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December 2021

  1. So this is how 2021 ends
  2. “You Can’t Hear Me Knocking” Sucks
  3. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — No. 29 “Treatment”
  4. TV Review: Death to 2021
  5. Happy 2022!
  6. Happy New Year…it’s your last
  7. The coronavirus illustrates evolution on action
  8. Friday Cephalopod: Beauty is deeeeep
  9. Random Delights
  10. Personal (Distr)Action Against Climate Change
  11. Pin Cutting Thingamajig
  12. Leftist easily wins presidency in Chile
  13. What a pretty tree!
  14. Radiation paradoxes 8: The Principle of Equivalence
  15. NFTs are silly – also, they are the same old stuff
  16. That’s an impressive correlation
  17. It’s going to be a wild shindig
  18. One more pedophile down
  19. Open Thread: The End of The World
  20. I Read Today: About Maxwell’s conviction
  21. How absurd can Kent Hovind get? Let’s talk about it.
  22. Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of sex trafficking
  23. Hovind & Powell: rank incompetence!
  24. The SARS-CoV-2 variant classification scheme
  25. How Does It Feel?
  26. I can’t believe PA might put Oz in the senate
  27. Alex Jones may have disappointed some of his followers
  28. Kent Hovind’s nemesis
  29. The LAPD is just the worst
  30. No, Heather, hating your spouse is not normal
  31. TheCrafsMan is my new therapist
  32. Getting a Different Grip on Handles
  33. Monarch butterflies
  34. Film review: Don’t Look Up (2021)
  35. Hearts and Minds
  36. Hell, definitely
  37. The Devil made Sam Harris’s friends do it
  38. Plush of the Month: Dragons!
  39. Oh, so now he cares about people’s privacy?
  40. Boost
  41. I can hardly wait for next Christmas!
  42. Radiation paradoxes 7: Accelerating frames and the general theory of relativity
  43. What would we do if we discovered the world was going to end?
  44. However, aggressive, forthright opposition also works
  45. As our holiday season winds down, give thanks that America is destroying religion
  46. The Babbler’s shocking predictions for 2022 (Fiction)
  47. My portrait, after a couple of rough years
  48. The Moment Passed
  49. Desmond Tutu represented the best of religion
  50. I tried walking to the lab
  51. Seeing the universe in its infancy
  52. Another day of bad muffins
  53. Goodbye 2021.
  54. What I think of this diet and xmas
  55. My Xmas lunch
  56. A Life Well Lived: Happy 200th, Clara Barton
  57. Oryx
  58. My Xmas breakfast
  59. Reason’s Greetings to all this blog’s readers!
  60. NASA Webb Telescope is on its way
  61. This is the Xmas I would believe in, if I believed
  62. Six Days To Go: Today’s just another day
  63. Also, Jesus is imaginary and there is no afterlife
  64. Is Kent Hovind living in sin?
  65. View of my Knife Testing Lab
  66. Jesse Watters may be stupid and juvenile but he is dangerous
  67. So…this Christmas Eve thing
  68. All I want for Christmas is to…fire the police.
  69. They Did Not Listen, They Did Not Know How…
  70. The growing divide within the American evangelical movement
  71. Abolition requires more than just swapping out people. It requires reshaping the world.
  72. On the mend for Christmas!
  73. Radiation paradoxes 6: Getting rid of gravity
  74. FIFTY BILLION ($50,000,000,000) DOLLARS!!!
  75. On The Origins of COVID-19
  76. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Mary Alexander-Basta (2020) Mixed
  77. A taxonomy of spider people
  78. Deep theology on Fox and Friends
  79. Fools And Their Money Are Soon Departed: The ignorant will buy anything
  80. Third Shot Experience
  81. Watters’ Call To Kill: An assassin’s screed
  82. How Attitudes Change: Remember Legionnaires’ Disease?
  83. The variable rate of the Earth’s rotation
  84. Hey, how about some local good news for a change?
  85. As I’ve Asked Before: Why isn’t today New Year’s Day?
  86. Would you put your brain in a robot body?
  87. How are we supposed to teach in the Plague Years?
  88. My illusory award of two days of vacation
  89. Let’s Go Viral
  90. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Roger Claar (1986) (Fiction)
  91. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Five, Part One
  92. Mano’s Optimism, Solnit’s Reassurances and Progressive Momentum
  93. The reactionaries are in decline, not ascendant
  94. I could be worse
  95. My new vicarious pleasure
  96. Gingerbread Cookies
  97. Who is doing the silencing?
  98. Military looks askance at religious exemptions for vaccines
  99. Sexual harassment…in my own back yard!
  100. Actions have consequences – Danish politics edition
  101. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Edward Rosenthal (1981) (Fiction)
  102. Figgy Pudding
  103. If the virus doesn’t get you, the cultists will
  104. Why catalytic converters are being increasingly stolen
  105. Yes! Grades done!
  106. Radiation paradoxes 5: Mass
  107. The cork is about to pop
  108. The most important civics lesson they never taught us
  109. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Bob Bailey (1978) (Fiction)
  110. OMG! NEW COVID VARIANTS!!!!
  111. Third Graders Forced to Reenact the Holocaust
  112. More obituaries should be like this
  113. Distractions
  114. Gingerbread Houses
  115. The desperate defenses of the January 6th rioters
  116. Gay cartoon ducks killed David Menton
  117. Yes, I am ready to become a spider
  118. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Nora Wipfler (1975) (Fiction)
  119. ‘Tis the season for returning stuff
  120. Nice Try, BBC
  121. Straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel
  122. Behold my mountain of digital papers!
  123. Tell me he’s doing a bit. It’s a bit, right?
  124. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: James Johnston (1974) (Fiction)
  125. WTF, UM?
  126. If You Hail Satan, Come Correct
  127. Don’t die for me!
  128. There’s a reason Minnesotans don’t wear sandals in Winter
  129. Gingerbread Bird Feeder
  130. Friday Cephalopod: They’re so cute when you can see right through to their guts
  131. Resign yourself to the new normal
  132. Journalists should seek to be pariahs
  133. “It’s on her left foot!”
  134. The mayors of Bolingbrook: Patricia McDowell (1974) (Fiction)
  135. Bad news for the Thwaites Glacier
  136. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Thomas Groseth (1973) (Fiction)
  137. Brain surgeons and rocket scientists are not brighter than others
  138. I Was Just Reminded: Hitchens died ten years ago
  139. One thing I don’t miss from Salt Lake City
  140. The War on Christmas Continues
  141. In case you’ve been wondering how this anti-vax crap spreads…
  142. Radiation paradoxes 4: Stars, space, and rotating frames
  143. Hovind gets banned! Hovind rises from the dead! Hovind is still a mindless zombie.
  144. Mark Meadows is an oozing pus-bag of poison
  145. We weathered that weather just fine
  146. Antifa was Calling from Inside the Building
  147. What to send Elon Musk to congratulate him?
  148. Oh, no…this might be all my fault
  149. I’m eager to try out my new toy!
  150. All In
  151. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Four
  152. Birch Bark Handles
  153. Live by social media, die by social media
  154. At least they made him cry
  155. Matt Ridley’s steady descent into dangerous British loonhood
  156. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Robert Schanks (1968) (Fiction)
  157. Jessie Gender has some thoughts on J.K. Rowling’s ongoing use of her massive platform to spread hate.
  158. My granddaughter, trendsetter & influencer
  159. Two Bobbin Lace Doilies
  160. “Dramatic Change” Is One Way To Put It
  161. The Texas abortion law model to be used against guns
  162. I really needed to read this as I was working on my spring syllabi
  163. The Panglossian Paradigm thrives in the Intellectual Dork Web
  164. The Mayors of Bolingbrook: Jack Leonard (1965) (Fiction)
  165. Gabriel Lusts: Anti-gay bishop quits over sex scandal
  166. The Santa Dilemma
  167. The lull before the storm
  168. ROGD Is: Rabid, outlandish, and grossly dishonest
  169. Suffocating Seas: An update on this blog’s namesake climate catastrophe
  170. Going Away for Treatment
  171. Simple Finish Knives
  172. Stupid
  173. Radiation paradoxes 3: Identifying genuine inertial frames
  174. Stop it, Australia, I’m a married man!
  175. More signs we live in a dystopia
  176. How much does America respect its teachers?
  177. Our Mayors of Bolingbrook series returns! (Mixed)
  178. If Chile is to be the grave of Neoliberalism, let this be played at its funeral!
  179. Ready, Aim, Fire: A supersonic trebuchet exists
  180. Santa vs. Jesus
  181. No Consequences
  182. Cuba’s vaccination production effort pays off
  183. Anne Rice is dead
  184. Have Some Gingerbread
  185. Link Roundup: December 2021
  186. You’ve got a smoking gun, now do something about it
  187. The things you learn on the internet
  188. Scifi Saturday: Cary starts a hunt, part one
  189. Rush Day Is Coming Soon: More calendar fun
  190. I’d Like To Know: Exactly which date does politeness become “offensive”?
  191. Relativity of Value
  192. My hip hop band name will be “RTA Clade”
  193. This cannot be tolerated: creationists lying about spider evolution
  194. Radiation paradoxes 2: Space and inertial frames
  195. Reminder: Celebrate the season with FtB today!
  196. Furious Friday: Wage theft
  197. Dreams, Superheroes, Trans Biz
  198. Look at the Grinding Noise!
  199. In about an hour, I get to teach my last lecture of Fall 2021
  200. This is an odd video to go “viral”
  201. I will never understand what’s going on in the UK
  202. Wellness and woo
  203. Friday Cephalopod: Santapus!
  204. Boys will be boys…call in the exterminators
  205. Let’s Remember: Steve Bronski, 1960-2021
  206. Knocked Down Again: PLEASE don’t tell me I need a booster shot
  207. I Can Smell the Toxic From Here
  208. Philosophy’s Sufficient Causes
  209. Rich people from the U.S. emit more than rich people of other countries, but there’s more to it than just that
  210. They read science articles, they just don’t understand them
  211. I Don’t Expect Much To Happen: Josh Duggar, guilty of possessing child pornography
  212. Escalating cult behavior
  213. The War On Thanksgiving
  214. We can sleep when we’re dead
  215. Entertaining misery
  216. What Does This Accomplish?: It’s a meaningless gesture
  217. The “Nuclear Family” is a myth that limits our capacity to understand ourselves
  218. Pennsylvania Evening
  219. It may be cold out there, but this is fake
  220. The Christmas season is officially here
  221. Radiation paradoxes 1: Do electric charges and neutral particles fall at the same rate?
  222. Former congressman Dan Lipinski triggered a riot at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  223. Podish-Sortacast Episode 4: I’ll be back for the holidays (Non-fiction)
  224. A hotter planet means more extreme weather. Extreme weather means more expensive food.
  225. Minor Christian nightmare
  226. I don’t want to trigger you
  227. Cable news is the tail that wags the political news dog
  228. With Authority Comes Responsibility
  229. Reviewing “outsider” music
  230. Where conservatism leads
  231. Totally unsurprising revelation of the day
  232. To the great surprise of nobody, economists under-value human life.
  233. The Cult Has Aged Out: Watching catholicism die in Ireland
  234. It Should Never Have Happened: The Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921
  235. The flawed US parole system
  236. When Courage And Cowardice Contrast: Sports and human rights collided
  237. I see a horrifying future of … marketing
  238. Manifold Destiny
  239. It’s good to be the CIA, or rich
  240. I think we done killed another tree
  241. It took journalists this long to figure that out?
  242. We’ll Soon Find Out
  243. More Science Sleuthing
  244. Don’t they carefully vet the White House physician?
  245. Sunday Funnies: Speed Check
  246. Reminder: livestream a little later this morning
  247. How stupid can a congressperson be?
  248. It’s been TERF time!
  249. Some Homework For You, Possibly Urgent
  250. Another betrayal by Judas
  251. The Myth of Self Defence
  252. A history of ranking Dominion cards
  253. The strange case of the Michigan school shooter
  254. Hilarity Ensues: DickDawk (gear) shifts the blame
  255. The Fvckpile
  256. The Council of Nicea and other jokes
  257. Friday Film Review: Vamps (2012)
  258. I Made a Shoe Rack
  259. Invitation for my Fellow Radio Enthusiasts
  260. Who was the thief here?
  261. Friday Cephalopod: the real birds
  262. Good morning, omicron!
  263. The law can be dry, does that mean that lawyers are anti-poets?
  264. Nice round number again
  265. The bear and the atheist
  266. A glimpse of the distant future if we utterly fail
  267. Dropping the term ‘alien’ when describing immigrants
  268. How to tell what time of year it is
  269. While we’re all waiting for the University of Austin to die…
  270. My boring goal for this weekend
  271. Despair
  272. Well, wouldja look at that? The Omicron variant was in Europe before it was detected in Africa.
  273. Misguided Christmas holiday efforts
  274. The Criticism
  275. Throw It Overboard
  276. A brief bit of advice about dealing with potentially extremist loved ones
  277. Nice Ash
  278. Sinterklaas is coming this weekend
  279. The covid-19 variant naming system
  280. Origami: Stairway leaf
  281. I do make a pretty good soup
  282. Sorry, fam, count me out

November 2021

  1. Omicron, Evolution, and Africa: the predictable result of ignorance and white supremacy
  2. TNET 46: In a Highlander’s Shoes
  3. Why are the numbers of non-religious increasing in the US?
  4. That is so Chuck
  5. The Omicron variant
  6. What happened to John McWhorter?
  7. Who deserves equality and protection?
  8. Why Pretend?
  9. More pun fun
  10. Oh, boy, the creationists want answers!
  11. Accidentally Tacticool?
  12. The tricks of memory
  13. Bumper Stickers
  14. What kind of person would attack a child?
  15. Can we civilize OAN and AT&T?
  16. Enlightenment is a relative thing
  17. Four day weekends are a lie
  18. The anti-aging industry
  19. Sunday Sermon: On Being a Dangerous Person
  20. Smash-and-grab raids
  21. So… What Are Tomatoes? Exactly?
  22. My new holiday greeting
  23. It’s astonishing how little creativity & novelty & thought goes on in Kent Hovind’s pretty little head
  24. Dwindling water supplies highlight the need for systemic change.
  25. “Secure in my masculinity”
  26. The weirdness of the present calendar
  27. USA People: Escape the Private Sector!
  28. Friday Cephalopod: that’s how I feel about black Friday, too
  29. Dinosaur Tracks
  30. Xenophobia and the story of Kabuliwala
  31. A couple thoughts on Thanksgiving, and a video on the holiday’s history from Some More News
  32. Thanksgiving
  33. I’ve got my booster shot, have you?
  34. It’s a travel day & a feast day!
  35. Thankful that justice is occasionally delivered
  36. Do Foolery
  37. Looking back at history, geography, and climate: Why did colonialism happen in the way that it did?
  38. A Babbler Thanksgiving Video (Fiction)
  39. I Try To Walk Away: But traffic terrorism keeps following me
  40. Arbery verdict: 3 more white supremacists are having a very bad day.🎉
  41. What your turkey looks like to a vegetarian
  42. What NFTs are and how they work
  43. Thank you again, President Ulysses S. Grant
  44. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Three
  45. Perspective on the Self-Defense Defense
  46. Let’s Remember: Freddie Mercury, 1946-1991
  47. White supremacists and white nationalists are having a bad day.
  48. Abolish marriage , or abolish Christianity . It’s that simple.
  49. Frosty Morning Walk – Part 6 – Frosty Leaves
  50. What I like in a detective story
  51. Convergent evolution of soma in Astrephomene
  52. Some loss of privacy accompanies being a public figure
  53. Only purebloods will escape the curse of the vampire!
  54. I’m pretty sure this is one of the portents of the apocalypse in the book of Revelation
  55. Two For Joy
  56. That time a country ran sorta like a corporation, and the US decided to respond with murder
  57. Extra-terrestrials are English speakers
  58. They’re on to us!
  59. Gott mit uns
  60. Remember the lies
  61. Businnes offer Canon
  62. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
  63. To an embryologist, everything looks a bit eggy
  64. You Are Hallucinating This Message
  65. If you want to commit to the superorganism, sharing your mind is not enough.
  66. The Infection Spreads: Anti-masker violence is here
  67. How FOMO was used to swindle people
  68. Not a great weekend
  69. Sunday Sermon: The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict
  70. Disparity in Politically Motivated Murder
  71. A jailbird and spouse abuser claims to have debated me — you’d think I’d have noticed
  72. Getting around the false promise of technological salvation
  73. Transgender Day of Remembrance.
  74. Texas is polluting the educational system again
  75. Do you think UATX will just fade away?
  76. Rittenhouse’s Death Sentence
  77. ACLU statement: Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t act alone (Non-fiction)
  78. Blatantly Rigged Trial Ends as Expected
  79. Karen has strong feelings about A Christmas Carol
  80. Here comes the sexism, WTF, people?
  81. Atheism and My Eating Disorder Recovery
  82. An Experimental Kitchen Knives Set
  83. Update/Speaking Engagements/New Poem
  84. Debooted!
  85. Friday Cephalopod: I hope you like the color blue
  86. Possibly the best cartoon ever
  87. Curse you, Reginald C. Punnett
  88. Quality of TERF-Adjacent Discourse
  89. Vicious union busting tactics
  90. Frosty Morning Walk – Part 5 – Find the Fly
  91. High profile prisoners highlight awful prison conditions in the US
  92. It is done — I am boosted
  93. I’m getting my booster this morning, and apparently I have much to look forward to
  94. Shut up, Thomas Friedman
  95. It’s not nice to make fun of Southern yokels
  96. Talking multicellularity on Demystifying Science
  97. Lyrics Associations
  98. This is the flibbertigibbetiest
  99. Minnesota is working hard to achieve northern shithole status
  100. Breathtaking Inanity Returns: 102 anti-Trans laws
  101. Traffic Terrorism Strikes Again: Because governments care more about fast traffic than human lives
  102. Always label every bottle
  103. Giving thanks
  104. Black holes as dark matter candidates
  105. Facebook is a repository of the dumbest ideas about everything
  106. Oh no, now #UATX is getting slammed by satire
  107. I had to get this video out fast
  108. Fuccing Breakthru Cases
  109. Solar panels and shade: using “negative space” to increase climate resilience
  110. Is your phone spying on you?
  111. Minnesota Man truly believes in FREEEEEEEDOM!
  112. I take no joy in seeing a career disintegrate
  113. But really, who’s on first?
  114. Aww, poor John Cleese
  115. How have I not heard of Elaine, Arkansas before?
  116. Republican, COVID vaccinated, and afraid: Bolingbrook’s silent conservatives speak out (Fiction)
  117. The difficulty of gauging Trump’s strength
  118. Steve Bannon is just plain weird…or he’s America’s Rasputin
  119. First Snow!
  120. Inside the Sausage Factory
  121. Ta-Nehisi Coates always provides a good start to the day
  122. What do you mean, this isn’t what a poetry slam is?
  123. The pandemic is not over, you know
  124. The incident in the night with the onions
  125. Dennett on Free Will
  126. Isn’t Sunday supposed to be a day of rest?
  127. More pun fun
  128. In Honor of COP26
  129. One Santoku, Two Santoku, Three Santoku…
  130. Well, that was embarrassing …
  131. New book on the evolution of multicellularity
  132. Every time this guy opens his mouth, he proves how wrong I can be
  133. Have a Rainbow
  134. The Pandemic Continues: 2021 is the worst year yet for the mass murder of Transgender and Non-Binary people
  135. A Week To Go: Then the Remembrance Day that matters
  136. Frosty Morning Walk – Part 4 – Frost On a Thistle
  137. We’re gonna talk about vidya games?
  138. Atheists, agnostics, and Catholics are the most supportive of vaccines
  139. Here I am living in The Future, and some of it is such a let-down
  140. Thinking About Art
  141. 2,000,000th comment achieved!
  142. Hilarity Ensues: I really, really, REALLY hope this isn’t a stunt
  143. Fang you very much!
  144. Bigotry, Transphobia, and the BBC: They always tell on themselves
  145. Overreacting to publicity hounds
  146. I Think This Will Cut It
  147. The view from my office window
  148. What’s with McMaster University?
  149. Friday Cephalopod: What would Edna Mode say?
  150. Link roundup: November 2021
  151. Uh-oh, it’s snowing
  152. This xkcd strip needs an extra panel
  153. My Clock Runneth Over
  154. How to fight climate change in a 3-minute spot on TV
  155. This is what happens when you abandon a consensus
  156. I’m too old for this stuff
  157. More Than I Expected: What the hell is going on in Virginia?
  158. More pun fun
  159. The real cancel culture
  160. My Shoppe is Cursed. Cursed I Say!
  161. How do you respect others’ beliefs?
  162. Psychopaths and sociopaths
  163. Another example of our neutered “justice” system
  164. Cops are useless
  165. This Sort Of Thing Will Be A Problem
  166. Those uppity women…no longer controlled by fear of dinosaurs
  167. Noooooo! Curse you, algorithm!
  168. Do they plan for things like this?
  169. Average body temperature is dropping
  170. For once, I’m siding with the engineers
  171. I think Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might feel personally offended
  172. Circadian rhythms are amazing
  173. Blockchain Will End Civilization – Ask Me How!
  174. Unbiased estimators in a Monty Hall problem
  175. The Rift is coming… Early 2022 (Non-fiction)
  176. Galilean relativity rules! (At speeds much less than the speed of light)
  177. The ultimate gated community – in space
  178. I needed the laugh
  179. I got a new toy
  180. Round number alert!
  181. This Sounds Permian AF
  182. It looks like PragerU will have some competition
  183. What would Hippocrates say?
  184. I’m in hell
  185. I AM THE KNISHEST!
  186. Podish-Sortacast 3: Not about Ethics in Gaming Journalism (Non-Fiction)
  187. A week from today! Another Podish-Sortacast from FtB
  188. Some heroes sit at a keyboard
  189. A New Recommended Book!
  190. Is it OK to lie in your election campaign?
  191. Open Thread! All the Error Messages That Fit
  192. Have some cake
  193. Hero(in) Dealers Try Again: Another year of poppy fascism
  194. Pondering the Future of Life
  195. What Atheism Is
  196. Guy Fawkes: Good Activists and Social Change
  197. Frosty Morning Walk – Part 3 – An Orange Flower
  198. Choices…at the movies!
  199. The German Tank Problem
  200. Do I have to do everything around here?
  201. The Freezer of the Damned
  202. Friday Cephalopod: You know who doesn’t have an Achilles tendon?
  203. I have to stop being optimistic
  204. Thousands of people discovered this before Bob did
  205. First you strawman those who disagree with you, then you murder them with your car
  206. Is This Creep One of Ours?
  207. Light blogging
  208. Frosty Morning Walk – Part 2 – The WOODPECKER
  209. Time To Stand Up: But was I funny?
  210. Adorable As Can Be: The best costumes of 2021 in Taiwan
  211. There Are Bigger TERFish To Fry: The BBC should be ashamed, but they’re not
  212. Problem solving!
  213. How do you solve a problem like kathleenzielinski?
  214. Oh no! It’s THURSDAY!
  215. Wiccan Communists turned my child into a gay transgender revolutionary!
  216. Work at Home Thoughts
  217. This life isn’t sustainable
  218. The past is present: FBI bias against progressive politics continues to undermine the pretense of democracy in the U.S.
  219. By Now This Should be No Surprise
  220. I’ve Been Robbed
  221. The dark matter problem
  222. Proud to be that twit’s enemy
  223. What do you mean, “November”?
  224. Yes, I do know why spiders curl up when they die
  225. Privilege, Deference, and Moral Certainty
  226. Not Ignoring You All…
  227. The water-logged corpse of JFK jr did not appear in Dealey Plaza
  228. Be skeptical about callous bystander stories
  229. Ethiopia
  230. What is this cartoon saying?
  231. Forgive me, for I have sinned
  232. Bargain basement second coming
  233. Time to walk the walk, Leslie
  234. Coattail Rydaz
  235. Chicagoland’s UFO bases crackdown on alien carjackers (Fiction)
  236. Cross Contamination
  237. Life lessons from Jef the cyclist
  238. I would never have predicted such a fall
  239. kathleenzielinski’s “gay rights movement”
  240. Spooktober – Days 29-31… and Beyond!
  241. Origami: Giggling Skull
  242. Not going far enough
  243. Delightful Applications of Explosives
  244. They disrespect the people they claim to be defending
  245. Irrational sports fans
  246. Every spider is as brilliant as it needs to be!
  247. The Dawkins ennui
  248. Owen Strachan needs to get out more

