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December 2022

1. 31 DecProject Phoenix – Part 4 – The Tail
2. 31 DecMy sister’s article: Can We Really Love Our Children Unconditionally?
3. 31 DecSnoozy Cat to you all, and a happy New Year!
4. 31 DecEven skeptical science guys sometimes make mistakes
5. 31 DecA funny and interesting Twitter experiment
6. 31 Dec2022 can suck it!
7. 30 DecA sneak peak at what I’m working on for 2023 (Non-Fiction)
8. 30 DecIt’s all hilarious until it isn’t
9. 30 DecA new year, a new Brazilian president, and new hope for the Amazon
10. 30 DecProject Phoenix – Part 3 – Beginning the Work
11. 30 DecThis Year’s Gingerbreads
12. 30 DecIs his name even George Santos?
13. 30 DecThe enduring futility of Intelligent Design creationism
14. 29 DecThe Bolingbrook Babbler’s Shocking Predictions for 2023! (Fiction)
15. 29 DecA video and some thoughts on the recent power grid attacks
16. 29 DecWe haven’t gotten rid of her yet
17. 29 DecA true MAGA head never gives up
18. 29 DecIt’s not a difficult choice at all
19. 29 DecRetreat Inward vs. Escape Outward — how do you spend your time?
20. 28 DecSomebody has been grandpa-proofing their child
21. 28 DecCommunity defense works
22. 28 DecWhat a good dog!
23. 28 DecA Question about Space Telescopes
24. 28 DecVideo: We Need A Library Economy
25. 28 DecNorma Desmond reincarnates as Donald Trump
26. 28 DecHelp! We’re being held hostage by a maniac child!
27. 28 DecIn terms of human cost, Paris climate goals are likely insufficient.
28. 27 DecA very Jewish Christmas
29. 27 DecJudgment of Paris time
30. 27 DecMore Detailed B.S.
31. 27 DecThe myth of the rich genius
32. 27 Dec“Scientist” is a gender-neutral term
33. 27 DecWheel out the persecution complex
34. 27 DecThe Best in the Collection
35. 26 DecChristmas is over! Did everyone make it?
36. 26 DecScientists: It’s dangerous to assume we’ll be able to cool the planet later this century
37. 26 DecWhat is the appeal of long showers?
38. 26 DecToo early to write epitaphs for the GOP
39. 26 DecScroogey. Very scroogey.
40. 26 DecElon Musk has ascended to avatar status
41. 25 DecI had to say what I think of Jesus Mythicism
42. 25 DecScanning…
43. 25 DecProject Phoenix – Part 2 – Outline
44. 25 DecMore pun fun
45. 25 DecPine Ridge Reservation needs your help
46. 25 DecThe true meaning of Christmas
47. 25 DecThat reminds me…
48. 25 DecA Tumbril Remark
49. 25 DecMerry humbug
50. 24 DecVideo: Monopoly is Anti-Landlord Propaganda
51. 24 DecFilm review: Glass Onion (2022) (No spoilers)
52. 24 DecHow should inflation figures be reported?
53. 24 DecI didn’t want to know more about Caroline Ellison after all
54. 24 DecQuaintly evil
55. 24 DecReligious origins/references: does language matter?
56. 23 DecVideo: Thought Slime on “AI Art”
57. 23 DecThe queer musical wilderness
58. 23 DecBoo hoo, PragerU
59. 23 DecHey, NASA, how about renaming the JWST?
60. 23 DecI already got the best present
61. 23 DecNot everything is a symbol of one’s political persuasions
62. 23 DecBrings back childhood memories of going to church at Christmas
63. 23 DecVideo: Fake News in the Great War
64. 22 DecThe horrors of mass incarceration demand abolition.
65. 22 DecUS life expectancy drops again
66. 22 DecThese are the good old days
67. 22 DecRats, sinking ship, yadda yadda yadda
68. 22 DecAre Christians getting louder?
69. 22 DecThe Midnight Collection, Volume Three!
70. 21 DecA manly soup
71. 21 DecThe U.S. is about to freeze. Stay warm, and help others if you can!
72. 21 DecIgnore Musk the troll, focus on the businesses
73. 21 DecUnwarranted anxiety over memory lapses
74. 21 DecAwaiting a blizzard
75. 20 DecAncient shipwreck points to sophisticated material supply chain 2,000 years ago
76. 20 DecSelf checkouts are to be avoided
77. 20 DecRebecca Watson debunks Santa’s shroom-tripping origin myth
78. 20 Dec“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”
79. 20 DecThe Menu is a different kind of horror movie
80. 20 DecNow I’m going to miss Twitter even more…not.
81. 20 DecI won’t do that
82. 20 DecSlowly grinding wheels
83. 20 DecWhere are my artists?
84. 20 DecEight reasons for secular jews to celebrate Hanukkah (Link) (Non-fiction)
85. 20 DecAndvaka
86. 19 DecThe 6 Jan Committee has reached the conclusion that…
87. 19 DecThe January 6th committee hearings end with criminal referrals for Trump and others
88. 19 DecThe land defenders of the world are right: To save ourselves, we must protect the forests.
89. 19 DecConservatives being racist again
90. 19 DecWas there ever a good internet?
91. 19 DecThe invention of the table knife
92. 19 DecHey, Doris — check your head
93. 18 DecVideo: Introduction to the Slavic Slave Trade
94. 18 DecProject Phoenix – Part 1 – Beginning
95. 18 DecOne week until Christmas!
96. 18 DecLock the exits! It’s time for a game of Calvinball!
97. 18 DecPotions and politics: How to change the world?
98. 18 DecGet rid of penalty shoot outs in soccer
99. 18 DecAustralians have all the luck
100. 18 DecThe Sviggum drama continues
101. 18 DecHow to deal with the holiday season if you are an introvert
102. 17 DecThe history of policing and mental health show the pointless cruelty of forced “treatment” policy in NYC
103. 17 DecAdministrative details done!
104. 17 DecVideo: Imagine being Ben Shapiro
105. 17 DecPolitics, race, and class in West Indies cricket
106. 17 DecThe Gräderdämmerung
107. 17 DecRisk neutrality in EA
108. 17 DecAquarists fear
109. 17 DecStarbucks Strike: Don’t cross the picket line!
110. 16 DecWhales, Carbon Sinks, and Eco-Socialism
111. 16 DecWhen Fat Ladies Sing
112. 16 DecAn Experimentental Knife Set
113. 16 DecWorst time of the year for travel
114. 16 DecIs 2024 going to be a rerun of 2016?
115. 16 DecThe purges have begun
116. 16 DecThe hardest part about going to treatment was leaving my daughter.
117. 15 DecStrikes in the UK
118. 15 DecWashington D.C. to eliminate bus fares starting this summer
119. 15 DecThis fruitloop was our president?
120. 15 DecAll My Base Are Belong To Me
121. 15 DecDo you want $100,000? (Or is it $200,000?)
122. 15 DecTreating students with respect
123. 15 DecAtlanta land defenders charged with “domestic terrorism”
124. 15 DecFox News is mad at a Minnesota teacher
125. 15 DecAnother snowstorm
126. 15 DecThe BBC has warned you – the giant water lilies have no mercy.
127. 14 DecHe’s making a list…
128. 14 DecCaturday come on Wednesday this week.
129. 14 DecOregon governor spares all death row inmates
130. 14 DecJust when I think I’m out, they drag me back in
131. 14 DecMasking is being advised again
132. 14 DecThe ugly death of Twitter at the hands of a clown
133. 14 DecThe devils on Mars
134. 14 DecThree Year Anniversary on FtB!
135. 14 DecGame diary highlights
136. 14 DecThese Dreams
137. 14 DecUSA Today Bestseller list ‘suspended,’ Smashwords Sale, and a new book update (Non-fiction)
138. 13 DecWell, well, well…look what just got published in Nature
139. 13 DecVideo: History alla PragerU
140. 13 DecThe magic of the Muppets
141. 13 DecThe crisis of gullibility
142. 13 DecCongress passes bill protecting same-sex and inter-racial marriages
143. 13 DecGreetings from my new world
144. 13 DecThe Hot Cut
145. 13 DecProselytizing: Do Christians Need Instructions to Talk to Atheists?
146. 13 DecSBF is finding out
147. 12 DecWhat happened to the ‘War on Christmas’?
148. 12 DecCharges over Flint Water Crisis dismissed on procedural grounds
149. 12 DecI felt a little twinge of the Christmas spirit
150. 12 DecMalcolm Tucker confronts Liz Truss
151. 12 Dec“Get a job,” they say, and wonder where the artists went
152. 12 DecOur yearly ‘name a snowplow’ contest is live
153. 12 DecWho rules the world?
154. 12 DecCreationist tried to appropriate Eric H. Davidson; hope they regret it
155. 11 DecDefunctland does a deep dive into Disney Channel’s theme
156. 11 DecFoxglove Through the Clearcut
157. 11 DecSwedish SilverFish
158. 11 DecRepublicans suddenly discover the value of mail-in ballots
159. 11 DecThese are the kinds of Christmas gifts popular with the kids today?
160. 11 DecSocialize Social Media
161. 10 DecIrish study confirms: A four-day work week is better for everyone.
162. 10 DecEddie Izzard on Stephen Colbert’s show
163. 10 DecLink Roundup: December 2022
164. 10 DecKyrsten Sinema rains on Democrats’ parade
165. 10 DecI’ve got this
166. 10 Dec“Mistreated” — A Poem from My Book, Free to Roam
167. 10 DecEject? Eject? HJ wants all of us to get off Twitter (Non-fiction)
168. 10 DecThe Lancet: Racism is a global public health hazard.
169. 9 DecWhat to Say, What to Say
170. 9 DecNow I’m feeling old
171. 9 DecEducation measures did well in elections
172. 9 DecVideo: Positive Leftist News from November, 2022
173. 9 DecWho have been truly awful Democratic candidates?
174. 9 Dec…last day…must crawl…just a little further
175. 9 DecGet off Twitter NOW
176. 9 DecNowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you’ll burn in the fire, if you don’t get fried.
177. 8 DecO’ahu, Red Hill, and the environmental disaster that is the U.S. armed forces.
178. 8 DecThe students do know how to have fun
179. 8 DecNeil Diamond briefly performs again
180. 8 DecDoing the math on the Twitter deal
181. 8 DecGood news, justice served
182. 8 DecThere is no pain, you are receding
183. 8 DecHow old is that kid, anyway?
184. 8 DecDoes anyone hate Christmas as much as I do?
185. 8 DecProserpina
186. 7 DecTrue Facts: Animal Awards
187. 7 DecAn ugly science spat
188. 7 DecMcConnell and McCarthy snubbed by Capitol police and their families
189. 7 DecFrance takes a small step in the right direction
190. 7 DecDonald Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
191. 7 DecAt least they weren’t Nazis
192. 7 DecI am pleased to see that the daily emails I received from Rafael Warnock were effective
193. 7 DecScientists looked at school masking requirements and you will probably believe what they found!
194. 6 DecDon’t blame America! We’re not ruining the coronation!
195. 6 DecTrump Organization found guilty of tax fraud
196. 6 DecSnubbed!
197. 6 DecAnother Overabladeance
198. 6 DecHey! Don’t forget The Pips!
199. 6 Dec“Effective Altruism” is a cover for a grift
200. 6 DecA community in American Samoa leapfrogs into solar energy
201. 6 DecDoes he run all of his companies this way?
202. 6 DecHow often do you dream at night? Do you remember your dreams?
203. 6 DecDespite record-breaking hospitalizations, Clow UFO Base’s Holiday Concert declared a ‘unqualified success’ (Fiction)
204. 5 DecSLoSSing out climate conservation policy
205. 5 DecThe Copernican Myths by Mano Singham
206. 5 DecVideo: Timbah on Toast takes an empathetic and educational look at Ye, and bipolar disorder
207. 5 DecNonbelievers are making their presence felt in politics
208. 5 DecFire, 250,000 years ago
209. 5 DecI’m guessing…Australia?
210. 5 DecIf it weren’t so dizzying, it might be entertaining
211. 5 DecDo you believe yet?
212. 5 DecAll the Dollars, Genre Edition
213. 5 DecCthulhu++
214. 4 DecFascists have escalated to attacking infrastructure
215. 4 DecNew Tool In Da Shoppe
216. 4 DecI forgot Trump had another mask to take off…
217. 4 DecHow did heaven first end up in the sky and then nowhere?
218. 4 DecThe Christmas movie I deserved
219. 3 DecCNN calls out Biden admin on the rail strike, ignores its own contribution to the problem
220. 3 DecBarbadian call for reparations targets a fortune built on slavery and murder
221. 3 DecCartoon esoterica
222. 3 DecFake News
223. 3 DecThe latest non-scandal
224. 3 DecMy Sad Healthcare Story – Every American Has One
225. 3 DecNo Solutions
226. 2 DecVideo: The Continually Escalating Anti-LGBT Rhetoric
227. 2 DecA Commision With a Point
228. 2 DecBolingbrook United closes Clow UFO Base office before disbanding (Fiction)
229. 2 DecConservative projection: a rule to live by
230. 2 DecStrategies for solving Wordle
231. 2 DecDo you need a laugh this morning?
232. 2 DecOrigami: Pleated leaf
233. 1 DecVideo: Beau of the Fifth Column on why it’s important to understand US capabilities
234. 1 DecLions in a zoo decide to take a break
235. 1 DecSomeone Should Think of the Children (Seriously)
236. 1 DecThe War on Christmas — are we the baddies?
237. 1 DecCan the swastika be reclaimed?
238. 1 DecSomebody has a filthy mind
239. 1 DecOH NO ELON NO
240. 1 DecAttractive vs. Intelligent

