician finally asks the obvious question
- The Myth of Quarantine Loneliness
- I’m getting whacked!
- My requirements for a future home have just shot upwards
- I can really empathize with Henry
- A video on George Floyd
- 2020 AAS Virtual Summer Symposium
- The silent Trump supporters who are no longer that silent
- They Lied: “Marriage equality” is a sham and a shambles
- Fundraising Target Number 1
- The Mystery of the Old Gazebo
- Music Rules: It’s Bruce Cockburn’s birthday and career anniversary
- When delusion meets reality: Taking the mantle of Sisyphus to avoid the road of Mad Max
- The Art of Book Design: Little Sunshine’s Holiday
- How big name companies aid and abet global corruption
- POLICE VIOLENTLY RIOT IN MINNEAPOLIS!
- Yeah, but was it a radioactive spider?
- An Adorable Little Spider
- So Much Disappoint
- Joke overload
- Quick followups
- Pipe Dreams: 44 terabits per second
- Horrifying cases of racism
- They Suffered Silently: College sports and the medical perversion
- Don’t Pay To Vote: Ron Dysentery’s vote rigging failed
- Rats Nest: Could New York be a lab test for the US?
- Tree Tuesday
- ACAB. Always ACAB.
- But Amy Cooper is a racist
- The long-lasting effects of institutionalized racism
- Psychologists don’t really believe that, do they?
- Corona Crisis Crafting XIV: More Masks
- Another Commission, Part 3
- Marissa Explains It All #10 – Guilt Trip Meme-orial Day
- What’s the Plan?
- A fun party exercise illustrates a mathematics theorem
- Water: scary stuff
- The Art of Book Design: Everything for the Garden
- At least I’m not the oldest and fartiest old fart around
- What? The History Channel is showing history?
- The Biden problem
- Beautiful Buntings
- When I die, I want to be reincarnated as a ROV
- Covid-19 Update: How are you?
- Humans
- The manifestations and results of American “leadership”
- Another Commission, Part 2
- So what’s the catch, Donald?
- It’s a spider, but it’s too cute not to share
- Mimosas!
- The Art of Book Design: The Admiral’s Little Companion
- Building slack into systems
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 35 – The Elusive Socialism
- Buttons and threads, or how to achieve criticality in a non-linear fashion
- They aren’t wrong at all
- It’s Payback Time
- Climate change, mental health and green spaces
- Related to the non-literal language post.
- Is Coughing on People Assault?
- Another inspector general replaced by a crony
- Back to the spider grind
- The Blue Fairy Book
- Everything is now part of the culture wars
- The Proselytising Thread
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 18 – Etching
- We’re all going to come out of this with new phobias
- Since you asked, the cat is fine
- Modern comic book history, in 3 minutes
- How do you know when you are old?
- Well ‘thoughts’ aren’t an option, so.
- Behold: The Unbender!
- The other shoe drops in the Armaud Arbery killing
- Another Commission
- The art of Book Design: Riding for Ladies
- Playing catch-up for a bit
- How and why the word ‘populism’ was made into a pejorative
- Fungi Friday
- Recipe: Sorrel Soup
- Today’s itinerary: Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota
- The controversial VW ad
- The double reversals of Jane Roe
- Non-literal language.
- Video: A useful discussion of Planet of the Humans
- Well, Poo II – The Pooening
- The Art of Book Design: Athens, The Violet-Crowned
- Solitude and loneliness
- A better plan than what I’m hearing from my university
- Lifeless In Seattle: A totally real record of really real press conferences conducted by the Trump Administration
- Jack’s Walk
- Seth Meyers on Trump’s use of hydroxychloroquine
- Trump likes me, he really likes me!
- Making Kitchen Knives – Interlude 3 – Knifemakers Do Not Make Mistakes…
- The Art of Book Design: Adopting an Abandoned Farm
- The time may be right for universal basic income
- Women Artisans on Youtube – Carpenter once more
- The Panspermia Mafia strikes again!
- A Delicate Wildflower
- Recipe: Spicy Green Bean Curry
- I Made a Thing!
- Sports in the age of pandemics
- Whoa…Norma McCorvey confesses that it was all an act
- Reusing masks
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 17 – Watching the Paint dry
- TNET 39: Jelle’s Marble Runs
- Tree Tuesday
- What about aliens?
- The Super Duper Missile
- The Art of Book Design: Two Boys in Beaver-land
- ‘Just deserts’ or ‘Just desserts’?
- Proud Boys reveal their true character
- The nicest grocery store in the universe
- The bigotry exception to anonymizing.
- Cooking with Escher: A Practical Solution to a Geometric Problem
- He’s lying
- My first Raspberry Pi
- Hasan Minhaj on the rent problem caused by the pandemic
- Corona Crisis Crafting XII: Revenge of the Sewing Machine
- Losing a friend
- The Art of Book Design: Magnolias Abloom, and Other Stories
- My unpaid job as cat furniture
- The problem with videochats
- Not my usual welcome
- Alien calls God ‘evil” at Clow UFO Base’s COVID-19 Memorial service (Fiction)
- I made it to Colorado!
- Addendum: “I’ll Just Drill It While It’s Red Hot”
- British Hypocrisy on Trump
- Fred Willard (1933-2020)
- How stuff spreads through contact
- She Escaped: Amy Dyess talks about the cult of TERFdom
- Immoral Christianity: 1 – Collective Blame
- Well, Poo
- The Art of Book Design: The Rose Colored World, and Other Fantasies
- The essence of Trump
- How Doctors Harm their Patients by Prescribing Placebos
- Samantha Bee becomes a robot
- Let’s Remember: Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- Bigots Turfed And Trashed: May 17 is IDAHoBiT
- Hoarding is my ultimate boss in Animal Crossing
- The Art of Book Design: The Brown Fairy Book
- Ugly behavior
- I puked on Evolutionary Psychology before it was cool to puke on Evolutionary Psychology
- Another inspector general fired
- GRADES ARE DONE!
- I disagree with the stated ambiguity, but OK
- Whistleblower’s testimony to Congress
- Thanks to Trump, the world now looks at the US with pity
- Do you despise Elon Musk as much as I do?
- The Art of Book Design: Lorraine and the Little People of Summer
- Hey, that’s exactly how I see recent protesters
- What about the fall?
- NOLA sanitation workers in second week of protests, as the capitalists running the U.S. work to break an unofficial general strike
- Conspiratorial obsessions in the US
- By the way…
- British Feminism: I Want ma Nanny and ma Cleaner!!!!
- Imagine that on your CV
- Obamagate
- I have become a global trendsetter/lifestyle guru/influencer!
- Marshrooms?
- How do you feel about ghosts?
- Genetics…almost done!
- Breaking news! White guy runs on street carrying a TV – and nothing happens
- Urban gardening as part of the change we need
- Facebook moderators win PTSD case
- A Simple Knife Stand
- The Art of Book Design: The Story of a Dream
- Women Artisans on Youtube – Carpenter
- The different forms of fascism
- Today is the day
- You Tell Me
- Poetry Book Update
- Tummy Thursday: About that Allspice…
- The fascinating life of mussels
- Jack’s Walk
- The elites are always first in line to get government handouts
- Wednesday Wings: Quackdate
- An exciting morning at the doctor’s!
- The Art of Book Design: The Kind Adventure
- Modern forms of wage slavery
- How do the clowns that support unpopular policies continue to get elected?
- CIA Exceptionalism
- The Art of Book Design: Boy Holidays in the Louisiana Wilds
- The US postal service is a treasure that must be saved
- Bobbin Lace: Roses are…
- Trump is really losing it
- My university? Cool.
- Ecofascism, neo-Malthusianism and COVID-19
- The mysterious video of the jogger’s murder
- The beginning of the end
- I didn’t need the ad to know I have to vote for Biden next fall
- A Tale Of Boxes
- Jack’s Walk
- Testing for me but not for thee
- The Art of Book Design: That Rock Garden of Ours
- Mind. Blown.
- How the bizarre Venezuelan ‘Bay of Piglets’ plot fell apart
- Toure Reed: What Ta-Nehisi Coates got wrong about the New Deal
- Bolingbrook residents see apparitions of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (Fiction)
- In case you’d like to name names responsible for the COVID-19 disaster
- Satire during a pandemic (Non-fiction)
- The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, featuring the late Little Richard
- Gardenscaping: Where the Solution of one Problem Creates Three Equally Interesting Ones
- This is not good
- The great turkey battle
- A bit of radio-silence
- On the Fiction that is Capitalist Pricing
- Uncommon Sense: Scorecards
- The Art of Book Design: Bob Knight’s Diary, Camping Out
- Link roundup: May 2020
- A Remarkably Good Richard Dawkins
- A tale of three cities
- Happy Mother’s Day!
- Expressing hate and disgust on facebook. The consequences of Trump’s behavior.
- Little Richard (1932-2020)
- A Little Vent About a Nearby Small Town
- Governor Approved: Why Ahmoud Arbery was murdered with impunity
- Forced Participation Sucks: Sunday is just another day
- Some quarantine humor
- The Damage Religion Does: Little Richard, 1932-2020
- Don’t Believe Everything You Read
- Give it up, Ray
- The danger of sampling error
- The real Lord of the Flies
- The Art of Book Design: The Grey Fairy Book
- I’m afraid to even mention “Plandemic”
- As usual, the system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and against the poor
- Alas, poor Amtor
- Body Bags
- Every news report on the economy
- Anyone want a cat?
- Political pejoratives.
- Here it comes: Armed black groups in response to armed white groups
- Answers to ‘Ten Questions For Pro-Choice People’: Part 4
- The Art of Book Design: The Witness of the Stars
- This image has been photoshopped
- My summer fantasy
- Bay of Piglets
- If the virus were the size of dinosaurs, maybe people would appreciate the danger
- Jacob Wohl rides again!
- A Measly $55mn
- Embarrassingly Incompetent Politicians
- Lynching Without Punishment
- Seth Meyers on Trump’s lack of empathy
- “Should We Hang Graham Linehan?”, a Defence of Free Inquiry
- Covid-19 trends for the US and UK are not encouraging
- Teacher’s Corner: About Home Office and Assorted People you Have to Deal With
- Kate Brown is Killing It
- Women Artisans on Youtube – Bladesmith
- Can we petition to have everyone who says the word “god” punished?
- Shame Sometimes Works: How to make a corrupt government act
- The Art of Book Design: Christopher Cricket on Cats
- Nomiki Konst on how the movement can keep its power
- Will no one point out that hosting rogue mercenary outfits is bad?
- Trump is desperately trying to hide his failures
- The ‘elites’ will be fine, the merely competent will suffer
- The Forge Guest Report
- Georgia suspends driver’s license tests
- Heeding warnings, and proactive responses to climate change: megadroughts
- Blowing Bubbles
- The criminal US criminal (in)justice system
- The Duoro Valley – Part 5
- Michelle Malkin still has a fanbase? And it’s enhanced by including Milo?