October 2021

  1. Daylight view!
  2. The Masks We Wear And Remove
  3. Somber milestone
  4. Happy Halloween!
  5. Fosty Morning Walk – Part 1
  6. Say you’re out trick-or-treating tonight
  7. I summoned a demon for atheist Hallowe’en. It did not go well.
  8. Like Hitting Yourself in the Face With a Hammer
  9. The difficulty of becoming sober in an alcohol-drenched society
  10. Coming up in less than three hours: chat about spider horror movies with me!
  11. Ignoring abuse to focus on lexicography
  12. Supreme Court blocks religious vaccine exemption
  13. Moral hypocrisy on full display
  14. Update 2
  15. It turns out that many hands do make light work
  16. Putting the fun into funerals
  17. Sunflower Residence – Butterflies Finale
  18. Being a Transphobe, the Great Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
  19. Another Headstone Milestone Passes
  20. Billionaires are a plague on the planet
  21. Cricket fights
  22. Transphobes occasionally dip a toe in here
  23. Some of you are gonna hate me for this image
  24. Friday Cephalopod: What’s nightmarish about this?
  25. Spooktober – Days 27 & 28
  26. The Unexamined Hypocrisy of Fake Allies
  27. My Eyes Light Up: The Electric Company turns 50
  28. The ‘rising tide lifts all boats’ myth
  29. On calling someone by their preferred name
  30. If I tried this on my wife, she’d just tell me to get a collecting vial, quick
  31. Covid among older people
  32. When you put it that way, who wouldn’t want to be Pocahantas?
  33. Matt Powell gets a promotion
  34. The ongoing disappointment with the Democrats continues
  35. The long-term side effects issue
  36. Oy! Geroffmylawnyadamnkids!
  37. It’s creationism all over again
  38. An uncanny resemblance
  39. Are Sinema and Manchin the Democratic party’s past or its future?
  40. Who will exterminate the exterminators?
  41. You’ll find his picture next to ‘disingenuous’ in the dictionary
  42. A Clever Bit of Sleuthery
  43. New World Order conspires to force a primary between Rep. Casten and Rep. Newman (Fiction)
  44. Spooktober – Days 25 & 26
  45. Cagers Should Yield Or Stop: Do your research first
  46. The murky ancestry of John James Audubon
  47. I Guess Petitions Work: John Oliver did a piece on Taiwan
  48. VFX Breakdowns
  49. How to commit violence using only your words
  50. The most vaccinated region in the US is … Puerto Rico
  51. Some journalists need to STFU
  52. I’m probably going to be a bit punchy today
  53. The other reason I’ve refocused my interests on spiders
  54. Lego trafficking? Seriously?
  55. Traffic Terrorism Continues: Why drivers intentionally endanger cyclists
  56. One of the best arguments for getting vaccinated and wearing masks
  57. You can’t say that
  58. Why would you have live ammunition on a film set?
  59. Unholy Toledo
  60. She cracked the code!
  61. Evolutionary Pressure?
  62. Spooktober – Days 23 & 24
  63. Walls Fall Down: Another day, another earthquake
  64. Violation Preferred: Why we sometimes need heroes and role models
  65. Funny
  66. Sunday funnies.
  67. Whoomf! Fire When You Do Not Want It.
  68. Screwing The Pooch
  69. The rise and fall (and rise again?) of quicksand
  70. My synapsid family
  71. Kent Hovind’s unsavory career
  72. Dune : epic, majestic, stately, beautiful
  73. ‘Twas the night before Hallowe’en, and the spiders were scuttling about…
  74. Ho ho ho, Muad’Dib
  75. A $10 Tn Bill
  76. Genetics According to Jesus
  77. Do My Eyes Deceive: Or does JD Vance look like Justin Harris?
  78. Shouldn’t you be brought up short if you find yourself agreeing with Putin?
  79. On heroes with clay feet
  80. Kentucky Fried Adult Human Chicken
  81. Spooktober – Days 21 & 22
  82. Machine learning and complex information: How much of humanity has been affected by climate change?
  83. Black History Month – Proud To Be.
  84. Someday, I could be a houseplant
  85. Armed and fortified
  86. Sexy cyborg costume 10% complete!
  87. Intentional fouling in sports
  88. Sorry, Australia
  89. Aliens release Rep. Adam Kinzinger at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  90. Five Year Plan To Fail: Is this Xi’s ever grand scheme?
  91. Police and firefighters opposing vaccinations
  92. Don’t you dare jinx Neil Gaiman!
  93. Media Fail
  94. Popperians and Marxists
  95. Comedian suicide-bombers
  96. He really, really, really misses Twitter
  97. I know that pain
  98. Spooktober – Days 19 & 20
  99. There’s a tumor growing in Texas
  100. Eye Yam on Insta Gram
  101. The religious exemption card is getting harder to play
  102. Ooh, such a dangerous job
  103. The cult of masculinity is just another religion
  104. In which I don’t get Squid Game
  105. Ted Cruz told to butt out by Australian political leader
  106. Why are private schools?
  107. The scientific consensus on climate change is overwhelmingly strong
  108. We can’t?
  109. How I spend my day off
  110. Lagrange Points: And shows us where we can put satellites
  111. Reproductive Injustice: Adding insult to injury
  112. Not my neighbors, I don’t think
  113. A welcome piece of news from Afghanistan
  114. Some are trying to scratch out step 3 now
  115. Spooktober – Days 17 & 18
  116. Anger Shows Up: When their incompetence is shown up
  117. Neil Gaiman and the Lie of Purity
  118. Don’t Make Me Laugh: Bigotry isn’t “comedy”
  119. We’re #7!
  120. She’s three. She was two, but now she is three.
  121. Miss Marple and the theme music from Murder She Said
  122. Argument Clinic: Let’s Go, GerrardOfTitanServer
  123. Another War Criminal Escapes
  124. Tell me about your holidays.
  125. Medicine by law
  126. How can a child’s birthday party not be a disaster?
  127. Dave (ch)Appalls: Anti-Trans bigotry, and racism to boot
  128. This Might Help: A COVID-19 pill, and generics too
  129. How The Tables Turn: Workers are no longer fighting for scraps
  130. Things must be different in Canada
  131. Fall Break, sorta
  132. Spooktober – Days 15 & 16
  133. Infinite Thread XXI
  134. Rethought Free Will
  135. I Suppose Corruption Is Inevitable
  136. I am so sorry you’re dead
  137. It’s the arrogance of creationists that gets me
  138. Women Educators on YouTube – Architect – Belinda Carr
  139. Now I’ve lost GMail
  140. They’re Putting Guns On Robot Dogs
  141. 25 years of sexism at Fox News
  142. No tuffet, no curds and whey required
  143. The battle is joined! War on Christmas comes earlier every year
  144. Friday Cephalopod: Sexy or scary?
  145. How I lost my religious faith
  146. Logic puzzles, overexplained
  147. Ken Ham, conjuring atheists into existence
  148. We saw this coming long ago
  149. The World’s Governments Continue To Fuck Around
  150. Spooktober – Days 13 & 14
  151. I get Christopher Rufo spam
  152. Lie Repeatedly: Because the truth can’t even find its shoes
  153. Excellent documentary on Afghanistan
  154. Chappelle’s Cynicism
  155. I’m full of alien substances now
  156. Prevention and cures
  157. I’ll probably end up voting for Kamala Harris in the next election
  158. First you fondle your gun, then you worship it as your god
  159. The poison in Murdock, Minnesota
  160. Speaking of Doing It Rong
  161. Sunflower Residence – Some More Butterflies
  162. Put Up Or Shut Up: All US hospitals and workplaces should do this
  163. Who knew?
  164. Tell the Anti-Vaxxers
  165. The sermon in Christianity
  166. Speaking of uncool: Blue Origin about to fly
  167. Who needs toe beans when you’ve got spatulae?
  168. Ah, so that’s how we kill Facebook
  169. Spooktober – Days 11 & 12
  170. Double standards in art
  171. I Did Not Know: October 11 was Indigenous People’s Day
  172. Soapdish
  173. If you thought that misinformation on English internet sites was bad …
  174. I hate this time of year
  175. What to say when you meet vaccine protesters
  176. Of Course They Are Going to Keep It
  177. Zipppp – PING!
  178. The ugliness of Facebook (exposed again) may be a sign of its impending demise
  179. OH NO IT’S TUESDAY
  180. So people are talking about conservative brains again…
  181. Where Did The Time Go?
  182. Death and Tax Avoidance
  183. See you next week (Non-fiction)
  184. Kill all your gods
  185. The scandalous way the US criminalizes children
  186. Why is the internet so toxic?
  187. We should have known when they made the Death Star logo
  188. I like the plan, let’s get going
  189. Spooktober – Days 9 & 10
  190. Link Roundup: October 2021
  191. Farewell, A Q Khan
  192. When blogs ruled the internet…
  193. Plush of the Month: Meet Archie O’Pteryx (and some personal updates)
  194. Just As I Suspected: Tobacco companies paid to fake data, again
  195. Rethinking Free Will
  196. Podish-Sortacast 2: Climate Change (Non-fiction)
  197. Anti-Vaxxer Fanaticism Kills: Literally
  198. What is in the infrastructure bill
  199. Tune in this afternoon for a conversation about climate change
  200. Fall has fallen
  201. How rich nations take their wealth from poorer nations
  202. “Help, help, I’m being silenced!” says professor in opinion piece in Newsweek and MIT guest lecture
  203. Could the CIA have leaked the Pandora Papers?
  204. David Lynch makes me aware that my lab needs a soundtrack
  205. Spooktober – Days 7 & 8
  206. The famine is over!
  207. Homicidal squirrel
  208. An Evening Stroll and a Bit of History
  209. We are almost halfway through the semester, and finally…
  210. How to breed atheists
  211. Don’t fear the octopodes
  212. Getting vaccinated is not just a matter of personal choice
  213. Friday Cephalopod: blue baby
  214. You mean there are degrees of Catholic foolishness?
  215. Seeing the beautiful but invisible world around us
  216. Timing Is Everything: And bad timing at that
  217. About To Collapse: The other half of the PRC’s construction collapse
  218. The other vaccine we need
  219. Joyce Carol Oates and the great pronoun debates
  220. Is going to the extreme a winning strategy?
  221. You will be replaced. Get over it.
  222. The ignominy
  223. I thought that was nothing but a weird dream
  224. Spooktober – Days 5 & 6
  225. This raven badly wants coffee
  226. Sri Lankan power couple named in Pandora Papers
  227. I Got Nuts
  228. Why is it always the progressives framed as the problem?
  229. Uh-oh, I’ve defected to the other side
  230. Torturers ‘R US
  231. A naughty limerick
  232. Hilarity Ensued: Facebook’s day off
  233. Please avoid the term “paradigm shift” unless you’ve got something really surprising
  234. Success: A Meme
  235. Rod Dreher still has a job
  236. I see a pattern here
  237. An obvious publicity ploy
  238. FBI raids NYPD. LOL. UPDATED.
  239. British secret agent leaves trail of destruction in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  240. My article The paradoxical reasons for science’s success has been published
  241. Akin To Rape: His words motivate every anti-abortion law today
  242. The ‘Havana Syndrome’ was most likely due to crickets
  243. Systemic Racism – a Reminder
  244. The Nobel acknowledges global warming, again
  245. A little taste of Arachtober
  246. Spooktober – Days 3 & 4
  247. Speaking Event October 9th in Toledo
  248. A tight ball of rage
  249. A transnational kleptocratic class
  250. That was quick
  251. Midsummer Afternoon – Part 4 – Drought and Wetland
  252. How does this deadly nonsense continue?
  253. I’m telling you, Hovind is a total wackaloon
  254. Molecular neurogenetics gets the nod from the Nobel committee
  255. We’ve got another podish-sortacast coming at you on Saturday
  256. Take Zuck, Please
  257. Spooktober – 31 Horror Concepts
  258. Called for jury duty
  259. How the maglev train works
  260. Paris Parle : Two tales of one city
  261. Sunday funnies.
  262. This could be bad
  263. Look I’m In A Band!
  264. What will the future say about us?
  265. Perceived.
  266. Twisting the story to fit your weird obsession is disrespecting the victim
  267. The Met Police has a serious problem
  268. Some Sunday music
  269. It did not have to be this bad
  270. Don’t debate creationists, mmm-kay?
  271. Finally He Retires: But his replacement won’t be an improvement
  272. Can You Guess: What was his skin colour?
  273. How much land would be needed to power the world with solar energy?
  274. Dark Horror Movie Memes
  275. John Oliver on voting rights
  276. Origami: Coronavirus
  277. Taliban promise to revive barbaric punishments
  278. Clean him out, shut him down
  279. Which hapless nation is going to be the next Grenada?
  280. Friday Cephalopod: Freeday Octopus!

