I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
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Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
. . . You Won’t Go Back
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Education, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, Marriage Equality, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Religion, Science on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The onward march of progress: Gallup reports today that overall US public approval of interracial marriage stands at an all-time high of 85% – up from 4% barely 50 years ago. What’s really striking is the almost linear trendline: Predictably, it slows during Republican administrations, and jumped dramatically during the Clinton years, but overall that’s [...]
Most of You Are Literally Morons*
Posted in Bloggin, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on July 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An observation: I was startled to notice how often I qualify factual statements with the word “literally” (see my previous post). I don’t use it the mindless way many people do (my recent favorite: a co-worker who arrived at the office complaining about being delayed by a subway slowdown that “literally took forever!” – but [...]
The Media We Deserve
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Religion, Science, Things That Suck on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Raw Story posted the following headline, lede, and second graf today: Texas police find children’s dismembered bodies in mass grave HOUSTON, Texas — Texas police, acting on a tip-off, Tuesday found a mass grave containing “a lot of bodies,” including the corpses of children, US media reported. UPDATE: Texas officials say no bodies found [...]
Degrees of Crazy (Small σ)
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science on May 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Just an observation: Obviously the end-times whackos proclaiming that God is going to destroy the earth this weekend because of some crazed interpretation of an equally-crazed prophecy from their Bible are ludicrous. They deserve all the ridicule they are reaping, and all that is to come when their prophecy fails. But their beliefs are almost [...]
Twitter Script Vs. Climate Lies
Posted in Climate Change, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Politics, Science, Technology on November 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Ooh, this is brilliant: Tired of arguing with climate change deniers in 140 character quips, the programmer wrote a script to do it for him. Chatbot @AI_AGW scans Twitter every five minutes searching for hundreds of phrases that fit the usual denier argument paradigm. Then it serves them up some science. Those responses are pulled [...]
I Love the Whole World
Posted in Culture, General, Humor, I do too have a life, Science on September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I love Joss Whedon I love his Weblog vids I love his fanboys And zany cosplay kids I love to singalong And though I don’t dress up in costumes I’m glad these people do: BOOM DE ADDA BOOM DE ADDA BOOM DE ADDA BOOM DE ADDA I feel happier just seeing this. (Also, [...]
Science is Starting to Tick Me Off
Posted in Science on August 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
First they arbitrarily and unjustly demoted Pluto. Now they are taking away the coolest of dinosaurs, the triceratops: Now Scannella and Horner say that triceratops is merely the juvenile form of torosaurus. As the animal aged, its horns changed shape and orientation and its frill became longer, thinner and less jagged. Finally it became fenestrated, [...]
Very cool: Originally developed to study how brain networks let various parts of the brain collaborate, FC also appears to enable scientists to link differences in harm done to brain networks to changes in patient impairment, according to results of a study in the Annals of Neurology March issue. “Clinicians who treat brain injury need new markers [...]
Speed Kills
Posted in All Linky No Thinky, I do too have a life, Science on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Especially warp speed. Kirk & Scotty wouldn’t have known what hit them. I love how the audience quibbled about whether or not the Enterprise’s deflector shields would have helped. We’re talking about fiction here, people.
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