The big top has come down on Carnival of the Liberals
One of the best and brightest satirical bloggers has died. RIP Jon Swift.
Online Predators: Boogeymen or a serious threat to our youth?
The “First Lady of Star Trek” passes
Neural Gourmet and Flu vaccination myths on The Enlightenment Show (Video)
Gmail gets themes!
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches Friday, November 14th
Lip Syncing For Change (video)
Tangled Bank #117
Send your name around the Earth
X Files poll taps top UK conspiracy theories
Freethought»
There’s no God in Porky’s pledge (0)
A Porky Pig cartoon from 1939 has Porky Pig learning to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but where’s the “under God” phrase? It isn’t there, because “under God” wasn’t added to the pledge until 1954.
Politics»
The big top has come down on Carnival of the Liberals (2)
Dear Liberal Carnivalers,
We’ve had a good run. 102 separate editions, over four years and two months. Edition #103 was supposed to appear yesterday but after reviewing the submissions, or lack thereof, I think it’s time to end Carnival of the Liberals.
I had hoped that changing to the monthly format, and the other changes to the [...]
Science»
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches Friday, November 14th (0)
NASA will be covering Endeavour on STS-126 extensively via the web kicking off with a webcast Thursday, November 13th at 11:30 am. Endeavour blasts off on a 15 day mission on Friday, November 14th at 7:55 pm to the International Space Staion to deliver supplies, equipment, personnel, and perform four spacewalks service the rotary joints [...]
Skepticism»
A conversation on the nature of Skepticism (3)
“What differentiates skeptics from non-skeptics?” or “What does it mean to be a skeptic” are questions that I think equally well sum up an interesting conversation I had on Twitter today with Daniel Loxton and Jim Lippard, with a valuable interjection by Liz Ditz.
Our conversation arose out of a much broader discussion on Objectivism and [...]
Technology»
Gmail gets themes! (0)
Whoa! I’m a just a simple, geeky middle-aged man with no money. So the things that often excite me these days are simple, geeky things that just happen to be free. Well, just a few minutes ago I happened to hit the trifecta when I logged into Gmail only to discover that GMail now has [...]
The Kitchen Sink»
One of the best and brightest satirical bloggers has died. RIP Jon Swift. (1)
Al Weisel, best known to the blogging community as the satirical faux-conservative Jon Swift, died on February 27th. In a comment on Al’s blog, his mother shared the news of his passing:
I don’t know how else to tell you all who love this blog. I am Jon Swift’s Mom and I guess I’m going to [...]
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