September 2021

  1. Please don’t try this
  2. Death and the final exit in The Good Place (spoilers)
  3. What are you wearing?
  4. Fatphobia in culture, and its effects: Some thoughts and a video you should watch
  5. Good news about those who sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong
  6. …cut off their tails with a CRISPR knife…
  7. How often does your atheism come up?
  8. Kent Hovind goes to jail…again!
  9. An Overabladeance
  10. A sign of the apocalypse
  11. A pixel is not a tiny square
  12. Great job, humans!
  13. Maybe it was the infusion of Pinkerism that helped atheism fizzle out
  14. 1/4 Again?
  15. Death and the universe
  16. What took them so long?
  17. Bringing the facts
  18. I need those bugs to feed my spiders!
  19. Evergrande Schemes: It’s more of a bomb than a bubble
  20. I’d call it military cowardice and award them a dishonorable discharge
  21. Nota Bene: September 28 is International Safe Abortion Day
  22. The Colonoscopy Report
  23. Puzzle solving skills
  24. The quickly forgotten slaughters
  25. Climate grief and perceptions of time
  26. Humanism and Poetry Video
  27. Which animals kill the most humans?
  28. What sorting algorithm is that?
  29. This is how you advertise your Christian attraction?
  30. you can talk about it
  31. How the Soviet Union left Afghanistan
  32. Anti-vaxxers have come to this
  33. The creationist sawtooth function
  34. A grading epiphany!
  35. Palatine police announced crackdown against anti-vaccine alien terrorists (Fiction)
  36. Common Sense Prevails: Taiwan is adopting the Norwegian model
  37. Why not switch the two lights?
  38. Time To Rehash: How and why I choose my sources
  39. Is requiring phone charger uniformity a good idea?
  40. Leaky Wells
  41. Really, world, I can’t afford much of a drop in life expectancy
  42. This was so sad and so unnecessary
  43. They used those teeth to crack coconuts, don’t you know
  44. Come see the violence inherent in the system!
  45. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein have no credibility left
  46. Midsummer Afternoon – Part 3 – More Fish in the Aquarium
  47. I do not think that word means what you think it means
  48. Sunday Sermon: Victory Conditions
  49. Patriotic symbolism as theater
  50. Music Rules: And toxic masculinity drools
  51. The Arizona audit fiasco
  52. My cell biology students would have fun with this
  53. Why can’t Israel pay for the Iron Dome?
  54. You Are Not Ninjas
  55. I blame the obscure comic strip for Ogilvie’s travails!
  56. ‘Blessed’ water does not prevent Covid-19
  57. Friday Cephalopod: Baby in a bubble
  58. That seems mean
  59. Pandemic paradox: Less driving, more traffic deaths
  60. I guess cowboys just hate Indians
  61. Call The Bastards Out On It
  62. The dilemma
  63. I had that dream again
  64. The people have spoken, the weirdos
  65. Volcanoes Cause And Affect: I never thought about this before
  66. Those In Crisis Care: An array of states in states of disarray
  67. Swipe Me: I got the shock of my life today
  68. How the Israeli Defense Forces terrorize Palestinians
  69. Walking in the Woods
  70. Bi Visibility Day
  71. Sunflower Residence – Some Shy Butterflies
  72. Rush Hour
  73. Light at the end of the pandemic tunnel?
  74. Christianity, Rapture Theology, and the American Empire
  75. It’s Thursday again
  76. Forty Days To Go: For me, Hallowe’en starts today
  77. Stop Driving, Walk And Ride Instead: It’s World Car Free Day today
  78. Normally, I Don’t: But this case is different
  79. Sometimes, I Worry: Do I talk about music too much?
  80. Shouldn’t the lesson be, “don’t put your conspiracy online”?
  81. An Easy Mold-Making Technique
  82. This debt ceiling charade has to stop
  83. A cure for arachnophobia? On your phone?
  84. She made her choice
  85. Yes, Elvira, I’m angry at someone
  86. Is triggering the libs an effective vote-getting strategy?
  87. I hate Tuesdays and Thursdays
  88. A Carrington Event(ually) Will Happen
  89. The scandal of food waste in the US
  90. Garden update: Harvest is upon us
  91. I Expected As Much: Taipei won’t be having a pride parade this year
  92. A Royal Flush
  93. The Texas abortion legal circus gets under way
  94. I escaped in time!
  95. Nothing Changed: Trudeau’s power grab failed
  96. Bolingbrook’s Mayor Emeritus kicks out ‘Karen’ convention (Fiction)
  97. U.S. immigration policy is deliberately cruel under both major parties. This must change.
  98. Too close to the truth to be funny
  99. How many steps a day should one take?
  100. Yet another of those stories
  101. Keeping My Hand In
  102. Abortion bounty hunters and legal standing
  103. Irony gasps back to life! Thanks, Florida GOP.
  104. The most charming magical bar that has ever been
  105. The enemy has been vanquished, maybe
  106. Common Sense Returns, Finally: UK courts have overturned the Bell v. Tavistock (poor) decision
  107. Gone, But Not Forgotten: The Lokomotive Yaroslavl Team of 2011
  108. Texas doctor throws down the gauntlet to new abortion law
  109. More Stuff To See: A video about factorials
  110. I Knew: But the detailed explanation helps
  111. Conference notes from QGCon 2020
  112. Food for thought on the structure of change
  113. That’s my boy
  114. FEVER in the time of COVID-19
  115. The Use of Nuclear Weapons – 2
  116. Local politics is an unreliable guide
  117. Reminder: I’m answering questions at 11am Central time today
  118. Teacher’s Corner: A Trip with Donkeys
  119. idk memes i guess
  120. It’s all hype: we’re a long way from reconstructing a mammoth
  121. Another massacre of civilians by US drones
  122. What happens when you don’t let Marvel and Disney dictate your movie choices?
  123. Blast off!
  124. A Fun Video Less Problematic?
  125. Midsummer Afternoon – Part 2 – Fish in the Aquarium
  126. Grandfathered In, Part 2: I tried to Warner you….
  127. He’s Gone: Clive Sinclair, dead at (ZX)81
  128. The curious history of polywater
  129. Feynman and Self
  130. Oh Deer!
  131. Anti-vaxxers are murdering children
  132. I quite enjoy a good Sullivan-bashing, but…
  133. Where can I get me one of them little boxes?
  134. I’m convinced: death to Facebook
  135. My Favorite Norm McDonald Scene
  136. Norm Macdonald on battling cancer
  137. Public Service Announcement: Never trust someone’s friend about anything
  138. Sunflower Residence – Bumblebeeeezzz
  139. Another Patron Q&A this weekend
  140. Too many topics, not enough time
  141. The Use of Nuclear Weapons
  142. The draconian Texas abortion law
  143. What are the grifters doing today?
  144. I do enjoy a good evolutionary psychology take-down in the morning
  145. The final clue
  146. Naked Confidence: Sex and Eating Disorder Recovery (Poem and Memoir Update)
  147. Newsom defeats recall effort
  148. Self Owned: TERFs must love serving the patriarchy
  149. Point And Shoot: When politicians incite murder on camera
  150. Don’t Try: Suicide by stupidity, as anti-vaxxer dies
  151. My true and honest feelings about the death of Bob Enyart
  152. Questioning Arbitrary Authority
  153. Depressingly accurate lesson
  154. Argiope bruennichi (Wasp Spider) – Belly
  155. Checks on the president’s ability to fire nuclear weapons
  156. Good work, California
  157. Tell me about it
  158. Futile whining
  159. When part of my past became a published undergraduate article (Non-fiction)
  160. Self Aggrandizing: Now I don’t have to hear to that Fleetwood Mac song
  161. Bits Flip: How something so miniscule can pose a huge hazard
  162. Calling a woman a ‘young lady’ is an obvious put down
  163. I regret asking the question
  164. Spiderman is Having you for Dinner Tonight
  165. Retaliation Strikes That Miss
  166. Dan Ariely’s work called into question
  167. What kind of ridiculous poison will they ingest next to avoid a simple vaccination?
  168. Facebook has been lying to us? Say it ain’t so.
  169. German engineering! Also, German history
  170. Sunflower Residence – Some Green Fly
  171. Even mobsters don’t want to be jerks
  172. What kind of marketing strategy is this?
  173. I’m going to have to appreciate dandelions more
  174. Different Perspectives
  175. The Costa Rican health care system
  176. “They aren’t shooters. They are poseurs.”
  177. I’m mad as hell, too
  178. One of the few advantages to teaching over Zoom
  179. Harriet Hall strikes again (Non-fiction) (Link)
  180. I Apologize: Excuse my absence
  181. Samantha Bee’s update on UFOs
  182. Outta here, silly controversialist
  183. Never Forget
  184. Civil resistance versus revolution
  185. Economists, Go Away
  186. Sick of 9/11
  187. Aubrey de Grey exonerated! Not.
  188. A husband’s revenge
  189. Seth Meyers on the Lee statue removal
  190. Never Forget (Non-fiction)
  191. Welcome to our home!
  192. Deprivation can lead to common knowledge
  193. The Wrong Status, II
  194. Delegitimizing government as a means to avoid progressive measures
  195. The fight over infrastructure
  196. The Robert Marks evasion: 7-year anniversary
  197. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no. 28 “Kindergarten”
  198. How do pandemics end?
  199. Link roundup: September 2021
  200. Friday Cephalopod: They’re coming to get you now
  201. Iä! Iä! Teilhard de Chardin fhtagn!
  202. Fungi Friday
  203. Satellite Views
  204. Skeptisuck – Harriet Hall Time
  205. There is no way to reconcile science with religion
  206. Sources: Village considering ‘Texas-style bounties’ to combat ‘negative social media posts’ (Fiction)
  207. Robert E. Lee statue goes out with a whimper
  208. The Wrong Status
  209. Dear Small Business Owners: We need to talk about fascism
  210. Harriet Hall Is No Skeptic
  211. The drawing and quartering of Bobby Lee has been done
  212. I love it when they call me a creationist
  213. The origins of the lizard people theory
  214. Extreme Functional Metalwork
  215. What’s the joke here?
  216. Boghossian quits! PSU students can celebrate!
  217. How’s life going for the Nazis among us?
  218. Midsummer Afternoon – Part 1 – Visit to Harakka Island
  219. Another possible reason as to why are flight attendants are being attacked
  220. Don’t drag me into your petty squabbles, loons
  221. My Pillow, Guys
  222. Another favorable review of my book
  223. Midwestern rivers sure are loopy
  224. The cat is going to be insufferable if she finds out
  225. Nice big experimental animals
  226. Women Artisans on YouTube – Woodworker – Ashley Harwood
  227. Mexico! 🎉
  228. Things that annoy me
  229. Iliana begins the process
  230. Looks Like A Worthwhile Event
  231. An Interesting Story
  232. The free speech dilemma
  233. Satan will not save you
  234. Today I learned about Terrain Theory
  235. What makes people explode with rage over trivialities?
  236. None of these spider pants make sense
  237. Must every American story be built on a racist foundation?
  238. My Scientific American article on Kelvin and Darwin
  239. What were they trying to hide?
  240. Why academia doesn’t lean right
  241. What’s this? Labor day? Isn’t every day labor day?
  242. Parental Entitlement
  243. Trolls Have Always Been a Problem
  244. Northbound
  245. Fiction: A boring night is looking up (full story)
  246. Sunday funnies.
  247. FTB Podish-Sortacast… about to start!
  248. It’s a Podish-Sortacast day! (Non-Fiction)
  249. Showdown at the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch
  250. Bumblebee Ride
  251. Portrait of a careerist
  252. I knew that
  253. Once again, I’ll expose myself on YouTube
  254. Mice: a Modern Fairy Tale
  255. Just basic science
  256. Tiny Spider Eating Tiny Prey
  257. Sliced bread was not that great for three months
  258. Today’s agenda
  259. Can you be an atheist and also believe in the paranormal?
  260. …but in the meantime, here’s a video about ADHD
  261. How could big investors have been this gullible?
  262. Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021)
  263. Oh, no…I sympathize with both the beast and his bride
  264. When allusions fail
  265. Friday Cephalopod: Good News, Everyone! Squid Are Getting Bigger and Taking Over the Ocean!
  266. Origami: Four Cubes
  267. I never thought I’d want people to stop sending me free books
  268. The thing I want to tell every jerk who is prolonging the pandemic
  269. Fungi Friday
  270. Second thoughts at the altar
  271. So that’s what a major and his commanding officer look like
  272. Sacklers look likely to get the bankruptcy ruling they sought
  273. You, too, can report gynecologists…and profit!
  274. Honest biologists can’t tell you when human life begins
  275. Let’s take a moment to savor a global victory
  276. Glittering Damselflies
  277. The Doors: “This is The End”
  278. Looks like it’s my turn
  279. The desire for fleeting fame can lead to unnecessary and dangerous risk taking
  280. Argiope bruennichi (Wasp Spider)
  281. The experiment continues!
  282. Sheer Marketing Genius
  283. Bye-bye, Roe v. Wade
  284. A Good Article About Working In The FBI
  285. Iceland’s culture of accountability
  286. The divide between prevention and treatment of covid-19
  287. An accurate historical summary

August 2021

  1. Can you be an atheist as well as spiritual?
  2. I’m escaping into outer space at the end of this week
  3. Who hasn’t encountered people like this?
  4. The age of the faux expert
  5. Sunflower Residence – More Flies
  6. Status report
  7. The Pleasure of Full Cast Audiobooks
  8. That’s About Right
  9. More civilians killed in Afghanistan
  10. Socialism with slavery?
  11. Hidden Lakes Monster throws tantrum over possible sale of Hidden Lakes (Fiction)
  12. Renewing My Comment Policy
  13. A kiss on the hand might be quite continental, but heavy machinery is a girl’s best friend
  14. Dr. House deals with an anti-vax mother
  15. Boiling down stupid to its essence
  16. The importance of background knowledge in humor
  17. Another vacation scene
  18. What Bill Maher and The Chair have in common
  19. Evolution has won the war over creationism
  20. I Need SJW Opinions, Help Me
  21. Mission accomplished
  22. A Bit About DMCA
  23. Sunflower Residence – Various Flies
  24. Looking at a Kandinsky in a dingy power station
  25. Folks on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. are going to need help
  26. A Fistful of Justice
  27. T’was Tool Making Day
  28. What if every sport used a bowling ball instead?
  29. Scenes from newly opened universities in a pandemic
  30. Corollary of Parkinson’s Law for sociopaths
  31. Borb: Plush of the Month
  32. Shut the f*k up, Aubrey
  33. God-Man could do with a little help
  34. Caliper Pin – New Knifemaking Tool
  35. Another four-legged whale fossil discovered
  36. Web Exclusive: Theater critic slams 8/24/21 Bolingbrook Board (Fiction)
  37. Problematic fiction, and action
  38. Sunflower Residence – Earwig
  39. I get email
  40. Faking a vaccination card is a federal offense
  41. More pun fun
  42. Hey, can we get some of that up in here?
  43. Democrats also practice election shenanigans
  44. How the sharing economy became professionalized (and hence more expensive)
  45. You like ferns? We got ferns.
  46. Children, Accessibility, and being an entitled ass
  47. Afghanistan: The Endless War of Finger-Pointing
  48. Beyond local networking: Some thoughts on next steps for organizing
  49. Look Who Was Hiding in my Fireclay Bricks
  50. Has it really come to this?
  51. They Lose Again: Three times over
  52. The unconscionable tragedy that the US created in Afghanistan
  53. Another Year Passes: Happy Left Handers Day
  54. Computer Games: Fifty years of wasted money and time
  55. Greetings from the Quinault nation!
  56. More FBI Agents Performing Hinkily
  57. Focus on the backpack, not the mask
  58. Another Fancy Bat
  59. The Hollywood Version Of The Story
  60. Update on Author Events
  61. Facebook’s business model
  62. Sunflower Residence – Grasshopper
  63. Charlie Watts (1941-2021)
  64. My daughter started kindergarten yesterday!
  65. Who will we beat up at Christmas now?
  66. It might be genetic
  67. Apres moi le deluge
  68. “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
  69. Sunflower Residence – Itty Bitty Spiders
  70. Ransomware attacks
  71. I write letters to my Senators.
  72. Corruption
  73. Understanding the current madness
  74. #IStandWithMeb and the latest TERFy nonsense
  75. More mature and sensible than many adults
  76. Children and Responsibility
  77. Another musical obituary
  78. The second Everly brother dies
  79. Sunday funnies.
  80. She’s Not Afraid To Speak: Cerise Castle’s expose on criminal gangs
  81. Sunflower Residence – Beeezzzzz
  82. Time To Backtrack Again: A movie’s anniversary and an obituary
  83. This Is Nice To Read: The story of Rudi Gutendorf
  84. How to Make a Mass Movement
  85. The worst member of the House Democratic caucus
  86. Ivermectin
  87. Can schadenfreude kill you?
  88. Aubrey de Grey couldn’t leave well enough alone
  89. Jonathan Pie has thoughts on Afghanistan
  90. I guess David Sabatini is a failed scientist now
  91. Making way for emergency vehicles
  92. Sunflower Residence – Bush Cricket
  93. Great moments in democracy: California’s stupid recall election system
  94. The worst member of the House Democratic caucus
  95. Students are smarter than the administrators give them credit for
  96. Old man sweet-talks some spiderlings
  97. How politicians’ books become best sellers
  98. That peculiar plural
  99. Sackler exploitation of bankruptcy laws
  100. Happiness is a state of flow: An update and an interesting video
  101. Look at Mississippi go!
  102. Gotta Resin Some More: Pokémon Earrings and Pins
  103. Where non-white majority counties are concentrated
  104. Shut down Facebook, please
  105. A libertarian perspective on science funding
  106. Mixed race in the 2020 US Census
  107. The problem of Facebook and mission statements
  108. Beaming
  109. Sorry, I just can’t muster the happy-go-lucky smile
  110. It begins
  111. Mayor Mary orders aliens to offer COVID shots during abductions (Fiction)
  112. When even fear of death is not enough
  113. I yet live
  114. The real cost of imperial hubris is always borne by the victims
  115. T. Ryan Gregory predicts the future!
  116. Why do it?
  117. Subnautica 2
  118. SNAP benefits to increase permanently
  119. Did I really need a reminder of what my day will be like?
  120. Also, Terry Pratchett wasn’t a bigot
  121. Colonoscopy prep day!
  122. A Transgender Athlete Reader
  123. Another shout-out to the Toledo Lucas County Public Library!
  124. You Have To Wonder: Should the US have copied the East Germans?
  125. It’s My 46th Birthday!
  126. Lindsey Graham has always been a weasel
  127. 2021 California Election positions
  128. The Inevitable Afghanistan Conclusion
  129. Ken Ham adds another flag
  130. Could the massive tragedy of Afghanistan have been averted?
  131. The struggle is real
  132. Remember now
  133. In Memoriam: Uli
  134. Let’s Backtrack: The IBM 5150 PC turned forty this week
  135. How to stop the other epidemic
  136. Their Minds Have Gone: And they have lost their census
  137. I can’t listen to these people anymore
  138. Q&A coming up
  139. Call Etymology Man!
  140. Spunky Conspiracy Theorists Are Still a Bunch of Jerkoffs
  141. When bonkers beliefs lead to murders
  142. Masks are coming back
  143. Nasty Denouements
  144. Weaponizing language
  145. The success of Aubrey de Grey baffles me
  146. Spider before dawn
  147. He could be talking about me
  148. Update
  149. Patron Q&A coming up on Sunday!
  150. Fry Day 13-th
  151. That’s what I call gardening!
  152. Nothing changes
  153. “It’s evil! Don’t touch it!”
  154. Establishing non-existence in science
  155. Welcome to the apostolic cult
  156. Memories of Emotions
  157. There’s a headline to freak out the white supremacists
  158. So true
  159. TERFs Failing to Posthumously Claim Pratchett as Their Own
  160. Barack Obama was a mediocre president and is now a terrible ex-president
  161. Tomato Noodles
  162. They found a way to end atheism!
  163. Skepticon this weekend!
  164. Monologuing at the microscope: you can wake up to me trying to say nice things for a change
  165. A response to the IPCC report
  166. How Trump blew it on infrastructure
  167. Yikes, a talking head alert!
  168. We’re gonna need a bigger incubator
  169. A happy picture
  170. Bumps and lumps and crannies, oh my
  171. Afghanistan’s Collapse
  172. New information about the outing of leading Catholic official
  173. Joe Rogan and Tim Pool: Seriously? How can anyone listen to these people?
  174. Rhawn Joseph is fishing with worms now
  175. The Weaker Sex
  176. How many spiders is too many spiders?
  177. Why the Sackler deal is so bad
  178. Something Something
  179. Good riddance to Andrew Cuomo
  180. Link Roundup: August 2021
  181. Kyoot Kestrels
  182. Will the new climate change report change minds?
  183. Uh oh 3
  184. I never met him, but still feel the loss
  185. We’ll all be on fire soon enough
  186. I’m going to pretend it was my whining that prompted this move
  187. Morbid Monday: High temperatures are devastating wheat crops in the United States
  188. The way the United States treats people with disabilities is deliberately cruel, and beyond unacceptable.
  189. The morning harvest
  190. The Best and The Brightest
  191. Makes you think…
  192. Biggest life expectancy drop since WWII
  193. Anthropologists and archaeologists say trans rights
  194. Trapped by racial genetics…get out now!
  195. Blog effort justification
  196. A Question of Consent
  197. Chickenshit universities still oppose a vaccine mandate
  198. Who’d have thought the Wounded Knee Massacre was an appropriate setting for a romance?
  199. Iggleson Popfield Esquire
  200. Five Foot Nothing
  201. I Can Tell the Physics are Wrong
  202. Riotous Prosecutions
  203. ‘We’re doing it live!’ Tenth Anniversary of Freethought Blogs YouTube broadcast (Non-fiction)
  204. Words have consequences: Hospital drops anti-vaxxer as spokesperson
  205. 10th Anniversary Podcast: see us all today!
  206. Restorating the Kitchen Table and why “Sustainability” Can’t Work Within Capitalism
  207. Great diving performance in Tokyo Olympics
  208. Don’t take your kids to this movie
  209. My Dearest Deer (plush of the month)
  210. The demise of the general opinion columnist
  211. Friday Cephalopod: Glassy
  212. Reminder: We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary tomorrow TODAY!
  213. John Oliver on Emergency Medical Services
  214. Silly gift giving
  215. AMOC running amok may cause havoc
  216. Work stoppage? What work stoppage? I haven’t heard anything about a work stoppage
  217. Not even creationists deserve this kind of treatment
  218. The walls are closing in on vaccine and mask deniers
  219. Drug war, or moral crusade? Either one is repugnant
  220. This Is Not a Bit Good
  221. First Draft Done – Rent is Theft
  222. More pun fun
  223. Lost And Found Birdies
  224. How to get me to watch the Olympic Games
  225. Disappointing election result in Ohio
  226. More Laddering
  227. Cuomo put in charge of the Department of Not Getting It
  228. Uh-oh. We’ve only got a week left, atheists!
  229. Administrators are the enemy, you know
  230. Why is Andrew Cuomo still governor of New York?
  231. Blazing Shades of Fungus
  232. My governor is a lying, sexually predatory bully.
  233. Zoom backgrounds
  234. It’s Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. What are you gonna do about it?
  235. True sporting spirit
  236. The right attitude
  237. You’re telling me police officers are people, too?
  238. Spiders have nightmares, too
  239. Why does it take so long to get them to do the right thing?
  240. Origami: KNL Dragon
  241. Morbid Monday: The U.S. fascist movement is still going, and Democratic Party leadership isn’t doing anything to stop it
  242. Matt Damon’s obliviousness
  243. Long haired sprinters
  244. My upcoming memoir tells the story of my secular recovery.
  245. FBI Follies
  246. Trustee Troy Doris breaks the lunar triple jump record to win the Interplanetary Goodwill Games (Fiction)
  247. Film review: Athlete A (2020) and gymnast abuse
  248. The gays have conquered space!
  249. The Supposed Virtue of Hard Work
  250. Mutual aid, 6th edition
  251. Freethoughtblogs is ten years old!
  252. Don’t Ask: August 1st is International Childfree Day
  253. Why English spelling is so weird
  254. Processing Cow Bones
  255. That Was Subtle: The gold medal for trolling goes to Japan
  256. When History Melts
  257. The bipartisan war on whistleblowers
  258. One day’s doting to do today
  259. The Shermer-Shrier Interview
  260. Oh my god, I’m Chidi.