November 2022

1. 30 NovSome More News: Moral Panics And How To Spot Them
2. 30 NovTruth, What It Is
3. 30 NovHasta la vista, European Twitter
4. 30 NovTrump’s white supremacist allies put his Republican enablers in a bind, again
5. 30 NovAnother lesson in how millionaires can alienate your base
6. 30 NovSame-sex and inter-racial marriages get an extra layer of protection
7. 30 NovWell, that turned me away from Post pretty quick
8. 30 NovMore good news!
9. 30 NovGood news this morning!
10. 30 NovA couple of good US court rulings
11. 29 NovTrouble brewing
12. 29 NovCrafting Perk Unlocked – Hamon
13. 29 NovA much-needed takedown of Musk, Zuckerberg, and SBF
14. 29 NovAbsurdities, atrocities, and the murder-clowns of fascism
15. 29 NovWhat’s killing the church?
16. 29 NovCrossing a demographic bridge
17. 29 NovActive Shooter Drills/Training
18. 28 NovPlease, Elon, I want to see the spectacle
19. 28 NovYanis Varoufakis on Elon Musk’s place in the rise of technofeudalism
20. 28 NovThe military-industrial complex rejoices!
21. 28 NovNot a headline I like to see
22. 28 NovThe Ministry of Funny Walks is Real!
23. 28 NovA presidential ticket for the ages
24. 28 NovNow that Thanksgiving is out of the way…
25. 27 NovA video and some thoughts on propaganda
26. 27 NovElonGOAT: Oh the cringe…the cringe.
27. 27 NovIntroducing the titanosaur
28. 27 NovNegative Revelation
29. 27 NovThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised
30. 27 NovHappy 5th Birthday, Knut
31. 26 NovVideo: Why There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire
32. 26 NovFIFA + Qatar = A marriage made in hell
33. 26 NovSciencey Thoats About Tangs
34. 26 NovNow, With More Cthulhu
35. 26 NovSpirituality as an Atheist
36. 26 NovMiraculous Mushrooms Mitigate Mercury Menace
37. 25 NovWhat paranoia + religious delusions can do
38. 25 NovSarah Palin loses again
39. 25 NovHow to celebrate Black Friday
40. 24 NovAdvances in avian culinary technology open new front in The Toad Wars
41. 24 NovWalking Disaster, Chapter 17, Part 1
42. 24 NovTough turkeys
43. 24 NovNew Rammstein music video
44. 24 NovThey Keep Trying
45. 24 NovMove Thanksgiving to October
46. 24 NovI Wanted to Write an Article Today But…
47. 24 NovI hope someone will jiggle the rat for me
48. 24 NovPost-Pandemic Rules: Do you send a kid with a cold to school?
49. 24 NovWell, that explains a lot about that shooter
50. 23 NovViolent crime dropped rapidly after elections!
51. 23 NovInterplanetary Twitter server explosion injures 30 at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
52. 23 NovRun-off election for the Georgia senate is still important
53. 23 NovSmall blog update, and a video
54. 23 NovLongtermists are an existential risk
55. 23 NovKeep talking, Herschel Walker
56. 23 NovBe anti-woke, go broke
57. 23 NovMaybe I should try changing restaurants
58. 22 NovSince everyone else is having a Black Friday sale…(Non-Fiction)
59. 22 NovExpect House Republicans to investigate Hunter Biden
60. 22 NovChevron’s greed and callousness underscore the need for revolutionary change.
61. 22 NovThat’s the gist of it
62. 22 NovA true MAGA warrior
63. 22 NovYet another Twitter alternative
64. 22 NovHigh heels vs AR15, guess who won
65. 22 NovWho is a greater danger to society?
66. 22 NovDid you fulfill your childhood dreams?
67. 22 NovVideo: How The Good Place Redefines the Sitcom
68. 21 NovI can tell it’s Thanksgiving week
69. 21 NovMaybe we should be like Larry
70. 21 NovTen things on Twitter that are already breaking
71. 21 NovIn Which I Have Questions
72. 21 NovTwitter & entropic decay
73. 21 NovThe case for more public toilets
74. 21 NovIf I were the Green Lantern, I’d be worried, too
75. 21 NovCount every penny before you go to the airport
76. 21 NovZefrank has outdone himself
77. 21 NovPretty virus
78. 21 NovVideo: “Soup Activist” calls out media silence on global warming
79. 20 NovThe trolling of Musk goes on
80. 20 NovGood morning!
81. 20 NovFred Brooks (1931-2022)
82. 20 NovSoggy Sunday: There can be no climate action without fresh water.
83. 20 NovGoodbye, Twitter. Hello … Mastodon?
84. 20 NovBear Mountain – Hopeful
85. 19 NovThe Insecurity Apocalypse
86. 19 NovCaturday: Cardboard Box Edition
87. 19 NovQuiet quitting sounds like a good idea
88. 19 NovThe Twitter soap opera goes on
89. 19 NovIs there more good or evil in the world?
90. 19 NovThe Miracle of Faith
91. 18 NovVideo: Didn’t like the “Just Stop Oil” Soup Protest? Doesn’t Matter.
92. 18 NovThe greed and savagery of the British monarchy
93. 18 NovMcCarthy is in for a tough time if he becomes Speaker
94. 18 NovJust in case…
95. 17 NovA prison sentence older than the age of the Earth!
96. 17 NovInternational Student’s Day
97. 17 NovThe verdict is in: Trump’s big announcement was boring
98. 17 NovReminder: office hour begins at 1pm Central
99. 17 NovThe wrong fruit fly, in the wrong place, at the wrong time: A tale of rot and ruin
100. 17 NovStudents smarter than their teacher
101. 17 NovSomeone should tell Jeff Bezos that charity begins at home
102. 17 NovWhat are your thoughts on the paranormal?
103. 16 NovFright Night is a pretty cool movie, but dude… spoilers
104. 16 NovDealing with climate change does not mean an end to air travel.
105. 16 NovWhat the media and politicians really mean when they talk about ‘crime’
106. 16 NovThe collapse of Twitter
107. 16 NovDylan Being Dylan
108. 16 NovTrump and election deniers were the big losers
109. 16 NovIt’s shocking that this bozo has a chance to win a run-off election
110. 16 NovTriple nipple pubs!
111. 16 NovThere are barbarians and savages on our southern border!
112. 16 NovVideo: Exploring Oregon’s hidden lava caves
113. 15 NovLate night shows take their shots at Trump and the Republicans
114. 15 NovMaking me wish I played D&D anymore
115. 15 NovTerry Pratchett was a wise man
116. 15 NovThe Twitter albatross around Elon Musk’s neck
117. 15 NovKari Lake, loser
118. 15 NovNever mind the tumbrels, bring on the lawyers
119. 15 NovTalking about evidence
120. 15 NovWatch Me Rise (poetry — not as much rage as before)
121. 14 NovFunny comic strip
122. 14 NovBut what if all of my students are hot?
123. 14 NovI clearly pay too much attention to the crazies
124. 14 NovGet your flu shot
125. 14 NovWow, I guess that last election was more devastating than I thought
126. 14 NovAir pollution is bad, whether you’re a WASP, or a wasp.
127. 14 Novpro AI lol
128. 14 NovTom Hanks Hate Crime
129. 13 NovVideo: How plate tectonics gave us seahorses
130. 13 NovSaturday Night Live on the elections and Trump
131. 13 NovImagination Machine Broke
132. 13 NovDemocrats take control of the Senate, reduce gap in the House
133. 13 NovCarlos Maza for president
134. 13 NovParticipation trophies
135. 13 NovSemi Regular Apology Post
136. 12 NovMore pun fun
137. 12 NovOh, no, they oxidized Blake Masters!
138. 12 NovHow to V-2
139. 12 NovTV review: Inside Man (2022)
140. 12 NovA sign of disarray
141. 12 NovIt’s not just the flooding: Hurricanes as heat pumps
142. 12 NovAffirmations and Mental Health
143. 11 Nov[untitled]
144. 11 NovForget faith, it’s climate change that’s moving mountains.
145. 11 NovBillionaires aren’t real
146. 11 NovIn US elections, a draw can become a win
147. 11 NovYou can see with a glance where people are dying
148. 11 NovBoosted and Full of Dread
149. 11 NovBelieve them when they tell you what they want to do
150. 11 NovI thought Popeye was supposed to be a good guy
151. 11 NovThe Individual and Society and Kung Fu
152. 10 NovVideo: The Insect Tier List
153. 10 NovLink Roundup: November 2022
154. 10 NovGoogle Maps for the Roman Empire
155. 10 NovYour religiously-motivated murders must be tidy and conservative!
156. 10 NovAn Atheist Upbringing
157. 9 NovWe have many jumping spiders now
158. 9 NovNo red wave for Republicans
159. 9 NovScientists give a grim warning on climate change and insect populations
160. 9 NovAnd now for something completely different
161. 9 NovNot as bad as it could have been, not as good as it should have been
162. 8 NovTegan Tuesday: When online mobs turn wholesome
163. 8 NovIn Which I Vote
164. 8 NovRound up of pre-election late night shows
165. 8 NovIt’s all part of the brilliant plan to become profitable
166. 8 NovAre the gender criticals OK?
167. 8 NovWhat I will be looking for in today’s election results
168. 8 NovHow I’m feeling about Twitter’s collapse
169. 8 NovIt’s best we don’t know
170. 8 NovIt Is Patriotic To Hate Your Country, Not Love It
171. 8 NovWrestling is the New Burlesque
172. 7 NovVideo: John Oliver on election subversion, and why you should vote
173. 7 NovWe Get Letters — Democracy is on the ballot. Again (Fiction)
174. 7 NovBig Holes and Loud Noises
175. 7 NovIt captures my state of mind perfectly!
176. 7 NovWhat’s the point of prices marked as $X.99 cents?
177. 7 NovAnother summary of the “academic freedom conference”
178. 7 NovGod’s big money cheaters
179. 7 NovTurn off your TV. Stop reading the news. You have a job to do.
180. 6 NovData on the economic toll of heat waves underscore the need to prioritize climate justice.
181. 6 NovWe saw Bernie Sanders!
182. 6 NovUnrivaled discipline!
183. 6 NovCranks congregate to demonstrate that they’re cranks
184. 6 NovChanging times
185. 6 NovIs it too late to mail in my box-tops?
186. 6 NovSpooktober 2022, Day Thirty-Three?
187. 5 NovVideo: Unlearning Economics on theories of value
188. 5 NovVideo: Positive Leftist News from October, 2022
189. 5 NovBeast Mode
190. 4 NovPC, A Waste of Time?
191. 4 NovSleepy little town is awake
192. 4 NovHow a US Civil War battle song became a Sri Lankan school cheer
193. 4 NovFuture! Evolution! Predicted!
194. 4 NovJD Vance & Tucker Carlson: a match made in Cloud Cuckoo Land
195. 4 NovIt’s as if a HOA has taken over the town
196. 4 NovGet Me on a Cross
197. 4 NovMore CO2 can lead to less nutritious crops
198. 3 NovСлава Україні!
199. 3 NovJordan Klepper special on the coming elections
200. 3 NovThe Real Thing
201. 3 NovI learned something esoteric today
202. 3 NovThe counter-intuitive appeal of the lottery
203. 3 NovWhy are right-wingers so damn weird?
204. 3 NovThe Big 4-0 and Finally Some Relief — Mental Illness and Recovery
205. 3 NovThe witch hunts never really went away
206. 2 NovJohn Oliver on the need for bail reform
207. 2 NovWhen (and how) does individual variation arise?
208. 2 NovWordle and cheating
209. 2 NovFox News reaches new levels of shrieking idiocy
210. 1 NovSpooktober 2022, Days Thirty, Thirty-One, and Thirty-Two?
211. 1 NovTegan Tuesday: A Semple Solution to Corporate Greed
212. 1 NovSecond Walker accuser speaks on camera
213. 1 NovOrigami: Rhinoceros
214. 1 NovWhere Did Putin Come From?
215. 1 NovFilm review: Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
216. 1 NovHe learned that in a black church
217. 1 NovHey, politicians, thanks for the incessant reminders!
218. 1 NovAww, the bosses are missing their eager-beaver work force
219. 1 NovLetting You Go (More Rage Poetry)
220. 1 NovThe Transgender Cabal

October 2022

1. 31 OctWill Bolsonaro go quietly?
2. 31 OctTurns out Antarctica has had rivers this whole time
3. 31 OctRandom Thunks
4. 31 OctThe origins of Halloween
5. 31 OctWe have a Halloween tree now
6. 31 OctDour Russians
7. 31 OctHe’s going to kill Twitter, isn’t he?
8. 31 OctRacism is something worse than controversial
9. 31 OctHappy Halloween!
10. 31 OctInterstellar Court refuses to suspend voting in Illinois (Fiction)
11. 30 OctPractice run in Brazil turns out OK!
12. 30 OctLula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s run-off election
13. 30 OctDog-distracting for Halloween
14. 30 OctAll caught up on my YouTube comments!
15. 30 OctMore pun fun
16. 30 OctOsoraku
17. 30 OctElon Musk and Twitter
18. 30 OctLearn this lesson, Democrats!
19. 29 OctAll hands, abandon Twitter! (Plus a quick personal update) (Non-Fiction)
20. 29 OctUnlearning Economics takes a look at worker democracy
21. 29 OctWhy would anyone send me this link?
22. 29 OctShowing off My Wood – Part 5
23. 29 OctIs there a right way to hang a Mondrian?
24. 29 OctSlamming Into Propaganda
25. 29 OctWhat do you do when someone lies?
26. 29 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Nine
27. 28 OctVideo: Meet the tayra
28. 28 OctMawwiage!
29. 28 OctThat didn’t take long
30. 28 OctMidsomer Murders takes on atheism
31. 28 OctVarious Failures
32. 28 OctSorry, Sigourney Weaver
33. 28 OctYeezy is banned from this blog
34. 28 OctNot a great start
35. 28 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Eight
36. 28 OctGlobal warming is already causing measurable evolution in animals
37. 27 OctReminder: livestream in a few hours
38. 27 OctBut then, was the money really real?
39. 27 OctLiz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg: Two useless people in high places
40. 27 OctNow I’m worried about how to escape a python attack
41. 27 OctA good joke
42. 27 OctPets and Emotions
43. 27 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Seven
44. 26 OctHurricanes are on track to being too much for the U.S. economy to handle
45. 26 OctCalling any history buffs who like book deconstructions…
46. 26 OctHumanity’s imminent, mysterious extinction
47. 26 OctTrump is unlikely to testify publicly to the January 6th committee
48. 26 OctI’d include a photo of a spider, but I’ve learned how that usually ends
49. 26 OctI never did like those genders, anyhow
50. 26 OctConsult your local school board and city council for all your medical decisions
51. 26 OctSviggumeriffic
52. 26 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Six
53. 25 OctFascist voter intimidation is a problem that will not go away by itself.
54. 25 OctAnthony Bourdain behind the scenes in fancy restaurants
55. 25 OctPlay the game, you lose; don’t play the game, you lose
56. 25 OctLet the next round of infighting begin!
57. 25 OctOne shining ray of light in the new UK government
58. 25 OctI’m going to unwind with conversation
59. 25 OctI get comments
60. 25 OctDeep (Rage Poetry)
61. 25 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Five
62. 24 OctHorrifying pedophile enabler Hovind exposed
63. 24 OctSaving a whale
64. 24 OctVideo: Why Didn’t “Defund the Police” Happen?
65. 24 OctThings you never knew about water
66. 24 OctIs this really the best way to illustrate world population?
67. 24 OctThe Conservative party and Republican party have a lot in common
68. 24 OctOne way to be Less Wrong is to avoid faulty premises
69. 24 OctYou’re probably as tired of hearing about Sviggum as I am
70. 24 OctSelf-care needs planning
71. 24 OctHas anyone started a betting pool on the new UK PM yet?
72. 24 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Four
73. 24 OctWho the heck is Gilbert Ling?
74. 23 OctThe fight for the UK Tory leadership could get very ugly
75. 23 OctRe-wilding is good, but research into the ecosystem roles of ancient trees shows we must preserve existing wilderness.
76. 23 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Three
77. 22 OctResearch suggests the “Clathrate Gun” is shooting blanks
78. 22 OctThe danger of ‘long covid’
79. 22 OctHow do you view your parents?
80. 22 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twenty-Two
81. 22 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, and Twenty-One
82. 21 OctVideo: No, Ebola is NOT Airborne
83. 21 OctThanks for untangling that mess
84. 21 OctI may have to vote for Scott Jensen after all (no, not really)
85. 20 OctClimate change is bad for your skin, and we should do revolutionary change about it.
86. 20 OctAnd the winner is … the lettuce!
87. 20 OctWhat Sviggum really thinks
88. 20 OctIt’s always projection with these guys
89. 20 OctWhy we can say that some things do not exist
90. 20 OctLiz Truss resigns!
91. 20 OctWhen they tell you who they are, believe them
92. 20 OctRebel’s Pratfall
93. 20 OctStop with the sad news already
94. 20 OctWe got a letter from the Board of Regents
95. 20 OctNot Christian But Going Along With Everyone Else
96. 20 OctAudio excerpt from The Rift
97. 19 OctVideo: Let’s talk about snow crabs
98. 19 OctCalifornia and Monterey elections
99. 19 OctThe wrath of the pandemic is falling on Republicans now?
100. 19 OctProud to be part of the coalition of chaos
101. 19 OctLetting transgender people be themselves
102. 19 OctIt’s called accountability, ever hear of it?
103. 19 OctSviggumated
104. 19 OctI was snookered
105. 18 OctTegan Tuesday: Cursed without cursive?
106. 18 OctTime to tune out the news?
107. 18 OctHome again
108. 18 OctJust Asking Questions
109. 18 OctMore about ‘nothing’
110. 18 OctShould I move? Is it time to leave my red state?
111. 17 OctCoal workers can be transitioned to renewable energy jobs throughout the U.S.
112. 17 OctLiz? Liz who? The case of the vanishing prime minister
113. 17 OctOverpriced text books!
114. 17 OctMorris is too diverse , according to a Republican regent
115. 17 OctWeird guy, weird senate race
116. 17 OctIs the question ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ meaningful?
117. 17 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Seventeen
118. 16 OctSoup, Sabotage, and Spectacle Activism
119. 16 OctDr. Oz and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Glass of Piss
120. 16 OctOdds on Truss leaving office before end of the year
121. 16 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Sixteen
122. 16 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Fifteen
123. 16 OctTikTok reading of The Rift by Teri Schnaubelt on 10/17/22 at 8 PM CST
124. 15 OctVideo: Münecat DISMEMBERS body language experts!
125. 15 OctKeeping track of Herschel Walker’s lies
126. 15 OctReading The Urth of the New Sun
127. 15 OctOn to Hoquiam
128. 15 OctThis one has to go down in the annals of bad protests
129. 15 OctTruss in trouble
130. 15 OctStaying Chill and Feeling Hopeful — What’s Your Method?
131. 14 OctRebecca Watson: No Rainbow Fentanyl for You (Non-fiction)
132. 14 OctNo, parents, nobody is going to give your kids free drugs on Halloween.
133. 14 OctAnd now … The Trump Show?
134. 14 OctWho knew house numbering was a controversial topic?
135. 14 OctThe company you keep…
136. 14 OctSome people finally noticed Bryan Pesta
137. 14 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Fourteen
138. 14 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Thirteen
139. 13 OctInfinite Thread XXV
140. 13 OctElaborate coffee vocabulary and rudeness
141. 13 OctCoverage of cops needs to change.
142. 13 OctAlex Jones ordered to pay $965 million
143. 13 OctFlying to Washington state tomorrow
144. 13 OctGay but Won’t Act on It?
145. 13 OctJanuary 6th hearings resume
146. 12 Oct$965,000,000
147. 12 OctHow warm air stirs Greenland’s waters and accelerates even submarine melting!
148. 12 OctIt’s the ignorance that kills
149. 12 OctViolent spasms are never a healthy symptom
150. 12 OctThey’re all liars
151. 12 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Twelve
152. 11 OctTegan Tuesday: Backstage Beauty
153. 11 OctAction not Words: A Journey through History to Freedom and Unity
154. 11 OctThe arcane language of UK politics
155. 11 OctYou’ll never rope me into the grift this way
156. 11 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Eleven
157. 11 OctRacists are still upset about the Little Mermaid
158. 11 OctThe problems with crime reporting in the US
159. 11 OctAnother reason to regret an upcoming flight
160. 11 OctY’all know he’s just an ugly-minded ol’ bigot, right?
161. 11 OctSo that’s what all the gobbledygook in my spam folder was about
162. 11 OctAnswering Some Journal Prompts on Faith
163. 11 OctLink Roundup: October 10th, 2022
164. 10 OctVideo: What the new “Climate Declaration” doesn’t tell us
165. 10 OctWow
166. 10 OctAsk me questions on Thursday!
167. 10 OctThe long and tortured process by which scientific facts are created
168. 10 OctCan we at least try to be better people? Just for today, at least?
169. 10 OctI’ll miss the Pacific Ocean
170. 10 OctThe prize for coolness under pressure goes to…
171. 10 OctNever look at Star Wars in the same way again
172. 10 OctThe Midnight Collection, Volume Two!
173. 10 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Ten
174. 9 OctVideo: How Corruption Leads to Conspiracy Theories
175. 9 OctSpook Season Gaming: Super Metriod
176. 9 OctThe problem of junk science used as evidence in courts
177. 9 OctConservatives really hate education
178. 9 OctHallowe’en doesn’t care about anatomy
179. 9 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Nine
180. 8 OctVideo: Use of tactical nukes is unlikely in Ukraine
181. 8 OctMaking Walnut Oil
182. 8 OctDesi Lydic on why she still supports Herschel Walker
183. 8 OctVaccine side effects and predicting surges in flu and covid
184. 8 OctI hope this is the start of a Halloween tradition
185. 8 OctAnother Crimean war
186. 8 OctUpdate on Writing Projects
187. 8 OctSpooktober 2022, Days Six, Seven, and Eight
188. 8 OctPoetic Doom
189. 7 OctSome More News: Mental Health and Mass Shootings
190. 7 OctMusical maturity and bad statistics
191. 7 OctReducing incarceration rates in the US
192. 7 OctThe cicadas in my head are trying to kill me now
193. 7 OctStupid brain. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
194. 6 OctRugby players have higher risk of brain damage
195. 6 OctVaccination mission accomplished
196. 6 OctSeveral Ethnic Cleansings for the Price of One!
197. 6 OctCan you teach organic chemistry?
198. 6 OctHerschel Walker’s lie-strewn candidacy for the US senate
199. 6 OctI finally caught COVID (plus True Facts about parasitic birds)
200. 6 OctBeing aware of others’ humanity has always been a good principle
201. 6 OctImagine a Senator Herschel Walker…
202. 6 OctDo you let religious people bother you?
203. 5 OctWhy don’t we have “good” cops? Ask the ones we do have…
204. 5 OctHow museums connive in the looting of the world
205. 5 OctSo…you think all that legislation is aimed at protecting you from the transes?
206. 5 OctYou won’t believe how easy it is to make a spider feel at home
207. 5 Oct2022 Nobel prize in physics goes to work on quantum entanglement
208. 5 Oct“Dr” Oz, celebrity physician
209. 5 OctThe AIs and the plants have formed an alliance!
210. 5 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Five
211. 4 OctTegan Tuesday: The Banality of Bigotry
212. 4 OctDuPage Township ‘repossesses’ air generator from Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
213. 4 OctCrackdown on ‘pig-butchering’ cyberscam
214. 4 OctSad news
215. 4 OctIt isn’t hypocrisy at all
216. 4 OctLike tiny little cats
217. 4 OctDramatic reversal of UK’s tax cut for the wealthy
218. 4 OctMost approachable? A dialectical review of Elden Ring
219. 4 OctJonathan Haidt goes full Jordan Peterson
220. 4 OctThe Freedom from Atheism Foundation is wrong about everything
221. 4 OctGrim business
222. 4 OctThe Downside to Being Open About My Mental Illness
223. 4 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Four
224. 3 Oct“Agricultural rewilding” should be a part of our response to climate change.
225. 3 OctBrazil elections bring disappointment and hope
226. 3 OctHe’s getting desperate
227. 3 OctCheaters!
228. 3 OctThe gods themselves oppose the bosses
229. 3 OctThe short unhappy honeymoon of Liz Truss
230. 3 OctWaiting for an arachnologist to win their Nobel
231. 3 OctIt’s Nobel week, and paleogenomics wins!
232. 3 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Three
233. 2 OctSpooktober 2022, Day Two
234. 2 OctUnnecessary reporting
235. 2 OctImprovipairing mah Belt Grinder
236. 2 OctVideo: Positive Leftist News from September, 2022
237. 2 OctJohn Oliver’s condemnation of Bolsonaro does not go far enough
238. 1 OctInfested!
239. 1 OctClosed square origami box
240. 1 OctFilm review: The Big Sleep (1946, 1978)
241. 1 OctWhat “myth of the tech genius”?
242. 1 OctBelieve the evidence, ignore the cranks
243. 1 OctMusk’s demo was bad, and he should be ashamed, and his cheering stans should be embarrassed
244. 1 Oct“Forbidden” — a poem from my book, Free to Roam
245. 1 OctSpooktober 2022, Day One
246. 1 OctNord Stream gas leak underscores the need to end all fossil fuel use

