May 3, 2010
"Dick Shake"
I want to start out by restating (or stating more plainly) that the Tokenskeptic podcast should be on your listening list, and that it influenced my own thinking about Boob Quake.
Previously, I had been mainly interacting with people with a positive or neutral view of the Boob Quake…
May 2, 2010
This is a somewhat stream of consciousness response to an interview of Michael McRae by Tokenskeptic followed by an interview with Desiree Schell of Skeptically Speaking.
Please go listen to the podcast, it is quite good.
How much change has happened in the way the world views crazy religious…
May 2, 2010
Wouldn't that be great? Hey, there's an Ubuntu Christian Edition, an Ubuntu Muslim Edition, and another Ubuntu Christian Edition. Why not an Atheistubuntu? Or a Skeptibuntu? or, more usefully, I would think, Sciencebunutu with Atheistic tendencies?
(And for those of you who like to cross certain…
May 2, 2010
Our president is very, very funny. (Skip the Leno part ... he uses sight gags that the producer of the video chose to not let us see. And, he isn't half as funny as Barack.)
May 2, 2010
"So, we can all think that only crazy and stupid people will vote for Michele Bachmann this year. If that's the case, then there are a lot of them in her district. Or we can support the Democratic organizations in the 6th District and the candidate who is running against her in the general election…
May 1, 2010
A New Hampshire high school principal is insisting her membership in a Facebook group lamenting that Barack Obama lived through his first year in office is all a big misunderstanding.
Principal Ronna Cadarette claims it was all an understanding, leave me away, go away, and stop infringing my…
April 30, 2010
Iran is never far from U.S. news headlines. Nuclear threats, unfair elections, captive reporters, a lack of religious freedom, all seem to demand that we do something. But what is to be done? What are the actual conditions in Iran, and what kind of leverage do we in the Western world, and…
April 30, 2010
I've spent a fair amount of time at the Harvard Law School. In fact, I was there when Barack was there. I didn't attend the school, but I drank beer in the school's beer hall, lived in a dorm shared by the law school and the science area, and cut through the main law school building on my way to…
April 30, 2010
The Island of Doubt was the blog of James Hrynyshyn, and it dealt with environmental issues, and especially the politics of denialism. Well, James has shut down Island of Doubt and started a new blog called "Class M." That new blog is here.
James is one of those people I've come to trust for…
April 29, 2010
This is a pointer and an appeal.
Pointer: Go see the current edition of Berry Go Round, the plant web carnival. It is here.
Appeal: If you blog about plants, please send me your blog posts for consideration for the next edition of Berry Go Round, which will be hosted here, with the target…
April 29, 2010
Found Alive: The Loch Ness Monster
Giant spitting worm not so giant
Noah's Ark Finally Found!!!
April 29, 2010
I walked into her tent, went immediately to her bed and turned over her pillow. And there, as plain as day, was a stack of hundred dollars bills, a US passport, and a first class plane ticket to New York.
"How the hell did you do that?" she asked, astonished, hugging me, crying.
"Just doing my…
April 29, 2010
Over on Quiche Moraine I'm writing up a series of short posts on the influences of 1960s and 1970s TV on the sociocultural growth and development of Ammerican Yoots of the age.
If you follow my facebook feed, you'll know that as apart of the rehabilitation of my knee (the cause is indirect) I've…
April 28, 2010
If you do not enjoy medical photographs, do not look below the fold.
As some of you will recall, a couple of weeks into this knee-damage shtick, I was munching on a dried prune and a molar came clean off it's root on my lower left mandible. It turned out to be a crown that had lost its nail, as it…
April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010
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April 28, 2010
Julia is going overseas for most of the summer, and she is putting together her reading list. I'm sure she'll put together a fine list. But we live in a culture in which we are compelled to suggest to high school students what they might want to read, especially in preparation for college. I've…
April 28, 2010
We talk to Sherman K. Stein, mathematician and author of "Survival Guide for Outsiders: How To Protect Yourself From Politicians, Experts, and Other Insiders."
What makes us so susceptible to social influence, and how can we guard against being manipulated?
And
Matthew Linsdell on Personal Training…
April 28, 2010
Well, OK, technically if a man is wearing chains he's not really naked. Whatever. The question at hand is, was sex in skepticism before women showed up? And, when they showed up with their bobbies and all, did they ruin it for everyone?
Read more.
April 27, 2010
This is the opening paragraph which gets you very interested in the topic.
This is the part where I make you want to do something to find out more, or to help with the disaster. And, just as you really really want to click on something (the obvious next thing to do on the internet) this is the…
April 27, 2010
I'm using the Internet connection of some neighbor who's name is "linksys" because my 6 year old wireless router died this morning. I have had a GI disease of some kind for the last few days which has made it impossible to eat pain meds. Ouch ouch ouch. Tomorrow, I get oral surgery. I blew all…
April 27, 2010
Republicans Scuttle Climate Change, Immigration Reform, and Their Own Credibility.
I can't wait until the Hispanic vote totally abandons the Republican party. Because they are certainly working on that.
(Note the Phillipe Rushton/Bell Curve, Psychometrics link)
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news…
April 26, 2010
Knife throwing is for real. This came up on a different thread. Although it is possible to make a fake stage act that involves what looks like knife throwing, that is actually fairly rare. It is easier to learn to throw the knife than to make a contraption that would actually fool today's…
April 26, 2010
I felt prettty sick all day, so I was unable to attend our local boobquake dinner. But I have been monitoring the seismographs. It is in fact somewhat rare to have an earthquake of 6.0 or greater on a given day. There are about 200 a year at that level, and they are random, and thus cluster…
April 25, 2010
First, let's get this straight. I'm all for anti-science anti-vaxer right wingers not being vaccinated, as long as a) we take their children away from them (and vaccinate the poor dears) and b) isolate the adult anti-vaxers from the rest of the species, perhaps in Texas. But in the meantime, let's…
April 25, 2010
Hat Tip: The ever sharp Miss Cellania
April 25, 2010
Really, is getting vaccinated for whooping cough really a socialist plot to take over your minds?
If you've ever spoken to a mother who has lost a child, you will never forget what she has to say. Mariah Bianchi is such a mother, and she wants you to know why you need to get the pertussis…