July 2021

  1. Reddit Asked: What you believe happens after you die?
  2. Slavic Saturday
  3. How to raise children not to be jerks
  4. Walmart is smarter and more responsible than my university
  5. The horrific abuse of female gymnasts
  6. The US is facing an eviction crisis. Here’s a list of resources that you should share
  7. Just asking questions
  8. The link between climate change and extreme weather becomes hard to ignore
  9. “Red Dress” is incredible, people are toxic
  10. Please stop dithering, CDC and everyone
  11. Reversals of scientific conclusions are not unusual
  12. Waking up to haze and smoke again
  13. “Phil brings humanity and empathy to every character he creates”
  14. Hot Tip to Unionize Video Games Now
  15. Housing discrimination in the US
  16. The pressure encountered by top athletes
  17. Behold, our philosophical overlord wanna-bes
  18. I blame Canada
  19. Delusions of a War Hawk
  20. Stability, the “labor shortage”, and why people put up with shitty jobs
  21. By their friends you will know them
  22. I remember Anita Bryant!
  23. The kind of strength we need
  24. Too hot, too much running around
  25. Happy To Disappoint: It’s pie in the face time again for Anita Bryant
  26. Well, That Hurt: The pain, from A to Z
  27. Meet the Guardians
  28. The Art of …
  29. They Did It Again
  30. What can happen when you ‘do your own research’
  31. How do you feel about death? Are you weird like me?
  32. The Art of …
  33. The bathroom bills that we actually need
  34. The bell tolls
  35. An AI Technique
  36. Not all hypocrisies are equally deserving of opprobrium
  37. Misinformation networks are killing us
  38. Mirror, Mirror…
  39. Rain in Dubai: How climate change and dangerous technologies demand an end to nationalism
  40. Watch this
  41. The Art of …
  42. My, what a slender waist you have
  43. Letters of Marque
  44. Reap what you sow
  45. Some things aren’t “opinions”
  46. Think of the children!
  47. Mammoth Wasp
  48. It’s 10pm. Do you know what your government’s up to?
  49. Read This
  50. Uncommon Sense: Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez
  51. Speaking Events Update
  52. Fulleramajig & Joy and Depression of Knifemaking
  53. Why have choices that matter?
  54. It’s not too late to join the American Humanist’s conference
  55. Break from blogging
  56. How billionaires use their sports teams to avoid taxes
  57. An Off Week But Recovery Prevails
  58. Israel seeks to punish Ben & Jerry’s
  59. Keep doing the same thing over and over again
  60. We don’t want to look frightened , you know
  61. Checkmate
  62. Stupid Joke Time
  63. Get the damn vaccine before it is too late!
  64. There is nothing that some Trump followers won’t believe
  65. So much potential…
  66. Another Minnesota Man story
  67. So many layers…who would have thought AiG could be this sophisticated?
  68. What is going on in the UK with the pandemic?
  69. Floor Rails
  70. Tummy Thursday: It’s Pokémon Birthday Cake Time
  71. A retraction
  72. A Poetic Dawkins Archive
  73. Creeping Christianism everywhere
  74. Ladders and Levers
  75. Minnesota Man?
  76. How billionaires abuse Roth IRAs
  77. Fire the coach
  78. How stupid do they think we are?
  79. Addiction Explained
  80. Policing female athletes’ uniforms
  81. Are Republican leaders and Fox News finally accepting the need for vaccinations?
  82. An accurate summary of the space-billionaire pathology
  83. The Tower of Babel is a gimmick to make money
  84. Abdul Latif Nasser is finally released from Guantanamo
  85. Darn, he came back
  86. Unsettling Quick Sand
  87. Goldfinches Come for a Visit
  88. Stay In Your Lane
  89. Important historical context for events in Haiti
  90. Math Rules: The Moessner Miracle is way cool
  91. Carl Sagan critiques Star Wars
  92. Time Passes, part 2: We’ve finally turned the corner
  93. Time Passes, part 1: What I’ve been up to
  94. Spider Having a Snack
  95. It is easy to prank these nutcases
  96. Jeezus sentenced for his part in 1/6 insurrection today. Also, WTF Steve Buscemi?!
  97. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet: here come the groypers
  98. Bernie Sanders shows how to talk to a vapid journalist
  99. David Brooks knows nothing
  100. A Thought About China
  101. Lemonade stand
  102. “Latinx” and intersectionality
  103. One Republican governor in the south is promoting vaccinations
  104. It’s a time warp! The Infinite Thread is back!
  105. The US War Machine does not get up to “good trouble”.
  106. Way too accurate
  107. The Discovery Institute just keeps plugging along, pointlessly
  108. The ethics of using AI voices for dead people
  109. Behind the Iron Curtain part 38- Vietnam War
  110. Another Q&A next week today!
  111. The global appeal of Shakespeare
  112. Recipe for a big spider
  113. For how long can you ignore this evidence?
  114. William Regnery II is DEAD!
  115. Cassandra here; we’re all buggered
  116. The joy of watching Foley artists
  117. Does this really show what it purports to show?
  118. I write letters to the president.
  119. The Art of … Caine, Again
  120. The USA are burning, Germany is drowning
  121. Great moments in decision making
  122. Respect the Appalachians
  123. We’ve known for decades that a climate refugee crisis was coming. Now it’s here, and we aren’t ready.
  124. Insurrectionist cosplay
  125. We’re going to the Moon again?
  126. A Message for the Atheist in the Closet
  127. What’s going on in Texas
  128. Facebook knows better. Let’s make it DO better.
  129. Are they actually trying to get people killed?
  130. Dang, it can be annoying when medicine works too well
  131. Military Glory, Monarchy-style
  132. Another silly scientific claim from Islam
  133. The curious use of the label ‘un-American’
  134. Find the bodies
  135. How to Beat the Heat, Raccoon Style
  136. What happened to the British queue?
  137. Immersive Worlds
  138. I mean, really, the Republicans hate evolution so much they’ll kill everyone out of spite
  139. The forces driving ‘white fright’
  140. Now that’s stolen valor
  141. “Google, show me the naturalistic fallacy”
  142. This cannot end well, Tennessee
  143. I do love the phrase “ecocidal fossildollars”
  144. The amazing octopus
  145. The anti-vax lunacy continues
  146. Racism is not a winning attitude; Kick it Out!
  147. Privatization of food, water, shelter, and power kills people. We need to take back the world.
  148. An Idea I Won’t Be Doing
  149. Direct expertise in social justice
  150. Background to the racist reactions to England’s loss
  151. Off to be needled and poked
  152. No one ever talks about how it was a tender parent and affectionate partner
  153. Baked in their shells
  154. My Family: Klansmen vs. Catholics
  155. Take five minutes to share in someone’s enthusiasm
  156. Racist sports ‘fans’
  157. The Art of … Caine!
  158. Congratulations Richard Branson
  159. A Good Explanation
  160. Look who’s moving into our yard!
  161. Tie breakers in sports
  162. They had the same problem in 1925
  163. Two science-fiction writers got into a fight, and it didn’t matter
  164. Loving an animal for itself is a good human trait
  165. Atheist ‘Mockbuster’ starts filming in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  166. “Wet-bulb temperature” is a concept you need to know as the planet warms
  167. Secular Parents vs. Religious Parents
  168. Moving Heavy Things
  169. “Time Is Of The Essence” /spit
  170. The proxy Civil War goes on, now over statues
  171. Reminder: YouTube Q&A today, at 11am Central
  172. Beetle walks upside down on underside of a water surface
  173. Rethinking society: How can we redesign our lives and infrastructure to survive the rising heat?
  174. Ranked choice voting and approval voting
  175. Hey, that’s Bill Nye!
  176. Spoiler: there are no spiders in Black Widow
  177. Letting go: death is final and I may never get the answers I seek.
  178. Link Roundup: July 2021
  179. Breathtakingly evil
  180. Eating Genesis Pi
  181. Chris Rufo made a video for PragerU, and it’s just as terrible as you might imagine
  182. They’ve always known
  183. Second Shot Experience
  184. What the Nina Turner candidacy reveals about the Democratic party establishment
  185. It is not the time to slack off
  186. Hussman, Hussman, Hussman
  187. More pun fun
  188. Can aging be stopped?
  189. If our cat weren’t terrified of water…
  190. You see one death cult, you’ve seen ’em all
  191. The enduring appeal of the genteel murder mystery
  192. Tucker Carlson wants to build the Panopticon — in our schools
  193. Don’t you know that denying evolution is the main purpose of Christianity?
  194. My recovery is thanks to science.
  195. Patreon Q&A on Sunday!
  196. How to manufacture outrage
  197. Recall madness
  198. Eye Got May Lie Sense!
  199. Now, We Wait: Or am I reading too much into this?
  200. If you have time to read a dissertation
  201. Caffeine addiction
  202. Nooo! Now I can’t unsee it!
  203. How to shame a mob of racists
  204. How long have queer folk been fighting Nazis?
  205. You gotta know how to read the signs
  206. A fascinating correlation
  207. Who are these “New Atheists” of which you speak?
  208. Birds are not real
  209. Look What I Have Cobbled Together
  210. Nikole Hannah-Jones gets the last laugh
  211. 98 Degrees in Clearfield
  212. If you pay people more, they will come
  213. What took them so long?
  214. Helicopter Story: A Crash and Burn
  215. Another reason to shun Shark Week
  216. The Ever Given is still stuck
  217. Too hot to sleep
  218. The Reviews Are In
  219. More pun fun
  220. Do you believe the differences between generations?
  221. Churchgoing after the pandemic
  222. “No” is less than “Why?”
  223. Oh no. Richard Lewontin has died
  224. Punitive prison sentences
  225. Blogs are dead! Long live the blogs!
  226. What are you going to do for me, Mark J. Lindquist?
  227. Dispatches from the Heat Front 4: Apocalypse NOW
  228. Apply Now: Long haired freaky people welcome
  229. Useful Collective Nouns
  230. “It is what it is”
  231. Update: Lytton has burned.
  232. Racist focus in the midst of erratic behavior
  233. I Wasn’t Going To Weigh In, But….
  234. Bears Repeating: Who is anti-American anyway?
  235. The Species That Was Too Dumb To Survive
  236. Some holiday
  237. Wall Street-backed candidate loses race for Manhattan district attorney
  238. It’s climate change! And global warming! It’s two, two nightmares in one!
  239. Well Deserved: Dr. Anthony Fauci wins AHA award
  240. The Inevitable Posting About Donald Rumsfeld
  241. How corporations go about the business of causing death for profit
  242. Reminiscing
  243. The AA Delusion
  244. It’s about time: Moratorium on federal death penalty
  245. I can’t support burning buildings down
  246. We’re in this business for the unanswered questions
  247. I just really like going to the movies, OK?
  248. Who reads all these Trump books?
  249. How They Were Built And Folded: Like a house of cards
  250. The Snowflakes Binge: They want to cancel “The Purge”
  251. Bias does not exist, bring on the sportsball!
  252. Who had “seas catching fire” on their apocalypse bingo card?
  253. Minnesota doesn’t have a state fossil?
  254. Racism On Display Again: Marijuana is only for white people
  255. Ending Quarantine, Bound by a Death Cult
  256. There are some limits to religious exemptions
  257. Women Educators on YouTube – Engineer – Xyla Foxlin
  258. Secular Podcasts
  259. Another bad anti-vax paper sidles into the literature
  260. Sometimes, fire is the appropriate response
  261. More fitting obituaries for Donald Rumsfeld
  262. Come on down to Kent’s Krazy Kult Kompound!
  263. It’s Hard Not To Laugh: It’s the tenth anniversary of Philip Contos’s Darwin Award
  264. And To No Surprise: More backlash against the catholic cult
  265. My 200th Post — A Look Back
  266. John Oliver: Prison Heat
  267. A Good Start
  268. Hilbert’s Hotel shows why some infinities are bigger than others
  269. New Pew analysis of 2020 election
  270. It’s the first of July? How did that happen?
  271. It’s like reading the letters section of my local newspaper!
  272. That sure is a funny way to celebrate Canada Day
  273. The Art of …
  274. Origami: Circular Hypar
  275. The mysterious motivations of some people
  276. That’s definitely not a spider
  277. Bad news, good news
  278. Critical Race Theory: Videos by people much more fun than me
  279. 1 4
  280. There’s Nothing To Celebrate: It’s dominionists’ day
  281. A Word To Define: Maplewashing
  282. Rip in Pieces, Gin Rummy