- I probably shouldn’t send this to my daughter
- Lynching is legal, says Georgia DA
- Interview With The Artist
- From the Annals of Dubious History
- Climate change, disease, solidarity, and learning from from the Global South
- Trump’s absurd town hall
- BiNet USA, Bisexual Pride Flag and the questionable Petition
- All Things Must Pass: It’s time for Duterte to leave
- Jack’s Walk
- The dark side of coffee
- Tree Tuesday
- Need to visit my doctor more often
- The Art of Book Design: Two Young Lumbermen
- Wait And See: I’m not getting my hopes up yet
- Oh, Bother: The new Xinnie the Pooh flag
- Shop Update
- I have a doctor’s appointment today?
- The white supremacist coup of 1898
- Behold! The Face of God!
- Amazon employees with courage
- Interview With The Abyss
- Animal crossing, and confronting mental health in the face of DOOM
- The coronavirus testing fiasco
- Another professor embarrasses the professoriate
- James Joyce and Ulysses
- Nothing Changed: Fifty years after the Kent State mass murder
- A good start
- Why Late-Term Abortions Must Be Legal and Easily Accessible
- Corruptin’ the Youth
- A good project for my downtime
- Classic orb
- The Art of Book Design: Pictures from Bohemia
- Anti-China rhetoric escalates
- “Cowboys”
- The Douro Valley – Part 4
- Village of Bolingbrook slashes covert budget (Fiction)
- My Daily Reminder We are in BizzaroLand
- I only find out now about this?
- I’m making things.
- Malignant Manipulation
- The White House boasts of its ‘successes’ in combating the pandemic
- What’s your circle look like?
- OMG! I’m caught up in one class!
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- The Art of Book Design: The Morning Song
- NASA or Nasa? NATO or Nato? Dealing with acronyms
- I knew all along that Lio was a good kid
- Answers to ‘Ten Questions For Pro-Choice People’: Part 3
- Some Action in The Forge
- Samantha Bee the bird lover
- You should read this book, and the audio version is free.
- Answers to ‘Ten Questions For Pro-Choice People’: Part 2
- I Don’t Need To Speak
- Fox News and Trump’s love affair with hydroxychloroquine seems to have ended
- The Mysterious Allure of Spider Sauce
- The Art of Book Design: The Yellow Fairy Book.
- Corona Crisis Crafting XI: Resin Rulez
- IMPORTANT: do not learn anatomy from reddit or twitter
- Property values in Alex Jones’ neighborhood must be plummeting
- Hoo boy, the Discovery Institute is pathetic
- The miraculous oil producing Bible
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 16 – Human-knife Interface
- More Snapmixes
- The Truth Laid Bare: It was corporations all along
- Not a good day
- Seth Meyers update on the news
- Falling collections by religious institutions
- How much do you know about May Day and the Labor Movement?
- The Art of Book Design: The Justice of the King
- Origami: Lens tessellation
- Sometimes, you need a little poetry
- Friday Feathers: Adorafluffballs
- It’s May Day, and you know what that means…
- What China did to control the coronavirus
- The Douro Valley – Part 3
- More Fun With Resin
- My poetry book will be released next year!
- How did I end up with such cute grandkids?
April 2020
- Samantha Bee on why we need to save the postal service
- Yeesh, but anti-choicers are terrible people
- Help me crash a poll (Non-fiction)
- When it comes to Congress’s health care, money is no problem
- Bring me…a shrubbery!
- The game of “could be worse!”
- Compatibilism versus biologicalism on the free will question
- YouTube Video: Medieval Material Culture – Quality: Then vs Now
- Update and a funny video of a man making bad decisions
- A disgusting, but effective, analogy
- Failure II – the Failing
- This is not a photo of a spider
- Discrimination: I Don’t Want to be as Bad as Them
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: At the Foot of the Rainbow
- The Douro Valley – Part 2
- Televangelist has request for people attending his video services
- Best river monster ever!
- The Manchurian tangerine has a cunning plan to undermine the American military
- Capitalism is not the core philosophy of evolution
- The competition for lithium-ion battery technology
- I’m sorry, I got sucked into a vortex last night
- About $150 Million Short
- From 2009
- Seth Meyers is back
- TV mini-series review: Unorthodox (2020)
- He lost: Ordidor and the perdedor
- The Art of Book Design: The Silences of the Moon
- What a surprise! Big companies got most of the stimulus money meant for small businesses
- More serious analysis of online conferencing, please. It’s our future.
- We get letters: Pandemic Prose (Fiction)
- You can go too far for Fox News
- I Believe Tara Reade
- Signs that the right is losing the culture wars
- The Onion predicted Trump’s disinfectant insanity
- Corona Crisis Crafting X: Masks
- She’s taunting me!
- The Douro Valley, Part 1
- Fail Hard
- Basic epidemic math
- How I Started to Hate Pink Color
- I have found the public equivalent to my cat’s secret vomit swamp
- I’m totally losing it
- Uh-oh, I am on Trump’s mailing list
- Australian rules
- Influences and Inspiration as an Artist
- The What It Is
- Opera short takes
- Mexie’s points about capitalism and disability apply to human society as a whole.
- Morning spider survey
- Introduction: Method
- Broken culture
- The Art of Book Design: The Boy Captain
- The Tao: Chapter 56 – Mysteries of Power
- The utter garbage going around social media
- Sobering news about universities
- SNL is also blessed with easy targets
- Mommy and Me “Book of Eyes”
- The anti-Trump anthem we all need right now
- Donald Trump is America’s first African president
- Never mind me
- The Art of Book Design: The Pink Fairy Book
- The danger of being too much of a yes man
- Answers to ‘Ten Questions For Pro-Choice People’: Part 1
- Are you fascinated with the things that scare you?
- Loyalty Test: The flu klux klan are like child soldiers
- Fake Out: Fake product, fake president
- More Blitzed: Opium
- Thinking Forward to Sunday
- Samantha Bee on PPEs
- Video: No California doesn’t have ‘herd immunity’ to COVID-19 (Non-fiction)
- The ECDC Data, Differences in Data Sets & Reporting, and a Possible Death Rate Resurgence
- A message from Snowy the Bolingbrook COVID-19 Skunk (Fiction)
- The idiot president floats more dangerous ideas
- How to explain to someone that they’re wrong?
- Always a Complainer
- This year’s Spelling Bee cancelled
- Is a Homemade Face Mask Better Than Nothing?
- The compost bins are coming alive!
- The Humanist’s Devotional
- The Art of Book Design: The Woods Rider
- Birx, That Blood Won’t Come Off
- The strange world of futures contracts
- I read popular physics: The Milky Way
- The NYTimes is just Fox News in a slightly less shiny suit
- My daughter’s favorite color is pink.
- Irradiate yourself and drink poison, that’ll cure COVID-19
- What it will take to reopen the country again
- If any of my blog posts are bad, it’s because of climate change making my brain not think good.
- Damn, That Stings
- Stresses On a Blade
- Play On: This is getting surreal
- It’s so vindicating to see the kinds of people who oppose simple rules for public health
- Who is that masked man?
- Update on the Nova Scotia massacre
- YouTube Video: DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION – Film and TV weapons
- Worshipped And Disposed Of: It’s not just for the military
- I Laughed: “missing american leadership”
- The Art of Book Design: The Laughing Bear
- Clue to matter domination in universe may lie in CP violation detected in neutrinos
- Cronyism
- UPDATE: We got the seedling!
- A New Effort
- Don’t we all feel like Guard 2 sometimes?
- Roy Zimmerman Does It Again
- Some Fun
- I went for a walk in the sunshine!
- Why not ask his why his god did not save them?
- Wednesday Wings: a Eurasian Blackcap, or how Sexism is Just Plain Stupid
- Shocking: Muslim call to prayer broadcast on the streets of Minneapolis!
- Jack’s Walk
- Hey, USA! How are those death Projections?
- The Art of Book Design: The Lost Princess of Oz
- Natural coronavirus experiments in Trump country
- Minnesota has its own nest of plague profiteers!
- How do you explain the concept of gender to kids?
- A Dangerous, Irresponsible, Claim
- Politely ending a conversation
- Will Anyone Notice: Earth Day during the pandemic
- An Account Told: Life inside a plastic bubble
- Immediately Punished: The consequences were swift
- In Kentucky, umbrellas are considered more dangerous than guns
- There are more important things than living?
- Capitalism, feudalism, and plagues: Another Wolff take
- And Blue
- Sit and Watch: The History Guy talks about virology
- Tree Tuesday
- Wow, somebody sure dropped that mic with a stunning boom
- The Art of Book Design: True Bird Stories
- Tighten your belts!
- Here a Chick, There a Chick…
- How racism in the US became institutionalized after slavery ended
- Spinning Box experiment
- Distract yourselves with pretty moving pictures!
- News from the hinterlands of despair
- Do you support religious charities if they’re doing good work?
- The Beginning of An End
- Sources of aid for those who need it, 4th edition
- John Oliver on coronavirus misinformation
- Incompetence Shown: The CDC’s COVID-19 test kits were tainted
- Even during a pandemic some politicians must be transphobic
- Coronavirus news has swamped even mass shootings
- Yellow 2
- Cornell West and Richard Wolff talk about Capitalism and White Supremacy
- Spider game!
- The Art of Book Design: Gardens Near the Sea
- How nations and US states are faring in combating the pandemic
- Aliens killed by COVID-19 while protesting stay at home order (Fiction)
- Urgent note to the warden
- In The Midst of Bad There is Always Someone Who Wants to Make It Worse
- Forgiveness
- What we can learn from the great flu pandemic of 1918
- Common daisies and a common mutt make for an uncommonly pretty picture
- Math Rules: A simpler Quadratic Equation
- Mandatory Happy Fun Times Frog
- I’m alive
- The Art of Book Design: When Life is Young
- Is it time to openly suggest that Donald Trump is insane?
- Sunday Sermon: Not So Good For A Dry Run
- I don’t understand the bible.
- How to make a stone so heavy that you can’t lift it
- How to Reduce the Amount of (Plastic) Waste You Produce
- The story behind a viral photograph
- Bigotry, language, and apologies: building solidarity across social divides
- The Art of Book Design: The Green Fairy Book
- The rich are different from you and me
- Protesters: think about what you are protesting for
- LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW STUFF
- Are my atheist memes and posts on Facebook annoying?
- Propagandists Lie: Two of Beijing’s sock puppets in Washington
- Bobbin Lace – an Orchid
- Syntax and Science Writing
- Making a face mask at home
- Sources Named: Who I quote and why
- Factorial experiments
- Sri Lanka goes back to the future
- We’re always buried in books & papers, why are you complaining now?
- The Art of Book Design: The Living Mummy
- David Brooks is still writing columns?
- False negatives in coronavirus testing
- Mission accomplished
- “Wholesome” TV – My Guilty Pleasure
- Resin Composite – 2
- The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: How Consumer Demand for Convenience Increases Food Waste
- Why the mask?
- Quarantine Borders: Island life saves lives
- Ready to venture into the apocalyptic wasteland
- It should be no surprise why Covid-19 is hurting poor and minority communities more
- Skepticon will be online
- There For All To See: The corruption was predictable
- People To Note: Chen Shih-Chung and Audrey Tang
- Restraint Shown: How different people are responding
- How specialized supply chains are resulting in shortages
- Whom I Met on my Walk
- Arguments for and against free will
- CFI has learned nothing
- Food waste and carbon sequestration – plucking the low-hanging fruit of climate action
- Do these people know pro wrestling is fake?