September 2022

1. 30 SepLiz. Can’t. Read.
2. 30 SepThe story of atmospheric CO 2
3. 30 SepVoting at the Point of a Gun
4. 30 SepThose darn immigrants
5. 30 SepDangerous times in Brazil
6. 30 SepIt’s a Canadian thing, but we do it here in Minnesota, too
7. 30 SepIt’s AI Day
8. 30 Sep‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Eight
9. 30 SepGoing nuts over a flute
10. 29 SepThe Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business
11. 29 SepChoosing films to watch
12. 29 SepShowing off My Wood – Part 4
13. 29 SepWTF, seriously?
14. 29 SepCovid superdodgers
15. 29 SepCan David Attenborough convince you that spiders are awesome?
16. 29 SepTim Walz has the Democrat disease
17. 29 SepI get email
18. 29 SepBullets are the solution to every problem
19. 29 SepOh no, it’s a meme
20. 29 SepAn Atheist in Recovery: What Matters and What Doesn’t
21. 29 SepVideo: Some More News about the GOP’s recent foray into human trafficking
22. 28 SepSample from the Audiobook version of Pathways to Bolingbrook (non-fiction)
23. 28 SepJonathan Pie on Liz Truss and the state of the UK
24. 28 SepOne of eight billion
25. 28 SepObservations from the Spider Lab
26. 28 SepOn objectivity in art criticism
27. 28 SepA nice summary of human evolution
28. 28 SepWhy do macho Texans elect such chickenshit politicians?
29. 28 SepHow ya doin’, Floridians?
30. 27 SepTegan is home at last, so we’re celebrating with a couple cat pictures.
31. 27 SepPolitical developments in the UK and Italy
32. 27 SepCynically exploiting human beings
33. 27 SepHooke doesn’t get enough respect
34. 27 SepThe most powerful 4 minutes of science communication ever
35. 27 SepThere’s No Fool Like An Old School Fool
36. 27 SepPainful Lessons: Setting Boundaries and Toxic People
37. 26 SepBeing an author this week (Non-fiction)
38. 26 SepPoor Dimorphos
39. 26 SepOz steps on another rake
40. 26 SepHow can you research the science of race when bad actors are eager to distort your conclusions?
41. 26 SepReminder: Children are disposable tools to fascists. They don’t actually care about them.
42. 26 SepStanislav Petrov Day, 2022
43. 26 SepBetray friends or betray country?
44. 26 SepThe conspiracy theories are getting wilder
45. 26 SepPharyngula
46. 26 SepHellstar Reminism
47. 26 SepExposure to air pollution in the womb and early childhood linked to abnormal brain development
48. 25 SepFrantically rewriting lectures
49. 24 SepPuerto Rico is demonstrating yet again that capitalism cannot solve climate change.
50. 24 SepWalking Disaster, Chapter 16
51. 24 SepSupport the women of Iran
52. 24 SepThe culture has emasculated all men!
53. 24 SepThe unnoticed killer
54. 24 SepWould you debate a creationist for a bottle of Thunderbird and a pack of cigs?
55. 24 SepA Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — No. 32 “First Grade”
56. 23 SepVideo: How the Rich REALLY Cause Climate Change
57. 23 SepWas there a coup in the last days of Trump’s administration?
58. 23 SepHe’s not wrong
59. 23 SepI’m lacking this level of delusional arrogance
60. 23 SepThe comparisons can’t be avoided
61. 23 SepThe Nutkraken
62. 23 SepRegulating data science with explanations
63. 23 SepGuy Fawkes: Feminism and the Putative Fourth Wave
64. 22 SepFilm Review: The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
65. 22 SepWhy it’s good to have a lawyer
66. 22 SepThe smartest guys in the room
67. 22 SepVideo: The Anti-Trans Disinformation Pipeline
68. 22 SepThe pandemic is over – or not
69. 22 SepWorked late, slept late, gotta run to teach lab
70. 22 SepEating Disorder Recovery — 12/26/21 Wedding Anniversary in Treatment
71. 21 SepReminder: Action on climate change will cause a short-term increase in temperature, so we should plan for that.
72. 21 SepJohn Oliver on the weirdness of the funeral coverage
73. 21 SepTwo more cases brought against Trump
74. 21 SepCheating at chess?
75. 21 SepI want to know who funded the kidnapping
76. 21 SepGavin McInnes is a truly deplorable person
77. 21 SepYou can’t have it back
78. 21 SepHow Horror Fiction Has Fallen
79. 21 SepGovernor Ron DeSantis diverts thousands of Betelgeuse refugees to Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
80. 20 SepVideo: Let’s talk about a stark warning from an Arizona Republican…
81. 20 SepMorning Edition goes over the top with funeral coverage
82. 20 SepThe safest place for a spider to hang
83. 20 SepEverything everywhere all at once, spiderling edition
84. 20 SepI was a target of the ‘pig butchering’ scam
85. 20 SepCopaganda
86. 20 SepJackie Chan of the spider world
87. 20 SepDoes being a skeptic make you more resilient?
88. 19 SepLives are traded for profit yet again, as Puerto Rico’s newly privatized grid fails.
89. 19 SepArchitectural wonders
90. 19 SepGood god, when will this end?
91. 19 SepWhat determines if a presidential order should be obeyed?
92. 19 SepIs this really where the discourse is at now?
93. 19 SepSatan is a natural offensive line coach
94. 19 SepKent & Matt got nothin’
95. 19 SepBreadfruit to the rescue!
96. 18 SepWind me up and watch me go
97. 18 SepPolitical regression in Sri Lanka
98. 18 SepDon’t Like Me? How About This Guy?
99. 18 SepBrain on Criticism
100. 17 SepVideo: The Psychology of Authoritarianism
101. 17 SepOooh! Oooh! Check out what’s in that hole!
102. 17 SepA boy’s life
103. 17 SepThe college ratings racket exposes the deep problems in the higher education
104. 17 SepKids and Gender Norms — I could use some advice.
105. 17 SepFiction by Me: Supply Chain Banditos
106. 17 SepVideo: BBC Earth on my favorite family of carnivores
107. 16 SepGender Identity and Your Stupid Ass
108. 16 SepIs Trump capable of doing a genuine act of kindness with no thought of reward?
109. 16 SepOne must carry on
110. 15 SepIt’s a video about Paw Patrol. How dark could it get?
111. 15 SepMy Shortest Chess Game
112. 15 SepWell played, commenters!
113. 15 SepChina can be proud
114. 15 SepAre all cops bad?
115. 15 SepReducing child poverty
116. 15 SepA good billionaire?
117. 15 SepGreg Abbott should be doomed
118. 15 SepShameful pseudo-scientists
119. 15 SepDoes being an atheist affect your values?
120. 14 SepIf I tried to act cool …
121. 14 SepRemember, racism is bad
122. 14 SepWealth and fame make you stupid
123. 14 SepIn case you were wondering about the Republican vision for higher ed…
124. 14 SepJust give me the facts: Part 2
125. 14 SepADHD and the daily struggle to make my brain do what I want it to (spoilers for Everything Everywhere All At Once)
126. 14 SepFiction by Me: Locusts
127. 13 SepThe Rift is on sale this week (Non-Fiction)
128. 13 SepTegan Tuesday: “Smart” devices are giving corporations the ability to surveil you and your family 24/7
129. 13 SepPolice shows as propaganda
130. 13 SepThe objective morality hamster wheel
131. 13 SepSri Lanka wins Asian netball championship
132. 13 SepHow did we end up with a conservative Catholic Supreme Court?
133. 13 SepBad coach
134. 13 SepThe worst stigma is my own. (Mental Illness Recovery)
135. 13 SepIt’s so generous of Oz to provide grist for the mill
136. 12 SepCheney family honored at Rochelle’s Hub 35 UFO Base (Fiction)
137. 12 SepWalking away from endless arguments
138. 12 SepI’ve experienced brain fog, and no thank you very much
139. 12 SepGotta admit, Al Franken is one hard-hitting advocate
140. 12 SepRebranding the Necron Empire as the good guys
141. 12 SepWatering while Black
142. 12 SepOptimism must be tempered with realism…and dread
143. 12 SepVideo: Shaun’s take on the cost of the monarchy
144. 12 SepThe Question of AI Copyright
145. 11 SepCombatting the frustration of slow change in a time of crisis
146. 11 SepRemember This? Or Am I Losing It?
147. 11 SepSri Lanka are surprise winners of Asia Cup cricket
148. 11 SepBuzz Aldrin once punched a moon landing denier in the face
149. 11 SepThat other Pennsylvania candidate
150. 10 SepLink Roundup: September 2022
151. 10 SepWall Street is sacrificing lives for money, as usual.
152. 10 SepLong to reign over us
153. 10 SepBlood type and covid susceptibility
154. 10 SepLater this afternoon…
155. 10 SepWhy did Trump take the documents?
156. 10 SepSeems timely
157. 10 SepLet’s bash Oz some more
158. 10 Sep“Science is how god works.”
159. 10 SepFiction by Me: Four
160. 9 SepFriday Film Review: The Sandman
161. 9 SepAtheists are not a strong political force
162. 9 SepThe daily Oz skewering
163. 9 SepIs demographics destiny?
164. 9 SepAnother demise!
165. 9 SepNot much to see in the news today
166. 9 SepBecoming Aware of One’s Nudity
167. 9 SepWhy internet scams are so poorly written
168. 8 SepSome More News: The GOP Simply Wants to Abolish Public Education
169. 8 SepBrace ourselves for wall-to-wall Queen Elizabeth coverage
170. 8 SepHave you considered forming a United Republic, maybe?
171. 8 SepListen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
172. 8 SepDr Oz needs to erase his internet history, it’s just too embarrassing
173. 8 SepDoes anxiety get worse with age?
174. 8 SepNew Podish-Sortacast coming up
175. 7 SepUnequal distribution of temperature and green space is killing people.
176. 7 SepHow to tell if the males of your species are assholes
177. 7 SepThe assurance of an extreme right winger
178. 7 SepColonialism in real time
179. 7 SepLook at a map
180. 7 SepThe return of Il Duce
181. 7 SepGround-breaking research expedition gives dire new meaning to “glacial speed”
182. 6 SepThe September Podish-Sortacast is coming up (Non-fiction)
183. 6 SepNot a Masterpiece Sheathed
184. 6 SepOne of us!
185. 6 SepTalking about media you haven’t seen
186. 6 SepSelf-awareness is bad enough, but couple it with inactivity and…
187. 6 SepRegrets? Everyone has them
188. 6 SepA meme I can use!
189. 6 SepObjective morality, whatever that is
190. 6 SepAtheism and Recovery – What if I didn’t have a mental illness?
191. 6 Sep“Chinese genocide bill”? Is this an example of expert messaging?
192. 5 SepVideo: Let’s talk about Labor Day’s origins…
193. 5 SepVideo: Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?
194. 5 SepIt’s a red, red day
195. 5 SepCongratulations, UK?
196. 5 SepI always do this to myself
197. 4 Sep“Incoherent Scream Into The Void
198. 4 SepBenched!
199. 4 SepGood news: Bioengineered photosynthesis hack promises to dramatically increase yields in a variety of crops
200. 4 SepGreening the Balcony – Part 3
201. 4 SepMore pun fun
202. 3 SepVideo: True Facts about the slime mold
203. 3 SepMusic Questions and Groovy Ghouls
204. 3 SepGen III, babieee!
205. 3 SepStupidity & vanity explain it all
206. 3 SepMy 47th Birthday Celebration
207. 3 SepMy 6-year-old daughter told me god is real.
208. 2 Sep‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Seven
209. 2 SepTurn off CNN
210. 2 SepShowing off My Wood – Part 3
211. 2 SepMy perfect job!
212. 2 SepA creationist perspective on AI
213. 2 SepBrand new covers and a new audiobook.
214. 2 SepBiden’s speech
215. 2 SepShocking and unexpected news! Overfishing and climate change are bad for fish!
216. 2 SepThis comment is not about the murders of MtF trans people
217. 1 SepVideo: The Perverse Incentives of Utility Companies
218. 1 SepTargets
219. 1 SepCreepy dudes on ice
220. 1 SepOrigami: Cootie catcher deluxe
221. 1 SepBEEFCAKE!
222. 1 SepAn Assignment — A Goodbye Letter in My Eating Disorder