June 2021

  1. Life after pandemic restrictions are lifted
  2. We’re all dancing here!
  3. Happy Grave Dancing! DONALD RUMSFELD IS DEAD!
  4. Let’s Backtrack: “Dragonslayer” at 40
  5. Would I stay or would I go?
  6. A sin to remember
  7. Lies, Damn Lies, and Harriet Hall
  8. Obscenity in a yellow onesie
  9. Schreier does mean noisy troublemaker in German — shoulda been a clue
  10. Pharyngula
  11. Trolleyology
  12. How long can Trump sing the same old songs?
  13. Dragging myself into the last day of the conference
  14. Now That’s a Way of Looking At It!
  15. Fucking Latvia. I bet this is rq’s fault somehow.
  16. John Oliver on Christian health scam
  17. Babies! In motion!
  18. I’m no longer preggers — I’m a papa!
  19. An encouraging result for LGBT rights
  20. The Class
  21. Most Boring Game of “Find That Lizard”
  22. An accurate portrayal of national politics right now
  23. The Covid Delta variant is hitting the unvaccinated
  24. The US Blockade on Cuba
  25. What is intelligence anyways?
  26. What you’re missing today
  27. Au contraire!
  28. It Never Ends: Canadian government racism, again
  29. Privacy Died: It’s called ‘digitization’ because their fingers are into everything
  30. Dispatches from the Heat Front 3: Comparisons
  31. Dispatches from the Heat Front 2
  32. The Art of …
  33. Milan Royal – Magnifique!
  34. Lots and lots of videos of spider science
  35. Selectively Enforced: Canada’s new hate speech law
  36. Tour de France crash
  37. You want to post pictures?
  38. Global warming is killing people in Canada and the U.S. as I write this.
  39. It’s going to be a spider kind of day
  40. Have some Flowers
  41. The brutalization and genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas never stopped.
  42. Dispatches from the Heat Front
  43. A creation website is good for something? Who knew?
  44. Some Art
  45. HAPPY PRIDE 2021.
  46. Boris Johnson loses his health minister over multiple scandals
  47. Garden Update: The Big Growing
  48. Trans representation in Tell Me Why
  49. Cricket, race, and politics
  50. The Ups And Downs Continue: What’s happening locally
  51. Let’s Backtrack: Steve McQueen’s film “Le Mans” turns 50
  52. We still have to address Kent Hovind’s nonsense? Why?
  53. They Can Wait: Let’s get our priorities in order
  54. Salads are bad for your health
  55. Critical Race Theory Link Round-up & Summer Reading List
  56. Bonsai Tree – Taking Things Slow
  57. Are you sure you know enough about octopuses? Maybe you should watch this video…
  58. The fake outrage over ‘critical race theory’ may make the label mainstream
  59. I’m sorry, what’s for breakfast did you say?
  60. At Least One Good Thing Happened Recently
  61. The UFO/UAP story will never die
  62. Deny, Lie And Decry: Cue the blame shifting and gaslighting
  63. Don’t Even Try: You can be sure to hear misplaced ‘outrage’
  64. I’m preggers!
  65. Why was Chauvin sentenced to 22 years?
  66. Waking up to Florida Man!
  67. Give Me The Child and I’ll Give You The Racist
  68. How to construct a well thought out sentence
  69. My kind of humor
  70. It’s been a pretty good day
  71. BREAKING: Derek Chauvin sentenced to 270 months for murder of George Floyd.
  72. Ohio anti-vaxxers want the freedom that vaccination brings
  73. How do words acquire meaning?
  74. Thorny Defenses
  75. Tornadoes in Czechia
  76. More Notes on Critical Race Theory
  77. Ugh. Can we just throw him in jail and forget about him now?
  78. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no. 27 “Pink”
  79. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no. 26 “The Pledge”
  80. Proper decorum when spotting a spider during an arachnology meeting
  81. Critical Race Theory: Questions, Answers, Feelings, and more Questions
  82. I’m Going To Class!
  83. The Art of …
  84. How could he not realize that he had been pranked?
  85. Pharyngula
  86. Rudy “Nosferatu” Giuliani stripped of NY law license.
  87. “Good heavens Miss Sakamoto – you’re beautiful!”
  88. High as a Kite and Higher
  89. Socialist set to become mayor of Buffalo
  90. The Real AA
  91. Catholicism is sick
  92. Disgraceful! Biden continues Cuba blockade
  93. Putting the “Judge” in “Prejudice:” Siobhan in compos mentis
  94. My Scars, My Story — poem from Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy
  95. Nicholas Wade is the Andrew Wakefield of molecular virology
  96. I’m calling it the Chris Rufo Theory from now on
  97. India Walton: “This is organizing”
  98. AiG thinks incest is just fine, after all
  99. This would really be hell
  100. Conservatives don’t understand the military
  101. The Art of …
  102. Close Encounters of the Graffiti Kind
  103. The perilous allure of glamor
  104. Are you on Team Snake, or Team Spider?
  105. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no. 25 “Anxiety”
  106. Hucksters hear the blunt facts about the Serpent Mound
  107. See you in July (Non-fiction)
  108. The Art of …
  109. When an unscripted interview goes wildly wrong
  110. How effective are voting restrictions in restricting voting?
  111. When Neutrality Isn’t
  112. Savoir Faire Level: Senakw
  113. I don’t want to see your genitals, and I really, really don’t want to see what fluids your genitals produce
  114. The origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
  115. Charity
  116. Some cis people really hate the word “cis”
  117. Every Intelligent Design debate ever
  118. A look at Venice’s flood barrier system
  119. This is Beautiful: One Hell of a Political Ad
  120. Alfred Hitchcock preferred suspense over shock
  121. Fujimori follows Trump’s lead in Peru
  122. The Art of … Can we talk?
  123. Some Notes on Critical Race Theory
  124. Tom Cotton is proud of his paranoia
  125. The Greenwald-Taibbi conundrum
  126. How can you bring people to reason without a whip?
  127. A triumphant moment in history
  128. The Bench (Erotic Poetry)
  129. Suddenly, meetings
  130. Dad jokes for Father’s Day
  131. Samantha Bee on the attacks on LGBT+ rights
  132. E-scooters
  133. A Delicate Topic
  134. TNET 45: Baelin’s Route
  135. A dismal day for spiders
  136. Challenging puzzle game tiers
  137. How Edward Snowden confounded the US elite’s predictions
  138. Recognize good dads!
  139. At last, we’ve all been invited to speak at Skepticon!
  140. Hidden gems
  141. Kestrel Maneuvre
  142. It’s What Science Was
  143. Juneteenth Resources
  144. Video: Eel takes Gould’s assessment to heart, and make forays into snakehood
  145. Dee Farmer, this Juneteenth, every Juneteenth, until we learn its lessons
  146. Last Post Art – Juneteenth
  147. Juneteenth: Boosting Black Voices.
  148. (Video) Jews and Slavery: A Complicated Legacy (Non-Fiction)
  149. Juneteenth and a remaining form of involuntary servitude
  150. Danish slavery
  151. Another Thought – Juneteenth
  152. Oh what a beautiful morning!
  153. A more realistic view of US-Russia relations
  154. Racism and the KKK: What I’ve Learned from My Family’s Dark Past
  155. Opening Thoughts – Juneteenth
  156. Slavery in Canada
  157. Now I know where the myth comes from
  158. Ever wonder what a research lab at a small public liberal arts university was like?
  159. Jordan Klepper attends a Trump rally organized by the My Pillow guy
  160. South Carolina asks people to choose their own method of execution
  161. I’m not on the side of Boghossian and Lindsay, OK?
  162. This is not a fundraiser — it’s Juneteenth!
  163. The outcome of the Biden-Putin summit
  164. An Open Letter To My Wonkette Friends Who Are Busy Not Commenting
  165. Good point!
  166. When wealth makes it legal to steal: “Crime” is a social construct in dire need of reimagining.
  167. The Manhattan District Attorney election
  168. Awesome job, Scott Hurst
  169. Never, ever waste your time with an Islamic fundamentalist
  170. Tummy Thursday: Making Saitan
  171. Deadlier Than Chucking Nuns – And Legal!
  172. How to give away money
  173. Yeah, yeah, Australians are always bragging about their spiders
  174. Plagues in history
  175. I did something normal last night!
  176. Treating prisoners humanely
  177. Leftist Castillo likely to be declared winner in Peru’s presidential election
  178. Teacher’s Corner: Can I Go to the Toilet, Please?
  179. This book is full of nasty words
  180. The Boiling Frog
  181. Amazon’s planned obsolescence for its workers
  182. I never paid attention to the fence until now
  183. If anthropomorphism works, use it
  184. For the love of dog, GET VACCINATED
  185. Debit Free! (Non-fiction)
  186. I’ve Never Understood This
  187. To think, some of us used to like Dave Silverman
  188. One for the next tenure & promotion review
  189. The need for double-blind methods in police lineups
  190. Why Grow up When you Can Be an Axolotl Instead?
  191. Little Minions of Vengeance
  192. Hey! I read a book, for fun!
  193. Great Lakes Atheists Picnic/Juneteenth Update
  194. Forever fringe
  195. Gone almost a week, and nothing has changed
  196. The perpetual Cold War rhetoric
  197. What do Jumping Spiders do?
  198. The BIG announcement!
  199. Sources: Village’s first genetically engineered trustee melts days before appointment (Fiction)
  200. Forgetting the Alamo
  201. Eclipsed!
  202. Unexpected (But Not Surprising) Benefit of Tumbling Blades in Sand
  203. Ode to My Husband’s Tongue/Erotic Poetry Book Update
  204. Lazy linking
  205. From The “They Did Not Listen, They Did Not Know How” Department
  206. The only way you’ll get me into a church is to support my family
  207. Can robot animals help treat loneliness?
  208. A taste of tea and fiction: the Leogryff Lord’s Highway
  209. Not Tacticool, But Hopefully Cool
  210. On not calling myself a feminist
  211. Ilhan Omar attacked for stating the obvious
  212. From Minneapolis to Salem, from 2021 to 1992: An unsettled, unsettling journey
  213. Debunking UFOs
  214. Sad But Tactical
  215. A dangerous police tactic
  216. Bounty of the sea
  217. Gutless Democrats Kick Their Own
  218. Good grief! Enough with the British royals already!
  219. Magnetism can make you crazy
  220. How Many Nuns Would Nunchucks Chuck…
  221. Link Roundup: June 2021
  222. How the rich avoid taxes
  223. Moving through time
  224. IPSOS polls: When LGBTQIA meets Moore’s Law
  225. Safety conscious Vikings
  226. The curious business of process serving
  227. The Art of …
  228. In Which Avalus is a Spider’s Playground
  229. Now, The Rails
  230. How the richest of the rich avoid paying taxes
  231. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no. 24 “Boundaries”
  232. The presupposition of scarcity and competition should not dictate how we end fossil fuel use
  233. Link: Supporting Trans Health Care is trusting science (Non-fiction)
  234. Asian-Americans and the myth of the model minority
  235. Peru’s leftist presidential candidate has highly reactionary views on social issues
  236. Rainbow Capitalism Sucks
  237. The Art of …
  238. Richard Dawkins, abortion, disability, and human suffering
  239. Entering the void
  240. Small but mighty
  241. Vaccine Imperialism
  242. If you really need a monument, we can think one up for you
  243. Facebook and Ethiopia
  244. Absolutely mental
  245. A Pandemic Subsided: It has been forty years since HIV was first reported
  246. More pun fun
  247. The Art of …
  248. Yes, you must keep them around
  249. Whatever happened to Naomi Wolf?
  250. Palatine’s UFO base holds first Pride celebration (Fiction)
  251. A last minute scramble
  252. My Social Media and Juneteenth
  253. Lock Him Up
  254. The physics of jigsaw puzzles
  255. I thought this was a wonderful idea
  256. I still don’t know her name
  257. A careful look at the transgender sports
  258. Looking on the bright side, it’s more evidence that natural selection works
  259. Non-leaky labs and overly leaky mouths
  260. A New Term I Learnt: Betrayal Trauma
  261. Bobbin Lace: Peacocks
  262. Sunday Sermon: Why Do You Hate the USA?
  263. A scathing critique of prominent New Atheists
  264. Goodbye, Naomi Wolf
  265. Stop it. It wasn’t a lab leak
  266. A cat’s haiku
  267. New Atheism is dead…does that make this abuse of a corpse?
  268. Getting corporations to pay their share of taxes
  269. Shh, don’t tell my colleagues. Especially not the arachnophobic ones
  270. Why are the traitors still in office?
  271. A leftist has a chance to become president of Peru
  272. I Hate Nature
  273. Christian Admirer
  274. A return to supersonic commercial flight?
  275. Not a Hot Start – Dreamposting
  276. Two corners of the internet
  277. I never thought of a personal ad
  278. Elevatorgate still smolders in the minds of the riff-raff
  279. Selling oneself
  280. Why did YouTube allow Steven Crowder back on?
  281. The “lab-leak” stuff is as imaginary as the Iraqi aluminum tubes
  282. The Art of …
  283. And now, “The lies made me do it”
  284. The US will share unused vaccines
  285. Our shameful history
  286. Writer’s block, free time, and atheism: Tinkering with the human machine
  287. A Genius Idea
  288. Encouraging result for progressive Democrats in New Mexico
  289. Racism comes in many forms
  290. I see right through you, conservatives
  291. Teacher’s Corner: And suddenly you’re dealing with sexual child abuse
  292. Kate Winslet is comfortable with who she is
  293. Even blogging is too much work for Trump
  294. Steatoda borealis , a cool spider
  295. Bored now
  296. Donald Trump, failed blogger
  297. The Art of …
  298. A difficult question on safety
  299. Local is global
  300. Physical therapy is magic
  301. The Art of …
  302. TV review: Columbo
  303. Origami: Rotating tetrahedrons
  304. A Headline Means A Lot
  305. Women’s athletics and the Simone Biles controversy
  306. We need to plan for the happiness of nonexistent people?
  307. An Unsettling Thought For Kids
  308. Grandma was “set in her ways”.

May 2021

  1. Why are professional athletes forced to speak after matches?
  2. How animals feel pain
  3. Return to hugging
  4. I Feel Dumb For Not Trying This Sooner
  5. National Academy of Sciences expels scientist
  6. 100 years ago today
  7. Breathe Again: May 31st is World No Tobacco Day
  8. Islamic apologist triumphs by revising history!
  9. Far from Home
  10. The forcible cultural subjugation of indigenous peoples
  11. Why would anyone need 22,000 rounds of ammunition?
  12. Hope 2
  13. Good News To Report: A horrible spring finally comes to an end
  14. Amblypygids everywhere?
  15. Leni & L.Ron?
  16. Slaughterhouse Five Exists: Greg Abattoir is making Texas into one
  17. I Hate Fanfic
  18. My grandfather
  19. Do animals feel pain?
  20. Satanic panic and other dangerous beliefs
  21. Man, these drugs are a downer
  22. Uncommon Sense: Taking Time (James Baldwin)
  23. Back to Work!
  24. Woman Educators on Youtube – Zoe Bee
  25. A useful video from the Gravel Institute on the future of work envisioned by Silicon Valley
  26. Blowback
  27. The next fight: Vaccine passports
  28. Stave it Off, One-Two-Three
  29. The Success of Qanon and Trumpism
  30. Consider that your extra-sensory perception is not as accurate as you think it is
  31. Q was just the beginning, now it’s preparing to metamorphose into its next form!
  32. The flap over critical race theory
  33. Good morning news for the environment!
  34. QAnon, self parody on steroids
  35. More Uninspired Disney Shit
  36. Culture Shifts: The buybull thumpers won’t like this
  37. Anti-vaccine myths keep growing
  38. “A happy ending is ultimately had by all in this delightful if politically incorrect concoction”
  39. The Art of …
  40. The NY Times doing what it does best: waffling
  41. O Jerusalem
  42. The origin of E=mc 2
  43. Hurry Up And Wait: Two weeks turns into a month
  44. What A Sight To See: Did anyone catch the lunar eclipse?
  45. If you support women and girls in sports
  46. So I went to the Bolingbrook Village Board meeting…(Non-fiction)
  47. Mnemonics
  48. Hbomberguy is back
  49. Everything must be done as awkwardly and inefficiently as possible!
  50. Add “The mob made me do it” to the “Trump made me do it” excuse
  51. Chicagoland’s UFO bases revaluate using ‘skeptics’ as UFO sightings skyrocket (Fiction)
  52. A Brief Mission
  53. You’d think I’d learn
  54. The Marjorie Taylor Greene disease
  55. Atheists from Rural Areas?
  56. Really, people?
  57. Selling snake oil as news
  58. The Sellout Sells Out: John China and his cowardly apology to Beijing
  59. Wanna See my Pussy?
  60. Judge strikes down anti-BDS law
  61. Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
  62. The Leg: Scampering, Not Quite
  63. Disgraceful but unsurprising double standards
  64. I’d join the misanthropy club, but I would probably detest the members
  65. What HAVE you been doing: an update
  66. Another Anime Girl
  67. Madison Cawthorn is a jerk, but he’s a complicated jerk
  68. Calling all math nerds!
  69. Oh, no! How dare you expose Bill Maher’s hypocrisy?
  70. A Break For Something Good In The World
  71. Save our spiders!
  72. The Undeclared State: Somaliland celebrates 30 years of independence
  73. The Art of …
  74. Trump’s last ditch, futile effort to end the US’s ‘forever wars’
  75. I’m losing confidence in the “intelligence” community
  76. I’m not gonna believe what isn’t there
  77. I Don’t Think John Oliver is “Funny.”
  78. More on the Bob Garfield firing
  79. Kitchen Knives Set – Part 9: Bow-chicka-wow-wow
  80. Atheist = Good?
  81. Larry Krasner wins re-election in Philadelphia
  82. Christ, Texas.
  83. The Privilege They Believe – Class Privilege
  84. Let’s Celebrate: Happy World Goth Day to you all
  85. Yoga is ok but saying ‘namaste’ is not?
  86. Sharpenatrix
  87. Pselebrating Psaki
  88. More on police lies
  89. I get email
  90. Universities are not “liberal”, they are prisoners of capitalism
  91. Responses to light pollution: The infernal glow of an eco-friendly society
  92. Iliana helps
  93. One should not have to even say this …
  94. Run Lula Run!
  95. 10 Rules of Sex For Wives
  96. Mother Teresa’s cult of suffering
  97. The bigots who want to know what’s in children’s pants are on the wrong side of history
  98. The only reason I voted for him is because the alternative was even worse
  99. I’m keeping my mask
  100. Do you want to be my friend?
  101. How to write memos
  102. Hope for the end of neoliberalism in Chile
  103. So funny it’s deadly!
  104. Great review of my book!
  105. Wow. Tenure expectations are really tight nowadays
  106. The quacks are calling from inside the house!
  107. Jack’s Walk – Jack Comes Home and Marcus Makes Fine Art
  108. The Art of …
  109. Geraldo Rivera got something right!
  110. Great moments in crime
  111. Bob Garfield fired from On The Media
  112. Biden Is A Horrible Jackass
  113. Israel is increasingly recognized as an apartheid state
  114. I learned long ago that grandfathers shouldn’t drive
  115. What’s that smell in the air? It’s the reek of Bill Gates
  116. Kick them when they’re down: The fight we’re in isn’t fair, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.
  117. John Oliver and Samantha Bee on combating gun violence
  118. The Art of …
  119. Why it is getting harder to prove that you are human
  120. An interesting revelation
  121. Keeping the Conflict Alive
  122. The ongoing war on the working class
  123. Finally, Bill Gates gets called on his BS
  124. Uh-oh — I don’t think the metaphor works
  125. The weird British national anthem
  126. The slow disillusionment with Trump continues
  127. A Beauty of a Jumping Spider
  128. The Art of …
  129. Made in USA
  130. Good advice for new graduates
  131. The rabidly martial rhetoric of that bad philosopher, Peter Boghossian
  132. The pro-Israel propaganda machine is beginning to sputter
  133. The Inevitable Happens: Lockdown
  134. “What do you expect me to do, fix it? I’m only 10.”
  135. Double Dactyl: The Carrier Lawsuit
  136. Thank you all
  137. The US political and media establishment lies in defense of Israel
  138. A Thank You to the FtB Community.
  139. Fundraiser Update: Continue!
  140. O Jerusalem!
  141. Thank you streaming video from FTB (Non-fiction)
  142. Reminder: Tune in this afternoon!
  143. The brutality of chain gangs
  144. Love the Bride of Christ, or else
  145. Behold the contradictions inherent in the system!
  146. Thank you! Our Mothers Day Fundraiser Was a Success!
  147. You guys are AWESOME
  148. The preposterous Houston tiger story
  149. The CDC is run by idiots
  150. The New Yorker article on UFOs
  151. Name and shame
  152. (Web Exclusive) Interstellar court ends Oberweis’ final challenge to Rep. Underwood’s reelection (Fiction)
  153. Jordan Klepper visits the Arizona recount center
  154. Caitlyn Jenner is not ready for prime time
  155. Effusive gratitude to be expressed on YouTube on Sunday
  156. You can guess how I spent my first free morning
  157. Using non-human animals as slurs
  158. Sadly, he’s almost certain to get better
  159. The pandemic is not over, stop acting like it is
  160. Blowback
  161. I was visited by an angel this morning
  162. Gaza Will Burn
  163. The Art of …
  164. Sigh of relief
  165. Update: Work-work balance, science fiction and non-fiction
  166. Mary Poppins returns to describe the current GOP
  167. Resisting Hate Together – International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
  168. We are truly a barbaric nation
  169. A look back at the Brights
  170. The latest flareup in the Middle East
  171. The Loo
  172. Rhawn Joseph has a lock on this one
  173. Mousehunt
  174. The Ransomware Hack
  175. May die of discouragement soon
  176. How stupid can some people get?
  177. Speaking Engagements — Can I Finally Relax?
  178. Agreed, it’s not just a Southern thing
  179. An inside look at the awful working conditions in ‘fulfillment center’ warehouses
  180. The students are all done!
  181. Bad textbooks are the reason we need Critical Race Theory
  182. Goat Princess
  183. Well, This Sucks: Selfish pilots, AGAIN
  184. The politics of Black hair
  185. Let’s Backtrack: Fritz Lang’s classic thriller “M” turns 90
  186. An editorial note on comments on transgender issues
  187. Just as the U.S. government helped create Al-Qaeda, the Israeli government helped Hamas
  188. The Best and The Brightest
  189. The downside of meditation
  190. In case you were wondering how Trump’s blog is doing…
  191. Never again? It rings a bit hollow nowadays
  192. Oh boy, I really did it (Non-fiction)
  193. FtB Mothers Day Anthology: Tradition
  194. The Art of …
  195. Movement for Scottish independence gains steam
  196. Link Roundup: May 2021
  197. “tastes like the casual cruelty of the universe”
  198. Are you OK, Arizona?
  199. Plumbing the depths of psychic research
  200. Sadism 101
  201. Film review: The Day Shall Come (2019) and FBI entrapment
  202. Fundraising, stories, and a new video
  203. When your neighbour knows you too well…
  204. Fundraiser Update: Still Chugging Along
  205. FtB Mothers Day Anthology: Think of your children
  206. So Many Of The Weird Things
  207. Mother’s Day fundraiser
  208. An in-depth look at the trans experience
  209. What is Lio doing sneaking into my lab?
  210. International Goths and Terrible Promotion
  211. How Feelings Can Change….
  212. FtB Mothers Day Anthology: Mothers and Mom.
  213. Mitigating the harm of climate change, using changes in the climate
  214. New documentary on opioid drug profiteering
  215. Less a day’s work and $350, plus one pissed off cat…
  216. Fundraiser Update: Super Metroid is LIVE!
  217. How the right wing echo chamber operates
  218. That was a long spanking for King Crocoduck
  219. FtB Mothers Day Anthology: One Anxious Mother
  220. Answers in Genesis’s Statement of Faith Becomes More Strident
  221. Gneiss news for UMM
  222. The Evil Cat is doing better!
  223. Either this is a nefarious scheme, or the Evil Cat is very sick
  224. Signs that the fossil fuel industry is getting increasingly desperate
  225. The Art of …
  226. I’m outta here!
  227. How to scare an Australian
  228. Marshrooms and araneiforms, oh my: the ongoing absurdity of Rhawn Joseph
  229. Slumlord Kushner’s companies get reprimanded by judge
  230. There’s nothing like a divorce to spill the tea
  231. No one, other than trolls and corporate lawyers, likes DMCA takedowns
  232. Conspiracy theories
  233. How James Bond got his name
  234. Poem from My Book — “Baptism”
  235. The Art of …
  236. Long-legged beasties
  237. Something tells me that this was not the original caption on this cartoon
  238. Avoiding confronting capitalism’s predatory nature
  239. Renegade Cut: Why Riots Happen
  240. Science words!
  241. Would you get into a van with this man?
  242. Mother’s Day Fundraiser (Non-Fiction)
  243. Donald Trump, reduced to the lowest of the low
  244. Documentary on cheating at the highest levels of bridge
  245. A bit young to be a Ph.D. candidate, don’t you think?
  246. Fundraiser: Mother’s Day Gaming
  247. Kitchen Knives Set – Part 8: I Just Could Not Stand It
  248. Reblogging, the root of evil
  249. Why Not Post It To Pastebin?
  250. Overcoming vaccine hesitancy
  251. The evil cat’s new torment
  252. Last…day…of cla…AAAaaaaaaughhhhh
  253. Grumpy Redstart
  254. Heads up! Another fundraiser!
  255. A video, and some thoughts on the current state of U.S. fascism
  256. A side effect of color-blind casting
  257. I can haz break now?
  258. The Art of …
  259. Baby, it’s cold outside
  260. Making airports into solar farms
  261. Why are you afraid of critical race theory?
  262. Isn’t this a fairly typical TED talk?
  263. Le Maudit De Printemps
  264. May the Fourth FOAD
  265. More pun fun
  266. The problem with streaming
  267. Through my lens
  268. The Art of …
  269. Science Saved My Soul
  270. Never believe the initial police reports of shootings
  271. New World Order and aliens throw retirement party for Trustee Jaskiewicz (Fiction)
  272. Do you need another reason to despise the cops?
  273. Please stop showing off how stupid atheists can be
  274. Teaching in Kansas sure must be different
  275. Guest post: Planning a pantry, chapter one of…?
  276. Origami: Doxie pair
  277. Justice?
  278. Behind the Iron Curtain part 37- 1st of May
  279. Wise explainer
  280. The wolf spiders came out for the weather
  281. Newsmax apologizes for election fraud allegations
  282. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  283. Fiction: A boring night is looking up
  284. Inconstant weather
  285. A funny TV series about soccer
  286. ’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free ’Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be