- The zombies have finally risen
- The Purpose of Prayer
- Another Resin Composite
- Tummy Thursday: Zucchini Cake
- If Donald Trump had been the captain of the Titanic
- Trump is increasingly behaving like a cornered wild animal
- Human fuel for the capitalist fire.
- The Art of Book Design: Her Royal Highness, Woman
- The iridescence is pretty, anyway
- AAaaaaAaargh
- Conspiracy theories in a time of crisis
- Pandemics and stuff and glimmers of hope
- I am currently buried in class prep
- The Importance of Evidence and Common Sense
- It’s Unseemly To Gloat At Someone’s Death
- A very stable genius discusses combating the pandemic
- Jack’s Walk
- Alex Gabriel needs our help (Non-fiction)
- Voter suppression efforts in Wisconsin backfired
- Etching In Oak Bark
- Space Force raids both Bolingbrook Meijer stores (Fiction)
- The Art of Book Design: Knocking Round the Rockies
- The dysfunctional White House response to the pandemic
- Ignoramus telling scientist how science works
- Can Minnesota please join your club?
- A Cute Poem for My Daughter
- Corona Crisis Crafting IX: Restoring my Earrings
- Different Responses to a Global Pandemic
- Crisis, workers, and the absurd capitalist fantasy of endless growth
- Another excellent show from John Oliver
- Jinkies!
- I’m Glad Pandemic Modeling Isn’t My Job
- Quarantine Reading
- Sports addictions during the pandemic
- Let’s Remember: John Conway, 1937-2020
- A Joke
- Thank You For Your Service
- The Art of Book Design: What Can a Woman Do? Her Position in the business and Literary World
- Can capitalism survive the pandemic?
- Birds-foot trefoil
- Welcome to real skepticism
- Kids’ games these days
- Adventures in creative graphing
- Watch party on 30 April!
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 8 – Pests, Pets, Partners & Posterity
- The Two-Party Maneuever
- Tom Hanks hosted Saturday Night Live from his home
- Introducing slow streets
- Kites Arrived
- The Art Of Book Design: A Warning to Lovers
- Surprise: Women are safer drivers
- If I wrote this in a recommendation…
- Do economists have even more hubris than physicists?
- The Desperate Acts, part 2: “It’s only racism when it’s me!”
- The great toilet paper shortage explained
- Vote for the lesser of two dotards
- Sure, it’s Easter
- How many more atheists feel alone?
- Auction #12 and #13 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Read, Think, Act: The Great Pause
- Feminism Saves Men’s Lives
- Dealing with addictions during lockdowns
- Provided with toys and spider scouting for boys
- The Art of Book Design: The Red Fairy Book
- Maybe Someone Should Celebrate?
- Coffee and caffeine and addiction
- The one kids’ show I would have watched the heck out of
- Is there a symbol that represents atheism?
- I Approve This Message
- Jesus christ, the man is an idiot
- Seth Meyers on the news
- “The broad shape of the story is the same”: Climate denial and the COVID-19 response
- Understanding the Covid-19 virus
- Game On: Tomorrow is baseball’s opening day!
- Let the grifting begin!
- Wilfully Blind: Indonesia is next
- The Results are in….
- The Desperate Acts: When your competence is questioned, claim racism
- One Theory to rule them all
- Tummy Thursday: Go Frothy and Multiply
- Link Roundup: April 2020
- A patron hangout on Sunday
- The coronavirus will create many natural experiments
- If you think David Frum will change people’s minds, think again
- I miss our library.
- You see, Roosevelt could have been a greater president
- Toilet Paper
- Racial justice, climate change, and COVID-19
- Fiasco!
- Verdi’s Aida (2018)
- The gift of Easter
- The Art of Book Design: The Litttle Lady of the Horse
- The role of YouTube in spreading coronavirus and other hoaxes
- Didier Raoult, pretentious git
- Vertebrate paleontology just won’t be the same
- My Little Girl’s Curls
- A Bit More on Nuclear Espionage
- A Bit of Hippo Silliness
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The Flowers and Gardens of Japan
- Bernie Sanders ends campaign
- Solitude Soothes: The upside of isolation and quarantine
- Nothin’ but bad news today
- Music Rules: Time for a filk song
- Steamed Up: Reusing masks is possible
- The “nobody could have predicted” excuse blows up
- I am impressed with their thorough analysis of butts & poop
- My Appreciation for Modern Medicine
- Even better than hydroxychloroquine!
- I Admit I Had Not Considered This Important Issue
- Credit where credit is due
- Neimoller Revisited: In Wisconsin
- REMAIN INDOORS and welcome to The Quiz Broadcast!
- Why does this job still exist?
- “It is better not to have the country run by sociopaths”
- Word Plays: Making light of the morally empty
- They aren’t even trying to hide the hypocrisy anymore
- Challenging the pandemic skeptics
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 7 – Styles, Sizes and Composition
- Let Hyperinflation Commence: Cheetolini’s previous financial crimes were peanuts compared to this
- Spider search…accomplished!
- Tree Tuesday
- The Art of Book Design: Mother Owl
- Can I quarantine myself in Queensland?
- Etching: A Question
- Working out
- Spirals. It’s always spirals.
- Coronavirus and ventilators
- It’s the 15th Annual Paul Nelson Day celebration!
- Is COVID-19 being over-diagnosed? (Non-Fiction) (Video)
- Republicans using death threats to disenfranchise Wisconsin
- Bible Stories in Childhood
- Alien reporters flock to Chicagoland (Fiction)
- Waiguoren, Where Are You Going?: People aren’t very welcoming lately
- John Oliver on Trump’s new favorite propaganda outlet
- Smokers Gasp: The world just might go Cold Turkey
- Vetch
- Can haz spider time?
- The ‘nobody knew’ and ‘everybody believed’ phase of evading responsibility
- Jared Kushner, slumlord millionaire
- Viral dumping ground
- Soothing
- What are other parents telling their kids about COVID-19?
- US COVID-19 Death Rate: Understanding a link
- Corona Crisis Crafting VIII: The Dragon Egg
- The living world around us is on the move
- Gender Anarchy
- Music nostalgia
- The Art of Book Design: My Lady Barefoot; A Story for Girls
- How Czechia Flattened the Curve (Maybe, Hopefully)
- Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers (2017)
- I am ashamed to make this suggestion
- Who is paying for this “service”?
- Sunday Sermon: Watch the Birdie
- Doing the right thing saves lives
- Europe was central to the spread of Covid-19
- We live in a country where Joe Rogan’s dumbass opinions are valued
- Are theoretical results ‘Results’?
- Are you proud of your atheist culture?
- How fucked is the USA? A COVID-19 DeathSplainer.
- My Politics Right Now (and My Shallow Thoughts on Anarcho-Communism)
- Famesplaining celebrities
- The differential impact of this crisis on women
- Andrew Lloyd Webber to stream his musicals for free
- Quarantine and domestic violence: Reporting and resources
- The Art of Book Design: The Violet Fairy Book
- Trump fires inspector general who passed whistleblower complaint on to Congress
- Saturday afternoon creature feature? Sure!
- Atheism and the Arts: Recommendations Please!
- ‘Walking Disaster’ review: Chapter Twelve
- Heaven’s Vault, Disco Elysium
- There is no vaccine or cure for willful ignorance and stupidity
- Visit a museum!
- Rooting for Australian arthropods in amber
- As much coronavirus stuff as I can stand
- What Remains After
- I Done Did A Streamin’!
- Check on your single friends!
- Seth Meyers gives a news update
- The Numbers Are In: 10.6% of people are left handed
- Zoom bombing: Another example of why we cannot have nice things
- Sources of aid for those who need it, 3rd edition
- There are laws about this kind of congregatin’
- The Art of Book Design: Tales of Chekhov, The Witch and Other Stories
- Bill Withers has died
- Life in China during the quarantine
- Maybe I’ll banhammer someone live on video!
- The whole US system of government is broken
- The Virus (Quarantine Poetry)
- Capitalism Makes Markets More Efficient For Those In The Market
- Corona Crisis Crafting VII: Finally Finishing a UFO
- Invertebrate Shown: Just watch this worm wriggle
- Just Watch: 60 Minutes Australia has broadcast a damning report
- The Importance of Having Soft Tissues
- Creature Feature: The Great Outdoors
- Trump should really get out more
- Signs of social tension
- Excuses Excuses: The three false arguments sports teams use to keep racist nicknames
- Jesus is going to kill us all
- Debunking the myth of Wall Street’s importance
- Good And Bad To Tell: Two short tidbits
- YouTube Video: I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike
- The Art of Book Design: Three Days
- Paintbrush Dolls
- The perpetrators will be punished
- Just what we need, religious crackpots influencing coronavirus policy
- Got kids? Need an educational coloring book?
- Michael Egnor agrees with me, I’m having a panic attack
- Just wanted to say thank you for your comments!
- The Saga Of the Red Resin Bowl
- Time Wasted: Not making good use of a holiday
- Mountains and Dreams
- PSA from Larry David to all the idiots out there
- All is Well
- Running the Gauntlet: COVID-19, Climate Change, and the Future
- Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (2007)
- Yesterday was International Transgender Day of Visibility
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter One, Part Four
- Even wealthy people can be crackpots
- Idiot preacher arrested and charged for violating distancing guidelines
- Jack’s Walk
- Another perk for my Patreon patrons
- Origami: Waterbomb Curve
- An Illicit History: The Neoliberal Implosion
- Arming the left
- It Should Always Be: In 2018, easter was on April first
- An Adorable Highwire Act
- April Fools day has been cancelled due to coronavirus concerns
- Ohio’s Weather and My Thirst for Knowledge
- Hell Is A Ship
- It’s Time for the Atlanta Braves to Change
- Stay Home Save Lives (Non-fiction)
March 2020
- China is sending medical supplies to the US
- Happy International Day of Trans Visibility!
- With Head Held High: March 31st is International Transgender Day of Visibility
- I made a video for the Trans Day of Visibility
- It Went Over Well: Quarantine-o-we’en is massively popular
- Seth Meyers talks to Bernie Sanders
- You Have To Laugh: Collected quarantine humour
- Eating in the Age of COVID-19
- The Invisible Queer
- A Few Podcasts of Interest for Overwhelmed Creators
- Understanding exponential growth during the pandemic
- Tree Tuesday
- The Art of Book Design: A Summer in the Apple Tree Inn
- The Art of Book Design: Forest Friends
- Corona Crisis Crafting: Smoll Things
- Trump has exposed the soft underbelly of American politics and institutions
- Oh, it’s ironic union-busting
- The Finished Little Horse(s)
- How not to celebrate the Trans Day of Visibility
- The Quiz Broadcast REMAIN INDOORS Episode 3
- Still working on my pop addiction…
- Interest
- The pinnacle of my day
- This book is essential to understanding the world right now.