August 2022

1. 31 AugWhat Evo Morales did for Bolivia
2. 31 AugThe second week begins
3. 31 AugBuckets?
4. 31 AugChaya Raichik is willing to blow up children’s hospitals “in the name of the children”
5. 31 AugTake your time, no rush, I’m not going to see chestnut forests in my lifetime anyway
6. 31 AugThe Midnight Collection Lives!
7. 31 AugIt’s not your imagination. The system really was designed to keep you down.
8. 30 AugMore Nuclear Nuggets
9. 30 AugA good analysis, even with the Wittgenstein
10. 30 AugVoyager Says Hi
11. 30 AugWomen who don’t want babies are DENYING BIOLOGY!
12. 30 AugTrapped in a cheesy horror movie
13. 30 AugI hope you weren’t eager to get Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book
14. 30 AugTechnoidiocy
15. 30 AugMy 300th Post – Channeling My Inner Grandpa G., Recovery, and My Red State
16. 29 AugRebecca Watson on the Inflation Reduction Act
17. 29 AugMary’s cutting into my turf
18. 29 AugWhat if Republicans were Philosophers?
19. 29 AugChew your food!
20. 29 AugA flimsy excuse to do nothing
21. 29 AugCancel Culture strikes again!
22. 29 AugWho are these people?
23. 29 AugLove, Victor reviewed
24. 28 AugNot all in your head: New answers on the chemistry of mental fatigue
25. 28 AugUnpalatable on all counts
26. 28 AugRunner Beans Riches
27. 28 AugNew book covers and the Pathways to Bolingbrook Audiobook (Non-Fiction)
28. 28 AugFlooding in Pakistan highlights the need for global solidarity.
29. 27 AugTofu curry with peanut sauce
30. 27 AugIt’s the human condition
31. 27 AugGreening the Balcony – Part 2
32. 27 AugI did it, but you didn’t make me do it! So I didn’t really do it.
33. 27 AugSpider journalism isn’t great
34. 27 AugIs there ever a time when people “need” god?
35. 26 AugMan the tredges! We must protect children from air pollution!
36. 26 AugLight blogging coming up
37. 26 AugBad money drives out good, again
38. 26 AugWeb Exclusive: Chinese subterranean marines surface in Bolingbrook (Fiction)
39. 26 AugThe orgy had a happy ending
40. 26 AugGirls get growth spurts
41. 26 AugFortunately, I don’t listen to overpaid athletes’ opinions on physics
42. 26 AugI think we’ve figured out who Tucker Carlson’s role model is
43. 26 AugThe spider sex tape!
44. 26 AugVideo: What Siberia’s sinkholes mean for the climate
45. 25 AugFinally, a New Yorker cartoon I found funny
46. 25 AugSo beautiful…
47. 25 AugSuper Mama Spider
48. 25 AugRacist? Or not?
49. 25 AugTrump’s methods for avoiding accountability for his actions
50. 25 AugHarnessing the power of spiders to bomb Nazis
51. 25 AugWipe it all out, and make the Republicans cry
52. 25 AugEating Disorder Recovery — Can You Be a Big Girl and Own It?
53. 25 AugVideo: Former cop, police abolitionist?!
54. 24 AugFirst class kerblooiee
55. 24 AugTrump needlessly alienates the allies he needs
56. 24 AugThoughts on ‘Rite of Passage’
57. 24 AugWell, with evidence like that…
58. 24 AugParkland killer and the M’Naghten rule
59. 24 AugGod-bothering violent fool was temporarily restrained
60. 24 AugThis Theme Park Evangelist is not going to be popular with Ken Ham
61. 24 AugBe like Bertrand Russell, not Oswald Mosely
62. 23 AugTegan Tuesday: Another day, another dollar stolen from creatives
63. 23 AugWho knew that Finns were like Americans?
64. 23 AugTia
65. 23 AugWhat If…?
66. 23 AugWhy was the US presidential transition such a mess?
67. 23 AugGet Out of Bed — Poetry from Another Broke Ass Millennial
68. 23 AugVideo: Carbon offsets
69. 22 AugOne-liner jokes
70. 22 AugWho needs religion when you’ve got these clowns promoting bad ideas?
71. 22 AugJared Kushner’s laptop appears in Bolingbrook then disappears (Fiction)
72. 22 AugThe great Paul Robeson
73. 22 AugHow much walkin’ around data do you carry?
74. 22 AugIs polarization really such a bad thing?
75. 22 AugOh, no! The students have returned, and they brought all their gooses with them!
76. 22 AugGet off Facebook before it drags you down with it
77. 22 AugGreetings, Comrade MAGAts!
78. 22 AugWell, ain’t that just the sea’s bees?
79. 21 AugDead mealworms stink
80. 21 AugSunday funnies
81. 21 AugYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
82. 21 AugFarmer: It looks like we’re avoiding mass famine this year.
83. 20 AugDon’t forget!
84. 20 AugIt’s a JBP Socratic Monologue!
85. 20 AugDo skeptics have fewer fears?
86. 20 AugThe worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms cause ecological devastation.
87. 19 AugHa ha, Lindsey Graham is screwed
88. 19 AugDramatic rescue of stranded horses
89. 19 AugIt is so hard to get good legal help if you are a rotten client
90. 19 AugNever trust a poet
91. 19 AugAs we all know, women don’t win
92. 19 AugCrossing the Rubicon
93. 19 AugThere’s no such thing as a good boss
94. 19 AugPence increases his distance from Trump
95. 18 AugGood news! Scientists have made progress on safely destroying PFAS!
96. 18 AugMy Father’s Mind Is Gone
97. 18 Augthat female athlete doesn’t look feminine enough
98. 18 AugThe greatest honor ever!
99. 18 AugIRS starts process to provide free online tax filing software
100. 18 AugIs everything arachnophobic?
101. 18 AugJonathan Pruitt hasn’t gone away yet?
102. 18 AugLike having a nanny that runs over the kids and bursts into flame
103. 18 Aug“Mistreated” — A Poem from My Book, Free to Roam
104. 18 AugAsexuality 101, annotated
105. 17 AugVideo: America’s coming Weimar moment
106. 17 AugEinstein on nationalism
107. 17 AugBret Weinstein used to teach evolutionary biology
108. 17 AugMuch cuter than kittens
109. 17 AugReligious faith leads to the deaths of children
110. 17 AugHow can there possibly be a teacher shortage?
111. 17 AugFetterman made Voltaire’s prayer: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous”
112. 17 AugOnly the freshest, juiciest flies for my ladies!
113. 17 AugRepublicans embrace the crazy
114. 17 AugWhat does marriage look like?
115. 16 AugPolitical Quirkiness
116. 16 AugTegan Tuesday: Danish commitment to Ukrainian city is a reminder to keep looking forward to a better future
117. 16 AugQuick notes
118. 16 AugDesperate times call for desperate excuses
119. 16 AugMeetings all day long
120. 16 AugMore primary elections today
121. 16 AugThe most unsurprising headline ever
122. 16 AugCanyonero time
123. 16 AugSexy Stranger Poetry — “Chance”
124. 16 AugFun direct action against corporate energy waste
125. 15 AugLe Workshoppe Rearangeé
126. 15 AugWhy people in MAGAland still talk to Klepper
127. 15 AugThin-skinned creationists don’t like their lies dissected
128. 15 AugWhat do I know about activism?
129. 15 AugNew schedule begins…now
130. 15 AugA tale of two families
131. 15 AugThe pandering platitudes of Yuval Noah Harari
132. 15 AugYou mean professors aren’t kings?
133. 15 AugVideo: A future beyond capitalism? Socialism explained.
134. 14 AugThe full story behind corporate profits
135. 14 AugCan Ted Cruz get any creepier?
136. 14 AugGrowed some more
137. 14 AugCanada, must you do everything better than the USA?
138. 14 AugOn free will (again)
139. 14 AugOn Throwing Things Away
140. 14 AugPraying to Cover All Bases “Just in Case” God Exists
141. 13 AugTaking today off, so here’s a pleasant video about mountain lake ecosystems
142. 13 AugThings are looking increasingly bad for Trump
143. 13 AugReminder: Wanna hear some bad defenses of Noah’s Ark?
144. 13 AugOh Manhattan
145. 13 AugEating Disorder Recovery — I survived Christmas in treatment.
146. 13 AugWelcome to The Age of Endless Recovery! Climate change is now a permanent drag on economic growth.
147. 13 AugIs Trump even stupider than I thought?
148. 12 AugJordan Klepper visits MAGAland again
149. 12 AugA New Workbench
150. 12 AugMundane news from the spider lab 🕷
151. 12 AugConsistency
152. 12 AugWTF “Nuclear Secrets”?
153. 12 AugIs this the worst song, or the best song?
154. 12 AugShermer’s brand of skepticism: rotten to the core
155. 12 AugAttorney General tries to counter Mar-a-Lago search paranoia
156. 12 AugTwo wackjobs met in a podcast
157. 12 AugThe poopy-pants brigade in action!
158. 12 AugCleaning water with wetlands
159. 11 AugIt hurts him more than the people he fired
160. 11 AugWe already knew Elon Musk was a villain
161. 11 AugHow not to teach
162. 11 AugCar sounds
163. 11 AugAn afternoon of irrelevant objections and silly answers
164. 11 AugTimes have changed, but has Henry County?
165. 11 AugImminent Business
166. 10 AugVideo: Cody’s Showdy takes a look at the absolute horror show that is private prisons
167. 10 AugHorrific crash in Los Angeles
168. 10 AugCraftin’
169. 10 AugClasses resume in two weeks! <brain screaming>
170. 10 AugDo spiders dream of arthropod sheep?
171. 10 AugPuzzles over the FBI search of Trump’s home
172. 10 AugMinnesota election went as expected
173. 9 AugAlex Jones text circus goes on
174. 9 AugA win for workers in the digital streaming industry
175. 9 AugHealth care provisions in the IRA legislation
176. 9 AugWho’s a good boy?
177. 9 AugWait, that’s not a spider
178. 9 AugAm I supposed to care?
179. 9 AugUndergraduates: xkcd is not a good source for career advising
180. 9 AugFinding Motivation and Healing in This Mental Mess
181. 9 AugTrump’s home raided
182. 8 AugVideo: John Oliver with some important updates on Monkeypox
183. 8 AugLibertarians Don’t Get a Lot
184. 8 AugA Big Commission – Part 9 – Da Pictures
185. 8 AugAnother week, another data point
186. 8 AugThe religious tax exemption boondoggle
187. 8 AugLink Roundup: August 2022
188. 8 AugMayor denies aliens access to Saturday’s Taste of Bolingbrook event (Fiction)
189. 8 AugIt takes courage to visit CPAC
190. 8 AugIt doesn’t work on spiders
191. 8 AugI guess I need to say it again: squid didn’t come from space
192. 8 AugHonest campaign strategy: Republicans want to kill you
193. 8 AugTrading Time
194. 7 AugVideo: Why are Democrats funding the far right?
195. 7 AugFilm review: Phantom of the Opera (2004)
196. 7 AugConservative philosophy is both stupid and pretentious
197. 7 AugHuge job gains last month
198. 7 AugMinnesotans! Vote!
199. 7 AugSpatzenbaden
200. 7 AugA Big Commission – Part 8 – Photographing
201. 7 AugIt’s getting hotter, faster, and that trend is going to continue. After a certain point, drastic action is all that is left.
202. 6 AugPolio Returns: This is what “american exceptionalism” gets you
203. 6 AugSpider Studio Mk. I
204. 6 AugBirthing Pains: Childree Day is August 1st
205. 6 AugJudith Durham (1943-2022)
206. 6 AugMetabolism First! And the origin of life
207. 6 AugKyrsten Synema works for the venture capitalists
208. 6 AugALL the trigger warnings
209. 6 AugA Big Commission – Part 7 – Missed Opportunity
210. 6 AugHow do you feel about aging?
211. 6 AugAlex Jones assessed 45.2 million in punitive damages
212. 5 AugSongs I’m Liking
213. 5 AugEngland continues its headlong rush into authoritarianism
214. 5 Aug$4.1 million + $45.2 million is a lot of money
215. 5 AugI am totally baffled by this cartoon. Any ideas?
216. 5 AugA Big Commission – Part 6 – The Sharpenstone
217. 5 AugAlex Jones trial award
218. 5 AugFrog Chillin’
219. 5 AugI guess it was a joke?
220. 5 AugI wouldn’t mind if Marvel movies became a small niche
221. 5 AugSo…all scientists have these weird obsessions? Tell me more.
222. 5 AugAll cops are agents of chaos
223. 5 AugIt’s Going Down presents: A history of The People’s Park
224. 5 AugThe enduring appeal of Yakety Sax
225. 4 AugA Big Commission – Part 5 – The Stitchening
226. 4 AugMeet an African atheist
227. 4 AugMeet the Atheist
228. 4 AugA dangerous strategy
229. 4 AugA glimmer of hope?
230. 4 AugTerrible graphs of agnostic atheism
231. 4 AugGoon University shot their wad
232. 4 AugOne way the right wing is winning
233. 4 AugTHREE HOURS OF JORDAN PETERSON?
234. 4 AugEating Disorder Recovery — A Little More from My First Journal
235. 4 AugAlex Jones’s lies exposed in court as one trial ends
236. 3 AugVideo: Hard work is a grift.
237. 3 AugWhen Bad Memories Return: Parish, The Thought
238. 3 AugBecause I can
239. 3 AugAlex Jones is in big ger trouble now
240. 3 AugAnother week, another data point
241. 3 AugA sign of hope…in Kansas
242. 3 AugSaying the quiet part about unemployment out loud
243. 3 AugMore like this
244. 3 AugI guess I’m going to have to find a new genetics textbook
245. 3 AugAn excuse to make everything worse
246. 2 AugTegan Tuesday: Life is not black and white.
247. 2 AugTime To Backtrack: “God’s Bullies” at 40
248. 2 AugReally? Australians still take an oath of allegiance to the queen?
249. 2 AugOrigami: Two pyramids
250. 2 AugThe Tyre Extinguishers war on SUVs
251. 2 AugWhat a sideshow at the American circus
252. 2 AugThere is such a thing as bad publicity
253. 2 AugAre meditation and prayer the same?
254. 1 AugSomething Cool To See
255. 1 Aug“Bad News In Threes” Already Happened: And one bit of good news
256. 1 AugA MAGA movement I can get behind
257. 1 AugA Big Commission – Part 4 – Surface Finish & Glue-up
258. 1 AugMischievous or mischievious?

July 2022

1. 31 JulVideo: True Facts about the giraffe
2. 31 JulFig Season Starts
3. 31 JulOld enough to be married & have babies, not old enough to drink
4. 31 JulStill 3
5. 31 JulSkepticon is trying to teach me how to be a better person; will it ever sink in?
6. 31 JulAre You Bored Again?
7. 30 JulWar makes climate change more dangerous
8. 30 JulIs This Where Toxic Masculinity Began?: “Deliverance” at 50
9. 30 JulTo Air Is Human; To Forgive, Divine: The Max Headroom hack of 1987
10. 30 JulDid you know there’s a Skepticon livestream?
11. 30 JulEating Disorder Recovery — Sharing a Little Bit of My First Journal
12. 29 JulNature will help clean up plastic pollution, we just need top stop adding to the problem
13. 29 JulArticle on leaders of the New Atheist movement spreading white nationalist ‘Great Replacement’ myth. (Link)
14. 29 JulA Big Commission – Part 3 – Stuff Got Really Hard
15. 29 JulTime to move to…Russia?
16. 29 JulLess than a day away from Minnesota, and I already miss it
17. 29 JulY’all Don’t Even Know
18. 29 JulPart way there
19. 28 JulVideo: The flawed “study” that says serotonin doesn’t cause depression
20. 28 JulI Beg To Differ: Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine at 200
21. 28 JulI’m a little fascinated with the paranormal.
22. 27 JulIf you’re near Washington D.C., there’s an action tomorrow that you should try to attend
23. 27 JulRising temperatures aren’t the only reason the weather’s getting weird
24. 27 JulExceptionally Repugnant, I’d Say: Three years is a light sentence for a double murder
25. 27 JulSometimes, Time Away Is What You Need….
26. 27 JulTalk is done, more or less!
27. 27 JulSporadic blogging coming up
28. 27 JulThe Renegade Cut takes a look at the enforcement of patriarchy
29. 26 JulShowing off My Wood – Part 2
30. 26 JulTo comma or not to comma?
31. 26 JulSentiment for the day
32. 26 JulSorry, everyone
33. 26 JulDid Trump really want Pence, Pelosi and other members of Congress murdered?
34. 26 JulInteresting geology I’ll never see in person
35. 26 JulWhere’s Alex Jones when you need someone to scream about scary science?
36. 26 JulWhat do you want your children, younger siblings, or loved ones to inherit from you?
37. 26 JulZumba & Gender
38. 26 JulThe bigger the global temperature change, the biggest the mass extinction.
39. 25 JulThe most horrible video I’ve ever made
40. 25 JulSamantha Bee’s show canceled
41. 25 JulA Big Commission – Part 2 – New Magnetic Thingamajig
42. 25 JulProud Boys end ‘blockade’ of Chicagoland’s UFO Bases (Fiction)
43. 25 JulThe skunk is free!
44. 25 Jul“Yesterday is a hard word for me”: Committee is now trolling Trump
45. 25 JulWhich fantasy is hurting America more?
46. 25 JulMorning surprise
47. 25 JulQuestions! Questions for atheists!
48. 24 JulStray: First impressions (Oh gods, what is that on the walls?)
49. 24 JulShowing off My Wood – Part 1
50. 24 JulHappiness is a pocket full of maggots and spider eggs
51. 24 JulCorona Crisis Crafting: This Time for Real
52. 24 JulStories I like
53. 24 JulA different perspective
54. 24 JulDinosaurs may have used fire
55. 24 JulVideo: Biden Burgers and Right-Wing Media
56. 23 JulNew polio case in the US
57. 23 JulDriven from my own home
58. 23 JulHow to undermine Alzheimer’s research
59. 23 JulThe nose knows
60. 23 JulA Big Commission – Part 1 – Beginning
61. 23 JulA Couple of Journal Entries: Looking Forward to Discharge (Eating Disorder Recovery)
62. 23 JulWe must learn to channel our inner pocket gopher
63. 23 JulBrutal crackdown begins in Sri Lanka
64. 22 JulPoetry Advice?
65. 22 JulI’m supposed to thank someone for Friday?
66. 22 JulShe had me at ‘insect cosplay’
67. 22 JulLatest hearings show Trump’s responsibility for the riot
68. 21 JulVideo: New York Times debunks corporate climate lies
69. 21 JulIs Cody spying on me?
70. 21 JulMissives from Dystopia…I mean, America
71. 21 JulThird Wooden Mystery
72. 21 JulAttention reporters: Give the basic facts before commentary
73. 21 JulAn important lesson
74. 21 JulI was not fooled
75. 21 JulWoo-hoo! Fortune has arrived!
76. 21 JulSkepticon…next week!
77. 21 JulI am learning about gender and respecting pronouns.
78. 20 JulCarbon capture is a distraction we cannot afford.
79. 20 JulIt should have been a walking sim
80. 20 JulFrom Midjourney
81. 20 JulMy Last Week
82. 20 JulOminous developments in Sri Lanka
83. 20 JulPortrait of a whiny narcissist
84. 20 JulDoes Jesse Singal still get writing gigs?
85. 20 JulEvery restaurant should have this feature
86. 20 JulBACONSQAUDgaming is an evasive, Randian villain
87. 19 JulSri Lanka’s future hangs in the balance
88. 19 JulWhy I’m Not an Ideologue, Revisited
89. 19 JulTegan Tuesday: Returning to our roots with reopened canals
90. 19 JulWhatever shall we do without a few cops around?
91. 19 JulThey didn’t even realize how badly they were crushed
92. 19 JulMusk is on trial right now!
93. 19 JulDo you want vampires?
94. 19 JulAvoiding accidental dialing
95. 19 JulThe grift continues!
96. 19 JulMixed Messages: My Secret Taste in Music
97. 19 JulMorbid Monday: Heatwave edition
98. 18 JulA Funny Manifestation of the Christianity Brain Rot
99. 18 JulJohn Oliver on confederate monuments
100. 18 JulWell, here we are: finally caught Covid
101. 18 JulHey Texas Republicans!
102. 18 JulTram Depo Graffiti – Part 6
103. 18 JulYou don’t need to win elections to destroy the country
104. 18 JulAiG has no shame
105. 18 JulNot representing computer science well
106. 18 JulWhy the British monarchy should be abolished
107. 18 JulAre we surprised by this story about Dr Oz?
108. 18 JulVideo: Slavery is still legal (for cops)
109. 17 JulNoooo! Too slow!
110. 17 JulFirst I’ve ever heard of a food company wanting to use a spider for PR
111. 17 JulThings that make vegetarianism hard
112. 17 JulDon’t fall for this trap!
113. 17 JulSpinelessness…confirmed
114. 17 JulCritical week for Sri Lanka
115. 17 JulVideo: A brief history of the Illuminati
116. 16 JulWhy the British monarchy should be abolished: Reason #2468
117. 16 JulWhat is the “trans question”, anyway?
118. 16 JulFool me once…
119. 16 JulSharing My Fight: Why Reading and Writing are Crucial to My Recovery
120. 15 JulHow heat waves weaken plants (and thoughts on parallels in Humanity)
121. 15 JulInfinite Thread XXIV
122. 15 JulThe only university that counts
123. 15 JulThe impact of old Earth theories on religion
124. 15 JulWe have these people in Minnesota, too
125. 15 JulGrossest family ever
126. 15 JulThe Konservative Kristian Konundrum
127. 15 JulVideo: Beau talks about a 10 year old, journalism, and misinformation
128. 14 JulElon Musk survives meeting with Maritan Colonial delegation at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
129. 14 JulIt’s summer! Go to the beach and die
130. 14 JulPoached
131. 14 JulAnother Rift Review (Non-Fiction)
132. 14 JulSpider engineering
133. 14 JulDon’t panic, it’s just a spider bite
134. 14 JulSri Lankan situation gets even more tense
135. 14 JulThe Pruitt stink lingers on
136. 14 JulWelp, guess it’s time to start committing crimes
137. 14 JulA Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — No. 31 “Swimsuit Season”
138. 13 JulVideo: How Britain Sabotaged the Caribbean
139. 13 JulCrafting: polymer clay
140. 13 JulA last ditch effort to cling to power and escape consequences
141. 13 JulAt least they had good hygiene
142. 13 JulReview: The Rift
143. 13 JulThese anti-education frauds don’t belong anywhere in public life
144. 13 JulA seriously unserious man
145. 13 JulWhat’s going on down in Bolingbrook?
146. 12 JulSwans are debate lords confirmed
147. 12 JulDiscovering my role on campus
148. 12 JulFirst images from the James Webb telescope released
149. 12 JulThey’re going to keep throwing these images at us
150. 12 JulWhat is a woman?
151. 12 JulThe evolutionary puzzle of children and grandparents
152. 12 JulHe’s such a good Republican
153. 12 JulFor those who missed it yesterday
154. 12 JulDreams and Memories: Our Brains are Fascinating
155. 11 JulAmericans are eating so much excess meat, their pee is poisoning the water.
156. 11 JulMeanwhile, cricket goes on in Sri Lanka
157. 11 JulCreationists deny science, don’t let them get away with saying otherwise
158. 11 JulThis invasive species hasn’t invaded my neighborhood
159. 11 JulBack from our adventure
160. 11 JulThe aftermath of the dramatic events in Sri Lanka
161. 11 JulLooking forward to seeing stuff from the [PLACEHOLDER] Space Telescope today
162. 11 JulSatan reviews ‘The Rift’ (Great American Satan that is) (Non-fiction)
163. 11 JulThe Rift – Our William Brinkman’s New Novel
164. 11 JulVideo: The fishing cat
165. 10 JulThis is America
166. 10 JulSome good news: Self ID is coming to Germany!
167. 10 JulDonald Trump is not a normal person and not in a good way
168. 9 JulA little good news, for a change
169. 9 JulBig Gay Sword
170. 9 JulSri Lankan president and PM quit as crisis reaches a climax
171. 9 JulHow I changed sides on the abortion rights issue
172. 9 JulAn Explanation For Inflation
173. 9 JulFaux Stonehenge in Georgia blown up
174. 9 JulLet’s Spotify, Shall We? (2)
175. 9 JulRemember the podcast today!
176. 9 JulCuriosity of the Topic of Suicide — Religious vs. Secular
177. 9 JulYou won’t believe this one weird trick that lets you build a better wind turbine with less material!
178. 8 JulAn atheist response…and an invitation to a livestream
179. 8 JulJonathan Pie gives Boris Johnson the send off he so richly deserves
180. 8 JulThe Rift is coming next week! (Non-fiction)
181. 8 JulLet’s hope he isn’t made a martyr to his cause
182. 8 JulMidjourney
183. 8 JulSome are more equal than others
184. 8 JulUnder the Gonne
185. 8 JulQ and QAnon are examples of the paranoid style
186. 8 JulTime for another Podish-Sortacast! (Non-fiction)
187. 8 JulVideo: Let’s talk about the end of any pretense to democracy in the United States
188. 7 JulBye, bye, Boris!
189. 7 JulTram Depo Graffiti – Part 5
190. 7 JulDid UATX increase their status, or did Dawkins diminish his?
191. 7 JulWe Only See the Slight Echoes
192. 7 JulGorillas have very small testicles, you know
193. 7 JulMeet me in St Louis — in 3 weeks!
194. 7 JulThe dangers of unthinking risk taking
195. 7 JulDid anyone bring a hook? Get him off the stage.
196. 7 JulWho woulda thought Popeye was so precious to Republicans?
197. 7 JulCongratulations to the UK
198. 7 JulSpending Time at the Library
199. 7 JulLogistics are so important
200. 6 JulSaad, Another Libertarian
201. 6 JulAre you looking for a fight?
202. 6 JulAnother Wooden Mystery
203. 6 JulMaybe I should write a parenting book
204. 6 JulHaving trouble reading Pharyngula?
205. 6 JulHighland Park Community Shooting Response Fund and misc. (Non-fiction)
206. 6 JulThings That Happened – 2
207. 6 JulI hope you aren’t expecting the universities to fight back
208. 6 JulAbolish the police
209. 6 JulBoris Johnson and Donald Trump – two peas in a pod
210. 5 JulEvery time, he just gets worse and worse
211. 5 JulBe on the lookout for people spreading the propaganda of a fascist terrorist
212. 5 JulThe worst thing to see on your doorstep
213. 5 JulVillage sends eviction notice to zombies inside Bolingbrook Commons (Fiction)
214. 5 JulTo life! (Non-fiction)
215. 5 JulThe paranoid style in American politics
216. 5 JulHeart of the storm
217. 5 JulHow do you talk to your child about death?
218. 5 JulThings That Happened
219. 4 JulSpider baby update!
220. 4 JulHappy Gunpowder Day
221. 4 JulReminder: Making real progress on climate change would cost less than 1% of global GDP, but we’re still not doing it.
222. 4 JulHappy Fourth of July!
223. 4 JulTaking great risks for the enjoyment of others
224. 4 JulI must be doing something right
225. 4 JulWhere being a successful businessman takes you
226. 4 JulFilm review: American History X (1998) and the neo-Nazi movement
227. 4 JulDon’t they know that complexity can only be produced by Intelligent Design?
228. 4 JulWe aren’t done yet
229. 4 JulCOVID, COVID, COVID. Let’s pretend it doesn’t exist!
230. 4 JulSolving a Wooden Mystery
231. 4 JulVideo: Terry Pratchett, pronouns, and fluid gender in literature
232. 3 JulRat makes more sense to me now that I am older
233. 3 JulTaking stock of current state of covid-19
234. 3 JulMaybe we need to exploit Republican stupidity more
235. 3 JulMore Summer Content
236. 3 JulNew research shows how mines harm salmon populations
237. 2 JulWhy Relying on Algorithms is Bad
238. 2 JulMeasure B’s defeat shows importance of each vote
239. 2 Jul“Nice testimony you got there. Too bad if anything happened to you after you give it.”
240. 2 JulGet outta here, Nancy
241. 2 JulNext, rage
242. 2 JulSex Ed Scare Tactics – If I Only Knew
243. 1 JulVideo: Why capitalism loves disasters (and how that includes global warming)
244. 1 JulOrigami: Fourteenth Stellation of the Icosahedron
245. 1 JulDemocrats can’t even compromise competently
246. 1 JulAnchovynado?
247. 1 JulViews of Tampere from Pyynikki
248. 1 JulThe pandemic is/is not over
249. 1 JulThe Opposing Viewpoint
250. 1 JulHow the Republican party became the white grievance party
251. 1 JulI waded through the filth so you don’t have to
252. 1 JulHis heart’s desire!
253. 1 JulI’m starting to pity Texans

