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Throughout this protracted & disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion…
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March 31, 2007
Category: Humor
…except that I can't stand poker or gambling of any kind, and I refuse to believe that cephalopods would be stupid enough to indulge in it. Maybe it's mocking the dumb one-eyed squid morph....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 PM • 53 Comments •
Category: Organisms
NOVA is going to be showing a program on the cuttlefish Tuesday evening, 3 April — it's called Kings of Camouflage, and the website for it is also very well done, with nice illustrations of anatomy and behavior, and one...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Personal
Well, Skatje's going to Minicon next weekend—sending her off to hang out with intelligent nerds and geeks and people like Charles deLint and Lois McMaster Bujold and the Nielsen Haydens and Jane Yolen is probably the most responsible thing...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:00 PM • 50 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I must disagree with Larry Moran, who accuses the field of evo-devo of animal chauvinism — not that it isn't more or less true that we do tend to focus on metazoans, but I disagree with an implication that this...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:18 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Religion
A gay rights group called Soulforce had a sit-in (it warms my heart to hear the traditions of the 1960s have not completely died) in the offices of Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and typical...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:47 AM • 45 Comments •
March 30, 2007
Category: Weirdness
Minneapolis is a lovely city, except for the geysers of blood erupting out of the sewer system. Don't get the wrong idea, though—only some of it was human blood....
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:08 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Humor
I've been seeing this xkcd comic everywhere today, and it might be heresy to do this, but I have to disagree with part of it. It just didn't ring true....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:10 PM • 47 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Afarensis takes on both Sal Cordova and Jonathan Wells on the subject of anthropology. Would you believe that those two creationist frauds are talking out of their hats and are readily spotted as dishonest kooks when they discuss anything in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:36 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Religion
"There's something enchanting under his sari!" What is this, silly religion day? I just got sent a link to this marvelous story of a young unemployed British fellow who became a goddess in India — he is now the incarnation...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:51 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
Friday Ark #132 Gene Genie #3 Carnival of the Liberals #35 Skeptics' Circle #57...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:30 PM • 11 Comments •