- I Had Wondered About That
- Last Week Tonight on the crisis
- The new politeness was the old rudeness
- Richard Wolff on COVID-19, #metoo, and the capitalist system
- It Depends: Does who’s talking make a difference?
- How to Shop Safely During the Pandemic
- Denies further magnets
- Spring? Spring!
- The Art of Book Design: Waste Not Want Not Stories
- TNET 38 – Brooklyn 99
- Physicists!
- Lawyers and self-importance go together like a slime & maggot sandwich
- When Copyright Infringement Makes Artists Feel Like Shit
- Why the mainstream media hates Sanders though he is the leader we need right now
- Monday Mercurial: Kitty Kitty
- I may have made a small mistake
- Something Silly from the Quarantine
- Bolingbrook cracks down on weredogs’ cannabis home delivery service (Fiction)
- What was your tipping point?
- Copyright Issues and Redress
- Hand washing getting repetitive?
- Sources of aid for those who need it, version 2
- Using the word ‘irony’
- Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
- Coronavirus cases dashboard
- Don’t steal from artists, people. How is this hard to get?
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 6 – Where to get your first tree
- ‘Tis The Time For Poe
- After the Showers Come the Spring Flowers
- Trump campaign threatens to sue to stop ad about his virus response
- Billionaires. Christ.
- Dating Partners of Different Faiths
- Guess Work: 3Blue1Brown also looks at pandemics
- In Which Another Fictional Woman is Stuffed Into the Fridge and I Rant About It
- Staying at work, staying at home
- I know what I’m doing tonight
- Socialism And Capitalism
- Post-mortem for the Elizabeth Warren campaign
- A message for Americans about seeing troops in the streets
- If You Need Something To Do: It’s Quarantineowe’en!
- You Have To Laugh: A coping mechanism for COVID-19
- 100% of profits from “essential businesses” during this pandemic should go to the workers who’re actually at risk
- Art Theft Stinks: Blam’s Coon Are Stinky Art Thieves who Disrespect Copyrights
- When It Happened Before: An NIH paper on historical epidemics
- The challenges of suddenly teaching online
- The Art of Book Design: The Springtime of Life, poems of childhood
- Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from?
- Does well-educated mean less religious?
- Reduced blog output
- A very thin line separates being diplomatic from being a sycophant
- It’s Saturday?
- Masked and Anonymous
- Jack’s Walk
- Let’s Learn German Slang
- Capitalism, COVID-19, and Collective Action
- And now for something lighter…
- Friday Cephalopod: Blinking lights! Wings! It’s an alien spacecraft!
- Maybe Mexico will build that wall
- The University of Rochester gets stomped hard for sexual harassment, deservedly
- A Walnut Collecting Thingamajig
- We’re #1!
- One among a multitude.
- Corona Crisis Crafting VI: A Dragon Needs a Tower
- The Art of Book Design: Witchcraft and Sorcery
- The stimulus package has conditions to stop Trump and his family from benefiting
- It’s time to shut down The Federalist
- I’d never heard of Ralph Drollinger before
- Let it be known
- Experiments With Resin
- Segmented Glass
- Everyone is coming together to do their part
- Dark Clouds Over Toledo
- What would ordinary people get from the stimulus bill and when?
- Corvid-19 cartoon and an update: Organizing/strike post will go up Friday evening
- Marissa Explains It All #9 – Hotel Life During the Quarantine
- Samantha Bee’s show is back on the air
- Grocery shopping during the pandemic
- Tabitha
- Fun with Finnish Phrases
- The Art of Book Design: Spicy Stories
- Jonathan Frakes provides some much-needed diversion, through the magic of 0.5 playback speed
- False choices in dealing with the pandemic
- Take health care out of the hands of insurance companies NOW
- If this is a war, are there war criminals among us?
- Some Rambles on Rousseau
- Teacher’s Corner: Homeschooling
- Victory Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Musical Cheese
- Trump’s Atrocious Trolley Trade-off
- Research help for a post about strikes
- Jordan Klepper talks to Trump supporters
- Christopher Walken reads Where the Wild Things Are, and it’s glorious
- WASH YOUR HANDS!
- Learn Swedish Slang
- Despite his tough talk of going it alone, Trump is secretly begging other countries for help
- There goes Ed Yong, being massively pessimistic
- A Young People’s History of the United States: Free e-book for a limited time only!
- Guess Work: Numberphile looks at the derivatives that matter
- Here’s an Idea That’s Too Late:
- Who has the worst take on the pandemic?
- Shutter Bugs: Just a quick view of life in Taiwan
- The Art of Book Design: Weird Tales
- Making Kitchen Knives – Interlude 2 – Picklin’ Scales
- Domino’s franchise goes on strike. This is what America needs right now.
- Research furthers our understanding of the potential to tweak Earth’s climate using sulfur dioxide aerosols
- Never ever follow the recommendations of ghouls
- Selective concern for the future of children
- Apples that Are too Ugly to Eat
- Another Short Story About Nuclear War
- Tales from the Loop!
- Tree Tuesday
- Vital quarantine reading – free audiobook on youtube right now!
- Jack’s Walk
- Confirmed case of COVID-19 in ICE concentration camp
- “Trump never misses a chance to remind us what an awful person he is”
- Update on an Antarctic glacier
- Bonsai Tree – Well, Thats Officialy Weird…
- Nuts and Bolts and Ego
- What’s the term for a group of three?
- The best trolley problem for our times!
- Exciting! News! From the Spider Lab!
- The Quiz Broadcast, part 2. REMAIN INDOORS
- Canada is as colonialist and capitalist as the USA
- The Art of Book Design: True Detective Mysteries
- Phrases Derived From Religion
- Uh-oh, Trump is itching to do something dangerously stupid
- Bampa in the house
- Which America?
- A Masterclass in Corporate Glibglarp-speak
- Bricks and Mortar and Water – Part 2
- Cat Contemplating Quarantine
- People behaving irresponsibly during the crisis
- The coronavirus double whammy
- Second depression, same as the first, a bit more tech, and possibly worse?
- Christians are selfish, awful people
- Music Rules: The soundtrack for your quarantine period
- Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (2007)
- The Art of Book Design: True Confessions
- Excuse me, I’m a Little Horse
- Sources: Mayor Claar conscripts wereskunks to help combat COVID-19 (Fiction)
- Nation’s governors fill leadership vacuum left by Trump
- All it takes is a good man acquiescing to thugs in power
- It’s a Damned Yellow Composite
- Spring Break is over!
- Buy Low Sell High
- Corona Crisis Crafting V: There be More Dragons
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 15 – Tumble Time!
- Maps
- From the darkness behind my window, it caws to me…
- Help is needed during a pandemic economy.
- Unfortunately, my 40th post is about COVID-19
- John Oliver on India’s Narendra Modi
- One of the worst things this administration can do.
- “It is just a flu” Should Never be Comforting Phrase in the First Place
- Help out Abe at Oceanoxia (Non-fiction)
- Data That I Correlate: Is smoking a factor in COVID-19 deaths?
- This is your free trial apocalypse.
- We are now in a race for the dumbest pandemic advice
- Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (2009)
- On Diagnoses of NPD
- The Art of Book Design: Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang
- Auction #11 for Freethought Blogs Legal Defense Fund
- Sunday Sermon: Meanwhile…
- Aaron Ginn, smug know-nothing
- The US is badly losing the coronavirus propaganda war to China
- Governments Lie, Taxes Don’t: Your phone is dead
- Hi Again
- Sex and folk songs
- Sharpies Mend My Brain (And I’m Not Alone)
- It’s Already Happening: Intimate Partner Violence will get worse
- Hello, good evening, and REMAIN INDOORS
- Politicians profiteering from the pandemic
- Who Else is Paid to Stay Home?
- Confusion over use of ibuprofen to treat Covid-19 symptoms
- Sources of aid for those who need it
- No spiders today
- The Art of Book Design: Pussy-cat Town
- He’s a liar and a fraud
- Retrospective: Doomsday Book
- Calling America’s bluff
- The fossil fuel industry is using the pandemic to continue destroying everything they can
- Report: First week of isolation
- Ask the Questions (with an Added Jab at the US Government)
- Jim Bakker Misses a Grift
- How I Make a Tribal Cat Drawing
- Corona Crisis Crafting IV: Face Masks
- Jack’s Walk
- And now, the Congressional-Corporate interactive Corruption!
- The American government is trying to get rid of encryption services
- Great moments in religion
- What a difference 10 days make: Italy’s warning to the world, Cuba’s response to the pandemic
- Verdi’s La Traviata
- Bobbin Lace Moth
- Meanwhile Iran and the US ramp up hostilities
- It ain’t spring until the spiders come out
- Everyone seems to be in need of help right now
- The Art of Book Design: The Witches Dream Book and Fortune Teller
- About Face: And quickly, at that
- Listing all Biden’s lies in the debate
- How about a little corporate corruption, hey, Boeing?
- It’s called CORRUPTION
- Silver Linings
- Corona Crisis Crafting III: Tools
- Shabbat Alone and Together (Video Non-fiction)
- The depth of CFI’s commitment to free speech can only be measured with an atomic force microscope
- That’s a bit too on the nose
- Verdi’s Il Trovatore
- A Call for Support
- Some statistics about the possible growth of virus cases
- All plans fail
- Peek-a-boo: a Nuthatch
- Radical new theory about spiders
- The Outbreak Outsourced: Why Italy was hit hard
- A Random Thought
- You Need a Steady Hand To Do This
- The Art of Book Design: Toggles, An Outdoor Boy
- There’s a reason I don’t pharyngulate polls anymore
- Bengal zebrafish
- Even in times of crisis, Trump can’t resist being a racist
- Babies aren’t “blessings” or “miracles”.
- A Thing To Do While You’re Shut In: Coloring Cthulhu
- It’s Hard Not To Laugh….
- I read popular physics: The cosmic crisis
- I Exist! The Nib comic mentioned on the socially distant hullabaloo.
- ‘Orwellian’ does not even begin to describe it
- A Bone To Pick: Here’s that intermediate fossil they say doesn’t exist
- Puccini’s La Boheme
- Personality Disorders
- NASA is delaying climate science missions due to the pandemic, and that’s a good thing
- A silver lining in yesterday’s gloomy election news
- Socially Distant Hullabaloo!
- The Art of Book Design: Chimney Corner Tales
- If schadenfreude were a panacea, we could all go back to work
- We really need to take social distancing seriously
- Rambling About My Place in the Universe
- A Thing To Do While You’re Shut In: The Outer Wilds
- Unimportant Talk: Just give them the damn trophy
- Incompetence Defined: 18 months
- The Door Slammed: Taiwan has barred entry to ALL new foreign nationals
- And on a lighter note …
- Honest Government Ad | Coronavirus: Flatten The Curve
- Watching Bizet’s Carmen while ‘sheltering in place’
- Crises will be exploited by the wealthy and powerful unless we defy them
- Primary election chaos in Ohio
- Depressing Reading
- Jack’s Walk
- Why the toilet paper?