June 2022

1. 30 JunShock Doctrine: The U.S. Supreme Court has declared war on humanity.
2. 30 JunJust another day in the Trump White House
3. 30 JunThe greedy British royal family
4. 30 JunGrey Heron
5. 30 JunThe TERFs have science on their side!
6. 30 JunWanna see a bag of spiders?
7. 30 JunA Little Pick-Me-Up
8. 29 JunHousekeeping
9. 29 JunWe should all be angry enough to punch holes in walls
10. 29 JunLatest bombshell hearings reveal an even darker side of Trump
11. 29 JunIt’s never actually about women’s sports
12. 29 JunForbidden knowledge
13. 28 JunVisiting a 100 year old barn
14. 28 JunVideo: True Facts about the beaver
15. 28 JunGreening the Balcony – Part 1
16. 28 JunHearings? What hearings?
17. 28 JunStill waiting…
18. 28 JunNot impressed by the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
19. 28 JunIs Prince Charles daft?
20. 28 JunLarry Moran discovers the quicksand that is Wikipedia
21. 28 JunCosmopolitanism and Defensive Warfare
22. 28 JunA few questions…are atheists typically arrogant? Are we smarter?
23. 28 JunFemale Illuminati members stage walk-out following overturning of Roe v. Wade (Fiction)
24. 28 JunScience says win first, answer questions later.
25. 27 JunI needed a laugh
26. 27 JunNext January 6th hearings suddenly scheduled for tomorrow
27. 27 JunI See Your Strawberries, I Raise You My Cherries
28. 27 Jun‘Country Queers’: On being LGBTQ+ in rural America
29. 27 JunPost-Roe Plans for a Mom Nearing 40 in a Red State
30. 27 JunWhile they’re demolishing everything else, the Supreme Court might as well destroy separation of church & state
31. 27 JunJebus, but I detest his smug smirking face
32. 27 JunOh no, I was biologist-splained!
33. 27 JunPacing about in the waiting room
34. 27 JunTrump’s anger shows that the January 6th hearings are hurting him
35. 27 JunDinosaur fight!
36. 27 JunA Quickie
37. 27 JunI don’t have a ‘technical difficulties’ sign
38. 27 JunI Can’t Even
39. 27 JunSunday Night Mood
40. 27 JunVideo: How Prager U corporatized the Youtube “Alt-Right Pipeline”
41. 26 JunWinning the Longest Game
42. 26 JunMore pun fun
43. 26 JunDamned if you do, damned if you don’t
44. 26 JunFirst Pride Parade in Sri Lanka
45. 26 JunThe Minnesota condition
46. 26 JunStrawberry Madness
47. 26 JunDansk Regnbueråd is a front for Dansk Folkeparti
48. 26 JunA nice fuck you to the SCOTUS
49. 26 JunOn Being Unhappy With The Democrats
50. 25 JunThis is how sports fans should behave
51. 25 JunVideo: Let’s talk about what they’re going after next…
52. 25 JunNews you can’t use?
53. 25 JunI get email: for the programmers out there!
54. 25 JunSurrounded
55. 25 JunA Fond Childhood Memory That Brings Out the Atheist in Me
56. 25 JunSigns Of The Times
57. 25 JunA Challenge
58. 25 JunOrganized Atheism Also at Fault
59. 24 JunI see the bad moon risin’
60. 24 JunCricket success boosts Sri Lankan morale
61. 24 JunI think I’ll be a daddy this weekend
62. 24 JunTNET 47: The Floppotron
63. 24 JunYou wanna known why Democrats lose?
64. 24 JunThe Supreme Court is what must be overturned
65. 24 JunFriday Cephalopod: TGIF! Dance!
66. 24 JunTrump’s attempts to subvert the justice department exposed
67. 24 JunWhy are Gaetz, Brooks, Biggs, Gohmert, and Perry still in office?
68. 24 JunWhen The Worms Turn
69. 23 JunImportant Video: Unsustainable water usage is reaching a crisis point for the Southwestern U.S.
70. 23 JunIs this my shocked face, or my unsurprised by Jordan Peterson face?
71. 23 JunSpider mating habits can repair ignorant slanders against Darwin
72. 23 JunTexas is an example of how low Republicans have sunk
73. 23 JunCan we please fire Ron Johnson now?
74. 23 JunPushing Through Pain and Self-Care
75. 23 JunDriven to extinction by “leaders” with all the maturity and responsibility of a bunch of drunken frat bros.
76. 22 JunThe scandalously slow police reaction to the Uvalde shooting
77. 22 JunWe got legs!
78. 22 JunIs queerness wholesome now?
79. 22 JunThe racist BS of Intelligence and Breast vs. Ass Preference
80. 22 JunTrump’s potentially criminal behavior becomes ever more apparent
81. 22 JunBefore the Bat, there was the Spider
82. 21 JunBreaking news: Repeated exposure to natural disasters may harm mental health!
83. 21 JunA surprisingly accurate online IQ test
84. 21 JunThe rent is too damn high!
85. 21 JunHow a spider eats
86. 21 JunBoris Johnson follows the Trump playbook
87. 21 JunBrain Update, a couple weeks later
88. 21 JunI voted for Hillary Clinton, once
89. 21 JunPity Elon
90. 21 JunIf you knew an area had conservative religious and political views, would you refrain from traveling there?
91. 21 JunExcerpt from The Rift: A Bolingbrook Babbler Story
92. 21 JunNever Interrupt Your Enemy When They Are Making A Mistake
93. 21 JunThis post has a cat picture!
94. 20 JunFour myths about Juneteenth
95. 20 JunClow UFO Base bans ‘Sea Shanty Melody’ while Sherman UFO Base creates ‘Shanty Zones’ (Fiction)
96. 20 JunTram Depo Graffiti – Part 4
97. 20 JunOn escaping from the world of Alex Jones
98. 20 JunThe schadenfreude continues
99. 20 JunCapitalism wins!
100. 20 JunNot how I like to start my morning
101. 20 JunI hope you all had a pleasant Juneteenth
102. 20 JunAre You Bored?
103. 19 JunVideo: The U.S. Supreme Court may be about to preemptively block the E.P.A. from regulating things like carbon emissions
104. 19 JunJuneteenth and Father’s Day
105. 19 JunAmerican Exceptionalism – Leftie Edition
106. 19 JunThe Texas GOP party platform — the madness continues
107. 19 JunAnti-transgender fears used as wedge to drive anti-LGBTQ+ policies
108. 19 JunHow to spot a bad journal
109. 19 Junywibaysfb and webcomic criticism
110. 19 JunRIP Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (1941-2022)
111. 18 JunLonerbox takes a look at the history of modern “western” beauty standards
112. 18 JunThe needless childbirth deaths in US
113. 18 JunThe ICR Guide to Dinosaurs
114. 18 JunSmall steps on gun control but even those are faltering
115. 18 JunThoughts on Perfectionism and Ambition
116. 17 JunMethane leakage from biogas facilities underscores the importance of doing things right.
117. 17 JunWhen sports is more than about sports
118. 17 JunThe bubbles have fizzled out of my champagne
119. 17 JunThe gripping congressional hearings on the events of January 6th
120. 17 JunFriday Cephalopod: so that’s what capes are for
121. 17 JunXenharmonic music theory part 3: Tuning theory
122. 16 JunBedtime reading
123. 16 JunThe health benefits of… plastic pollution?
124. 16 JunMen never change
125. 16 JunHe is so angry!
126. 16 JunI don’t know what’s going on in Ukraine
127. 16 JunThe detritus of GamerGate is still washing up on our Western shores
128. 16 JunSatire at the NRA convention
129. 16 JunA Poem from My Book, The Housewife Who Ruled a Kingdom
130. 15 JunCreeping Mendelism!
131. 15 JunTram Depo Graffiti – Part 3
132. 15 JunEEEEEEEEEEEEeEeEeEeEe-donk-donk-donk-donk-donk-donk
133. 15 JunUnexpected recent trend in Covid deaths
134. 15 JunWhat Malcolm Understood
135. 15 JunWhen it comes to flooding in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region, hurricanes barely rate
136. 15 JunThe Rift gets a five star review! (Non-Fiction)
137. 14 JunPhilosophy Tube: The Social Contract
138. 14 JunIntolerance
139. 14 JunThe problem of tech monopolies
140. 14 JunWould you want this guy to influence your children?
141. 14 JunCongressional hearings demolish Trump’s Big Lie
142. 14 JunAnother fun morning
143. 14 JunThe curse of the middle-aged white man
144. 14 JunJust a thought – what would it be like if I were religious?
145. 14 JunInvasive species control: Where traditional environmentalism and climate activism align
146. 13 JunA Disgusting Bit Of History
147. 13 JunXenharmonic music theory part 2: Dissonance Theory
148. 13 JunElon Musk: Super-genius!
149. 13 JunHow are your cryptocurrency investments holding up?
150. 13 JunThe Jehovah Witnesses don’t do door-knocking anymore?
151. 13 JunWhat To Do?
152. 13 JunGoodbye, Callie the Calico (Non-Fiction)
153. 13 JunThe Universal Algorithm
154. 13 JunVideo: beavers are cool!
155. 12 JunMy nonconversion story, follow-up: Resurrection addendum
156. 12 JunTram Depo Graffiti – Part 2
157. 12 JunFilm review: Meet the Patels (2014)
158. 12 JunLosers!
159. 12 JunIt’s Far More Complicated Than We Think
160. 12 JunVideo: True Facts about the naked mole-rat
161. 11 JunPromising Developments
162. 11 JunReminder: podish sortacast this afternoon
163. 11 JunCheese
164. 11 JunThe ghouls who feast on mass murder
165. 11 Jun“Girl Mom” – Sharing a Poem from My Book, Free to Roam
166. 11 JunSomebody Oughtta Do Somethin
167. 10 JunSea life in this region survived a past warming event. Here’s how we can get the fuckers this time around.
168. 10 JunNOT an Itty Bitty Spider
169. 10 JunLink Roundup: June 2022
170. 10 JunThis was supposed to be a vanity exercise
171. 10 JunFriday Cephalopod: Most punk
172. 10 JunTwo more Skepticon speakers
173. 10 JunShould we show graphic photos of gun victims?
174. 10 JunTraitors, traitors, traitors
175. 10 JunTram Depo Graffiti – Part 1
176. 10 JunSigns of The Times
177. 10 JunWhence chickens?
178. 9 JunYay! Egg sac!
179. 9 JunWebb telescope hit by tiny meteoroid but should still function well
180. 9 JunOther countries have judicial systems that aren’t as screwed up as the American ones
181. 9 JunNot the happiest update
182. 9 JunThe masks conundrum: Masks yes, mask mandates no?
183. 9 JunA PragerU confession
184. 9 JunNeoreactionaries, a gang of idiots
185. 9 JunWriting from pain – is it worth it?
186. 9 JunBut what kind of government? (Non-Fiction)
187. 9 JunNot Friend
188. 8 JunOh yeah? You’re a cuttlefish fan? How many visual processing systems do they use to camouflage themselves?
189. 8 JunHow to Sharpen a Scythe
190. 8 JunHey, look! Two more familiar faces in the Skepticon lineup!
191. 8 JunHow can anyone believe in a benevolent god?
192. 8 JunFamily Values
193. 7 JunAnd as we tampered with the elements in our hubris, an ancient city emerged from the depths…
194. 7 JunThere Used to Be a Railway Here…
195. 7 JunXenharmonic music theory part 1: Perception of microtones
196. 7 JunNotes on Sheath-making
197. 7 JunThe taint of the Minnesota twin studies lingers on
198. 7 JunSensible gun control laws
199. 7 JunThis whole vertebral column thing was a bad idea
200. 7 JunThis timeline is increasingly insane
201. 7 JunHow do you deal with judgmental people?
202. 6 JunWinding up for a knock-out set of speakers at Skepticon
203. 6 JunThe right heart, but too few
204. 6 JunWhat will it take to change people’s minds on guns?
205. 6 JunOH NO! If that’s the audience, I don’t want to be popular
206. 6 JunHow long until we get to Cloud Cuckoo Land?
207. 6 JunNature says Happy Pride Month!
208. 6 JunA Trans Wrath Minute
209. 5 JunDon’t Test Blade Sharpness With the Ball of Your Thumb!
210. 5 JunSamantha Bee on the degeneration of the NRA
211. 5 JunFrom My Walk
212. 5 JunSaying the quiet part out loud
213. 5 JunSome More News: We’re Running Out Of Water
214. 4 JunPZ takes on Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins!
215. 4 JunI’m gonna make a pollinator garden!
216. 4 JunNetflix & AI Discrimination
217. 4 JunLies (Jeffrey StClair)
218. 4 JunRicky Gervais is being himself again: a mean-spirited, transphobic jerk
219. 4 JunAre you afraid of death?
220. 4 JunBrain-O: The Incident
221. 4 JunJolene
222. 3 JunVideo: Disinvestment is class war
223. 3 JunTextbook Giveaway #3!
224. 3 JunDefenders of unlimited access to guns get desperate
225. 3 JunMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 11 – Finale
226. 3 JunI f’in hate evolutionary psychology
227. 3 JunHow did one sentence become the Sacred, Inviolable Word of the Constitution?
228. 3 JunWhat is going on in Ohio?
229. 3 Jun“University” is not a word that should be associated with “scam”
230. 3 JunA tale of two airports
231. 3 JunWhy Do We Let Ourselves Be Ruled By Garbage?
232. 2 JunGolden flying salamanders? In your redwoods? It’s more likely than you might think!
233. 2 JunA Danish yes to more EU
234. 2 JunEnjoying a Quiet Evening
235. 2 JunYikes, claustrophobia alert
236. 2 JunCFI disappoints me again, as expected
237. 2 JunJohnny better get used to it
238. 2 JunGiveaways incoming!
239. 2 JunI was silent
240. 2 JunSpeaking Out Against Stereotypes
241. 2 JunBeyond parody…
242. 1 JunIs it June already?
243. 1 JunWorld War 3 Notes – A Matter of Range, Part 2
244. 1 JunACAB: All Cops Are Broken
245. 1 JunThe Murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu by Islamic fanatics.
246. 1 JunWhen I went to school, it was all “duck & cover” and preparing for nuclear war
247. 1 JunThank god for James Stephanie Sterling
248. 1 JunA curious omission
249. 1 JunOrigami: Flower Tessellation
250. 1 JunDemocratic State Representative candidates Laliberte-Barnes and Syed clash at Palatine’s UFO Base (Fiction)
251. 1 JunCFI should have titled it: We are the only identity that matters (Non-fiction)

