As some of you know, there was a long-running contretemps at Chris Mooney’s Intersocktion blog — Mooney took a comment by someone named “Tom Johnson” as evidence that the New Atheists were inciting all kinds of destructive fury and ran with it, promoting it as a solid strike against the same targets he took on in his sad little book, Unscientific America . Then it turned out that much of the conversation on this topic at the Intersocktion was driven by this same fellow, who was posting under multiple pseudonyms
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“Tom Johnson” fini
Today it’s family day with a mob of Myerses hanging about and bickering opinonatedly at a picnic. You aren’t invited unless you can show evidence of a recent family relationship; showing evidence that all primates are related is nice, but won’t get you in the door.
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My week in the Pacific Northwest
This is disgraceful. A reader sent me a link to a Target catalog, and apparently they’re now selling a Li’l PZ Action Set
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Target teaches irreverence!
The participants in the exhausting thread are hereby ordered to explain this impossible phenomenon: rainbows. I don’t wanna hear any of your crazy Newton talk and refraction and water droplets, neither. (via The Skeptic’s Field Guide ) (Current totals: 10,691 entries with 1,066,521 comments.) Read the comments on this post..
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Episode LXXXIII: Rainbow. How the #$&* do they work?
I’ve already complained a little bit about the poor availability of network connectivity at my mother’s house. I looked next door at the Bible Chapel and discovered the source of the problem. We’re jinxed
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This neighborhood is cursed!
Well, Auburn, actually. I’m visiting family this week and mainly holing up in my mother’s house to type
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Seattle!
Stay tuned for frolicsome hijinks and high hilarity. We have stirred up some kooks. Here are 3 in ascending order of lunacy.
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Shakin’ the nuts
There is a zoo near Bristol called — you’ll see there are already problems right from the name — Noah’s Ark Zoo.
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Creationists win a prize
Ben Stein has opened his mouth again, this time on the economy. He thinks the 15 million Americans who are unemployed deserve it
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Ben Stein does his best Ben Stein impersonation
Westboro Baptist Church decided that they were going to picket Comic-Con, and Justin Kirchart sent me pictures. He also sent me a photo of the WBC picket — it’s a sad and pathetic 4 people standing and holding the usual “YOU HATE GOD” and “GOD HATES FAGS” signs, and it wasn’t very interesting, so I didn’t bother to upload it
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Comic-con reacts to Fred Phelps