Pharyngula

As usual, Republicans love to make absurd racist accusations, and the latest is from Trump, who hates our citizens of Somali descent.

It was good.

Texans are well aware of the fact that their Republican politicians are remarkably vile.

Some individuals seem to be particularly susceptible to AI psychosis, which shouldn’t be surprising.

I haven’t eaten at Chipotle for years.

A farmer in Morris, Minnesota discovered a mysterious large metallic object in his cornfield.

I had to make a video when the blog was down.

Yuck, I had my head deep in the bowels of the beast.

I come from a working class family.

You may recall that last Spring, a chemistry professor at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota was accused of urinating on student belongings, and was dismissed from his position.

In a horrible, tragic incident, a man with a history of mental illness climbed a fence at a South Yorkshire zoo and walked up to a Siberian tiger, which did what a tiger does.

OK, so yesterday morning I posted that ridiculous AI video of an ark excavation.

This sounds like a fascinating, factual documentary.

Trump has been raging against Ilhan Omar for years, and now he has had her home raided…on suspicion of what?

I’m thinking that most probably aren’t stupid enough to fall for this, so maybe this is the floor.

I was trying to think of romantic dates to go on with my wife, and I came up with a brilliant idea: I should take her out to Shakey’s Pizza.

It’s not the computers or software, it’s the colossal assholes who run AI companies.

Last night, I did another shift as theater projectionist, and sat through the movie Verity a second time.

This is a statue that graces our central campus mall.

The Guardian asks, “Fraternities are the most likely place for US campus rapes.

I put up a few spiders around the door.

As usual, I’ve been running the projector for the local theater Last night was the dull horror of Verity, a movie based on a potboiler by Colleen Hoover.

I have to stop nodding off at my desk, it’s such a shock when I wake up.

The Washington Post announces that the Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’.

The President is shit-talking Minnesota again.

Long day of non-stop lab and class and grading and about to go to a student seminar, despite being despite being tired.

There is a lot of stuff in the Epstein files that has been redacted out of the public eye, I guess.

Every year, there’s a little freak-out from Seattle communities about spider season.

Sam Alito really hates gay and trans people, and logic.

Man, he looks suspiciously well-tanned and groomed for someone hospitalized for a few weeks Gabe Poirot had a serious skateboarding accident, and was in a coma for 18 days.

A colleague found this lovely grass spider scampering about the hallways, and she brought it to me (this is a routine event every Fall).

We had some drama among the music faculty and students the other day.

Megyn Kelly.

Jim Bakker is dead.

Yikes.

The winners of the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine have been announced: it’s Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann, for their work in optogenetics.

That’s Brown Brothers Media, and you’ve probably read some of their articles.

Ted Beale and the books he hasn’t read Not really.

This is not a competition, but I debunked Vox Day’s stupid evolution “disproof” in one fairly short written post.

Dispiriting news from my alma mater: University of Oregon receives five sexual assault reports within first week of classes.

It’s been a long time since I paid any attention to Bill Dembski or Vox Day/Theodore Beale, but they seem to have found each other in an unholy marriage of stupidity.

My wife keeps coming home from work with spiders she rescues.

Suddenly, the leaves have started falling from the trees.

We all know that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor strike, 65 million years ago.

This is the time of year when we start prepping for winter — we put away the window air conditioner, I’ve got to go drain all the garden hoses, we’re just waiting for all the leaves to drop off the trees.

Last week, social media (at least, that side I’m interested in) was buzzing with hilarity at a conference announcement.

This is an amazingly stupid argument.

Behold, the Ugly Palace (il Palazzaccio, aka The Palace of Justice in Rome).

Finally, the colorful garden plots my wife planted are beginning to match my mood.

The Republicans in Illinois must be desperate — they’re running a creationist, who runs a private school for creationists, against Governor JB Pritzker.