- A closure we can all be grateful for
- The Art of Book Design: The Sugar Camp
- Great moments in capitalism
- My agenda for the Great Isolation
- Corona Crisis Crafting II: There be Dragons
- There’s ordinary evil, and then there’s greedy, grasping, gratuitous evil
- Imperfection
- The Doomsday mindset or: No room for doom and gloom
- They’re trying to snatch all of my joy away!
- John Oliver on the coronavirus
- Trans People Targeted: Who will save us from the cops?
- Political Distance: Will Taiwan eventually close the island?
- A boon for opera fans
- Disease Soaked: Communal virus communion
- In other dismal news…
- I throw a terrible party
- COVID-19: A Babbler Special Report (Fiction)
- Bernie Sanders had a great debate
- Monday Mercurial: Springtime Birdsong
- The Art of Book Design: Boy Donald and his Chum
- Why does Dennis Prager still have a Twitter and YouTube account?
- Tabled
- Afghan government talks with Taliban stalled
- Wild Hyacinths
- Let’s try that again
- Corona Crisis Crafting I
- Forty years ago today
- What would I do if my daughter became religious?
- Congressman Sean Casten on the Coronavirus (Nonfiction)
- Crisis, opportunity, change, and perception
- The pandemic will dominate the Democratic debate tonight
- What If This Happens: A hypothetical
- What are you doing to keep yourself sane while “socially distanced”?
- Bring out your dead!
- Spring is Coming
- Normal, yet not normal
- Don’t be like America
- Anagram Play: Ha! Claiming one parent
- Skepticism for the win!
- An apology to Eunice Foote, the scientist and activist who first published on the role of CO 2 in our atmosphere
- I followed the instructions exactly!
- Link Roundup: March 2020
- How To (And Not To) Respond: Putting money where empty mouths are
- When reality bites
- WHO Lives And WHO Dies: Italian doctors are faced with a horrible task
- Vi Hart Rants: Her Pi Day video for 2020
- The Art of Book Design: The Rabbit Witch
- The gender difference in lifespans
- A help-me-out hangout on the pandemic experience
- Susan Collins is objectively more evil than Joe Lieberman
- One Isolated Atheist
- Uncommon Sense: Action And Non-Action
- Coronavirus Panic
- Census Conundrum.
- COVID-19, priorities, and “successful” communist countries.
- Role of sheriffs in US law enforcement
- The Cutty Sark has fallen on hard times
- If only there was a better health care system to deal with emergencies …
- Anyone want to debate a creationist in Minnesota?
- Teacher’s Corner: School’s out for Corona
- That’s a bad joke, I will never forgive myself
- No plan survives contact with the enemy (or students)
- The Art of Book Design: The Magic Cookbook
- The Bernie bro myth has no empirical basis
- Uh-oh. I just glanced at Right Wing Watch
- The realistic perspective
- Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment
- Americans Creepy Obsession With Marriage
- Yet More Unsubstantiated Claims by Egnor
- Jack’s Walk
- “The Coronavirus is Not an Excuse to Be Racist”
- “Green” hydrogen: Where are we at?
- The next debate and primaries
- This is why you cancel conferences in times like this
- Shutdown of Denmark
- Nerdy nostalgia
- Live by the stock market, die by the stock market
- I’M FINE
- Welcome to Pandemia
- This is my life for a while, isn’t it?
- The Art of Book Design: Backsheesh!, or Life and Adventures in the Orient
- Using common sense about the coronavirus
- Nothing makes sense any more
- Phycological Society of America 2020 meeting cancelled
- Chlamy 2020 deadlines extended
- “Psychotic” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
- It’s Worse Than It Sounds
- WFH (Working From Home)
- Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison
- The Trump family grifting just never ends
- As expected…University of Minnesota closes in-person classes
- The future looks bleak for Bernie Sanders and the country
- “Stop testing.”
- The Art of Book Design: Two Royal Foes
- Michigan State University suspends all face-to-face classes
- What will I do if a virus closes my classes?
- Satisfied spiders are boring spiders
- The once and future Taliban
- Are atheists more ambitious than theists?
- You are here
- Aw, jeez. South Dakota has COVID-19?
- They Shoot Socialists, Don’t They?
- Whose Corona? (h/t Scandinavia and the World)
- I Know What You’re Thinking, Biden Dems
- Who are the people who really love dictators?
- Egalitarianism and Narcissists
- This is not the leadership that the times call for
- Can we not pick the “safe” one who always seems to lose?
- The Art of Book Design: Birds and Berries in my Grandmother’s Garden
- Quick, email me some energy
- Another case of projection by the US
- Tree Tuesday
- Is Bill Gates a good billionaire?
- A golden opportunity for quacks
- Humblicious
- Election meta
- Trump Administration Ordered Immigration Courts to Spread Coronavirus
- Gaslighting
- Jack’s Walk
- Whom do I root for?
- More pun fun
- Palace intrigues in Saudi Arabia
- A simple genetics problem I could never put on an exam
- When personal identity and politics collide
- By Leaps And Bounds: Do they only get a quarter of the birthdays?
- Bolingbrook braces for COVID-19 outbreak (Fiction)
- Learning Bob in Lace
- Max von Sydow is dead
- Which is scarier, spiders or the stock market?
- The Art of Book Design: Little Black Rabbit
- Something I wish Democrats would stop doing
- The US obsession with the stock market
- The dilemma: to fly or not to fly
- Wild Daffodils
- I have a theory, which is mine, about getting older
- Coronavirus Is Just Another “Flu”
- Going out in style
- Spiders gettin’ fat
- Bye, bye Mick
- Sunday Sermon: What a Horrible Little Creep
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 5 – Last Bit of Tree Physiology (possibly)
- Neddy, The Autobiography of a Donkey
- Medicare For All would boost wages and create new jobs
- 8th March
- How many times must Maher show his stripes before he’s seen for what he is?
- Ghost Pangolin Breath
- It’s not a telescope, but…
- Birds of a feather …
- The Dark Triad
- The Monkees are touring again
- Too accurate
- Kriswager
- Some progressive down ballot candidates to watch
- A Bullfinch on the Roof
- The Art of Book Design: When Molly was Six
- Great moments in mathematics
- Time to huddle alone in my man-cave
- What do you do when your beliefs are questioned?
- We’re doomed
- Samantha Bee’s thoughts on Super Tuesday
- How to prevent the other pandemic
- Meanwhile, in Israel, major post-election shenanigans
- Schocked!
- The spiders are doing well, thanks for asking!
- The Art of Book Design: New and Original Magic
- Bonsai Tree – Wake up Already Dammit!
- If they’re all going to die anyway, why not get it all over with at once?
- Rats should get more respect
- Common sense about spiders
- Thank you, kind anonymous person
- I have irked the Bernie Bros
- Parenthood Regrets: Parents Who Wish They Were Childfree
- Jack’s Walk
- Accounting. I hate accounting.
- The problems with Human Rights Watch
- Random thoughts about the course of this election
- Elizabeth Warren bows out
- Now it’s getting personal
- No! I don’t want to say bye-bye to Elizabeth Warren!
- The Art of Book Design: Garden Adventures of Tommy Tittlemouse
- The case for Bernie Sanders over Joe Biden
- Harvard employs fools and bigots, too
- I blew it
- Overanalysis kills humor
- Tabula E Ferro
- Doctor Who and the Timeless Absurdities
- Sadly, some people do think this way
- Progressive candidate narrowly fails to unseat conservative Democratic incumbent
- Presented (Almost) Without Comment: Wonkette’s Warren Wonketeer Has An Idea
- The stock market rules our world
- The surprising resurgence of Joe Biden
- The Art of Book Design: The Old House, and Other Stories.
- Bye-bye, Michael Bloomberg
- I know some people defend caucuses, but…
- Taking the wrong path
- Define “Marriage”.
- Hand Washing
- Billion-year-old green algae
- Childfree Bingo
- Tired of living in my worst dreams
- Origami: Budding Sonobe
- Bones rattled, vote cast
- How Europe became wealthy
- Marissa Explains It All #8 – I Voted… That’s All
- Jack’s Walk – an Admin Note
- Mood: The Helsinki Complaints Choir
- Tree Tuesday
- The Art of Book Design: Camping in the Canadian Rockies
- The other swing voters
- Not a good start to the day
- NEE NED ZB 6TNN DEIBEDH SIEFI EBEEE SSIEI ESEE SEEE!!
- Tactical Nakiri – 2
- Bye-bye, Tweety
- Bye, bye, Chris Matthews
- More on the coronavirus
- UFO crew surrenders to Pete Buttigieg (Fiction)
- Bernie Sanders and black voters
- The bad news will keep on coming
- Bye-bye, Amy!
- And then there were four: Amy Klobuchar drops out
- Jack’s Walk
- More answers to creationists
- When did you last wash your hands?
- The Art of Book Design: Adventures of a Donkey
- Was Jeffrey Epstein working for the FBI?
- The only political punditry you need
- Another conference cancelled
- News from the tech world
- Tactical Nakiri
- Bye, bye Pete
- Oh, yay. Another virus.
- Buttigieg dropping out
- John Oliver on Medicare For All
- Medicare For All is generally popular
- Is Denver in the Danger Zone?
- The Art of Book Design: The Lady of the Tower and Other Stories
- Why does Chris Matthews still have a job?
- Coronavirus epidemic shows the danger of having a lying, incompetent president
- Seems fair
- The media have lost the plot
- My Coronavirus Experience
- Joe Biden wins big in South Carolina
February 2020
- More candidates skipping AIPAC
- Finally, an end to the war in Afghanistan?
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 4 – Another Bit of Tree Physiology
- A solution to my annoying cat problem suggests itself
- A couple of great ones are gone: Katherine Johnson and Freeman Dyson
- The Art of Book Design: The Story of Jack; A Tale of the North
- Bernie Sanders is making all the right enemies
- I’m home at last
- Secular Meditation
- Ordinary Genius
- Sterilization
- Jason Johnson disappears from MSNBC
- What a surprise! Bolivian coup was based on false premises
- Medicare For All sure looks like a winner
- Anderson Cooper is no journalistic hero
- The strange logic of some anti-Sanders Democrats
- The Art of Book Design: Heather
- MBTI: A lukewarm analysis
- I am impressed by the comprehensive integration of multiple lines of kooky
- Get on the Grandmaphone and get her here right now!
- From a File to a File Guide
- Pterosaurs are cute
- I’m not panicking over the coronavirus
- That Weird Assange Gambit
- The plight of the closed captioners
- “Out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy”
- The Atheists For Liberty and Enlightenment Values
- Fascinating documentary on the north and south poles
- These signs are not helping me decide who I like best
- Fake science is profitable, in some cases
- Don’t Breathe: There’s a life form that doesn’t require oxygen
- The Art of Book Design: Captain of the Eleven
- Warren and Sanders on Military Spending
- Bernie Sanders and the nuances of socialism
- My representative is in Cracked
- There’s another atheist organization in the swamp
- It Wasn’t a Suggestion
- Chris Christie was right? Who would have guessed?
- Seth Meyers has a hilarious take on the freak out over Sanders’s success
- File this under “I thought it was a good idea at the time”
- Mmmmm, samosas…
- Trump’s Modi Operandi
- The Anti-Greta
- The Art of Book Design: The Renewal of Life, How and When to Tell the Story to the Young
- Black Woman Somehow Given Substandard Medical Care
- Reflections on yesterday’s Democratic debate
- Don’t you make me vote for Elizabeth Warren, Ann!
