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OJ Simpson is dead
Good. He murdered his wife in 1994, when I was working at Temple University. Every day, every single goddamned day, I had an hour-long commute each way by bus and subway from my home to the university,...
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Too much social media
Once upon a time there was Twitter, and it was fine. There was much to dislike about it, but it had the advantage of being the one central repository of all the chatter, for good and ill, and I coped...
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The apes are acting funny again
The dingbats of Arizona were up to shenanigans recently. Here they are, speaking in tongues before denying women basic health care. I put this on TikTok yesterday & it now has over 900k views +...
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I wasn’t surprised at all
Read this little story. A New Hampshire county chair for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign lost his job as a police officer in 2006 after he threatened to kill his colleagues and rape the police...
View ArticleIf Rebecca Watson agrees, we must be right
Hey, I said the same thing! Twice! This makes the third time an atheist pointed out that Dawkins was just being a boring ol’ bigot, so we must be right. Gosh, I hope none of his defenders start crying...
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It’s a shingrix kind of day
Yesterday, I got my second shot of the shingles vaccine. “Shingrix” is the right adjective to use for my late night and day — I have all of the symptoms, every one of them, struck with sledgehammer...
View ArticleThat lost weekend
I think I’m recovered from my horrendous Shingrix vaccination — still a bit wobbly and fatigued, but progress has been made. The terrible thing is that we had a sunny, 25°C weekend, great for spiders,...
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How pathetic do you have to be to be ignored by the press?
The Washington Post gave a lot of attention to Kali and Joshua Fantanilla today, for reasons I can’t comprehend. It’s another example of the press featuring otherwise unnotable nobodies with far right...
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Don’t get your hopes up
Donald Trump is in the courtroom again, accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records. “The People of the State of New York allege that Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New...
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Last night, I attended a play, Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. I was in the odd position of being invited to participate in a discussion at the end of the play, along with two other professors. I felt a...
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The only summary of the Cass Report that I need
I keep hearing from anti-trans activists that this major review of the literature on the efficacy of transgender treatments, the Cass Report, confirms their position, which I don’t understand. What...
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Every time I think about our economic system, I shudder
I’d buy this car before I’d get a Tesla I am increasingly feeling that the very rich have managed to pull a colossal scam on the whole world, where the grossly incompetent have rigged the system to...
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Two amendments
I’ve changed my mind on a couple of things since yesterday. Based on the impression I got from the play Copenhagen, I said that Heisenberg was head of the German nuclear program in WWII. I was wrong....
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It’s a joke, I worry that some will take it seriously
Whoa, don’t diss schools. SMBC I use algebra all the time! Not just in the lab, but in cooking — how do you do unit conversions or scaling of simple quantities without it? I don’t think King Lear is a...
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Is astrology low-hanging fruit? How about creationism?
It’s odd that I haven’t seen much skeptical criticism of astrology lately — it’s one pseudoscience that has been laughed into the shadows. On the other hand, I see a lot of flat earth and creationist...
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How desperate are you for a job as a teacher?
There’s an opportunity for you to teach physics, chemistry, and algebra, and all you need is a bachelor’s degree and student teaching experience. Easy! These are minimal qualifications that lot of...
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The proof is in the damnable pudding
There are many ways to assess the utility of a policy. One way is to simply ask who favors the policy. There are many known bad actors who wear their bigotry on their sleeve, so if you find them...
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On a wall in Austin
It’s good to be reminded of what the general public finds important, and what it doesn’t. If you don’t like graffiti look away like you do for genocide
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Wokehammer?
I’ve never played Warmhammer, never owned any of the books or models, and I only just today learned something surprising. Numerous Warhammer players are cancelling their subscriptions and announcing a...
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I don’t know who I am anymore!
I’m so used to thinking of myself as a radical iconoclastic weirdo, but now you’re telling me that I’m actually holding traditional American values? Tom the Dancing Bug Maybe I am the real conservative...
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