April 2021

  1. ‘Spanish laughing guy’ Juan Joya Borja dies
  2. What is The Situation in India – View of Indian Doctors
  3. Where is my crocoduck tie?
  4. Trump’s predictions were all wrong
  5. A virtual meeting of arachnologists
  6. I’ve got bad news for you
  7. Boris Johnson’s sleaze catches up with him
  8. It’s all old neckless white guys with buzzcuts harassing kids, in my mind
  9. Where are our conspiracy theories?
  10. The List — My Erotic Poetry Needs Some Inspiration
  11. The Art of …
  12. Samantha Bee blasts Biden’s handling of refugees at the border
  13. Spiders @ Home
  14. Racist, and proud of it
  15. An unusual case of identity crisis
  16. The monkeys must die
  17. Making It Happen
  18. Humanity is acting as a force of nature, and we have little time to develop responsibility to match that power.
  19. An amusing monologue by Jimmy Kimmel
  20. They Oppose: Because only the elite deserve a life
  21. Long overdue recognition that Israel is an apartheid state
  22. My commitment to being boring is unflagging
  23. Called Out: For what it really is, othering
  24. FBI raids Rudy “Nosferatu” Giuliani’s apartment.
  25. Reality Check: And balances the budget
  26. Fascinating and Depressing
  27. India’s massive second wave of covid-19
  28. Time to hug the spiders
  29. A new low in US anti-vaccine misinformation
  30. The Art of…
  31. Is this harsh treatment really necessary?
  32. Would you take medical advice from a whiny rich frat boy?
  33. The Lingering Reek of Shiro Ishii
  34. California slated to have governor recall election
  35. Oh no! A murderbot showed up last night!
  36. You should watch this video on mutual aid
  37. Against the top/bottom dichotomy
  38. Video: Rebecca Watson on Essential Oils and seizures (Non-fiction)
  39. Go On And Blow: The harmonica at (roughly) 200
  40. ESL not yet dead?
  41. I am becoming sympathetic to squirrel murder
  42. That reminds me…
  43. Perceptions of time
  44. The Art of …
  45. Why does CNN pay Rick Santorum to appear in the news?
  46. Keeping My Head Above Water, Modern Times Edition
  47. A Dandily One
  48. A Deeper Whiff of Shiro Ishii
  49. Spider Justice
  50. Keeping track of right wing extremist groups
  51. The first responsibility of a university should be to provide a safe space for learning
  52. I have a cunning plan
  53. The Greeks really knew how to curse
  54. Controversial Atheist Professor Richard Dawkins defects to the Illuminati (Fiction)
  55. The danger of fascism has not gone away. Not even close.
  56. Film review: I Care A Lot (2021) and guardianship abuse
  57. Movie Screen: Chariots Of Fire turns forty
  58. It’s snowing and raining, how am I supposed to find spiders?
  59. Patience Helps: Vaccines will soon be widely available in Taiwan
  60. Tiny Vegetable Patch Inspectors
  61. White Lives Matter rallies flop bigly
  62. It’s Hard to Tell
  63. Pity party!
  64. Review of Usain Bolt’s greatest races
  65. When The Water Runs Dry: Expect worldwide consequences from Taiwan’s drought
  66. Math problem
  67. How Could He Just Stand There And Watch?
  68. Don’t Waver And Don’t Waive: Genocide for profit
  69. Genomes Generated: Is this the first synthetic life?
  70. Gives new meaning to the term ‘airships’
  71. James Croft addresses the critics of humanism
  72. The problem with cryptocurrencies
  73. Wake up, America
  74. Why that Moral Arc Idea Convinces
  75. Good communication
  76. “Professor” Edward Dutton is a fraud
  77. Give that dog a medal! Or at least a biscuit!
  78. Haircut!
  79. Ugly metaphors and sayings
  80. You know who else is obsessed with genitals?
  81. The pandemic and hygiene habits
  82. They crossed the streams!
  83. Gender News: Cis people are insane, refuse help
  84. It’s not over till it’s over: Antarctic ice edition
  85. It never ends …
  86. The US should send its excess vaccines to countries that need them
  87. Hot House Flowers
  88. Is Norma Desmond the model for Trump’s future?
  89. Idolatry of the atheist kind is just as repellent as any other
  90. The tragedy of being a spider
  91. Another review of the lead up to the insurrection
  92. Does anyone else talk to plants?
  93. This fire season looks bad for California.
  94. The problem of changing scientific conclusions
  95. A Koan
  96. Aftermath of the George Floyd verdict
  97. Conspiracy! Right under my nose!
  98. Say Her Name: Ma’Khia Bryant
  99. Shut up, Ted
  100. Game Diary: April 2021
  101. Bankruptcy
  102. All the work still remains
  103. George Floyd’s murderer: GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY
  104. Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts.
  105. The proposed new European soccer league
  106. Let me out of the human race!
  107. Kites are Back and Tempting Again
  108. I’ve still got mine
  109. Trump’s political future
  110. Worth It! My Nerves and Speaking Engagements
  111. The meaning of freedom in a finite life
  112. Creating a more accurate flat map of the Earth
  113. Time to close Guantanamo Bay prison and end all occupation of Cuba
  114. Aliens celebrate as Clow UFO Base’s restaurants reopen (Fiction)
  115. I don’t see what it has to do with spiders
  116. Tits in Front of my Window
  117. I have found the villain!
  118. Sunday Sermon: The Border Crisis
  119. Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
  120. John Oliver on nursing homes and elder care
  121. Texas Wisconsin Nebraska
  122. Fundraising, book reviews, and motherhood
  123. Time to feed the spiders
  124. Teacher’s Corner: Sacrificing our kids to Covid
  125. The Sackler family epitomizes greed and sleaziness
  126. The Gardening
  127. Social constructs as humanity’s greatest threat, and our greatest source of hope
  128. Negative portrayals of Asian Americans in films
  129. How many T. Rex dinosaurs have ever lived?
  130. Chicken Lady – No Not That One
  131. Answers in Genesis is bad Christianity
  132. The ‘Trump made me do it’ defense is not working
  133. The ugly history of anti-Asian racism
  134. Follow-up on the Mrs Sri Lanka fiasco
  135. An Observation on the Poetry of Pharyngula
  136. The racists/fascists/white supremacists have a grand plan
  137. DIY Reusable (Hopefully) Etching Stencils
  138. Maybe I’m not man enough for this lens
  139. Review: American Insurrection (2021)
  140. Maybe they mistook him for Thor
  141. Yay! James O’Keefe banned from Twitter!
  142. To The Museum of Over-Priced Junk
  143. And now we have Walgreens Karen
  144. Police officer who prevented chokehold exonerated after 15 years
  145. Republicans really are that nasty
  146. Hating to Lose
  147. Someday, I will master spider photomicrography
  148. The US and its NATO allies to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan
  149. A spectacular illustration of cop blindness
  150. So many frauds, so few Nathan Robinsons
  151. Police violence continues:The GOP isn’t the only problem
  152. Another Dead Oligarch: Bernie Madoff
  153. Marinated in wokeness!
  154. The Freedom Cafe – Where everyone’s freedom is respected
  155. Who’s afraid of the big bad Woke Mob? Not me.
  156. Personal History
  157. It’s like a juice box
  158. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine and blood clots
  159. Hector Avalos has died
  160. The Leg
  161. Trevor Noah on police brutality
  162. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no. 23 “Holidays”
  163. The strange story of Yuri Gagarin’s return to Earth
  164. The Nihilism Gambit
  165. An important video on how capitalism works – and doesn’t work on a global scale
  166. We call this “April”
  167. China pushes ahead on vaccine diplomacy
  168. Live Coverage of MN Protests for BLM Mon April 12: Shots fired
  169. Curfew at 7 for 3 counties in Minnesota
  170. How we view the trial of the killer of George Floyd
  171. Community science: A way to help
  172. Why do we give these incompetent asshats guns anyway?
  173. When to know to stop arguing
  174. A Short Tale About Consequences
  175. Well, Ugh
  176. I am tired of posting these but feel I must
  177. Ftp
  178. Regrettable tattoo
  179. Oh, and that other cesspit, Facebook
  180. Hey, everyone! The creationists are over there now!
  181. New Speaking Engagements
  182. Always nice to get a little company
  183. Boston PD Are Rapist Scumbags
  184. Don’t deliberately cough on people for any reason
  185. The story behind Midnight Cowboy
  186. Once more with feeling
  187. Understanding the Correct Use of “Literally”
  188. Grounded
  189. Link Roundup: April 2021
  190. British TV criticized for blanket coverage of Prince Philip’s death
  191. Too many flashbacks? Trying too hard for surprise endings?
  192. Day Two starts off well
  193. Euthanasia
  194. I Almost Didn’t Fail the Second Time
  195. Small Mad Science Update
  196. I’ve been shot!
  197. Colbert and Kimmel update us on the news of the week
  198. The Art of …
  199. Amazon unionization effort falls short
  200. Wipeout: First Party for Bolingbrook and DuPage Township Democrats sweep the 2021 Consolidated Election (Fiction)
  201. Kyrsten Sinema: Are you experienced?
  202. I admit it, I have to work on my sensitivity
  203. Who is Max Hodak?
  204. Don’t buy Boehner’s apologia
  205. Get me through this Friday, please
  206. Down one racist prince
  207. Transsexual, Transgender, Trans… and that damn asterisk
  208. Birds on Snow
  209. The Art of …
  210. The Muppets ranked and Rita Moreno
  211. Jebus, you can get away with anything in the Republican party
  212. Are Christian nationalists killing Christianity in the US?
  213. Cat story
  214. They knew and did nothing?
  215. Things we’re accustomed to here
  216. America’s manufactured border crisis continues.
  217. Testilying
  218. I Did A Mad Science
  219. Getting rid of misconceptions about the national debt
  220. How to disguise repression for power and profit
  221. The Mrs Sri Lanka competition turns into chaos
  222. The Art of …
  223. Aww, let him in the club
  224. Doors – 3
  225. Christian evangelism and the QAnon cult
  226. I remembered Paul Nelson Day this year!
  227. Spider deaths
  228. “The silent majority agrees with me”, gender critical edition
  229. Jordan Klepper tries to become ‘a good guy with a gun’
  230. Top Tit
  231. These insurrectionists are dangerous
  232. What do you call yourself?
  233. Q
  234. The case against tipping
  235. What next, Iowa?
  236. Uh-oh. Somebody showed Jordan Peterson a mirror.
  237. On top of pandemic woes, emerging technologies force me to revise my courses!
  238. Florida state of emergency highlights a larger problem
  239. Are pigs flying?
  240. John Oliver catches up on the week’s news
  241. Woman Gamers on Youtube – Chess Player – Anna Rudolf
  242. Let’s Backtrack: The Osborne 1 Computer turns 40 years old
  243. It gets crazier and crazier
  244. Don’t call it “childish”
  245. A Fascinating Story
  246. The greatest Republican of all time
  247. This enemy of my enemy is not my friend
  248. What about Survival of the Yuckiest?
  249. Portents and omens
  250. Easter Sucks: Maybe this is too personal, but what the hey….
  251. Saturday Night Live chimes in with their take on the Gaetz affair
  252. Matt Gaetz is so sleazy even his colleagues are abandoning him
  253. Avoid It or Explain It
  254. Forests for food: ecosystem management for a brighter future
  255. Spiders! In the yard!
  256. Sometimes a buffoon is just a buffoon
  257. Winning
  258. How useless are the Republicans?
  259. The Church Militant tries humor…badly
  260. I’ve been in grading hell all day
  261. Trump picks a fight with Major League Baseball
  262. Dear Georgians –
  263. John Boehner describes the Republican party’s journey to Crazytown
  264. Dublin, at last
  265. Jen Sorensen gets it right again
  266. Now We Know: It wasn’t a crash
  267. I don’t understand how Thoughtslime can be more popular than me
  268. Cleveland baseball team distances itself from racist caricatures
  269. Slavering jaws! Venomous, needle-sharp fangs! Everything you love in a spider
  270. The bizarre Matt Gaetz story
  271. Not everything advanced in Computer Science is AI
  272. Return of the Mikla
  273. A Babbler Special Report: Bolingbrook’s countdown to democracy (Fiction)
  274. Origami outtakes
  275. West Virginia Vacation!
  276. Let’s Backtrack: Gil Scott-Heron’s “Pieces Of A Man” turns 50
  277. Hurry up! There’s bilagaana downstairs!
  278. The Art of …
  279. Thank you
  280. Playing with my camera
  281. You call that a defense?
  282. Doors – 2
  283. Lazy linking – the non-binary and trans edition
  284. Resin Art: No Drama Llama
  285. Lil’ Nas X? More like, Lil’ Naw. X.