May 2022

1. 31 MayTegan Tuesday: Disabled activists are using South Korea’s lack of accessibility to fight for human rights
2. 31 MayLet’s See What Sticks: Just throwing some random thoughts out there
3. 31 MayHe Panders Again: Dustbin Trudeau and his half measures
4. 31 MayLife Intrudes Again
5. 31 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 10 – Fruit Trees
6. 31 MayAre you arguing that genetics supports your racism?
7. 31 MaySlippery slope to stupid
8. 31 MayWishes for My Daughter’s Future
9. 31 MayDepartment of Bad Ideas – Mass Shootings
10. 30 MayI learned two new things about termites today!
11. 30 MaySome Small Good News
12. 30 MayWe Are In WTF World
13. 30 MayIt’s Memorial Day?
14. 30 MayThe Flood problem, illustrated by Oglaf
15. 30 MayRecovery and Acceptance for the Black Sheep
16. 29 MayVideo: Humanity is not a parasite, and why we need social ecology
17. 29 MayFaceplant
18. 29 MayThe Great Spider Heist
19. 29 MayAnother “solution”
20. 29 MayIt’s a Marcus thing
21. 29 MayAttention spans are ridiculously short
22. 29 MayGet well Marcus Ranum
23. 29 MayA bit of humor
24. 29 MayKnowing your limits
25. 28 MayVideo: Let’s talk about armed teachers
26. 28 MayThis is my rage face.
27. 28 MayOh no! Marcus Ranum had a transient ischemic attack, and his brain went all wobbly!
28. 28 MayThe Peterson delusion
29. 28 MayOffline
30. 28 MayToledo, Ohio – The City, The Struggle, and The Library
31. 27 MayCommercial Implications
32. 27 MayAnother map!
33. 27 MaySpider battles a wasp!
34. 27 MayA geography lesson, with automobiles
35. 27 MayFriday Film Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
36. 27 MayFriday Cephalopod: Octopus orgies must be confusing
37. 27 MayAncient Romans were diverse? Who would have thought it?
38. 27 MayWe need more such confrontations
39. 27 MayThere are a lot of movies that could use this treatment
40. 27 MayWhat are the responsibilities of geneticists?
41. 26 MayWho is this jamoke, anyway?
42. 26 MayAcac
43. 26 MayRebecca Watson on Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and domestic abuse
44. 26 MayThe Sharkcano has erupted. I repeat: The Sharkcano has erupted. This is not B movie.
45. 26 MayLight blogging coming up
46. 26 MayTaken in by a trolling parody
47. 26 MayIt’s the guns, stupid!
48. 26 MayDays of grief and rage
49. 26 MayAccepting Yourself Just as You Are Right Now
50. 26 MayFucking Poaching … Srsly?
51. 25 MayVideo: True Facts about nudibranchs (and a little Oceanoxia lore)
52. 25 MayNo, this is not at all ‘incomprehensible’
53. 25 MayLittle human beings were murdered, if you need a reminder
54. 25 MayCartoonists: I read your stuff as a distraction from reality
55. 25 MayMore guns than people
56. 24 MayWhat kind of sick coward murders 14 children?
57. 24 MayThe Porch Foxes
58. 24 MayTegan Tuesday: The Music Video Effect
59. 24 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 9 – Suculents
60. 24 MayPatriarchy poisons everything
61. 24 MayBack to the future in Sri Lanka
62. 24 MayBring on the pain!
63. 24 MayKnow wonder we struggle with French pronunciation
64. 24 MayConspiracy Theories for Progressives?
65. 24 MaySorry About the FB Link
66. 23 MayHave a tiny bit of good news about climate change; as a treat!
67. 23 MayJohnny Cash and Elvis Presley do impressions of each other
68. 23 MayWhy would anyone trust Greg Locke?
69. 23 MayA truly sinister trend
70. 23 MayIt’s always timing and chance
71. 23 MaySomething more wholesome
72. 23 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 8 – Shrubbery or Bush or Both?
73. 23 MayWhat kind of sicko goes to a Bill Maher show?
74. 23 MayNews Corp in Australia seems just like in the US
75. 23 MayNeurotically evil cat gets revenge
76. 23 MayIs the Gender Critical Movement Still a Cult?
77. 23 MayThe people of Atlanta are standing up for themselves, because their government won’t.
78. 22 MayAnd this is…news?
79. 22 MayDog whistles? We don’t need no stinking dog whistles!
80. 22 MayBehold, the new Republican defense against accusations of racism
81. 22 MayFinally, it is settled
82. 21 MayVideo: Why the baby formula shortage is a capitalist disaster
83. 21 MayLabor party wins Australian elections
84. 21 MayOh boy, I’m a demon!
85. 21 MayHaidt Falls Short
86. 21 MaySome good news from last Tuesday’s primaries
87. 21 MayWhere do you volunteer? Give me some secular ideas!
88. 21 MayThe Northman — just a bit too down home for me
89. 20 MayMore TV Thoughts
90. 20 MayChile’s potential new constitution looks interesting
91. 20 MayEnactment of an actual Nextdoor debate
92. 20 MayI am unsurprised by the allegations against Elon Musk
93. 20 MayFriday Cephalopod: Don’t invite the glass octopus to Thanksgiving dinner
94. 20 MayWhen in doubt, lie
95. 20 MayWatch out! Dark MAGA is coming for you!
96. 20 MayRelease date for my novel The Rift and a preorder sale (Non-Fiction)
97. 19 MayPreparing for the Next Winter Already
98. 19 MayInfographics: Emergency alternatives to formula
99. 19 MayJust a quick Degupdate: More of the same
100. 19 MayDiscount code for The Evolution of Multicellularity
101. 19 MayShhh…don’t tell Peter Thiel
102. 19 MayWhat crimes were committed in your neighborhood?
103. 19 MayCryptobust?
104. 19 MayIt really isn’t funny
105. 19 MayIf your life was a pie chart, would spirituality be one of the pieces?
106. 18 MayNew research shows climate action will save lives in the short term. Our leaders will not care.
107. 18 MayDapper Spider Lady
108. 18 MayI get email (Phillip edition)
109. 18 MayThe first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy
110. 18 MayWhich one is not beautiful?
111. 18 MayThat squid earned the right to bite that diver
112. 17 MayTegan Tuesday: Scientists solve one part of the SIDS puzzle
113. 17 MayI’m somewhere around a 9 or 10
114. 17 MayI couldn’t take Gilder seriously after he decided to rename molecular biology adguacyth
115. 17 MayThe irrefutability problem and cryptocurrency
116. 17 MayThe danger posed by a majority that sees itself as under threat
117. 17 MayJordan Peterson can’t see any holes in his argument
118. 17 MayQuite possibly the worst commencement speech ever
119. 16 MayVideo: The platypus conspiracy
120. 16 MaySpring 2022 semester is officially over!
121. 16 MayCan someone be too MAGA for Republican voters?
122. 16 MayNetflix’s algorithmic queerbaiting
123. 16 MayBloody Republicans
124. 16 MayAre you comfortable labeling something as “unexplained”?
125. 15 MayTucker Carlson is a stochastic terrorist.
126. 15 MayMore pun fun
127. 15 MayThe bigotry is leaking in everywhere
128. 15 MayTo my Black friends and their families re: the Buffalo shootings.
129. 15 MayPhysics is an atavistic form of biology, then
130. 15 MayWhat the hell is going though such people’s minds?
131. 15 MayPlease don’t let this goober be our next governor
132. 15 MayWhen I was one year old, the government of Philadelphia firebombed its own people
133. 14 MayWhat foods are good and bad for you?
134. 14 MayArt and Social Justice
135. 14 MayOne way to stop cancel culture: cancel the internet altogether
136. 14 MayWhat the Cock is this Real ID Shit
137. 14 MayPodish-Sortacast for 5/14/22: Art and Social Justice
138. 13 MayOf stomach bugs and safe states
139. 13 May“What is so shocking, inhuman, and irrational about this draft opinion is that the Court is basing its decision on an 18th century document ignorant of 21st century realities for women.”
140. 13 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 7 – Still Some More Small Flowers
141. 13 MayEmerging out of the brain-fog
142. 13 MayCapturing an alligator
143. 13 MayA Letter to My Body
144. 13 MayHeartstopper double review
145. 13 MayHow many friends do we need?
146. 13 MayAre the rich safe from climate breakdown? Yes, and we should do something about that
147. 12 MayExcellent summary and analysis of the situation in Sri Lanka
148. 12 MayEvolution of My Sharpening Kit
149. 12 MaySigning out for a while
150. 12 MayBolingbrook bunnies attack Aurora mayor Richard Irvin (Fiction)
151. 12 MayThe allure of forbidden foods
152. 12 MayOooh, it glows so prettily!
153. 12 MayThe American Way of Life
154. 12 MayClassic example of the logic of cults
155. 12 MayAn SOS from a red state – I’m losing hope.
156. 12 MayThat Ugly Bias
157. 11 MayTrees and grasslands are great and all, but wetlands are how the cool kids capture carbon!
158. 11 MayLouisiana to become El Salvador, i.e., hell.
159. 11 MayDo you hate dinosaurs?
160. 11 MayThe virus is still evolving? INCONCEIVABLE.
161. 11 MayThe University of Minnesota president sends me warm wishes!
162. 11 MayTense impasse in Sri Lanka as shoot on sight order given by president
163. 11 MayKen’s Kult Kompound is growing!
164. 11 MayChristian masculinity
165. 11 MayHow To Log
166. 11 MayVideo: True Facts about sea stars
167. 10 MayYeah, I Bet
168. 10 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 6 – Even More Small Flowers
169. 10 MayLink Roundup: May 2022
170. 10 MayI guess we have to do both
171. 10 MayThe corruption is next door. Wake up!
172. 10 MayViolence escalates in Sri Lanka: Prime minister resigns
173. 10 MayRP by Comment
174. 9 MayI am fully with David Mitchell on this one
175. 9 MayThe Martian absurdity
176. 9 MayDon’t take offense at the Salem Hypothesis!
177. 9 MayCongratulations to Chuck Kimmel
178. 9 MayA video on part of the ADHD experience
179. 9 MayWhy the British House of Commons is more interesting to watch than the US Congress
180. 9 MayWhat an odd little beastie
181. 9 MayRoad trip, end of July
182. 9 MayIntruder (more lovesick poetry)
183. 9 MayGood dog.
184. 8 MayGreen spaces are good for your brain.
185. 8 MayI made an EP
186. 8 MayAptly Put: A French editorial comic on Roe
187. 8 MayReproductive “choice” and abortion
188. 8 MayY’all better call your moms today!
189. 8 MayThe good and bad of Nextdoor
190. 7 MayEarth’s farmland is running low on water. Maybe we should do something?
191. 7 MaySomething is wrong!
192. 7 MayTackling the problem of renewable energy storage
193. 7 MayA little too true to be funny
194. 6 MayTips for accessing reproductive healthcare in the United States
195. 6 MayTeacher’s Corner: Liar, liar, pants on fire
196. 6 MayBREAKING: Abattoir goes international, welcomes new involuntary organ donors!
197. 6 MayWhat do scientists do over summer break?
198. 6 MayRoe V Wade
199. 6 MayFriday Cephalopod: Time to FIGHT
200. 5 MayWorking to preserve biodiversity will help us deal with climate change
201. 5 MayVideo essays are like blogs but more so
202. 5 MayDIY Buffing Compound
203. 5 MayRoe (and a link to check out)
204. 5 MayArt: Combining resin and beads
205. 5 MayWeb Exclusive: A new service! (Fiction)
206. 5 MayI’m just going to say this once
207. 5 MayNo, I’m not done!
208. 5 MayI knew the place was missing something
209. 5 MayA Pyrrhic victory for religious symbolism
210. 5 MayThe spidering resumes!
211. 5 MayA Secular Childhood: Letters to My Daughter — No. 30 “Spring Program”
212. 5 MayWell…yeah.
213. 5 MayThe Democrats are not blameless: Some thoughts about how we got here
214. 4 MayGreed Kills: And Kansas City wants people to die
215. 4 MayMaybe I can spend my summer eradicating the threat of space piracy
216. 4 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 5 – More Small Flowers
217. 4 MayMay the 4th be with you
218. 4 MayI Shouldn’t Laugh: The Parking Lot Is Full, 1993-2002
219. 4 MayBook Giveaway #2!
220. 4 MayEnvironmental racism
221. 4 MayHow to end a one-night stand
222. 4 MayHe’s supposed to be one of the vaguely, kinda OK ones on some issues, I hear
223. 4 MayI hope this is satire
224. 4 MayWeb Exclusive: Clow UFO Base grounds flights following leak of Supreme Court’s abortion ban (Fiction)
225. 3 MayThe Abattoir.
226. 3 MaySo this is how the semester ends
227. 3 MayTraffic Terrorism Strikes Again: This time, in Finland
228. 3 MayIt Follows
229. 3 MayOriginalism, Dobbs v. JWH, and Oblivious, Asshole Patriarchs
230. 3 MayTegan Tuesday: Congrats! You’re poor now!
231. 3 MayTrump and toilets
232. 3 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 4 – Small Flowers
233. 3 MayEverything everywhere all at once
234. 3 MayGeorge Carlin knew what was going on
235. 3 MayThe problems with self-driving cars
236. 3 MayThe Supreme Court is broken
237. 3 MayYes, I know, I’m reading the opinion right now. Let’s stay calm unt—GOD FUCK ALITO GODDAMMIT
238. 3 MayBeavers encounter Uncanny Valley. Beavers do not care.
239. 2 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 3 – Pansies
240. 2 MayAnd the winners are…
241. 2 MayKinda sorta almost done with classes
242. 2 MayIf we really cared about the future, we’d jail all the long-termists
243. 2 MayDon’t let your kids grow up to drive tanks
244. 2 MayDoes online advertising work?
245. 2 MayIt’s the lab coat that sells it
246. 2 MayImpressively straight-faced…until now.
247. 2 MayKirk Cameron wants to control your children
248. 2 MayAre there any aspects of your faith that you miss?
249. 1 MayVideo: What is (and is not) anti-fascism?
250. 1 MayMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 2 – Tulips
251. 1 MayEye Finished a Comishun
252. 1 MayWebb telescope instrument alignment completed
253. 1 MayDegupdate: Candy is back, and this time she brought reinforcements!
254. 1 MayOrigami: Daylily
255. 1 MayLethal fruit
256. 1 MayThe closer we look, the clearer it is that Republican policies are based on stupidity
257. 1 MayRammstein – Angst
258. 1 MayOroshigane Fang

April 2022

1. 30 AprThe Most Cowardly Act: “Corporal punishment” is a major crime
2. 30 AprMy Auntie’s Garden – Part 1 – Introduction
3. 30 AprAnother ways to get a free copy of Pathways to Bolingbrook (Non-fiction)
4. 30 AprTomorrow begins my month!
5. 30 AprNot Fit To Lead: Plumbing the deaths of depravity
6. 30 AprAuthoritarian delusions
7. 30 AprJumping spiders are peeping toms!
8. 30 AprThe dreaded pineapple threat
9. 30 AprThe history of climate science, for a denier in my comments.
10. 30 AprNo More Harry P Shit
11. 29 AprHave you enjoyed this pandemic? Because climate change could soon bring us the next one
12. 29 AprThe Most Cowardly Act: April 30th is International Spank Out Day
13. 29 AprThere’s a reflection in the clouds above the Capitol!
14. 29 AprAnother cryptic WhatsApp text
15. 29 AprIt’s been obvious for a long time that the Minneapolis police are rotten to the core
16. 29 AprI thought we’d moved beyond this in the ’70s
17. 29 AprFriday Cephalopod: 10 hours worth
18. 29 AprNot Your Friend!
19. 29 AprBlogging will be light
20. 28 AprA thought on the so-called “work ethic” of billionaires
21. 28 AprWell, fuck. My blog’s name is relevant to current events.
22. 28 AprMighty Kites
23. 28 AprOnce, I would have predicted that Ukraine was going to be crushed
24. 28 AprWhy would anyone hire Sabatini?
25. 28 AprWhy does hateful bigot Kent Hovind still have a YouTube channel?
26. 28 AprEating Disorder Recovery Update — Plus a Request!
27. 28 AprGreat Idea re: Muskworld Twitter
28. 27 AprMünecat’s video on climate change and capitalism
29. 27 AprToday was cancer genetics day
30. 27 AprPutin Would Be Proud: Journalist Intimidation 101
31. 27 AprToo much truth
32. 27 AprNew trial for Melissa Lucio
33. 27 AprNumbers go up, numbers go down, what does it all mean?
34. 27 AprVulcanized fossil spiders
35. 27 AprCatastrophe comes when crises collide: Heat wave in India and Pakistan has global implications
36. 26 AprIf you’re sane, you should be afraid
37. 26 AprGreat moments in truck protests
38. 26 AprThese are not good arguments against “wokeism”
39. 26 AprSprint to the finish? (Non-fiction)
40. 26 AprIT’S ALIVE!!?!
41. 26 AprWho wants to break the news to them?
42. 26 AprYard Friends
43. 25 AprWe’re just going over some genetics problems here
44. 25 AprTextbook give-away!
45. 25 AprTo hyphen or not to hyphen?
46. 25 AprDust — Lovesick Poetry
47. 25 AprI’m not OK yet, but I’m back.
48. 25 AprShattering the myth of benign British colonialism
49. 25 AprBecause he’s rich and he wants it
50. 25 AprI know this feeling well
51. 25 AprThe degeneracy…!
52. 24 AprHovind again?
53. 24 AprCongratulations France
54. 24 AprGorillaz 20 year anniversary mini series
55. 24 AprA Day at the Zoo 3: Because the Night
56. 24 AprTrump’s health
57. 24 AprThe Presidential Medal of Freedom is a farce
58. 24 AprWhy were journalists so slow to pick up on the hate festering here?
59. 24 AprSome Advice That’s Never Heard Nor Told
60. 24 AprBetter Late Than Never???
61. 24 AprSome Lies Should Be Jailing Offenses
62. 24 AprDing dong…
63. 23 AprThe Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
64. 23 AprThe World’s Birth Rates Decline: This IS the painless way
65. 23 AprSpeak Broadly: The ZX Spectrum at 40
66. 23 AprThis Is Cool: The ARPA Net of 1977 in one image
67. 23 AprMore fun with death euphemisms
68. 23 AprSexist Crafting and Homophobic Chicken – What Businesses Do You Boycott?
69. 23 AprYet another pseudoscientific fraud
70. 23 AprThe bootstrap myth
71. 23 AprMini Holiday 2: Fishes!
72. 22 AprFirst, kill all the dictionaries
73. 22 AprThe idiocy reaches new heights
74. 22 AprHannity’s Snowflakes
75. 22 AprMini Holiday: A Day at the Zoo 1
76. 22 AprAnother Bar
77. 22 AprWe are on the verge of yet another potential tragic miscarriage of justice
78. 22 AprFor all the 18 year olds anticipating next year
79. 22 AprInspired Notions vs. Pathological Thoughts
80. 21 AprNested sets of chickens and eggs.
81. 21 AprWhat do you call your hoohah/diddly-dingle/whatchamacallit?
82. 21 AprTwo awful liars talking to each other. Why would anyone watch?
83. 21 AprPoetry Program This Sunday — Humanist Alliance of San Diego
84. 21 AprKent Hovind whacked off to me again
85. 21 AprPolice open fire on protestors in Sri Lanka
86. 21 AprPaper: The statistical mechanics of music
87. 21 AprAmerica, where corrupt criminals are just funny characters on a TV show
88. 21 AprThe Florida brain drain begins now
89. 21 Apr¡Feliz Jueves!
90. 20 AprWe get letters. (Unfortunately) April 2022 edition (Fiction)
91. 20 AprAnother lecture done!
92. 20 AprMano, mono, what’s the difference?
93. 20 AprIt’s not real, Ted
94. 20 AprTrump Republicans just love Hungary’s leader
95. 20 AprStairway to Heaven
96. 20 AprA Weird Thought
97. 20 AprFighting back
98. 20 AprRaksha (2007-2022)
99. 20 AprIn recovery mode, bring more spiders
100. 20 AprX x
101. 19 AprDrug Tests: Breaking Bad in real life
102. 19 AprTuesday. Also a video.
103. 19 AprThe scandal of false confessions
104. 19 AprIt Does Baffle Me
105. 19 AprDid anyone get the license number of that bus?
106. 19 AprCovided at Last
107. 19 AprMorbid Monday
108. 19 AprAccountable to None
109. 18 AprBoosted again
110. 18 AprMore developmental genetics, AGAIN?
111. 18 AprWhy is Christian media bad?
112. 18 AprAlex Jones files for bankruptcy protection
113. 18 AprFamily Planning – Why Do I Feel Guilty?
114. 18 AprMore pun fun
115. 18 AprYou’re not going to get a tan from red light — it’s also not going to make you more manly
116. 18 AprOK, which of you guys requested Second Winter?
117. 18 AprDemocrats are Stupid Too
118. 18 AprTrolling the Stupid?
119. 18 AprThe book bannings will continue
120. 18 AprThis super-villain must be stopped
121. 18 AprMay righteous wrath consume all tainted by InfoWars
122. 18 AprVideo: Why Electric Cars Won’t Save Us
123. 17 AprMessing things up is kind of our thing
124. 17 AprWait, when did Casey Luskin get a Ph.D.?
125. 17 AprIt Was Awesome
126. 17 AprThe Canary in the Mine: The Achievement Gap Between Black and White Students by Mano Singham
127. 17 AprResearch team develops new theory for studying mountain stream inhabitants
128. 17 AprGee, Thanks: For making me wait two weeks
129. 16 AprHell has many chambers
130. 16 AprBeading: A Promise of Cherries
131. 16 AprI’ve just discovered the location of Hell
132. 16 AprMeanwhile, over in the UK …
133. 16 AprAn outbreak of vampires in Kentucky this weekend?
134. 16 AprThe South Carolina Convict To His Gov
135. 16 AprInfinite Thread XXIII
136. 15 AprSci Fri
137. 15 AprGreat moments in NFT investing
138. 15 AprFriday Cephalopod: Death comes to us all
139. 15 AprAkin All Avo
140. 15 AprIt Always Comes Out, Eventually
141. 15 AprBehind the scenes of reality TV
142. 15 AprSpontaneous combustion for the win!
143. 15 AprHaloDays
144. 14 AprUnions even help workers who aren’t unionized.
145. 14 AprThe doorway effect
146. 14 AprSecular Easter Plans
147. 14 AprThe line goes down
148. 14 AprSuddenly, we’re in the passive voice
149. 14 AprFinally, a case of voter fraud!
150. 14 AprTweaking the work week
151. 14 AprWhere’s the revenue stream for the Ark Park?
152. 14 AprMy nonconversion story. Part 8: In accordance with the prophecies…
153. 14 AprBut do you really know how many bees you’ll need?
154. 13 AprTime to start on Developmental Genetics!
155. 13 AprGo Where It’s At
156. 13 AprUpdate on Sri Lankan crisis
157. 13 AprI get email: Oh no! I have tugged on the lion’s tail!
158. 13 AprMy nonconversion story. Part 7: Word of God?
159. 13 AprTenrec Tuesday
160. 13 AprButt is comfy, eyes have gone blind
161. 12 AprGood bye, sweet Estelle
162. 12 AprRavnsborg impeached, barely
163. 12 AprI am a man, and a teacher
164. 12 AprThe holdouts against the Sackler deal
165. 12 AprIs Steven King in charge of writing Republican life stories now?
166. 12 AprFirst thing in the morning, a knife to the heart
167. 12 AprThey’re At It Again
168. 12 AprMy nonconversion story. Part 6: University.
169. 12 Apr“Brighter Day” music video (Non-fiction)
170. 11 AprMaternal effect and imprinting
171. 11 AprPlaying Wordle
172. 11 AprLink Roundup: April 2022
173. 11 AprWhen you count the fish, the fish may be counting you…
174. 11 Apr‘Build the Wall’ grifter to be sentenced
175. 11 AprWell, I Feel Protected and Served
176. 11 AprHow do people actually listen to Ben Shapiro?
177. 11 AprA trans Tory?
178. 11 AprTwisted Sister twisted
179. 11 AprMy nonconversion story. Part 5: He’s not the Messiah…
180. 11 AprSunday Sermon: From sewer to stovetop, it’s the little things.
181. 10 AprSmall victories over aging
182. 10 AprFrancis Collins, religious scientist
183. 10 AprTrolling Level: Congressional
184. 10 AprMy nonconversion story. Part 4: Reading the gospels.
185. 10 AprVideo: The ongoing harm of French colonialism in Africa
186. 9 AprIT’S SPIDERIN’ TIME!
187. 9 AprBeaten but Possibly Not Unbowed
188. 9 AprIs it ‘gif’ or ‘jif’?
189. 9 AprAnti-Asian hate crimes on the rise
190. 9 AprUncommon Sense: Bayonets
191. 9 AprIf you care about good comedy…
192. 9 AprReminder!
193. 9 AprMy nonconversion story, Part 3: About scriptural (un)reliability.
194. 8 AprIf it’s not one thing it’s another
195. 8 AprHaving a social life interferes with blogging
196. 8 AprJohn Oliver on truck driving
197. 8 AprAsexuality in rightwing media
198. 8 AprSpring Blossoms and More…
199. 8 AprA long overdue event
200. 8 AprFriday Cephalopod: Lost in Space?
201. 8 AprHave you been waiting for Pink Floyd to weigh in on the Ukraine war?
202. 8 AprDreamposting – Learning to Fly
203. 8 AprMy nonconversion story, part 2: Motivation.
204. 8 AprWeep for Cassandra if you must, but heed her warnings, for humanity’s sake
205. 7 AprCongratulations to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!
206. 7 AprJUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson.
207. 7 AprA wrist is slapped!
208. 7 AprThe Algorithm
209. 7 AprPrairie dogs speak
210. 7 AprWhatever happened to ID?
211. 7 AprAmazon takes a leaf from George Orwell’s 1984
212. 7 AprRepublicans defining “woman”
213. 7 AprMy nonconversion story, Part 1: Background
214. 6 AprWhat’s with all those big green and brown things that sway in the wind? Are they actually worth anything?
215. 6 AprAn Event Worth Noting: Happy International Asexuality Day
216. 6 AprThis One Still Works: The Lynx web browser at 30
217. 6 AprWhere The Evil Empire Began: Windows 3.1 at 30
218. 6 AprCredibility Matters: I’ve been waiting for a news source like this
219. 6 AprMy terrible awful horrible no good day
220. 6 AprI’m Uncomfortable About This
221. 6 AprTigger-ized!
222. 6 AprPhilosophy Is Essential to the Intelligent Design Debate by Mano Singham
223. 6 AprHow to destroy a prestigious career in less than a year
224. 6 AprCreepy ghouls squared
225. 6 AprWhy am I here?
226. 6 AprMy nonconversion story: How I Didn’t Become Christian. Introduction.
227. 6 AprTegan Tuesday: Etsy sellers are going on strike
228. 5 AprI Have Something To Show: Filling and killing time
229. 5 AprThis Saturday: skeptics talking about skeptics & skepticism
230. 5 AprI didn’t even know they were missing!
231. 5 AprCancel Culture! Yargleargleblarlgle! Justice!
232. 5 AprSri Lanka in deep crisis
233. 5 AprWhat is a woman?
234. 5 AprTheir Humanity Exhumed: Can we call them ex-human too?
235. 4 AprAction or despair? What’s the result of “climate deadline” rhetoric?
236. 4 AprIt’s extrachromosomal week!
237. 4 AprNot a Masterpiece But…
238. 4 AprBreaking New Ground In The Field of Hypocrisy
239. 4 AprWill History Repeat?: And Putin’s “dirty war” in Ukraine be his downfall?
240. 4 AprWhat? Randy Rainbow is gay ? Can we say that out loud?
241. 4 AprHarm Reduction
242. 4 AprBe the change you want to see
243. 4 AprA View Into The Pipe
244. 4 AprWhen compliance becomes a synonym for open-mindedness…
245. 4 AprIs there any hope for the police?
246. 4 AprDreamposting – Institutional Violence
247. 3 AprAdjusting to Being Home from Treatment
248. 3 AprSources: WeatherTech is developing radiation resistant basement liners (Fiction)
249. 3 AprOrigami: Mucube
250. 3 Apr‘Walking Disaster’, Chapter 15
251. 3 AprOroshigane – 5
252. 3 AprVideo: Leaked Applebee’s Email Vindicates Karl Marx
253. 3 AprThe daring young man on a flying lawn chair
254. 3 AprBucha
255. 3 AprKnow Anyone in Ukraine Who Has an Oxy/Acetylene Torch?
256. 2 AprDo your droughts take too long to dry up the land? Try new and improved Flash Droughts!
257. 2 AprMatt Powell is a bag of misconceptions & lies
258. 2 AprInfluenza Returns: But with a whimper, not a bang
259. 2 AprAmazon workers succeed in union effort
260. 2 AprReddit Sucks: Usenet was better
261. 2 AprGood advice. Just do the opposite.
262. 2 AprDangerous food trends
263. 2 AprGot No Memes
264. 2 AprThe rich and powerful don’t live in reality. That’s both terrifying, and cause for hope
265. 1 AprAmazon Union Win a “Huge Shock.” (not an April Fools joke!)
266. 1 AprTV Review: The Plot to Overturn the Election
267. 1 AprThe varied responses to the monk problem reveals important insights
268. 1 AprCreepy ghouls
269. 1 AprFriday Cephalopod: Half a billion years of making me happy
270. 1 AprFreedom So Dear

