humor
pharyngula | June 1, 2007You do want to watch Blake Stacey's Friday Bill Hicks—it's almost as good as a Friday Cephalopod, and 1.7 times as offensive.
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: Homer Simpson, humor, politics, Tonight Show, streaming video
As everyone in the entire world knows, America is getting ready to elect a president for the first time in nearly 8 years. Of course, this means that we all are quite excited to have our votes counted this time -- really counted, yaknowwhatImean? -- and we are having fun debating the relative merits of the many candidates we have to choose from. It turns out that most of the candidates are also putting in their two-cents' worth on the topic as well, including Homer Simpson [2:20]
Which reason was your most favorite in the…
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: gay marriage, ten reasons
A reader sent this list of ten reasons to resist gay marriage as an institution. I remember seeing this a year or so ago on Craigslist, so I have no idea who originally wrote it, although I suspect this came from The Tonight Show. Nonetheless, I thought you might appreciate reading this (thanks also to my reader for sending it to me).
Ten Reasons to Be Against Gay Marriage
Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way…
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: Jimmy Carter, politics, cartoon, humor
Okay, here's one more cartoon I want to share with you .. I hope no one yells at me for doing so (even though I do provide attribution)
This cartoon is by the amazing Pat Oliphant
Correct me if I am wrong, but is there a secret handshake that all presidents must learn to hold the office? The reason I ask is because it seems as though being outspoken and honest is a terrible sin after they leave office, that all presidents must either keep their mouths shut or remain in solidaity with the current resident of the White House, although I have no…
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: Harry Potter, humor, satire
Courtesy of Non sequitur [larger]
There's another one below the fold ..
Courtesy of Non sequitur [larger]
sporte | May 31, 2007I want my genome sequenced, too!
Apparently, it's become a popular thing to get your genome sequenced. Craig Venter was the first. Jim Watson's genome (of Project Jim) was ceremonially released this morning (courtesy of 454), and now George Chuch, Larry King, cosmologist Stephen Hawking, Google co-founder Larry Page, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and former junk-bond trader Michael Milken want theirs done, too (1).
Two articles from different GenomeWeb releases made a strange combination this morning when I turned on my computer. In one release, GW mentioned that NHGRI (the National…
mikethemadbiologist | May 31, 2007MarkH notes that Luskin is upset about what they perceive as academic discrimination against the proponents of intelligent design creationism. So he asks Luskin a question:
Mr. Luskin, is it the considered opinion of the DI, UD etc., that it is never acceptable to discriminate against a professor in a tenure decision based on their ideas?
Actually, I would rephrase the question:
Mr. Luskin, is it the considered opinion of the DI, UD etc., that intellectual affirmative action is acceptable?
Given the strong conservative affiliations of the ID movement, it would be great fun to watch them…
jlynch | May 30, 2007You’re either going to get this or not:
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CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
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YA RLY
BTW this is true
VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!"
NO WAI
BTW this is false
VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!"
KTHX
KTHXBYE
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oracknows | May 30, 2007Here it is, straight from the 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar, culled from a church bulletin listing:
Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.
My question upon seeing such a notice would, of course, be: Is this a basketball game or a Passion play?
Having been raised Catholic and attended Catholic school for 8 out of 12 years, I can totally envision such a notice being posted in my high school.
pharyngula | May 30, 2007Dinosaurs wore polyester leisure suits! This discovery pegs the Cretaceous at about 1970, so we're going to have to readjust the timescale everywhere.
(via Zeno)
grrlscientist | May 30, 2007tags: humor, politics, sexuality
I know that many of you have heard Pat Robertson, Jerry Fallwell and others speak of the "Homosexual Agenda," but no one has ever seen a copy of it. Well, I have finally obtained a copy directly from the Head Homosexual. It follows below:
6:00 am Gym
8:00 am Breakfast (oatmeal and egg whites)
9:00 am Hair appointment
10:00 am Shopping
12:00 pm Brunch
2:00 pm
Assume complete control of the U.S. Federal, State and Local Governments as well as all other national governments
Recruit all straight youngsters to our debauched lifestyle
Destroy all healthy…
tsmith | May 30, 2007As a native Ohioan and longtime creationist watcher, of course I'm morbidly fascinated with (and dismayed by) the opening of the new Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati. I'm not going to give a full response to its ridiculous "science;" others have done that across the blogosphere (collected by PZ here). However, you may have seen the New York Time's particularly bad piece on the museum opening (if you haven't, you can find it here), where the writer--instead of commenting on the atrocious science--lauds the museum's "daring" more than once, for example. Well, John Hawks has dug up…
pharyngula | May 30, 2007Especially poems that talk about origami thoracotomies—they're like a shortcut to my heart.
pharyngula | May 29, 2007Stephen Jossler has made a dazzling breakthrough in reconciling science and religion. He believes evolution occurred by natural mechanisms during the whole of the history of the earth (science!), except during the Triassic period, when a creator god intervened to create the diversity of life during that 40-50 million year interval. Before: genetics. During: God. After: genetics again.
It sounds crazy, but then…
Everything about the Triassic period points to divine involvement. Let me ask you this: Could some kind of random genetic chance make the population of shelled cephalopods grow…
sporte | May 29, 2007It was a quiet day at the Seattle FolkLife Festival.
But there were signs that PZ might be lurking about.
At least a few people seemed to think so.
Did they think this guy was PZ in disguise?
pharyngula | May 28, 2007A couple of Los Angelenos visited Canada and found themselves feeling strangely relaxed…and they have an explanation.
Lovely Wife developed an excellent theory. The coffee at Tim Horton's, Canada's ubiquitous coffee chain, is heavily drugged. Canada would be a non-stop raging 28 Days Later apocalypse if not for the fact we're kept sedated. She's working on the screenplay now.
That perfectly explains the mellow reputation of the only Tim Horton's addict I know. Whatever you do, don't deprive him of his fix!
pharyngula | May 28, 2007
I have no idea what that crazy left-wing nutcase Tom Tomorrow is talking about in this week's comic—it's got these unrealistic aliens babbling unbelievable nonsense that just doesn't belong in the real world. Someone explain it to me.
evolvingthoughts | May 26, 2007
OK, I can't be hedgehogged doing a coherent post today. I'm tired and shagged out after a long talk (lecturing for others who went and had fun somewhere, the bastards!). So instead here are random links and thoughts that happen to be open in my browser right now...
The first is the notion of an "error theory". This is a term derived from the writings of John Mackie, who thinks that objective moral values would be very odd things, and that people who think they are looking for them are just in error (hence "error theory"). This came up because we were doing the Friday evening drinks thing,…