March 2021

  1. The Art of …
  2. Slack. More slack.
  3. The Mirabelling
  4. Transgender Day of Visibility? This I did not see coming
  5. In Which The Air Force Discovers What Every Gamer Already Knows
  6. “I, a 38 year old man, was dating/not dating a 17 year old girl”
  7. Sad day in the lab
  8. 52.5 Years Late
  9. Could you be a little less obvious in your hints, Death?
  10. I have a sense of dread over the Chauvin trial
  11. Trans Day of Visibility Challenge
  12. Baxter the Wonder Dog (2005-2021)
  13. Show And Tell: It’s Trans Day of Visibility 2021 (part 1)
  14. The Art of …
  15. Andrew Cuomo’s behavior shows how power goes to people’s heads
  16. A Pleasant Pheasant
  17. In which I am a sportsball fanatic
  18. The mantle has passed
  19. Lab time, and a whatsis
  20. When Do We Say “The Fatal Crack Occurred”?
  21. The Republican Party should call itself the White Supremacy Party and be done with it
  22. Glenn. What happened to you, man?
  23. People, it’s not over yet
  24. A Question Posed: When Did This Happen?
  25. What being a Republican has become today
  26. The Art of …
  27. Good news, everybody! Beelzebub has come to town!
  28. Things That Delight Me All Along The Watchtower
  29. They’re like knitters, wrapping skeins, and bearing poisoned knitting needles
  30. Amazon workers unionization vote ends today
  31. The Q conspiracies are getting wackier
  32. Don’t slack off now!
  33. We live on Stupid World
  34. Horrible Art Goblin Chanteuse
  35. Palatine Township Highway Commissioner to buy ‘Anti-ANTIFA’ Vehicles (Fiction)
  36. How to Catch Chess Cheaters With Statistics
  37. Religion and the Mental Health Field
  38. The Strange Thing About The Strange Thing That Maybe Wasn’t So Strange
  39. Terror in the lab!
  40. Self-kibbitzing and other forms of cheating in bridge
  41. Conspiracy theorists are getting desperate
  42. Two of my boys
  43. Unsolved Mysteries: MAGA Edition
  44. The ship stuck in the Suez Canal
  45. Tekporn, and a spider
  46. The other legal shoe drops
  47. I am sick and tired of this
  48. Plastic Pollution, Blood, Gore, and Censorship
  49. Friday humor
  50. My daughter has a new hobby
  51. The Art of …
  52. We need more of this
  53. Maybe I’m dating myself
  54. The prodigal spider returns, and my cabinet of optical curiosities
  55. ‘Milkshake Duck’ and the perils of internet fame
  56. I have a talent for inspiring people to hate me
  57. Georgia conservatives attempt world record for pettiest voter suppression law.
  58. Upcoming Speaking Engagements
  59. How can they be so dense?
  60. The 99.5 Percent Act.
  61. What happened when progressives won Democratic party elections in Nevada
  62. Let’s be perfectly clear
  63. TheArt of …
  64. Spider Zen: a loss, and a discovery!
  65. Lord of the Flies was wrong about human nature
  66. Dawkham? Hamkins? What shall we call this unholy team-up?
  67. The plastic recycling scam
  68. Music: The Chicks, March March
  69. Greenfinches
  70. Violence against women
  71. Beautiful Country — Yes, I Do Miss Home Sometimes
  72. The Art of …
  73. The Doors
  74. Spider therapy works!
  75. Cold and colds
  76. “…your fine ointment, brand new and expensive Could have been saved for the poor…”
  77. The perfect Republican
  78. The problem of cheating in online tournaments
  79. The Art of …
  80. Sidney Powell now says that she was just kidding all along
  81. Didn’t we already know this?
  82. Breaking Ice
  83. No Wonder They Called Him “Lyin’ Ted”
  84. Trying to understand the wide variations in covid death rates across the globe
  85. Spiders everywhere!
  86. America the Insane
  87. Hey, look! It’s only 9:00!
  88. Conservatives still ruining everything: Turkey edition.
  89. What? A spider… outside ?
  90. The Amazon unionizing fight approaches the end
  91. Tales from the Wee Woods
  92. The Art of …
  93. Photography in the Age of Photoshop
  94. Eking out a little spider time
  95. Evangelical churches should stop trying to have it both ways
  96. My “WTF” moment of the morning
  97. Bolingbrook Independent Voices guerrilla music video pulled from social media (Fiction)
  98. The victims, a great loss; the killer, no loss at all
  99. Maybe justice will be served
  100. llyris, daulnay, & Iran give us a lesson in correlation and causation: Part 2
  101. Bernie Sanders, soothsayer
  102. The Luncheon by W. Somerset Maugham
  103. The US’ Bizarre and Probably Racist Attitude Toward Vaccines
  104. Conspiracy theorists and white supremacists are targeting cell phone towers
  105. Giving up
  106. Easy Kudos for Hollywood
  107. Glory! Welcome the Jubilee!
  108. How some spam call frauds work
  109. How important is marriage?
  110. The making of Sympathy for the Devil
  111. OAN discovers that science is international!
  112. Crowblocked!
  113. Oooh, McConnell is threatening us
  114. The story of John Scott and the NHL All-Star game
  115. What makes hummingbirds hum?
  116. Embarrassing admissions that don’t really embarrass me anymore: part the first
  117. Bumblebee Rescue!
  118. The Trumps’ shameful lack of leadership in fighting vaccine hesitancy
  119. Me time!
  120. llyris, daulnay, & Iran give us a lesson in correlation and causation: Part 1
  121. Fox News is flailing around without Trump
  122. Karen Shragg Book Review
  123. The Art of …
  124. I think I might have been the beneficiary of a Ponzi scheme
  125. The madness of US gun policies
  126. Yet another demonstration of the need to defund the police
  127. Balls
  128. Who had a bad day?
  129. How does your atheism affect your kids?
  130. The Art of …
  131. The quirks of English spelling
  132. Monarch butterfly migration is truly amazing
  133. Good News! Partially.
  134. More To Say: How I wish I could calculate Pi
  135. Ten Year Passed: Japan’s 8.9 earthquake of March 11, 2011
  136. When the worst of bad takes comes from a former friend…
  137. Not Touch Panel
  138. Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God …and racism. Mustn’t forget the racism.
  139. Let’s Play: A guessing game for you
  140. More adventures of QAnon shaman and friends
  141. How do you keep on keeping on?
  142. Game Diary: March 2021
  143. Definitely a senior moment
  144. Yo-Yo Ma gives impromptu concert for those waiting for the vaccine
  145. The Art of …
  146. Well, that was challenging
  147. Marcus Busts A Move
  148. Great moments in hyperbole
  149. It’s not too late to shower us with rubies
  150. I think there’s something wrong with this place
  151. Bolingbrook’s unofficial opposition parties respond to the 2021 State of the Village Address (Fiction)
  152. Birds vs. Spiders
  153. John Oliver on the passage of the American Rescue Plan
  154. What does it mean to ‘run the rule’?
  155. Not a Mistake, Just a Smaller Knife…
  156. Republicans steal money…FROM PUPPIES!
  157. Oh, go away, John Richards
  158. Dread teaching
  159. I guess that’s one method of wealth redistribution
  160. What is happening to the Republican party?
  161. STAAAAALLIIIIIINNNN!
  162. Remember social events?
  163. My granddaughter must have inherited her hair color from me
  164. Anniversary
  165. Great moments in bird landings
  166. I Hurt Everywhere: New tattoos for yous
  167. Pi Day Arrives Again: And another Vi Hart video
  168. Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
  169. Auction #37 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
  170. Auction #36 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
  171. Auction #35 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
  172. Why not both?
  173. Children still being held in cages on the southern border
  174. It’s officially Save a Spider Day
  175. Horror Games by Small Children
  176. The pandemic: 1 year later
  177. Book reviews: children’s/YA series
  178. John Oliver on how badly the US handles unemployment
  179. Bobbin Lace, Pandemics and Christian Morals
  180. The day after
  181. You Know What I Would Like To See?
  182. 50th anniversary of an epic break-in of an FBI office
  183. VACCINATED!
  184. Family Secrets: A Writing Project Takes an Unexpected Turn
  185. Don’t mess with Katie
  186. Spiders not having sex
  187. I have been vaccinated, Now what?
  188. The Art of …
  189. What is a “day off”?
  190. TV review: Behind Her Eyes (2021) (WARNING: SPOILERS GALORE!)
  191. Bring back the weird
  192. What is the monarchy good for?
  193. Tempo in the Soundtrack of Our Lives
  194. “Is the worst yet to come?” A look back at a year of COVID (Non-fiction)
  195. Bolingbrook State of the Village Address 2021 (Non-Fiction)
  196. ‘Walking Disaster’ review, Chapter 14
  197. We need more Chelsea Handlers and fewer Piers Morgans
  198. FORNICATION!
  199. What happens when you elect a smug know-nothing
  200. The Art of …
  201. Court overturns conviction of Lula in Brazil, enabling him to run for president again
  202. We really ought to pay more attention to historians
  203. Wanking over the Drake Equation, again
  204. I Get An ‘F’
  205. You will know they are Christians by their flexible morality
  206. Link Roundup: March 2021
  207. The relief bill heads to Biden to sign into law
  208. Money fight between Trump and the RNC
  209. Influenza Influenced: What ‘flu season’?
  210. The Art of …
  211. The Phantom Tollbooth
  212. Bird-friendly coffee? What’s that?
  213. Need rhinestones?
  214. How Kyrsten Sinema went from progressive to Washington swamp dweller
  215. Every town has got one
  216. How far will Milo go?
  217. My birthday haul
  218. The Tape Stopped: Lou Ottens, June 21, 1926 to March 9, 2021
  219. The bogus outrage about Dr. Seuss
  220. Cuttlefish are smarter than we may have thought
  221. The Art of …
  222. More Stories About Planes
  223. Hell, Yes!
  224. In case you were wondering how I would celebrate my birthday…
  225. QAnon shaman and his lawyer in trouble with the judge
  226. Prophecy…validated
  227. More pun fun
  228. Observing International Women’s Day.
  229. Where is Trump’s book deal? His paid speeches?
  230. The Art of…
  231. Tit For Tat For Tit For Tat For War Crimes
  232. One in-box is empty!
  233. TV review: Bridgerton (2020)
  234. Bolingbrook police defuse gender reveal hydrogen bomb (Fiction)
  235. What else would you expect from royalty?
  236. The banality of Jordan Peterson
  237. Like a meteor!
  238. The contentiousness of womxn
  239. Have you seen conditions improve for atheists over time?
  240. Mood
  241. Great moments in sermonizing
  242. Why Bother?: Two in one news day
  243. Book review: The Patient Assassin
  244. No spiders today 😢
  245. The Hits Keep Coming
  246. That’s how you do it
  247. The coronavirus relief bill on the way to becoming law
  248. And her name was…Karen?
  249. Resin Art: Pokémon! Gotta Wear Them All! Also: Paging Hekuni Cat
  250. Another update
  251. Conan O’Brien and Ted Danson
  252. Yay! Spiders are coming back!
  253. TV review: Amend: The Fight for America (2020)
  254. On the Receiving End
  255. Mark your calendars for this Friday
  256. Accuracy Counts: I can’t say they’re wrong
  257. The spider routine
  258. Art of …
  259. We’re never cynical enough
  260. The March 4th damp squib
  261. I guess they aren’t as committed to capitalism and free speech as they claim
  262. The Joy of Painting With Bob Ross and Banksy.
  263. University administrators probably won’t care
  264. The massive injustices that go unpunished
  265. Sometimes you have to shut up and listen
  266. Breaking Up
  267. A Little Whiff of Shiro Ishii
  268. Peterson Is A Knob
  269. Drug raids should end
  270. The Art of …
  271. More Pretty Birds to Identify
  272. Degupdate: Dandelion
  273. ICC starts war crimes investigation in Israel’s occupied territories
  274. Poe’s Law is and always was bad
  275. Christian humor
  276. Spider jump scares
  277. A Lovely Article About Incipient Death
  278. How much of this outrage is performative?
  279. Narcissism As Normal
  280. Batteries Not Needed: After 270 years, it still works
  281. Did You Know: March 4th is Weird Pride Day
  282. And no one was surprised…
  283. Neera Tanden is out
  284. Forbidden
  285. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Two, Part Two
  286. Spring is Here
  287. Some thoughts on Judas and the Black Messiah
  288. Atheism is dead. Atheists killed it.
  289. The USPS Board gets new people who may fire the postmaster general
  290. Nope nope nope nope nope
  291. The Story Arc of a Piece of Shit
  292. Adventures
  293. Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers on CPAC idiocy
  294. Using gods to support bigotry
  295. Shermer: Reliably wrong every time
  296. The Art of…
  297. Glue? Wait, What?
  298. How many people lined up to live on Devil’s Island?
  299. A different March Madness
  300. Mystical Cats
  301. Watch the logic go “Wheeeeeeee!”
  302. Origami: Orb
  303. An homage to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  304. The turkey siege may not have been personal
  305. YouTube Video: Boob Armor: 4 Things You Need to Know
  306. The Art of …
  307. TNET 44: Manscaped
  308. The Matrixpunk esthetic must die
  309. The Same Old Playbook
  310. I don’t know why it’s funny, but I like it
  311. The only memes I need are @jeanjeanpizzaqueen memes
  312. Can You Identify This Pretty Little Bird?
  313. Trump’s surprisingly poor showing in the CPAC straw poll
  314. Wereskunks divided over Bolingbrook’s Mayoral race (Fiction)
  315. Was I philosophically checkmated? Don’t think so

February 2021

  1. Doubling down on the lies to pick the pockets of the gullible
  2. More images from Mars
  3. Ridgeline Bowl
  4. Naomi Wolf’s brain worms have to reach the brain stem soon
  5. Sarah Braasch lets the world know how evil I truly am
  6. Great moments in skating
  7. I put on a fashion show! Am I not fabulous?
  8. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no.22 “Always Use Your Voice”
  9. Nice voice
  10. Biden continues the perpetual wars
  11. On Hasbro’s Potato Head Be It
  12. The Fake “Science” of Intelligent Design
  13. Computational complexity of jigsaw puzzles
  14. Bitter Coffee
  15. McConnell begins groveling again to Trump
  16. The Neera Tanden controversy reveals bipartisan corrupt politics
  17. He’s never going away, is he?
  18. Somebody else says it: Musk is a charlatan
  19. Is there some kind of epidemic of stupidity right now?
  20. Branding Stamp
  21. The Last Birds of Winter
  22. The State of the Union is…
  23. Great moments in jumping to conclusions
  24. Update: Good health, and good spirits
  25. Bernie Sanders on raising the minimum wage
  26. “Trust the Science,” Marjorie Taylor Greene
  27. Whisper Dolls
  28. ‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Two, Part One
  29. The horrendous conditions in meatpacking plants
  30. The lure of the exotic! Adventure awaits!
  31. We’re getting better?
  32. Some Neeping About Code
  33. This is me. And my wife.
  34. Why we must have a living wage
  35. Little Did I Know: I’m pleasantly surprised such communities exist
  36. Hopeful covid-19 statistics
  37. The shapes hurricanes take.
  38. It’s Painful To Hear: Music as a form of torture
  39. Guest Opinion: Bolingbrook United 2021 – United for a better future and a better community (Mixed)
  40. No, Doctor, I Said I Wanted a “Bud Light.”
  41. RIP Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  42. The lesson for the day is…
  43. Seeking justifications for war
  44. Tsk, tsk, Michigan. How wimpy.
  45. Like I have any clout with American Atheists at all
  46. Jimmy Kimmel has a good review of the past week’s events
  47. Spectacular video of the Mars Perseverance rover landing
  48. Art, success, and rewards
  49. The Bell Keeps Tolling
  50. The use of elite media as agents of propaganda
  51. Gender reveal parties are still a thing?
  52. He’s not wrong
  53. Darwin, Victorian
  54. Video of Perseverance Landing
  55. DuPage Township candidates clash at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
  56. John Oliver on the Texas freeze fiasco
  57. A Dubious Claim, I Think: COVID-19 and glasses
  58. A Bomb Dropped: In the form of a letter
  59. None Shall Pass: Israel’s newest form of apartheid
  60. Good news from the progeny
  61. Well, Shoot: This comes as no surprise
  62. The grubby world of social media influencers
  63. I Half Believe: Matt Pottinger’s appearance on Face The Nation
  64. Life Imitates: But I wouldn’t call it art
  65. Wax Axe – the Axening
  66. 3 out of 5 white evangelical Christians are poisonously stupid
  67. Falsification and neoliberalism
  68. I scrutinize our local philosophy offerings with some trepidation
  69. WandaVision, Episode 7 [Spoilers]
  70. Minnesota disappoints me
  71. Patterns in Ice
  72. Spam filter powers activate!
  73. All Cruz, all the time
  74. Ken Ham wouldn’t know what good science is if it came up & set his Bible on fire
  75. Depressing milestones in coronavirus deaths
  76. Future War – Combat Robots
  77. Could a taste for collecting spiders be some indication of future success in life?
  78. What the fall of the Roman empire might tell us about our current times
  79. What Cissplaining Isn’t
  80. Fanfic Prolixity – Why?
  81. BREAKING: Me + my commenters = “all evil, evil people who God will someday judge.”
  82. Unsolicited Dick Pics
  83. Ashes
  84. So far, so good on the stimulus bill
  85. Yikes, another blowup in the SF community
  86. Cast Doubt, Then Cast Out: MI6’s ‘apology’ is empty of any remorse
  87. Leftist wins first round of Ecuador’s presidential elections
  88. A defense of Adnan Oktar
  89. If A Movie About Ted Cruz Is Ever Made…
  90. Lookit That Science GO!
  91. Ancient DNA just became older
  92. One night in Cancun
  93. Resin Art: Spring in Space
  94. How the Mars rover landed
  95. Grrrr, goddamned atheists
  96. Sanitizing Rush Limbaugh
  97. Exploring Mars the smart way
  98. A Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — no.21 “Frustration”
  99. Great moments in politics
  100. I might be tempted to vote for a Republican who wore one of these
  101. Uh-oh. Now I’m getting the really weeeeird spam
  102. In Which I Become An Elonista
  103. Eulogy for Rush Limbaugh
  104. Jack has walked on
  105. Game Diary: Feb 2021
  106. Jimmy Kimmel on recent events
  107. By the time you read this… PERSEVERANCE IS SAFE ON MARS! (Updated: Now with Pics!)
  108. BREAKING: Me + my commenters = “truly sick @$$holes.”
  109. Going big on stimulus is a no-lose proposition for Biden and the Democrats
  110. A soothing morning with spiders
  111. What is the government for?
  112. When Egos Inflate: They think they can say anything
  113. Evasively Cute
  114. February 23rd — Speaking to the Nottingham Secular Society!
  115. The consequences of the Republican-libertarian point of view
  116. If you’re mourning the death of Rush Limbaugh, you’ve revealed how rotten you are
  117. YouTube, your ads suck
  118. Reflections Off The F-22
  119. This isn’t a defense of politicians, it’s an indictment of the media
  120. Rising violence against Asian Americans
  121. Grocery shopping in Minnesota is exactly like this thumbnail
  122. Question for the Christians, especially the Catholics:
  123. The fight for control of the Republican party begins in earnest
  124. Texas Done Messed Up: Tim Boyd the gimboid resigns
  125. Would it be unseemly to dance on his grave?
  126. How Quickly Things Change: It’s only been a month
  127. Grave Dancing Today! RUSH LIMBAUGH IS DEAD!
  128. How the planets and moons got their names
  129. That reminds me…
  130. Remember Milo Yiannopoulos?
  131. Guest Post: Gerrymandering
  132. Stop! Darwintine (Non-fiction)
  133. You go to a panel discussion, and then discover the other panelists are promoting a eugenics article from Areo
  134. The Da Vinci Code and QAnon
  135. A Minor Point To Make….
  136. Merciful Release
  137. I’ll Tread Carefully Here: Same saddling of debt, different horse
  138. Resin Art: Strawberries!
  139. The need to end qualified immunity for police
  140. I don’t know whether I’m mad or stupid
  141. COVID update: Why masks and distancing matter, and why we need to change how things are run
  142. ‘Snow Command: Bolingbrook’ video series to debut on YouTube (Fiction)
  143. How police treat peaceful vs. violent protestors
  144. Do you mourn the people you’ve lost as an atheist?
  145. Ignorance Displayed: The TERF clearly doesn’t grasp the concept
  146. 5 Things You Should Not Ask Bisexuals
  147. Someone Finally Spoke Up: Shell admits we already hit peak oil
  148. Kitchen Knives Set – Part 7: Getting to Grips
  149. Silicone Paw
  150. Darwintine Fundraiser: Get your Shinies
  151. Canada finally explained
  152. Mitch McConnell is a real weasel
  153. I hope more Xians catch on to the big lies they’ve been sold
  154. Blogging and ambition
  155. Maiden, Mother, Crone
  156. How twins scenes are filmed
  157. COVID-19: We almost made it a whole year
  158. Darwintine: Romance reviews. (And a little fundraising.)
  159. Valentines for NYC.
  160. Casual Game: Lemmings turns 30 today
  161. When Marcus Was Cute
  162. In Which Yours Truly Almost got Caught Up in the Bystander Effect
  163. Vacuum Infusion
  164. Great Tits!
  165. The awful Neera Tanden set to join Biden administration
  166. My day begins again, darn it!
  167. Check out my video — I’m going to read some erotic poetry to you!
  168. Lisa showing her moves
  169. The Descent of Man: Anywhere is Better Than Here (Fiction)
  170. Time to give up and go to bed
  171. Why “Charge Cops With Crimes” Does Not Work
  172. Flashback: “Henry Kissinger is not my friend”
  173. Age is no excuse for casual sexist remarks
  174. The First Solidbody Made: The Fender Telecaster turns 70
  175. Trump’s Folly
  176. The Descent of Man: ASCEND.
  177. The Descent of Man: “I’m Not Alone”
  178. Justin Timberlake facing backlash, apologizes
  179. Lazy linking
  180. Postage stamp honoring C. S. Wu
  181. Valentine’s Day Sucks: Two brief thoughts
  182. Go count birds!
  183. How having the death penalty delays trials
  184. The Art of …
  185. Life in a small town in rural Minnesota in the winter
  186. Sri Lanka yesterday may be the US tomorrow
  187. The List Shortens: The Economist’s 2020 Democracy Index is out
  188. Darwintine Festival: ‘Natural Selection’, Part 4
  189. A Good Deed Punished: Dr. Hasan Gokal is out of a job
  190. I don’t find this BS soothing, either
  191. Another Thing
  192. Batwoman Biff Pow
  193. Cautious optimism about the pandemic
  194. The shame of the fishing industry
  195. OMG I am all the idiot
  196. Round two of my conflict with turkeys
  197. Natural Selection Part 3 (Darwintine Story Chain)
  198. Resin Art: More bling
  199. The Art of …
  200. F-35 Funnies
  201. Moving to end the death penalty
  202. Venting!
  203. It’s the Fallacy Abuse Fallacy!
  204. If this is true, all my money woes are solved!
  205. Link Roundup: February 2021
  206. Chinese New Year Arrives: 2021 is the year of the Ox
  207. Archaeological Dig: And you thought historical revisionism only happened here
  208. Jimmy Kimmel on the first days’s impeachment proceedings
  209. The Art of …
  210. A Torn Out Bunghole
  211. Yes! We should criticize the ones on “our side”!
  212. Another useless Republican post-mortem?
  213. Natural Selection Part 1 (Darwintine Story Chain)
  214. One of the advantages of teaching over Zoom…
  215. At this point, it’s just a lingering after-effect
  216. Darwintine Festival: Natural Selection Part 2
  217. Blue Tits!
  218. Yes, it’s an argument for nuclear power
  219. Minnesota: Number of days without a mass shooting … 0
  220. Jack’s Walk
  221. Kitchen Knives Set – Part 6: Honing Steels
  222. The powerful case against Trump
  223. The conservative media bind
  224. The Art of …
  225. Fly Time was a bust
  226. The right wing meme game is very weak
  227. The myth of the Chinese debt trap
  228. We’re on fly time now, boys and girls
  229. Some of us have known that almost half of Americans are conspiracy theorists all along
  230. Too close to the truth to be funny
  231. Snake handling as a sign of faith
  232. The Art of …
  233. Bramblings Whoosh
  234. How much did that insurrection cost?
  235. 1 in 475
  236. Footy
  237. A closeup view of the last days of a deranged presidency
  238. Someone let the panspermists out of their cages again
  239. I also suspect cartoonists are trying to torture me
  240. Q&A with FTB Blogger Megan Rahm, Author of Free to Roam: Poems from a Heathen Mommy
  241. Hey! That’s my vision of paradise!
  242. Chicagoland’s UFO bases reopen (Fiction)
  243. Creativity for Skeptics Episode 11: The Artist’s Way Week Five Recap and Week Six Preview
  244. Do we really need to do this to get people to donate to charities?
  245. Yes, it’s Snowy, but it’s also The White Terror of the North
  246. Lewis Wolpert: YIKES.
  247. YouTube Video: CANCEL CULTURE: Fear of the Mob
  248. Stealing Elections
  249. Flies have pretty eyes
  250. Pokemon, Go: Big, or go home
  251. The profile of the insurrectionists
  252. Why did Giuliani, Powell, and Fox News pick on Smartmatic?
  253. A thought I had elsewhere on war and the media
  254. The Cult Doesn’t Cancel: Not when it’s their own
  255. Will Biden avoid the Obama trap?
  256. Oh joy, first exam
  257. Coulda been “Starlords”
  258. A Trans Coming Out Story, from Philosophy Tube
  259. A Rite of Passage
  260. Conservatives Tell a Whopper (Video and Transcript)
  261. Falling chain
  262. Small but good start on Yemen
  263. Checking out the local real estate
  264. So…pronouns make the man? Or woman?
  265. Bernie Sanders outlines his budget plans
  266. Keep kicking the man while he’s down (he’s not down far enough yet)
  267. An Among Us Joke I Made
  268. Marjorie Taylor Greene stripped of committee assignments!
  269. Fuck The My Pillow Guy
  270. Transphobes and their Dating Preferences
  271. My sister-in-law, Julie Lynn Myers
  272. The sorry state of the Republican party and conservative media
  273. The lab look
  274. Why I do not invest in art or the stock market
  275. Well Said: A comment I saw today
  276. Whoosh 2
  277. Shut up, Jordan Peterson
  278. The anti-vaxxers seem to be more militant than the anti-choicers
  279. Lewis Wolpert has died
  280. Wax Axe – 2
  281. Freethought Blogs has a new published author! (Non-fiction)
  282. The Art of …
  283. Super Bowl = Super Spreader
  284. AOC’s experience during the insurrection
  285. Music Rules: Carole King’s “Tapestry” turns 50
  286. Do the COVIDiots even understand actuarial statistics?
  287. Could MegaFarmCorps do good for the land?
  288. QAnon, the Republican party, and the Know-Nothings
  289. There are going to be so many wild books out of the last administration
  290. Gary Thomas Rowe
  291. A Rousing Sea Shanty to Start the Day
  292. The Art of …
  293. Ian McKellen on how he acts
  294. The Republican bipartisanship gambit
  295. Audio Files And Music Formats: Recollections on record collections
  296. What do you mean, poor people should have tasty food?
  297. Spears
  298. Dance while the world burns
  299. One never knows what wonders await in abandoned spaces
  300. The news about the vaccines is really, really good
  301. Facebook is irresponsible, Zuckerberg deserves to rot in hell
  302. Pussy Riot’s ‘Rage’ Video (Non-fiction)
  303. Origami: First cubes
  304. More Bob jokes
  305. It’s What They Want: COVID-19 is spreading in prisons
  306. YouTube Video: 5 Biggest Lies of Knife Sharpening
  307. Quantum physics books for toddlers?
  308. Spiral Outwards: It’s got to be MONDay
  309. Can We De-Platform the Nobel Prize?
  310. The Art of …
  311. Feb 1, 2021
  312. Genius!
  313. The bleak future of the Republican party
  314. The Christian Right poisons everything
  315. Tove Ditlevsen
  316. Sources: Village of Bolingbrook recorded mock ‘Insurrection Alert’ video (Fiction)
  317. Creativity for Skeptics Episode Ten: The Artist’s Way Week Four Recap and Week Five Preview

