According to Mr. Jake Parker.com, Inktober is: Thirty-one days, thirty-one ink drawings. Are you ready?!INKtober rules: 1) Make a drawing in ink […]
Fact and fiction on Minneha’s “Islam” bulletin board
Today’s editorial cartoon in the Wichita Eagle, drawnby cartoonist Richard Crowson Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary School is very close […]
Barney Frank, atheism, and representation
Source So Barney Frank came out last night– again. This time as a “pot-smoking atheist” on Real Time With Bill […]
The Revenge of the Nerds trope
Pictured: Nerd revenge First, a disclaimer: I’ve not seen a single episode of Big Bang Theory. I did, however, read […]
A-baby-ist.
Niall Ferguson So, just as I’m finishing reading comedian Jen Kirkman’s book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales […]
Why do we laugh at sexist jokes?
Post about stereotyping, clichethinking gets stereotyped,cliched image Let’s say you view love as a battlefield. Okay, more like a football […]
America: lousiest host ever
Okay, here’s the deal. How it should be. If you’re in the United States for reasons beyond your control– that […]
A bit of mulling over
Following up on Sunday’s post, I can’t help but keep returning mentally to Dr. Darrel Ray’s talk at Skeptics of […]
The miseducation of Katelyn Campbell
Katelyn Campbell Recently in West Virginia, a teenager objected to a particularly obviously problematic form of abstinence-only education. Wait, let me […]