March 2022

1. 31 MarThe Bird Tier List
2. 31 MarThis Makes PETA’s Freezer Of Dead Animals Look Good
3. 31 MarWhy are crazy and dangerous fads so appealing to some?
4. 31 MarГолодомо́р
5. 31 MarShut up, Meyer, your schtick is getting old
6. 31 MarThe cowardly Alex Jones held in contempt for skipping depositions
7. 31 MarThe bus wasn’t even crowded
8. 31 MarICR has added “annoying” to their repertoire of “stupid”
9. 31 MarApropos Nothing
10. 31 MarThe Giuliani crime family is doing their best to convince me that lizard people exist
11. 31 MarNow We Know: It was all a distraction
12. 31 MarAnother day, another lecture
13. 30 MarSome More News: Unions and Strikes are Good, and Bosses are Bad.
14. 30 MarOroshigane – 4
15. 30 MarSpring is a victim of Cancel Culture this year
16. 30 MarWhen did Earth begin to become oxygen rich?
17. 30 MarEvery millionaire in America
18. 30 MarTegan Tuesday: Art, Disability, and “Real Jobs”
19. 29 MarA little logic puzzle
20. 29 MarTERFs are experts in anatomy
21. 29 MarTaking stock of the pandemic
22. 29 MarThe anatomy is all wrong!
23. 29 MarOh no! There’s a creationist shortage!
24. 29 MarJordan Peterson’s motivation? I think it’s wrath.
25. 29 MarPebbles Preceding an Avalanche: COVID and Climate Change
26. 28 MarAnother one in the can
27. 28 MarOroshigane – 3
28. 28 MarLara Logan: A classic example of not even wrong
29. 28 MarI don’t understand a thing linguists say
30. 28 MarSooooon
31. 28 MarThe awful Madeline Albright is dead
32. 28 MarWhat is death, anyway? And how do we tell?
33. 28 MarBrush up on the basics of cephalopod anatomy
34. 28 MarYou have to stop & think … who would invite Madison Cawthorn to an orgy?
35. 28 MarBeading: The Coral Reef Bracelet
36. 28 MarUs, the U.S.
37. 28 MarI Wonder if This Will Play
38. 28 MarVideo: America’s role in the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh
39. 28 MarAuthor Unboxing time! (Non-fiction)
40. 27 MarOroshigane – 2
41. 27 MarIT Drudgery
42. 27 MarI’ve never been to Mississippi. I guess I never will.
43. 27 MarPandemic lessons from Hong Kong
44. 27 MarSome pretty bling in ugly times: More beadwork
45. 27 MarI Stopped Reading FtB
46. 27 MarThere’s a heat wave at both north and south poles, because of course there is.
47. 26 MarThe Firing Squad
48. 26 MarThe pandemic must end so my father’s ghost can rest
49. 26 MarVideo: How climate change is affecting the habitability of the U.S.
50. 25 MarYou knew it was going to come down to this
51. 25 MarWell Said: The Insufferably Intolerant Science Nerd’s latest post deserves a read and applause
52. 25 MarAn Ugly Tool That Does the Job
53. 25 MarHow about if we just call it “The Homophobic Space Telescope”?
54. 25 MarI never thought I’d sympathize with a church
55. 25 MarJoanne! You have a friend!
56. 25 MarFriday Cephalopod: Babies are so cute
57. 25 MarSecond Republican governor vetoes ban on transgender sports
58. 24 MarEven bears have trouble with food packaging!
59. 24 MarTeh “Remarkable” Russian Restraint
60. 24 Mar“A city the size of Minneapolis”
61. 24 MarWars and war crimes
62. 24 MarThat’s an interesting way to lose tenure
63. 24 MarAn ugly way to lose a war
64. 24 MarClimate science for all! A new science journal to keep an eye on
65. 23 MarAneuploidies. Nothin’ but aneuploidies.
66. 23 MarSo It Is: March 23 is Atheist Day
67. 23 MarA New Policy Drafted: Will Taiwan resume conscription?
68. 23 MarWake Up: Six of one, a dozen of the other
69. 23 MarNo, “Tankie” Is Not Orwellian
70. 23 MarWho writes these things?
71. 23 MarCovid-19 fatigue
72. 23 MarTegan Tuesday: U.S. Government Fights For Health Industry Profits
73. 22 MarYou won’t be surprised to learn where Freethoughtbloggers stand on the Ukraine war
74. 22 MarThe US is no longer the world’s longest consistent democracy
75. 22 MarNo excuses acceptable
76. 22 MarPeak Atlantic
77. 22 MarRunning the gauntlet
78. 22 MarWhat next?
79. 22 MarA useful perspective on Ukraine and the fascist Azov Battalion
80. 21 MarGently reminding the genetics students of what we were doing over a week ago
81. 21 MarRussian ‘Star Strike’ pilot captured after attempting to rob Palatine McDonald’s (Fiction)
82. 21 MarDog Races: TERFs won’t like this one
83. 21 MarMusic Rules: How timely
84. 21 MarDon’t give Matt Powell any sympathy
85. 21 MarNick Lane is a cruel master
86. 21 MarA set of podcasts worth browsing
87. 21 MarWorst school mascot ever
88. 21 MarNo, still not feeling any twinge of pity for Ted Cruz
89. 21 MarConspiratorial concepts coalesce in creationism
90. 21 MarWhile the mask mandates are going down…
91. 21 MarAww, man, that’s harsh
92. 21 MarThey’re indoctrinating school children? How horrible!
93. 21 MarRenegade Cut: When were you radicalized?
94. 20 MarLast day of Spring Break
95. 20 MarAn Ukrainian Civilian Perspective
96. 20 MarGreat Ideas Never Die: They just get improved upon
97. 20 MarHe Was Easily Caught: Talk about a smoking gun
98. 20 MarAbsolute and relative risk
99. 19 MarGreat moments in cheerleading
100. 19 MarIf there’s nowhere safe on Earth, protest from space!
101. 19 MarThe anti-worker bias in the media
102. 19 MarWhy the algorithm is so often wrong
103. 19 MarAre some people becoming desensitized to the threat of millions dead?
104. 19 MarLiving the dream
105. 19 MarMyers vs. Meyers: the final, ultimate showdown
106. 19 MarAy Maid Some Knives Again – Part 2
107. 19 MarWhat is a job at UCLA worth?
108. 18 MarStars
109. 18 MarAy Maid Some Knives Again – Part 1
110. 18 MarLet me snooze on, like a kitty in the sun
111. 18 MarSunrise times across the US
112. 18 MarMorale Check
113. 18 MarFriday Cephalopod: A very nice floral arrangement
114. 18 MarRepublicans grasping at children give me the creeps
115. 18 MarConservative Christian Comedian is an oxymoron
116. 17 MarLiving near green spaces reduces your risk of stroke by 16%.
117. 17 MarThe next big heist
118. 17 MarWe must preserve the purity of our essence
119. 17 MarSome celebration
120. 17 MarThe monopolies behind live concerts
121. 17 MarDeep below the waves, something is stirring…
122. 16 MarOroshigane
123. 16 MarGreat moments in police chases
124. 16 MarI knew it was a horror show when I saw the name Barb Anderson
125. 16 MarNow here’s a political nightmare for you
126. 16 MarDid I really need to spend an hour to hear Kent Hovind debunked?
127. 16 MarA Convoy of Dunces
128. 16 MarOne time all year round? I did not see that coming
129. 16 MarGood news from outer space!
130. 16 MarSeriously, Georgia? Is this the man you want representing you?
131. 16 MarForty Two (42)
132. 16 MarTegan Tuesday: Stuart Little and the recovery of lost art
133. 15 MarSuch snowflakes
134. 15 MarSomebody is going to have to revise the FAQ
135. 15 MarThat’s how much smug costs, I guess
136. 15 MarSeven Suggestions for Becoming a More Productive Writer by Mano Singham
137. 15 MarMore short-sighted stupidity from an institution of higher learning
138. 15 MarJoro hype
139. 15 MarHey Conservatives
140. 15 MarRep. Katie Porter and her whiteboard entertain aliens at Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
141. 15 MarWhat does “green infrastructure” actually mean ?
142. 14 MarThe March FTB Podish-Sortacast (Non-fiction)
143. 14 MarAn amusing evo-psych put-down
144. 14 MarPlease shove your biking advice where the sun doesn’t shine
145. 14 MarInfuriatingly bad behavior by sports fans
146. 14 MarWhat an efficient, effective police force looks like
147. 14 MarA productive weekend!
148. 14 MarTrue Facts about carnivorous plants
149. 13 MarWhat’s with the fascination with designer clothes?
150. 13 MarVideo: How not to talk about climate change
151. 12 MarLazy linking
152. 12 MarAnimals in cartoons
153. 12 MarLearning more about Russia than I expected
154. 12 MarPodcast time today!
155. 12 MarNot Just CO2 – plants can clean up other pollution too!
156. 11 MarRussia has wacky conspiracy theorists, too?
157. 11 MarDamn homeopathy
158. 11 MarIt’s “SPRING” BREAK!
159. 11 MarRebels without a clue
160. 11 MarPowerPoint is a tool for blaming faculty
161. 11 MarDon’t forget the pandemic, you all!
162. 11 MarEvolution of the “No Concripts in Ukraine” Narrative
163. 11 MarLink Roundup: March 2022
164. 11 MarSimmering seas: “extreme” heat is now normal for a majority of the ocean’s surface.
165. 10 MarReligion creeps in at work again…
166. 10 MarAre they intentionally cruel, or criminally ignorant?
167. 10 MarThe shifting of conservative and reform parties
168. 10 MarShut up about Joro Spiders, already
169. 10 MarA Horrifying Commute
170. 10 MarThe standard of humor on YouTube must be really low
171. 10 MarGravel Institute: The Famine America is Creating
172. 9 MarLast genetics lecture for a while
173. 9 Mar1170 Dead and Counting
174. 9 MarHAPPY BIRTHDAY PZ!
175. 9 MarPerpetual Motion Machines Don’t Work
176. 9 MarCome back, Ernest! We found it!
177. 9 MarRandom Cold War Thoughts
178. 9 MarSixty Five (65)
179. 9 Mar“Vote for us now. Learn our plan later”
180. 9 MarEndurance
181. 9 MarIdaho: Stupid as potatoes, evil as Black Scurf
182. 9 MarI support the Minneapolis teachers’ strike
183. 9 MarTegan Tuesday: War threatens food supplies, drives up prices
184. 8 MarHappy International Women’s Day! Or, not!
185. 8 MarSeizing territory isn’t winning the war
186. 8 MarMy birthday is tomorrow
187. 8 MarPeople of color make for easy scapegoats
188. 8 MarThe grand spider co-op
189. 8 MarHow a student can get published in the NY Times
190. 8 MarNot Even Botherign With Bothsiderism Anymore?
191. 8 MarHard Time Writing Floor Blues
192. 8 MarJohn Oliver on wrongful convictions, and some thoughts on the worship of process
193. 7 MarHow to do a three point mapping cross
194. 7 MarTeh Inscrutable Market Forces
195. 7 MarMath Fascinates: But differential equations sucked
196. 7 MarEuphemisms for death
197. 7 MarLaziness
198. 7 MarThat Moment
199. 7 MarOh look, we’re doing another FtB podcast on Saturday
200. 7 MarWhat is so hard about the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness?
201. 7 MarA 10-minute summary of the war in Ukraine
202. 7 MarI love weirding genetics
203. 7 MarI’d rather be descended from an ape than a creationist
204. 7 MarWe need to downsize the fish.
205. 6 MarSpring Break is next week
206. 6 MarDon’t Travel There: But book a room in Ukraine anyway
207. 6 MarAtheists for Liberty flying their colors
208. 6 MarWomen surfers in Sri Lanka
209. 6 MarRadio Waves: When high tech fails, go low tech
210. 6 MarThe 40km Death Snake
211. 6 MarTrue Facts about nature’s angry flying needles.
212. 5 MarA better name for Republicans: The Obnoxious Jerks Party
213. 5 MarHisss, boo
214. 5 MarDon’t unnecessarily kill off animals in dramas!
215. 5 MarAtheists for Liberty are anti-vax
216. 5 MarA good response to transphobia in Texas, and a good discussion of puberty blockers
217. 4 MarSome days you just can’t get rid of a bomb
218. 4 MarTime Passes: And yet the movie still bites deep
219. 4 MarThe Flu Trux Klan
220. 4 MarMore pun fun
221. 4 Mar%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%97%d0%b2
222. 4 MarThree stupid sources ought to be an automatic rejection
223. 4 MarBurly brawn doesn’t win wars anymore
224. 4 MarThe Republican dilemma: How to keep Trump from wrecking their plans
225. 4 MarBetter to suffer with Shaun than with any more Rowling
226. 4 MarFriday Cephalopod: Instagram Influencer
227. 4 MarIf you haven’t read The Shock Doctrine, you really should. The audiobook is free!
228. 4 MarThe next steps on my self-publishing journey (Non-fiction)
229. 3 MarMusic Rules: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy at 30
230. 3 MarFamilies Aren’t Valued: Greg Abattoir is a butcher
231. 3 MarThe secret lives of crabs
232. 3 MarZelenskyy Caught Trying To Bribe!
233. 3 MarWe didn’t “come from rocks,” Matt Powell’s brain is just an example of convergent evolution
234. 3 MarOligarchs with yachts
235. 3 MarAmazon and Starbucks adopt disgusting union-busting tactics
236. 3 MarYou’re doing it wrong if you’re inspired by Texas
237. 3 MarIf it bleeds, it leads
238. 3 MarOrigami: Rhombus Weave
239. 2 MarNew drought forecast for the 21st century looks grim. We urgently need to move food production indoors.
240. 2 MarThe linkage lecture
241. 2 MarWell, That Was Relatively Easy
242. 2 MarA new Minnesota state flag would be welcome
243. 2 MarSex work is just another form of work
244. 2 MarThe lyrics are supposed to go “Forward he cried from the rear And the front rank died”, don’t you know
245. 2 MarKent Hovind is a busy, busy man
246. 2 MarIn case you’d forgotten how bonkers the Christian Right is
247. 2 MarGot Antisocial PD?
248. 1 MarWe’ve willingly adopted a Cylon
249. 1 MarTetrapod Tuesday (Yes, I have a problem with alliteration, and no, I’m not going to stop)
250. 1 MarHuge News
251. 1 MarTrucker Fail
252. 1 MarBuckets
253. 1 MarI didn’t ask to live in interesting times
254. 1 MarWhy Ukraine?
255. 1 MarMore than surface level: Greenland is melting from the bottom up

