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A Play in One Act
I posted this at Lousy Canuck, in response to the most recent entry in the harassment tragicomedy of errors, which only gets worse the more you learn. But because I’m easily impressed with my own...
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Friendship
[Trigger warnings: rape, misogyny, terrible people] You may be aware of the Rationalia affair, where poster and admin “Pappa” wondered: Would it be immoral to rape a Skepchick? Post by Pappa » Fri Jul...
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In their own words
I have seen tweets over the last few months from people vowing never to read FreethoughtBlogs because they heard that FreethoughtBlogs is purported to condone groupthink, and comments in response to...
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America’s Increasingly Mementoesque Gun Conversation
Last year, after the tragic shooting of Congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords, there were a lot of conversations worth having. There was the conversation about how the increasingly divisive...
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How Dare You?!
This is kind of a follow-up to my post on friendship, and is likely to hit some of the same notes and indict some of the same people. I’ve noticed recently, though I’m sure the trend has been around...
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Flush the Movement
Natalie Reed’s most recent post is must reading. Please do. I’m writing this here because it’d be derailing if I wrote it in the comments there. So, yeah. You may recall that I’ve previously expressed...
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What’s atheism got to do with it?
For most possible values of “it,” nothing. I got into a Twitter argument with Somite yesterday after he cited a trio of old/dead white cisgendered anglophone men as a reason that Atheism+ might be...
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What kind of diversity?
Vjack has a post up on Atheist Revolution discussing his problems with Atheism+. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about it; I think he’s wrong, I think his posts on this and related subjects...
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Slow Clap
I started a post recently building off a myth that Ben Radford perpetuated in a recent hilariously terrible screed about (straw-)feminists, but it’s in need of some editing and revising and thinking...
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A follow-up
You may recall almost two years ago I posted about the indictment of Brian Dunning, host of the Skeptoid podcast, on charges of wire fraud. I actually signed up for a PACER account to follow the case,...
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An unsupportable claim
I just got an e-mail from the James Randi Educational Foundation, promoting this year’s Amaz!ng Meeting. There was a time when I might have wanted to go to TAM, but that time is long past, especially...
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Unskeptical Complaints
If you’re reading a blog as small as this one, chances are you know about the problem of online harassment of women, trans* people, people of color, LGB people, and other minorities. It’s a problem in...
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Meme Debunking #4: The Faceless Troll Horde
In my last post, Tim Farley seemed preoccupied with the notion of “anonymous trolls” to the point where he seemed incredulous that non-anonymous non-trolls could both have stellar credentials and also,...
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Following the Block Bot
Happily for some, there won’t be much in the way of fisking today. There’s only a few things I wanted to really comment on, though I suspect it’ll still make for a ridiculously long post. First, holy...
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The Tendency to See Only What We Want to See
I’m white, straight, male, able-bodied and cisgendered. While I’ve been in debt (still am, and probably always will be), I’ve never been poor. I have a college education and an underpaying but still...
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Projection
I run a pretty small blog here, so I’m always excited to see the little counter dealie up on the WordPress toolbar showing big lines to represent how many hits I’m getting. It’s a nice change of pace...
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The Shocking Truth SHE Doesn’t Want You To Know About!!!1!
Yesterday, I introduced you to the kinds of laughable conspiracy theories that can result when, like Twitterer Atheismpluscrap, you choose comforting delusions over unpleasant realities. But man, if...
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The Moral High Ground
I promise, I’ll be done with Atheismpluscrap after this, but they’re just such a bottomless pit of ignorance and cognitive dissonance that it’s hard to resist the urge to document it for posterity....
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Biology is always more complicated than you want to believe
I watched a little bit of a kerfuffle today as self-described “science groupie” Gia Milinovich decided to pontificate1 once again on the subject of sex and gender. I am a woman. I menstruate. I have...
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Thoughts on “Cosmos”
I just finished watching the first episode of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s revival of the classic Carl Sagan series. Now, on one hand, I’m a fan of the classic “Cosmos.” I’ve...
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