January 2021

  1. Re-Counting Coup
  2. “Rudy come back!”
  3. Home from Wisconsin
  4. 100,000
  5. Expect more masked madness and violence
  6. Northern Parrot Substitutes
  7. Philosophy Tube stole my name!
  8. Saving the ugly animals
  9. How could people be this oblivious?
  10. Dyatlov Passed: Has the death of nine student hikers in 1959 finally been explained?
  11. Goldifnches!
  12. Capitalizing Black but not white
  13. There is so much garbage in the peer-reviewed literature
  14. Terrible news
  15. Weird but nice
  16. A Funny Story To Tell: A personal anecdote
  17. I Laughed At First: After that, it wasn’t funny anymore
  18. The GameStop controversy
  19. The Art of …
  20. How Many Mistakes Before People Learn?
  21. The Epoch Times keeps creeping into our mailbox
  22. The purge of those not slavishly loyal to Trump begins
  23. Now we know who owns Tucker Carlson
  24. So, Does Homemade Honing Steel Work?
  25. The Republicans haven’t changed at all
  26. Giving vegetarian food a bad name
  27. Axe of Wax
  28. Resin Art: Just Tell me to Stop and I’ll Simply Ignore You
  29. Review scores: a philosophical investigation
  30. Green Woodpecker
  31. The rise and fall of a would-be autocrat
  32. I wouldn’t want to be a funeral director right now
  33. Black police officers and the insurrectionists
  34. “See Something? Say Something.”
  35. I get email…from Portugal
  36. So, Hadrian’s Wall stops transphobia, too?
  37. You can always call me with spider stories
  38. The world that Republicans live in
  39. More Robin
  40. Diogenes and cynicism
  41. Vox and its advertisers are working overtime to find the perfect match
  42. More on “System Design”
  43. The Art of …
  44. We need bigger spiders in Minnesota
  45. Seattle will allow you to rot!
  46. A lesser known aspect of Trump’s attempted coup
  47. Don’t send a puppy to do an old dog’s work
  48. Proxy measurements can provide warnings of what’s to come
  49. Well, that was a day
  50. How QAnon will go on and on
  51. Get ready for the cicada explosion
  52. More Security Neeping
  53. Finally Fixed: Better to do it right the first time
  54. This Sickens: Rightwingnut perverts at it again
  55. Resin Art: A Cornflower for Jazzlet
  56. The Art of …
  57. We have been invited to visit Wisconsin this weekend
  58. These tough guys turn out to be such snowflakes
  59. Retailing pillows is not credible training for government
  60. Adjusting to pandemic rules is going to wreck me this term
  61. Roger Claar Party accuses social media companies of censoring their attack ad (Fiction)
  62. What About Pillowfort?
  63. Samatha Bee on what Democrats can and should do now
  64. Try And Try Again: Repeating the lies in hope that one sticks
  65. Maybe It Was Too Good To Last: Taiwan has its first mass outbreak
  66. Making chess more exciting
  67. Housewife (Pandemic Poetry)
  68. I knew it: David Bowie was a spider
  69. The Future Is Going To Be a Hellscape
  70. The Oumuamua ‘controversy’
  71. We could be another Portugal!
  72. The Art of …
  73. Blame-shifting for the emergence of the coronavirus
  74. Those guys keep flaunting their brilliance
  75. Creativity for Skeptics Episode 9: The Artist’s Way Week Three Recap and Week Four Preview
  76. Grandfathered In: One of the most influential computer games turns 45 (or 50)
  77. A new show based on the Rubik’s cube
  78. Kitchen Knives Set – Part 5: “Fun” with Resin
  79. Trump waived anti-lobbying rules on his way out
  80. A decent start
  81. Who needs camouflage?
  82. The speed of light in different directions
  83. Auction #34 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
  84. Auction #33 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
  85. Auction #32 for Freethoughtblogs Legal Debts
  86. Ghastly inequality in the Gulf states
  87. Bernie Memes
  88. Bernie Sanders talks about his meme and his budget plans
  89. Quickie Thoughts on Recent CW
  90. Ending the Churchill idolatry
  91. Revisiting Islamic embryology
  92. Catholics on Relativism
  93. You know what would make our universities collapse?
  94. Trump’s future problems with the media
  95. Time to play a game
  96. The vaccination plan, QAnon, nerd culture, and Pittsburgh
  97. Recently Seen: More amusing pictures
  98. Touche, AOC!
  99. You Screw Up: What happens when you make celebrities into politicians
  100. How Quickly They Forget: Alberta’s rightwingnuts can’t keep track of their racist members
  101. Violent White Males Act Out Again
  102. Let’s Remember: Hank Aaron, 1934-2021
  103. The Art of…
  104. UMM turns out good people, like Joshua Preston
  105. Resin Art: In the Midnight Hour, She Cried More, More, More
  106. Fungi Friday
  107. Redefining what constitutes a “family”
  108. What now for QAnon?
  109. I’m not the only person with reservations about Eric Lander
  110. It has become harder to laugh at the Q idiots
  111. The transition to sanity
  112. Face Off: How many have you collected?
  113. Day One Matters: Two POVs on Biden’s executive orders
  114. Spider skeleton
  115. True For You, But Not For Me
  116. China strikes back at Trumpers
  117. The Art of …
  118. Jack’s Walk
  119. My Launch Party on 2/2 at 7:30pm EST
  120. Command And Control: Only the rank and vile, but never the leaders
  121. In which Biden disappears 157 million women (give or take)
  122. I’m Sorry, But
  123. Elections can make a difference, even in the US
  124. Do you like to play games?
  125. Palpable desperation and schadenfreude
  126. The Pelagian Heresy? Really?
  127. Nature red in tooth and claw
  128. The Art of …
  129. Saying good riddance to Trump
  130. Someone is really pissed off at the election results
  131. This Is A Shocker
  132. The long national nightmare comes to an end
  133. Today at 3 central time, EVO-DEVO
  134. The distancing from Trump starts to gain steam
  135. HE’S GONE!
  136. It is appropriate that today I would be reading about a fossilized dinosaur butthole
  137. 10:30 am
  138. Doiling Away All the Time
  139. You know what sucks?
  140. Winter Wonderland 5: Miscellaneous
  141. Winter Wonderland 4: The Battle for the Skies
  142. Peace talks breakdown between Palatine’s werecoyotes and weredogs (Fiction)
  143. The Noah’s Ark/DNA guy is back
  144. A Philosophy Primer
  145. The fracturing of the Trump cult
  146. Timing Is Everything: Will Taiwan see a partial lockdown at Chinese New Year?
  147. Questions for Secretary of State Nominee Antony Blinken.
  148. Travails of the news headline writer
  149. Horror Shows: “The Sadness” is a zombie movie with a point
  150. More Incompetence
  151. The Art of …
  152. I hate that zombie movies are now more plausible
  153. Things have really got this bad
  154. Why me, Lord, why me?
  155. The latest Q fantasy
  156. The cruelty of English professors
  157. Winter Wonderland 3: More Swans
  158. Great moments in crime
  159. Link: Anaiise Diaz on sessions from Martin Luther King Jr. (Non-fiction)
  160. Zucced Again: Fascistbook’s hypocrisy is getting worse
  161. Miscellaneous Stuff: Humour me
  162. The Art of …
  163. Discuss: Political Madness All the Time
  164. Just go, already
  165. Who you gonna call when you’ve got a racist book to publish? REGNERY!
  166. Martin Luther King Day, 2021
  167. Bugsnax’s twofold queerness
  168. MLK Day 2021: A Time to Break Silence.
  169. Face Off: Has anti-masker nonsense infected Taiwan, too?
  170. Sharon Begley has died
  171. I’m doing it again!
  172. The Republican nightmare has come true: Bernie Sanders is Senate budget chair
  173. Probably a bad idea
  174. $cience gets a seat at the table
  175. Winter Wonderland 2: Swanlake meets Frozen
  176. Creativity for Skeptics Episode Eight: The Artist’s Way Week Two Recap and Week Three Preview
  177. Trashing the White House on his way out
  178. Notes On Hypnosis – 2: The Amazing Kreskin Speaks
  179. Now the insurrectionists want pardons
  180. Still more Resin Fun
  181. The radicalization of Kevin Greeson
  182. Winter Wonderland 1
  183. Comforting analysis of what Trump can or cannot do
  184. The sordid life and times of Harun Yahya
  185. When to Keep the Snark
  186. Recovery is Not All Butterflies and Rainbows
  187. Pride Goeth In The Fall: Part 1, from Taipei
  188. Mixed messages of the rioters
  189. I Have Been Down, Lately….
  190. Who would have guessed?
  191. Wine snobbery
  192. Sometimes, I pine for life in the Pacific Northwest
  193. I Can’t Help It
  194. Rudy lives in a fantasy world
  195. Friday night fun & games
  196. “Know Your Place”
  197. The last days of Trump
  198. The Art of …
  199. The Dutch are so quaint
  200. What did they expect? They’re just the hired help after all
  201. I am READY!
  202. The phases of vaccines and drug clinical trials
  203. Minnesota is doing things right
  204. Antivaxxer lies about vaccines causing infertility
  205. Lynching: An Alternate Interpretation of 1/6/2021
  206. Think last week was stressful? Brace yourself for next week
  207. Strategic Security Neepery
  208. Making my grand-nephew famous
  209. And The Body Count Continues: Two million dead
  210. Last Minute Attempt: Will Cheetolini set the world on fire as he leaves?
  211. The Skepticamp talks are now online
  212. An Interesting Sign
  213. Have you ever seen a spider’s heart beat?
  214. The Art of …
  215. Trump is a loser
  216. When Was The Change Made?: I’m just curious
  217. Blizzard comin’
  218. “White privilege on peak”
  219. What is a wolf, anyway?
  220. Anti-Heresy Laws Still Suck
  221. Candace Owens is the right-wing persecution complex on steroids
  222. Marking The Hits
  223. Resin Art: Just some fun
  224. Climate change, despair, and hope
  225. It Won’t Happen Again: I managed to make two accurate predictions
  226. Jordan Klepper reports from the riot
  227. Double Dactyl: What the FUCK, America?
  228. Dominion’s court filing against Sidney Powell is a doozy
  229. We’re talkin’ evo-devo here
  230. The Art of …
  231. Someone else shares my … taste ?
  232. According to creationists, every science is false
  233. Can the insurrectionists shift the blame to Trump?
  234. Tacky slime all over the place
  235. Mikey Weinstein Tells It Like It Is
  236. Vice-Presidential Precedent
  237. The second Trump impeachment
  238. Tin Pot Tyrant
  239. California’s covid-19 vaccination plan
  240. Snowy Glitter
  241. The Art of …
  242. Yay me
  243. The Stillness of Remembering What You Had, And What You Lost
  244. What Threatens: It may be worse than you think
  245. Trump’s allies abandon him
  246. In honor of Adnan Oktar’s prison sentence
  247. Trump: The Worse Fate
  248. If Chauncey Gardiner were a malicious, hate-filled bigot…
  249. A year of reading popular physics
  250. That title worried me for a minute
  251. Free Speech Doesn’t Mean “Never Stop Gabbing.”
  252. What Have You Done?
  253. The UK’s rapidly rising covid-19 cases
  254. Another poem from my upcoming book! :)
  255. The Art of …
  256. All work and no play makes….
  257. Follow up to the Soho Karen story
  258. The Evo Devo conversation resumes!
  259. A Golf Cart Might Have Changed History
  260. Getting close to Trump is bad for your professional reputation
  261. Treason PSA*
  262. Corporate talk radio has noticed someone is looking at them
  263. A little glimmer of satisfaction every morning
  264. Seth Abramson Makes the Case For Charging Trump With Sedition
  265. Creativity for Skeptics Episode 7: The Artist’s Way Week One Recap and Week Two Preview
  266. Martian Colonies send ‘peacekeepers’ to Illinois (Fiction)
  267. Paymon – Gotta Catch ’em All
  268. Takeover: Movement toward justice
  269. Self, Determined: I’ll bet he gets Mexico-mmunicated
  270. Photo Shop: Pictures, memes and the like from recent days
  271. Now he only has golf
  272. Link Roundup: January 2021
  273. A Love Life – Emotional Bookkeeping
  274. Hungry hungry spiders
  275. Things Said And Unsaid: Commentary on political commentary today
  276. Kitchen Knives Set – Part 4: Getting Some Serious Wood
  277. And now on to the next rampage
  278. Sunday Sermon: 1200 Protesters
  279. Trump’s reckless attacks led to this sorry state
  280. How to wipe a cocky grin off a Trumpkin’s face
  281. How about if we cast a critical eye on every church?
  282. It’s a microcosm!
  283. Hilarity Ensues: I can’t tell if it’s real or a troll
  284. This where Trump’s attacks on the media have led
  285. The ONLY Radical Idea
  286. Some MAGAlanders are angry at Trump’s seeming betrayal
  287. Science on Morality
  288. Web Exclusive: President Trump expelled from the Illuminati (Fiction)
  289. Held To Account: Why SM took until the last minute to ban him
  290. The Trump mob begins to eat its own
  291. It’s Easy To Misconstrue: I don’t want to hear about a uniform that died
  292. Odds And Ends I Collected….
  293. Fun times
  294. Resin Art: All polished up
  295. Criminal Begs Forgiveness for Recent Infamy; Iris Yet to Comment
  296. It sure looked a lot like an attempted coup
  297. The vaccine rollout has started in Denmark
  298. Playing with Temptation
  299. Cold Kills: And climate change sucks
  300. And a hush fell over the land…
  301. And now … killer squirrels?
  302. Ice whiskers
  303. The Art of …
  304. Can a homely old guy with no charisma succeed on YouTube?
  305. Big boy gettin’ swole
  306. What next for Trump?
  307. Friday Feathers: The Birds are Back in Town
  308. Spiders Brave the Cold
  309. Friday’s Quick Thoughts on 1/6/2021
  310. Trump finally acknowledges the reality that he lost
  311. Must Read Piece from NBC News: Republicans Predicted This in 2016, Then Got On Board Anyway
  312. Not a recommended spider story
  313. “Cheap Talk” skepticism
  314. Good thing we bought our house before I entered my spider phase
  315. The Truth About Antifa’s Involvement In Yesterday’s Insurrection
  316. Late night commentary on the riot
  317. Must-see videos
  318. Come to My Launch Party!! 2/2/21 @ 7:30 pm EST
  319. More quick thoughts on 1/6/2021 (Updated 9pm PST)
  320. Acting Cabinet Secretaries and the 25th Amendment
  321. How it all went down
  322. It has only taken four years for the media to wake up
  323. Texas Freedom Network Calls for Resignation of Senator Ted Cruz
  324. Hope
  325. Terrified: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
  326. I feel the little blue birds’ pain
  327. Who attempted a coup? The Nazis, that’s who
  328. The morning after
  329. The recent half-assed rebellion
  330. Let’s examine race and policing in Portland & DC
  331. Tummy Thursday: A Rainbow for the New Year
  332. Some thoughts on the events of January 6th, 2021
  333. Thoughts
  334. TREASON
  335. Words fail me
  336. Thank Fuck the Rich are Cowards
  337. Lunchtime in the lab
  338. You Don’t Say: Tawdry Tedros is complaining about China
  339. Can we call it a coup now? Can we see some traitors arrested?
  340. A coup is underway: First thoughts
  341. Fools
  342. Morality Explained
  343. Put Out To Pasteurize: China calls for youth in Asia
  344. Stacey’s revenge
  345. What is this mania about “cancel culture”?
  346. Sealed With a Curse As Sharp As a Knife…
  347. You want more good news?
  348. Good news/bad news
  349. Promoting My Book and Getting to Know the Atheist Community
  350. Time running out for Mike Pence to decide whether to fish or cut bait
  351. God is punking Pat Robertson again
  352. COVID-19 vaccine is available in Morris!
  353. The Georgia senate elections
  354. A mundane cleaning day
  355. More Tales of The Retroscope
  356. Trump’s call suggests that he may actually believe his own fantasies
  357. I’m adding Bang to my collection of rage-emailing punctuation!
  358. Trump’s phone call was recorded because of his and Graham’s lying
  359. What Hath GOP Wrought
  360. Why would you do this?
  361. It Never Ends: Another musical legend has gone
  362. I Didn’t Laugh: The Cato Institute’s latest bad joke
  363. Uncommon Sense: Totalitarianism
  364. Wind Power for Standing Rock
  365. The Art of…
  366. Denying reality to the end
  367. A Handcrafted Mausoleum and Graveyard
  368. Why are we dawdling?
  369. I presume he’ll be arrested and tried for treason and extortion now?
  370. Weredogs and Wereskunks clash over the sale of puppies in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
  371. Creativity for Skeptics Episode 6: The Artist’s Way Week One Preview
  372. More pun fun
  373. The Art of …
  374. “Soul Searching” – What’s Your Story?
  375. Break New Ground
  376. Trump gets more and more pathetic
  377. Backdoors
  378. Rise in minimum wage in 2021
  379. “Calvin Klein Design Tattoo®” Scam Targeting Tattoo Artists
  380. Showing their teeth as a sign of smug arrogance
  381. Happy New Year!
  382. Privilege Prevails: Being “unbiased” is still being biased
  383. Hey UK readers! What’s it like to be an atheist there?
  384. Raksha gets a taste of winter to finish off 2020
  385. I haven’t cleaned the trinoc since when ?
  386. Another Karen to add to the list
  387. The Art of …
  388. Robin? Robin!
  389. 12 million?
  390. Origami: Nested boxes
  391. Allsides is promoting false equivalence
  392. Pence to Gohmert: Thanks but no thanks
  393. Reading challenge
  394. Who wants to chat about salamanders and limbs and variation?
  395. Creativity for Skeptics Episode 5: Intro to The Artist’s Way
  396. The Art of ..
  397. Do I Sit Quietly or Fight — Confessions of a Black Swamp Atheist
  398. School portrait day
  399. My talk on the Copernican myths
  400. It Was Never Funny To Begin With: North Korea and COVID-19
  401. Wait And See: No, it’s not ‘ET’ until you prove it
  402. I’ll Pile On: Happy New Year
  403. Beware of Cenobites offering Puzzle Cubes
  404. Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers getting even more aggressive
  405. More good medical news
  406. A Vignette
  407. Happy New Year to all this blog’s readers!
  408. Who’s up for some Undertale?
  409. Happy New Year Spider!

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