- Working data from a museum, all yours
- My Mental Illness Recovery is Rock Solid Thanks to Atheism
- Uncommon Sense: Democrats and the Black Voter Bloc
- I was quoted in Charisma magazine!
- Meet Eudorina compacta !
- Resin Art: Fitting a Square Peg in a Round hole
- Wow, that was some interview!
- Spinning down Sanders success
- Age Out: Is this ‘The Plague’ in real life?
- The reason why Nevada union workers defied their leadership
- Dr Mona coming to UMM
- The Art of Book Design: The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
- The intrinsic link between misogyny and white supremacy
- I Already Did Not Like Him
- What to expect in the Democratic debate tonight
- The child in the oval office
- Who ever heard of a liberal arts college as a setting for drama?
- Wonder if They Have a Frequent Flier Plan?
- Resin Art: a learning experience
- Allegedly: The conclusion of the Richard Carrier saga (Non-fiction)
- Don’t mess with the ‘misfit black girls’
- Random Nonsense I’ve Been Thinking & Writing
- Harvey Weinstein found guilty on two of five charges
- The benevolent liberal leadership of Canada is losing their patience with rail blockades
- Weinstein GUILTY!
- A new contender for fake university has arisen!
- The Art of Book Design: The Birthday Party
- The need to focus on the big picture
- Katherine Johnson has died
- Russia – Welcome to Uglich
- Cruel, incoherent “activism”
- Voila, la Viola
- When a righteous cause enables unrighteous behavior
- Bernie Sanders draws record crowd to Clow UFO Base rally (Fiction)
- You missed the party, but we’ve still got the hangover
- WTF American Primaries
- Monday Mercurial: Duck, Duck, Goose!
- New Forge Build – Watching the Cement Dry
- Join the Alleged Celebration here!
- Why Feminism Isn’t Radical
- Remember — party at 6pm Central today!
- Trans Rights are Workers Rights too.
- The phony anti-Sanders narrative starts to crumble
- Ignore this if you’re not an arachnophile
- What do you get…?
- The Art of Book Design: In the Forest of Arden
- Buttigieg gets the comeuppance he deserves
- Sunday Sermon: Wander-Minding
- The sad, pointless death of Mad Mike Hughes
- Resin Art: Breeding Dragons (hopefully)
- Bernie Sanders already projected to win in Nevada
- Every American should live for a while in a country that has a single-payer health system
- The spiders are hiding on Freethoughtblogs, but they’re still around
- Who’s been chalking our sidewalks?
- Exam grading done!
- Making Vice Jaws
- The Art of Book Design: The Little House in the Fairy Wood
- These ‘Democrats’ are not worried that Sanders will lose to Trump. They are worried that he will win
- Sonic and Star Trek
- 5 Things This American Atheist is Thankful For
- Lost In The Clouds
- Chlamydomonas 2020 abstract deadline approaching
- Bloomberg and Biden both lied about stop and frisk
- Schadenfreude Felt: I wonder what Winnie The Pooh will say now
- Expressing hate and disgust on facebook. Warren and misogyny.
- Thank you, Larry Tesler
- The Art of Book Design: Trail and Tree Top
- If you thought eugenics was only an abstract notion…
- More on the Bloomberg debate train wreck
- Patreon posts will be trickling onto this site, too
- The fall of the mayfly empire?
- “High-decoupling” is a synonym for “short-sighted neglect of the variables”
- Tool-Using Animals
- Kavin Senapathy on why organized skepticism ‘can’t afford to ignore racial inequality’ (Non-fiction)
- Kavin Senapathy fired by CFI
- A visual analogy of the Klobuchar-Buttigieg debate spat
- Best dance moves ever
- Is it surprising that dissecting human cadavers is the ethical thing to do?
- All along, Sanders has been right and his critics wrong
- The Art of Book Design: Madeleine’s Rescue
- The Boy Scouts of America have been ethically bankrupt for years
- Reflections on last night’s Democratic debate
- Did I say I was voting for Sanders?
- Don’t you love seeing how science is done?
- Theatrical Gender as a Performance
- Right Wing Terrorism: I’d like to mourn , but I’m too angry
- The Boy Scouts: Now as financially bankrupt as they are morally
- WHO Understands: If you owe someone, they own you
- White people and whiteness.
- Dear Bob Carpenter,
- Let’s Trash Sanders for Not Being Perfect, Just For A Minute
- And people wonder why Sanders gets such an enthusiastic reception
- The Art of Book Design: Bord Studies with a Camera
- Fractal maze
- Beware of Catalina
- A truce?
- Is Raif Badawi dead?
- Funding news!
- An Atheist’s Views on Society
- Procurement Disasterpalooza
- Martian Colonial marines seize former Old Chicago site (Fiction)
- Unseemly gloating on Sunday!
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 3 – Basics of Tree Physiology
- The Art of Book Design: His Birthday
- Need to see the grandkids, but work is getting in the way
- Medicare for all
- Stick a Fork in Bloomberg
- Politically pissing on fences.
- Going beyond identity in choosing a candidate
- Bloomberg just lost the rural vote
- The Art of Book Design: Sadie Love
- The massive corrupting influence of money in US politics
- It’s hard to appreciate just how evil US white culture can be
- James Baldwin and religion
- Speedwell, Veronica
- Guess who has another day of interviewing candidates?
- Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book
- Neurodiversity and Communication Difficulties (Part 2)
- Needs Tactical Garters, To Go With
- Good Morning
- I would not last a day in prison
- Mayflies on Patreon
- Age Gracefully: Five years or fifty three?
- How Diseases Taxi: Taiwan’s first COVID-19 death was a cab driver
- Venn Diagram Vent: When whining goes wrong
- To be filed under ‘Hateful misogynistic stupidity’
- A Pervert’s Justice: The Beginnings of Meta-Ethics
- New Forge Build – Start
- My lab is a junkyard!
- The Art of Book Design: Twilight Dreams
- Bloomberg, Of Course
- The Nevada caucuses
- I read popular physics: Giant Atoms
- OH NO RICHARD DAWKINS NO!
- No one warned me of the side effects
- News Roundup: February 15th, 2020
- A timely exam…from Ken Ham
- Samantha Bee goes after PragerU
- From the department of “Give them an inch …”
- A few have escaped the custodians!
- The Art of Book Design: Doctor Dick
- The anti-Sanders media narrative takes shape
- More eerie cave creatures!
- Ugh. Maher.
- My little girl is a superhero.
- Calligraphy
- Pop (Soda) Sucks — Kicking Bad Habits
- Caine Left Us A Gift
- Behold! The official Myers Lab Spider-Cam!
- Gloria Steinem and the CIA
- I ♥ my hot glue gun & Dremel
- A Knife for my Brother
- Date And Predate: Valentine’s day sucks
- Insults, language, and politics.
- This is what happens if I find you in my bathroom
- The Art of Book Design: History of Valentine and Orson
- A strange and sad story
- Happy Valentine’s Day!
- In the End Times, idiots can promise anything
- Funny, I don’t remember banging my elbow into anything
- NOW, That’s a Surprise
- They really, really, really want to use racist slurs
- What it is like to experience an earthquake
- Music Rules: Black Sabbath, fifty years on
- Boris Johnson is a true Donald Trump acolyte
- How to Make a Soft Buffing Brush Wheel
- I may have found my patronus
- The Art of Book Design: Our Little Mexican Cousin
- New cage is a success so far
- Matt Taibbi and Mehdi Hasan tear into mainstream media analysis
- “Silent Sam”? I think you mean “Shady Sam”
- Our cars provide a glimpse into the American psyche
- The Wedge Strategy
- Give and take: Preferences in sex
- Under the Sign of the Rabbit
- Jack’s Walk
- Crazy fly lady syndrome
- DOJ career officials resign after Stone reversal
- The Art of Book Design: Seaside Divinity
- Happy Birthday, Mr Darwin!
- Bernie Sanders wins the New Hampshire primary
- Uh-oh, growing faster than expected
- I rejected them, so they’re coming to get me
- This is what it looks like when Canada sticks out its tongue and gives you a big lick
- 5 Situations In Which I’m Glad to Be Godless
- Life Will Go On
- Tree Tuesday
- What to do when you come home to find your wife with a big ol’ stud?
- Jack’s Walk
- The Tough Guy Cowers: Duterte folds like a cheap mask
- Mister Bullfinch
- Rebuffing phony critiques of the Sanders program
- I have set up a patreon account!
- Maybe I’d convert them to the joys of secularism…
- The Ongoing Saga of The Doors
- The Art of Book Design: Forest Fancies
- Look what I’ve got…
- Metal Heads: The one in Louisiana is empty
- Why is Lipinski still supported by the Democratic party?
- Another abuse of power
- Thinking about a patreon account…
- Confessions of an Imperfect Pacifist
- Jack’s Walk
- Livestreaming suicide
- Link roundup: February 2020
- Missus Bullfinch
- The Art of Book Design: Wellesley Stories
- Plum Trees in Bloom
- History Is Not Known Until The Bodies Are Buried
- NOW argues against full decriminalization of sex work
- Who is more popular in their home country, Putin or Trump?
- Never underestimate insects
- The Militant Atheist
- Seriously, America? Laura Loomer in congress?
- Did you watch the Oscars?
- Police Union Declares War vs Government
- DuPage Township tries to activate its ‘Plague Protocol’ (Fiction)
- A Dastardly Homosexual Conspiracy in Switzerland
- The Art of Book Design: Salad for the Solitary
- Taiwan Left Out: WHO is really this stupid
- Paul Simon explains to Dick Cavett the origins of Mrs. Robinson
- Outsourced: Is the coronovirus a pangolin-demic?
- Frustrations with Jenoptik, and a better photomicrography solution
- It happened again!
- A Hunting Knife – Auction for FTB Legal Defense Fund
- Teacher’s Corner: Teaching Languages
- Speech pathologist argues that Donald Trump has aphasia
- WAKE UP and look at this spider!
- Graham Linehan, Cowardly Ass
- Giving Toledo Some Love
- How to Learn Foreign Languages for Free
- Uncommon Sense: The Ballot Or The Bullet
- I, a philosophical zombie
- Bullshit Merchants Like Flies to Sugar
- How an oscillating fan works
- That’s how the right wing works
- Putting profits before child safety
- Essence Of Thought: The Science is very clear (Non-fiction)
- When Tone and Manners Actually Matter
- The Art of Book Design: The Fairy Housekeepers
- How did @Glinner become such an ass?
- Yesterday’s Democratic debate
- Quite possibly the worst insult ever delivered
- What’s Jordan Peterson been up to?
- A Poem About Why I Vote
- Jack’s Walk
- That settles what I’m doing tonight
- Wooden toy train stunts
- Running Gag: This job posting is a joke
- What’s with these MFing spiders in this MFing lab?
- So much for the awfulness of foreign interference in elections
- It’s not wrong
- Youtube Video: Is China’s Coronavirus the Next Pandemic?
