Nature Valley Weeps For A Generation In Three Solid Minutes of Pearl Clutching | Vol. 4 / No. 22.1
“But won’t somebody think of the children?”
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Scientific Consensus Is Not For Cherry-Pickers | Vol. 4 / No. 15.3
In which I spend a minute reminding everyone, liberals and conservatives alike, of the hypocrisy of denying one scientific consensus while berating others for denying a different one.
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PoW: Congress Is Beginning to Damage My Calm | Vol. 4 / No. 11.4
In which our PoW (Prudence of Wyoming) says what a lot of people are thinking about Congress this morning. Just FYI, there will be “language” in this post.
Let’s Stop Pretending Liberals Are The Only Elitists in America | Vol. 4 / No. 5.2
It’s all the rage these days to talk about those “elitist” liberals on the east and west coasts and how “out of touch” they are with “real” America and its values. The argument is that with their educations and wealth they look down on poor rural Americans with disdain. But right now I want to talk about another rampant elitism in America: the elitism of the rural American.
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Ugh, What Are Sinuses Even For? An Inquiry | Vol. 3 / No. 47.2
Image: NIAID, CC BY 2.0 Maybe it’s because the right side of my face feels like somebody snuck a slowly-expanding golfball into my skull while I slept last night, but I’ve suddenly found myself remarkably […]
Don’t Use PayPal: An Inexpensive Lesson | Vol. 3 / No. 42.5
This week’s #FeministFriday post is postponed until tomorrow, because talking about Feminism and the Rio Olympics is not a small subject. Instead, please take this: a rant about PayPal. *** I had the lovely experience […]
It’s Never “Just” a Joke | Vol. 3 / No. 41.5
Someone who is probably not joking. Photo: Gage Skidmore CC BY 2.0 I’ve had a pretty bad headache for three out of the last four days, so today’s post is going to be a bit […]
There are Orlando Shooting Truthers, Because of Course There Are | Vol. 3 / No. 43.3
Just wrap it around your head, folks — gotta keep the mind control rays out | Photo: Dean Hochman, CC BY 2.0 This is a rant about the idiocy of mass shooting conspiracy nuts. I […]
On Praying for Orlando | Vol. 3 / No. 32.3
Photo: Sancho McCann, CC BY 2.0 *** I am heartbroken, and I am outraged. Over the past few days, I have been trying to deal with the mass murder of members of the LGBTQ community […]
On Not Inviting Theologians To Science Conferences | Vol. 3 / No. 29.5
They’d be like these, but standardized | Photo: Joseph Elsbernd, CC BY-SA 2.0 Elle is off this week (sorry!) so I’m filling in with a not-Feminist Friday post because something caught my mayfly-lifespan of an attention span […]