February 2022

1. 28 FebDrill & practice with genetics: all sex linkage today
2. 28 FebIt’s Day 28 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
3. 28 FebJohn Oliver on Critical Race Theory
4. 28 FebBolingbrook’s opposition parties respond to the 2022 State of the Village Address (Fiction)
5. 28 FebWhy would you want a partner unwilling to talk about coelacanths?
6. 28 FebFar: Lone Sails – A Rare Gem
7. 28 FebThe UMM D&D Wilderness Adventure!
8. 28 FebFor the nutters, it is all about them
9. 28 FebBehold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers & spiders dwell in unity!
10. 28 FebFancy, but how do you get through the door?
11. 28 FebLet’s start a social media site!
12. 27 FebCompare And Contrast: Taiwan’s situation is not like Ukraine
13. 27 FebMusic Rules: Little Earthquakes shook everybody
14. 27 FebVideo: Post-Satire Capitalism
15. 27 FebSeen Today: On twitter
16. 27 FebIt’s Day 27 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
17. 27 FebTime wasting tactics of phone companies
18. 27 FebThank you FOFD! Upcoming speaking events…
19. 27 FebA Sharp Knife of Hatred
20. 27 FebDEFCON 2
21. 27 Feb“Half-truths and total lies”
22. 27 FebAfricans in Ukraine face Racism
23. 27 FebBrown vs. White Refugees and Poland
24. 27 FebIt’s Day 26 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
25. 26 FebAgrovoltaics 101: A synergetic relationship between food production and power generation
26. 26 FebWar (What is it good for?) by Edwin Starr
27. 26 FebVideo: Rabbi Adam Chalom on Ukraine and my thoughts (Non-ficiton)
28. 26 FebShouldn’t reporters be expected to know a little history?
29. 26 FebThe efforts to suppress voting in the US
30. 26 FebWeeks Since the HRC Has Called Texas Out on Harmful Policy: 0
31. 26 FebNorth Idaho. Enough said.
32. 26 FebIreland isn’t going to take it
33. 26 FebIf you’re “woke”, you oppose Putin
34. 26 FebVideo: Science says understanding evolution makes you less likely to be a bigot
35. 25 FebIt’s Day 25 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
36. 25 FebRussian Empire
37. 25 FebAnyone else feeling overwhelmed?
38. 25 FebNow *You* Have a Friend in the Diamond Business
39. 25 FebIt’s Day 24 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
40. 25 FebLet’s try not to curse the land: Climate, war, and nuclear power
41. 24 FebA tiny glimmering of good news
42. 24 FebBig powers seem to never learn from history
43. 24 FebRussia Has Invaded Ukraine
44. 24 FebToo cold for a centipede
45. 24 FebThe Rise of Whataboutism
46. 24 FebInside the Ottawa protest
47. 24 FebIt’s WAR in Europe
48. 24 FebDon’t Be a Coward
49. 24 FebAn Educational Series: It’s Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen
50. 23 FebSex, sex, sex
51. 23 FebThe red-blue death gap
52. 23 FebSays the Facebook wanker with a mustache…
53. 23 FebIt’s Day 23 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
54. 23 FebBonsai Tree – I Still Do Not Understand You My Persimmon
55. 23 FebMinnesota-flavored racism
56. 23 FebThe Weird End-State of Pollyanaism
57. 23 FebFilm review: The Tinder Swindler
58. 23 FebSmall resin project: Totoro
59. 23 FebSomeone is really overcompensating here
60. 23 Feb“New” creationist arguments, same as the old creationist arguments
61. 23 FebSave the Black Doll Museum (Non-Fiction)
62. 23 FebBolingbrook Snow Command clashes with Russian operatives (Fiction)
63. 22 FebIt’s Day 22 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
64. 22 Feb22/2/22, AKA Tulle Tutu Tuesday
65. 22 FebSad, doomed little spider
66. 22 FebA pessimistic take on the future of Ukraine
67. 22 FebBREAKING: Ahmaud Arbery’s killers found guilty of federal hate crimes, kidnapping charges.
68. 22 FebTegan Tuesday: The National Black Doll Museum needs your help!
69. 22 FebIt’s the wind, you know
70. 22 FebTexas is racing Florida to the bottom of the slime pit
71. 22 FebPaul Farmer has died
72. 22 FebWhy is Florida so awful?
73. 22 FebResist the temptation to retaliate, please
74. 22 Feb22/2/22
75. 22 FebThe Calm
76. 21 FebGenetics of sex determination
77. 21 FebIt’s Day 21 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
78. 21 FebAn unenviable hat trick
79. 21 FebAn interview about this absolute Tucker of a Carlson.
80. 21 FebHow to tell where you stand in the hierarchy
81. 21 FebDoctrinal drift — are you for it or against it?
82. 21 FebCanadian trucker protests end with whining and finger pointing
83. 21 FebIt’s Day 20 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
84. 20 FebPissed Doesn’t Even Begin To Describe
85. 20 FebConfessions of a bitter-ender
86. 20 FebGood news! Urban forests are better carbon sinks than we realized!
87. 20 FebWhat, This Old Thing?
88. 20 FebMonday is going to be tricky
89. 20 FebThe Trump family’s terrible week
90. 20 FebNot for Broadcast’s bizarre politics
91. 20 FebDangers of Park Maintenance
92. 20 FebA useful but somewhat frustrating video on nuclear power
93. 20 FebWe’re Told Vlad the Impaler Tried This
94. 19 FebPut 60 Kettles On To Boil: JET successfully fused hydrogen
95. 19 FebCount Down: 50, 45, 40…
96. 19 FebThe Why Doesn’t Matter: Everyone will speculate anyway
97. 19 FebTorturing myself
98. 19 FebJordan Klepper visits the Canada trucker protesters
99. 19 FebIt’s Day 19 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
100. 19 FebRewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation
101. 19 FebWhy are these young women contacting me?
102. 19 FebWhen you’ve lost the crypto bros, you’re being rejected by the bottom of the barrel
103. 19 FebThey really hate rainbows, don’t they?
104. 19 FebDipping into degrowth
105. 18 FebIt’s Day 18 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
106. 18 FebAn example of white privilege
107. 18 FebSweet
108. 18 FebHmm. I think us old people are on the list for sacrifice, too
109. 18 FebDisturbing trend in murder mysteries
110. 18 FebIt’s a big excuse to talk about the weather
111. 18 FebFreedom to piss on your neighbors’ lawns
112. 18 FebFriday Cephalopod: a bit of anthropomorphic sweetness
113. 18 FebRe-reading Sword & Citadel
114. 18 FebIt’s Day 17 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
115. 18 FebOh the tides, they are a-changin’: There’s a new report on sea level rise
116. 17 FebCan you believe in a higher power and still be an atheist?
117. 17 FebGod cares about pronouns
118. 17 FebShe’s made of iron
119. 17 FebGreat moments in religion
120. 17 FebCareless selfishness and the harm done to the most vulnerable
121. 17 FebThe Final Monsters
122. 17 FebCan Levar Burton be my hero?
123. 17 FebA super sexy video from Some More News that’s totally not about any serious problems or anything.
124. 16 FebNon-Mendelian ratios are fun!
125. 16 FebIt’s Day 16 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
126. 16 FebAaaaaargh
127. 16 FebAye Made Some Leather Goods
128. 16 FebBoring
129. 16 FebNFTs are a playground for crooks and grifters
130. 16 FebThis is some unbelievable alternate history nonsense!
131. 16 FebIt’s Day 15 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
132. 15 FebTake A Second To Glance: Caesium is a really cool element
133. 15 FebNothing To See Here: The car(nage) isn’t his fault!
134. 15 FebOne Door Closes, The Other Opens: Britannia rues the waves
135. 15 FebThe Plot Thickens: As the blood thinners bring a double standard
136. 15 FebPrince Andrew settles sexual abuse case against Virginia Giuffre
137. 15 FebTegan Tuesday: Amazon closes Westland Books, putting thousands of Indian writers in jeopardy
138. 15 FebGoing Solar
139. 15 FebUnintended Consequences
140. 15 FebPhysics so bad it offends a biologist
141. 15 FebUS anti-vax virus spreads to Canada
142. 15 FebThe rotten heart of the story
143. 15 FebGood Irish common sense
144. 15 FebGenetics can reach way, way back
145. 15 FebMy Valentine’s Day lecture was nothing about romance
146. 15 FebIt’s Day 14 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
147. 15 FebVideo from Unlearning Economics: Steven Pinker and the Failure of New Optimism
148. 15 FebMonsters of Love
149. 14 FebValentine’s Day romance reviews
150. 14 FebGuinea worm disease almost eradicated
151. 14 FebOh hi spammers
152. 14 FebIt’s Valentine’s Day!
153. 14 FebJust a Note: Nothing Surprising Here
154. 14 FebI spent 5 minutes scrutinizing this poster…
155. 14 FebThe disturbing allure of the N-word for some people
156. 14 FebI am once again confirmed in my decision to shun organized religion…even Satanist religions
157. 14 FebNeuralink is feeling the heat
158. 14 FebTurning on orange lights at their temple of ignorance didn’t help at all
159. 14 FebDid you know that Earth has a pyroscape? Well, it does, and that’s changing too.
160. 13 FebIt’s Day 13 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
161. 13 FebOne more thing…
162. 13 FebPray for me
163. 13 FebEquality vs equity: An overanalysis
164. 13 FebLike a Brick in a Dark Alley…
165. 13 FebMovie recommendation: April and the Extraordinary World Official Trailer
166. 13 FebAre funko pops the new beanie babies?
167. 13 FebLike a machine!
168. 13 FebA fantastic dissection of NFTs
169. 13 FebI Forgot About GladOS
170. 13 FebIt’s Day 12 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
171. 13 FebDemocracy is something you do every day: A video on worker cooperatives
172. 12 FebScience Vs limiting their output
173. 12 FebRebuilding in-person events
174. 12 FebWhat happens when you put an incompetent engineer in charge of brain surgery?
175. 12 FebWe might know a little about blogging
176. 12 Feb‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Six, Part 2
177. 12 FebSpirit photography and cults
178. 12 FebWe’re almost ready to see some F1s!
179. 12 FebIt’s Day 11 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
180. 11 FebFriday Cephalopod: It’s Octo-Easter!
181. 11 FebOK, grandchildren, what have you done for me lately?
182. 11 FebHey, Apple, could you be a little more predatory on your customers?
183. 11 FebPerfect adherence to principles is not always possible
184. 11 FebAll aboard the pandemic roller-coaster!
185. 10 FebScrying for Turtles: eDNA is a powerful new tool for ecosystem monitoring.
186. 10 FebIt’s Day 10 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
187. 10 FebFace masks comparison
188. 10 FebWe’re celebrating Darwin Day a little early
189. 10 FebSomeone is a bit over-dressed
190. 10 FebUkraine – Central European Perspective
191. 10 FebPropagandizing Students
192. 10 FebLink Roundup: February 2022
193. 10 FebMoving Away from the Authoritarian Classroom by Mano Singham
194. 10 FebKids, you’re our only hope
195. 10 FebReligion is a force that fosters fanaticism
196. 10 FebTrying to figure out what is going on in Ukraine
197. 10 FebThe BBC is Transphobic
198. 10 FebRed Deer Reporter: Government covers up approaching Zombie Trucker Convoy (Fiction)
199. 10 FebLove in Dreams and a Rat-sized Mouse
200. 10 FebIt’s Day 9 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
201. 10 FebUpdate – I’m coming home!
202. 10 Feb“The way to get through it is to continue listening to science” (Non-fiction)
203. 10 FebPodish-Sortacast for Saturday: The future of blogging (Non-fiction)
204. 9 FebI will get these glitches worked out by Monday!
205. 9 FebThis wouldn’t fly in Minnesota
206. 9 FebWinter Olympic disasters
207. 9 FebIt’s Time To Name And Shame: Visit convoytraitors.ca
208. 9 FebHow To Spend $110M in Seconds
209. 9 FebIs Joe Rogan worth trying to engage with?
210. 9 FebIt’s not against the law to burn a Confederate flag
211. 9 FebHoly crap, Harvard took it to another level
212. 9 FebNew York Times has still not mentioned the AI report on Israel
213. 9 FebEvery time. Jesus, this pandemic will never end.
214. 9 Feb42 years, and still healing
215. 9 FebBattling letters!
216. 9 FebIt’s Day 8 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
217. 8 FebRebecca Watson takes on both Joe Rogan and Jon Stewart and clobbers them
218. 8 FebLet’s Play: Some thoughts on “wordle”
219. 8 FebTrevor Noah on Joe Rogan’s racism
220. 8 FebAll right, all right, I guess there are legit reasons some people fear spiders
221. 8 FebBrian Flores exposes the NFL’s sleazy culture
222. 8 FebOn The Origins of The State and the Fall of Rome
223. 8 FebPay attention, debaters
224. 8 FebX-act-a-mundo
225. 8 FebI miss the tetragnathids
226. 8 FebTegan Tuesday: A new experiment in affordable medication
227. 8 FebYou’d think Harvard professors would be more thoughtful than this
228. 8 FebIt’s Day 7 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
229. 8 FebProblem solving day!
230. 8 FebInternational team uses satellites to shine a spotlight on industry methane emissions
231. 7 FebTheir Ignobel Prize Awaits: The study of emojis
232. 7 FebBloggers talking about blogging
233. 7 FebSamantha Bee talks to three religious women about abortion
234. 7 FebKnife Shoppe
235. 7 FebPanic city
236. 7 FebThe failure of satires of masculinity
237. 7 FebSpirit photography
238. 7 FebDeplatforming works!
239. 7 FebRead This Article at The Atlantic
240. 7 FebTardigrade Truths
241. 6 FebIt’s Day 6 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen. UPDATED.
242. 6 FebLata Mangeshkar (1929-2022)
243. 6 FebOh boy, I get to introduce the students to epistasis!
244. 6 FebWhammo
245. 6 FebLet’s Spotify, Shall We? (1)
246. 6 FebJonathan Pie on Boris Johnson and his parties
247. 6 FebPower demand from air conditioning could soon exceed total power supply in the United States
248. 5 FebIt’s Day 5 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
249. 5 FebThe bit about Mivart
250. 5 FebHere we go again – US making allegations without evidence
251. 4 FebVideo: Your “Carbon Footprint” Is A Scam
252. 4 FebGreat moments in yacht design
253. 4 FebIt’s Day 4 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
254. 4 FebReminder: Livestream today
255. 4 FebSummertime dreams
256. 4 FebAmnesty International issues damning report on Israel’s apartheid practices
257. 4 FebGo unwoke, go broke
258. 4 FebFriday Cute Cephalopod
259. 4 FebSo that Second Amendment thing is kinda…flexible, huh?
260. 4 FebPollution, bio-indicators, and our crumbling foundations (also a big bug photo)
261. 4 FebHow to knock out a spider
262. 3 FebThat’s how I too react to a magic trick
263. 3 FebWho won the snowplow naming contest?
264. 3 FebIt’s Day 3 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen. UPDATED.
265. 3 FebNot hard
266. 3 FebFebruary is also Black Gaming Month, I guess
267. 3 FebMore Than Millennials by Mano Singham
268. 3 FebSo how’s Brexit going?
269. 3 FebMonitoring our grandchild’s media consumption
270. 3 FebAnother genetics lecture? Yeah, sorry.
271. 2 FebThe EO Wilson saga continues into the depths
272. 2 FebI Know How He Feels: Sometimes, nostalgia feels good
273. 2 FebThat’s the way it is
274. 2 FebDILLIGAF about defending the police?
275. 2 FebDefund the Police: Guy Fawkes Eve
276. 2 FebIt’s Day 2 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
277. 2 FebAxes of good and evil
278. 2 FebLonerbox takes a hard look at hard times and hard men
279. 2 FebI think I’ve crossed some threshold
280. 2 FebThe problem is all the qualified people have Imposter Syndrome
281. 2 FebWelp, scratch that charity off my list
282. 2 FebA Pandemic of Stupid
283. 2 Feb‘Deciphering The Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed’ review: Chapter Six, Part 1
284. 2 FebThe new blurb for The Rift: A Bolingbrook Babbler Story
285. 2 FebTime to relax and have fun…oh, wait
286. 1 FebIt’s Day 1 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and Listen.
287. 1 FebDon’t Watch: The stupor bowl sucks
288. 1 FebColumbus and the Flat Earth Myth by Mano Singham
289. 1 FebOrigami: James Webb Space Telescope
290. 1 FebTegan Tuesday: The Vimes Boots Index
291. 1 FebI will be posting my published articles on this blog site
292. 1 FebI despised Bill Maher before it was cool to hate him
293. 1 FebRussians Interceptors attack craft over Clow UFO Base (Fiction)
294. 1 FebVideo: Why “Net Zero” Emissions Targets are a Scam
295. 1 FebAnother lecture done
296. 1 FebDeath to the Syllabus! by Mano Singham