- The Art of Book Design: Brenda’s Cousin at Radcliffe
- Conversational gambit… failed
- Wheelchair miracles
- Judge uses RFRA to throw out conviction of humanitarians
- A Bit of Good News from Australia
- These results are to be seen as a caution, not as inducements to further criminal behavior!
- The only article about “electability” you need to read
- How I will respond if you insult my cooking
- How to Efficiently Learn and Memorize Foreign Languages
- Normalizing Crimes
- Jack’s Walk
- Presidential Medals of Freedom
- Solid Muslim support for a Jewish candidate should be a big story
- Making Kitchen Knives – Part 14 – Straightening Curls
- Yellowhammers Visit.
- Oh…Goop Lab is on Netflix
- The Art of Book Design: Robin Hood
- How tax prep companies cheated 14 million people
- US & UK are in a race to the bottom!
- What do you do when the law doesn’t work?
- Skinning Cats: Multiple Options
- Predation on Eudorina
- Jack’s Walk
- The Iowa mess is still not resolved
- Catholic church and lack of transparency about abuses
- Minnesota Gets It Right
- Is this how an innocent man responds?
- More Weird Symmetries
- The Art of Book Design: The Alley Cat’s Kitten
- It’s not a conspiracy, it’s incompetence
- Bernie Sanders’ consistency
- Total wreck here
- Speaking Your Mind vs. Holding Back
- Death Camps: Calling it a hospital is woo, Han
- Jack’s Walk
- TV review: The Good Place (no spoilers)
- Web Exclusive: Aliens blamed for Iowa Democratic Caucus catastrophe (Fiction)
- Sex workers are humans, too
- On panhandlers
- The Art of Book Design: Book of a Hundred Bears
- Ending authorization for wars
- Resin Art: Wood You Love Me?
- Worldcon contemplates the abominable
- Tree Tuesday
- It must be embarrassing to be an Iowan today
- An Archive Of Really Fascinating Stuff
- Neurotypical People Are Weird (Part 1)
- I don’t know how we’ll cope with this deluge of tragic news
- You’ve got to hand it to the Chinese government
- Jack’s Walk
- Rush Limbaugh has cancer
- Cultivating deliberate obliviousness
- Scallops aren’t animals? Is the author not a journalist?
- Global solidarity for global problems: why I support Bernie Sanders
- The Art of Book Design: Pussy Meow
- I guess it’s gotta be Bernie
- Democratic voters who have switched and why
- When leadership matters
- These Orchids are Stunning
- Cool but impractical driving hack
- If you’re on Facebook to follow Stephen King, don’t bother
- Addendum: Lines In The Sand
- Pro-Yang UFO collides with Pro-Sanders UFO over Palatine (Fiction)
- Volvox videos by Shigeru Gougi
- More pun fun
- Life Imitates: Did you know corona is an anagram for racoon?
- Brain Drain: From the stupor bowl to the toilet bowl, then the kidney bowl
- Guest Opinion: Now get to work (Mixed)
- Making Britain white again
- It’s an anniversary!
- New podcast recommendation: In Research Of
- Shining a light on Victoria’s Secret
- The Art of Book Design: Captain Ted
- Bonsai for Beginners – Part 2 – Necessary Tools
- Superb Owl: Ignore her nickname, I believe she was always named Judith
- The Hillary Clinton puzzle
- Am I the only one who thought The Good Place finale was BS?
- Schools Out: This should interesting….
- Sunday Sermon: There is No Line In The Sand
- Conservative whining about social media
- Brain teaser
- Slavic Saturday
- Need assistance with a social interaction
- Origami: Tarantula
- The Art of Book Design: Uncle Wiggily’s Rheumatism
- How John Oliver’s show is put together
- Why do scientists cheat?
- Shut-Ins Shut In: Seven days of isolation
- The Suspended Believe: When atheists help christians
- Mood
- Some Good Back-Fill
- Jack’s Walk
January 2020
- Optical illusion involving positive and negative spaces
- Science and the big questions
- Mirror, mirror, on my butt…
- rEUnited: not “Scotxit”
- TNET 37 – Wish I Could Fly
- Someone knows how to make a powerful speech
- Where we are at
- The Art of Book Design: Drusila and Her Dolls
- Unoccupied
- A Price You Can Live With: In Illinois, insulin is now $100 per month
- Views on sex work change in a positive direction
- Conspiracy theories never die, but maybe they can be penalized
- Yep, that’s the New Jersey I know
- This Would Make a Great “Nightmare Disaster” Movie
- Jack’s Walk
- Did this cruel, elaborate prank go too far?
- Update on the impeachment proceedings
- The ground and the sky are the same color!
- Dan Froomkin on those opposing Sanders
- The Last Time I have Finished a Drawing (possibly NSFW)
- Homero Gómez is dead
- The Art of Book Design: The Boy Editor
- Gendered Advertisements: Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer Awareness Posters
- They’re Waiting For An Excuse
- How big oil exploits the legal system to intimidate critics
- They grow ’em big down in Australia
- I am so glad there’s nothing like this on Earth
- oh god it’s thursday
- Tummy Thursday: Tamales
- Jack’s Walk
- The kindness of strangers
- Open thread
- More academics behaving really badly
- Swamp Dwellers
- It sure is good to be a white dude
- Hey! If you’re still on Facebook…
- Teacher’s Corner: Why I Prefer to be Pseudonymous
- The Art of Book Design: Lady Gay
- The anti-Sanders campaign tries to gain traction
- When did you first suspect you were being trolled by fake news?
- Now I know what spies for China can expect to be paid
- How Pale Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawings Really Are?
- Let’s Revolt
- Please Discuss Fugitive of the Judoon with Me (Doctor Who)
- I read about the triple slit experiment
- Marissa Explains It All #7 – Has It Already Been Nine Years?
- Look who was lounging about in my bedroom
- Jack’s Walk
- It’s going to be a long semester
- TV Review: Good Omens (2019) (No spoilers)
- Dishing out ALL the dirt
- China: a major polluter of the scientific literature
- Inevitably: My Thoughts on Biden
- The Art of Book Design: The Apple Tree Sprite
- Teacher’s Corner: She did what?
- Tree Tuesday
- Cower And Kowtow: When you’d rather kill people than upset Beijing
- The neoliberals’ last defense against Sanders: Barack Obama
- A whole lot of chompin’ and sexin’ going on
- Free seminars! On what?
- Debate between Rep. Foster and Will County Board Member Rachel Ventura at Clow UFO Base sets new attendance record (Fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- Made To Suffer: Bill Lee cares about rapists, not children
- The Bolton bombshell
- Brazilian creationism under the wing of fascists
- Heading Toward The Balkanized Internet
- What To Eat: The breakfast of blaspemers
- The Art of Book Design: A Summer Siege; A Story for Girls
- Support for Bernie rises just before Iowa
- Shocking demands!
- Everyone needs more training to deal with racists
- The one that got away…in the Mesozoic
- Flowering Gorse
- A weekend of strangeness in the moviehouse
- “Flocking” Volvox in the Regeneron Science Talent Search
- Laughing Fits: I saw this last night, and now my stomach hurts
- Monday Mercurial: Jesus was a Duck (because they can walk on water)
- Septic Tank: Brexit is the free-for-all before the free fall
- Pun Down, Pun To Go: This is so bad….
- I wouldn’t have recognized this spider from last week!
- Alan Dershowitz in hell
- Nancy Drew: The shortest straw, and it broke the camel’s back
- The Art of Book Design: Her Own Sort and Others
- Jules Ffeiffer on Nixon and Trump
- Are The Trumpers Manipulating the Stock Market?
- Dressed all in black, draping the branches of trees with the entrails of beasts
- A critique of Jim Lehrer and the PBS NewsHour
- Questionable Beauty of a Snowless Winter – Part 3
- My wife went to Colorado and all I got was… #SpiderSunday
- People sure are judgmental about food
- Metalpoint Drawing: Horse Head
- Mood 2
- The Art of Book Design: The Fairy Glass
- Can Mike Pompeo get any more ridiculous?
- Questionable Beauty of a Snowless Winter – Part 2
- The list of old-style Republican conservative defections grows
- Rainbows are so wicked and perverted
- Goodbye, Facebook friends. Up yours, Facebook.
- Are you as angry as I am?
- They’re leaving us!
- Poor Man’s Belt Grinder – Mark 3
- Jack’s Walk
- Samantha Bee on the impeachment trial
- This means my grandchildren are old enough to start a band!
- The Final Show: Jim Lehrer, 1934-2020
- I am sick of stories of the execution of innocent people
- The Art of Book Design: The Lady of the Forest
- Questionable Beauty of a Snowless Winter – Part 1
- Picard
- Are you forgetting some things? Don’t panic
- A dignified white Christian
- Puerto Rico leads the way!
- Spidercloth!
- Cry more, Cantwell
- Fascinating Lenny
- Jack’s Walk
- Bernie Sanders surges to the top in new polls
- WWII was comprehensible as adaptations of the lineages in question . Christ.
- The Art of Book Design: Ruthie’s Story
- More travel bans…WHY?
- Thursdays will not be my fun days this semester
- Solidarity will overcome Clinton’s divisiveness
- The target of criticism
- Aaron Rodgers kinda sorta maybe comes out as atheist
- Watch the planet breathe
- Brings back old memories
- Decluttering Your Home
- On The Off Chance You Have Not Seen This
- Chlamydomonas 2020
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The Rocket Book
- Terry Jones (1942-2020)
- Gingerbreads of 2019 – Part 5
- Now I’m physically incapable of seeing Richard Jewell , because of all the projectile vomiting
- Never cross the streams
- The age and fate of the universe
- I knew nothing about enneagrams until yesterday
- You have to spend money to make money, am I right?
- A Poem About Leaving Home
- Here’s a Safe Assumption
- Sc 42667e767da717cc2f7d779a34d3e342
- Jack’s Walk
- The Art of Book Design: The Lady of the Manor and Other Stories.
- Say it, AOC!
- How does Christian math work?
- What the hell , Chad?
- Hillary Clinton goes full-on ‘never Sanders’
- Anyone remember Pepsigate on ScienceBlogs?
- Matt Taibbi on media stupidity
- What if a priest is invited to my family gatherings?
- Little Women was lovely!
- Tree Tuesday
- Advertisement Failure: Pushy Salesmen
- Quietly Left Hanging Out To Dry
- Op-ed: Bolingbrook United’s Response to the 2020 State of the Village (Non-fiction)
- Jack’s Walk
- The obsessive Trump
- 100% ready and champing at the bit
- IMNSHO: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s finest speech.
- New York Times endorses Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar
- They’re not bad at sex, they’re abusive
- Flying Homosexual Chemtrail Fire Ants
- The Art of Book Design: Kitty Love
- Fractals from Newton’s Method
- (Spring?) Flowers
- Serious baby
- Scoffing at those who believe in near death experiences
- Fuck everyone who whitewashes MLK
- I have to go back to work today!
- Now I’m beginning to question my support for Elizabeth Warren
- A few words from Martin Luther King Jr.
- Tacticality: Dese Gun Nutz?
- Bolingbrook’s unofficial opposition parties respond to the 2020 State of the Village Address (Fiction)
- My retirement plan had a little more detail
- Hate Speech Isn’t Free Speech
- Space Force must be suitably armored
- Double Dactyl: Fuck Twitter
- Why we should dread religion
- Web Exclusive: Video of the Bolingbrook State of the Village Address 2020 (Mixed)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson had Alan Dershowitz’s number
- The Art of Book Design: Keeping up with The Joneses
- Mah spiritual needz!
- You see a man with spiders in his beard: shag, marry, kill?
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 34 – Prices
- Fact-checking in science
- Why Consumers Should Treat Clothing as Unisex More Often
- Doors
- More pun fun
- My esteemed colleague is asking…
- Another secret deal between a city and a corporation
- Oh, how I detest textbook publishers
- The Art of Book Design: The Fairy Glass
- Describing Donald Trump and his supporters
- Only stupid hurtful memes about trans people are allowed
- How are you treated as an atheist?
- The Department of Dirty Tricks
- Uh-oh. Drexel is going to get a shake-up
- Slavic Saturday
- Jack’s Walk
- Vow To Disavow: Two tales of confessionals in one week
- Representative Ayanna Pressley: Naked Courage
- Yet another example of Christians unable to make an honest argument
- “Good”, “Fun”, and Kim Jong-il
- A Halloween Boy in January
- The puzzling appeal of mementos
- The first Goop review is in!
- Gingerbreads of 2019 – Part 4
- In meta news
- What good are virgins in a developmental biology lab?
- The Art of Book Design: What Was Said in the Woods
- The madness is setting in
- Why Jonathan Chait always makes me twitch
- Against the mindless use of metrics in the workplace
- Isolation, madness, death
- Uncommon Sense: On Republican Death-Wish
- PhD position: evolution of multicellularity
- I Got Sexually Harassed Thursday
- On subversivism
- Jack’s Walk
- Living Mythos: Fuck You, Jobu.
- Samantha Bee on the debate
- Hatches battened
- An old Woodworking tip for Tight Bonds
- The status of the Equal Rights Amendment
- A major award!
- Ferda! Also, Yara ♥ Chad
- Baby Eastern Spinebills
- The Art of Book Design: Plain Directions for the Care of the Sick and Recipes for Sick People
- The comprehensive summary of the implosion of RWA
- Gingerbreads of 2019 – Part 3
- Matt Taibbi excoriates CNN for its debate performance
- Behold, the rare and elusive Pileated Spider
- When will the criticisms of evolutionary psychology sink in?
- Don’t island girls count?
- Overpriced Snake Oil
- Fake Identity
- Thirty-Eight
- Jack’s Walk
- Things that will never happen – until they do
- Those sure are funny-looking spiders, Mary
- Last night’s Democratic debate
- Gingerbreads of 2019 – Part 2
- It’s a catch-up day
- The Art of Book Design: The Fresh Air Child
- How private equity firms operate
- Look who else is leaving Facebook!
- Don’t go there, little blue dot!
- I remember a day when television was going to inform the masses
- Do Not Try To Understand Me
- When librarians turn to the dark side…
- I love being an atheist poet.
- Making Decisions
- Is There a “Lemon Law”?
- Jackson Wheat on misunderstanding multicellularity
- Jack’s Walk
- Royal family feud
- I am home again, unfortunately
- Word Salad Censors: Vegetable English defeats Korea Fish
- The hydration myth that will not die and the bottled water menace
- Self Harm: Anxiety is taxing
- I Hope I Die…: People over 30 are too old
- Tree Tuesday
- Gingerbreads of 2019 – Part 1
- The Art of Book Design: The Tree Book
- Australia, Climate Change, and Green Colonialism
- The knives are out for Bernie Sanders as his popularity surges
- Web Exclusive: Cory Booker blames Illuminati and New World Order for failed campaign (Fiction)
- Beautiful Doom
- Jack’s Walk
- These are scientists ?
- Word count
- When and why did our fishy ancestors move to land?
- I’m dissolving into cyberspace!
- Marissa Explains It All #6 – Things I Learned While Working in College Football
- Holy crap, MIT!
- Democracy dies in a pile of money
- The Art of Book Design: The Fool Errant
- MIT professor suspended for getting secret donations from Jeffrey Epstein
- Bermuda-buttercups
- Monday Mercurial: Erxcuse me, I’m an Ermine
- Rocks
- Four Space Force Marines from Bolingbrook’s Clow UFO Base missing after ‘retaliatory’ strike against Jupiter (Fiction)
- God always gets all the credit.
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter One, part 3
- Gender Neutrality is Wrong … Sometimes
- A sensible attitude
- Iliana, spider-hunter
- Behind the Iron Curtain part 33 – McGyver in Every Household
- No, this is not “men’s fashion”
- The Art of Book Design: Camping in the Canadian Rockies
- Brilliant Move
- Something’s rotten in North Carolina
- Something’s Not Right
- How to file your federal and state taxes for free
- Healthcare versus Mutilation
- Gwyneth Paltrow’s lap odor has sold out
- The Art of Book Design: Pansy Billings and Popsy
- #Arsonemergency? (Non-fiction)
- The rotation of planets
- Tactical gender
- Them mountains are rocky, all right
- Dig Deeper: The back story of the DC Sniper is fascinating
- A ghastly tragedy shows the madness of war
- Death to Facebook!
- AOC breaks the rules both small and big
- A Debilitating Fear
- Reproductive Rights for My Daughter
- The Cynicism is Incredible
- Preliminary Report: Tsai Ing-wen is likely to be re-elected
- The Stars Look Down: Neil Peart, dead at 67
- Jack’s Walk
- Link Roundup: January 2020
- A hopeful vision for the future
- Midwest Mom Coming Through!
- Trump’s flirtation with war with Iran did not poll well
- Make Beltrami Great Again
- The Art of Book Design: The Prattler
- A Near Lethal Dose of Cute
- I am still in Colorado, although Orac is making me regret it
- How to make science more inclusive
- Before Bernie, there was Dennis
- More Geek Than
- Can We Talk About Sex? Part 3: Flipping the Perspective About Gender Roles
- Quds Force, Bah
- Jack’s Walk
- Larry David on Bernie Sanders
- The Problem of Evil
- Facebook destroys everything it touches
- Spoons Hammered Flat
- Tummy Thursday: Around the World in 5 Courses
- Trolling Level: Iran
- The Art of Book Design: The Magic Window
- You ain’t no fortunate one
- Will Weinstein be prosecuted vigorously?
- Only trickster gods exist
- Can We Talk About Sex? Part 2: Clueless Adults and Safe Sex
- Finishing the Chisels
- Jack’s Walk
- Well done, little penguin!
- Yep, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer really knows what women want
- No spiders!
- I had breakfast with a baby
- Minnesota has white people
- The Art of Book Design: The Birthday Party
- Hello from Longmont, CO
- Jonathan Pie interviews Prince Andrew
- A Tonic of Orchids
- The Inner Turmoil of Questioning God
- Sun Maple
- The Force Protection Problem
- Fire Bugs: They’re war criminals, not arsonists
- Jack’s Walk
- Ethics of accuracy
- The Media Are Useless Teaser: Steve Adler
- 2020 is off to a terrible start
- Marissa Explains It All #5 – Traveling Entitlement
- A good metaphor for Lindsey Graham: He’s a parasitic pilot fish
- The Art of Book Design: Hale Merrill’s Honey Quest, How one Girl Made the Best of Things
- The virtues of vengeance
- The War Prayer by Mark Twain
- Do not put Gwyneth Paltrow in your vagina
- Can We Talk About Sex? Part 1: Sex Education for Children
- Data Mine: Never ascribe to malice….
- A Little Elephant In The Room
- Jack’s Walk
- It’s déjà vu , all over again
- Sympathy Vote: Give Weinstein an oscar
- What Were They Wearing: There are no “accidental” shootings
- I’m a military father, where’s my free chardonnay?
- Do we all need to live defensively?
- Clean up the corpses of your victims before they begin to stink
- The Art of Book Design: Our Next Door Neighbor: Winter in Mexico
- Teaching cooking, teaching science…lessons to learn
- T.S. Eliot trembled in fear
- The Scott Warren acquittal and providing sanctuary
- No good deed goes unpunished
- Fabulous Fumaria Flowers
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- The Distant Drums
- Clow UFO Base takes in Australian evacuees (Fiction)
- The Art of Book Design: Boys of Other Countries
- The global terror network that is rarely named
- Life Sentence: Criminal masterminds, they weren’t
- New secret details emerge about aborted Amazon-NYC deal
- Free for whom? On Meghan Murphy’s speech
- Have kids, they said. You’ll never be bored, they said.
- Sunday Fakespeare: The Breakers of Spirit
- Drag him out of office in handcuffs NOW.
- Behold how the Democratic political machine works
- How to Restore and Repair Old Wooden Windows
- Weird Symmetries
- Crappy New Gear etcetera, aka: Good News, Everyone!
- Emojis and me
- Bathroom buddy
- Evidence for killing Suleimani was ‘razor thin’
- Spiders had their breakfast
- The Art of Book Design: British Dragon Flies (Odonata)
- What do these nine people have in common?
- In which I get married
- The Intelligent Design-Young Earth Creationist tension
- ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter One, part 2
- Symbolism is not evidence
- When you start a donnybrook is when you find out who your friends are
- My Candidate for “Game Of The Year”
- Cat
- A theory of how our brains process time
- Double Dactyl: War We Go Again
- Jack’s Walk
- The fallout from the killing of Qassem Suleimani
- I thought the soy boy nonsense had run its course
- The Art of Book Design: Things Will Take a Turn
- Local news
- Searching for the real Buddha
- We’ve already lost the war
- While Away: I’ll be back in a few days to a week
- Symbolic Photography
- A Gift That Keeps On Giving
- How to completely miss the point
- Qassem Suleimani killed
- Book review: Range by David Epstein
- Oh, hell, this is really, really bad
- War
- Stephen Colbert visits Jacinda Ardern
- Monterey SkeptiCamp meeting on Saturday, January 4th
- How Fanbros Stifle Critique
- Jack’s Walk
- William Greider (1936-2019)
- Contrapoints and the test of endurance
- More on Chisels
- The Art of Book Design: Girl’s Nest
- The calculus of education
- Under capitalism, evil is just another brand
- Julian Castro is out
- Australia has spiders? Shocking!
- Buttigieg’s deep support in the intelligence community
- As Luck Would Have It: I have a New Year’s Eve photo
- A Christian Conservative Liberty Loving Republican
- The fallout from the Ron Reagan atheist ad
- Liquid Soap
- Jack’s Walk
- Faux Wave Feminism
- True Love Exists: Utah man found dead in a freezer for ten years
- Reason’s Greetings to all this blog’s readers
- Meet Adorable George
- The Art of Book Design: The Happy New Year
- Acab
- 2020 is off to a cracking start
- UN rapporteur condemns continued torturing of Chelsea Manning
- My New Year Spruce Tree
- Thoughts on Baptism
- Welcome To 2020
- My Thought For 2019