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All hat and no cattle
Look at this man. Does the phrase “all hat and no cattle” jump into your brain? It does mine. That’s Oklahoma state representative Justin Humphrey in a suit and hat too big for him trying to justify...
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Let soldiers celebrate what they are fighting for
Behold! The superior white master race! I’ve had conversations with my son, a Major in the army, where he has lamented the difficulty of recruiting any more. It’s tough working with under-strength...
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Did I work that hard when I was young?
Right now, I’m trying to herd 8 students taking an independent writing class into two regular meeting times, that is, I’ll run two review sessions per week with four students (ideally) in each one. It...
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A tragic day
My lovely young black widow spider died overnight. I am heartbroken. She was so full of life and deliciousness! You can leave memorial donations on PayPal or you can join my Patreon. All donations...
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Now we have to rely on the Democrats to save us?
Oh. There was another primary election yesterday, in New Hampshire. Given that the voters had an unappealing choice between two unpleasant people, it was predictable, I think, that the Republicans...
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Crypto is camel grease!
You say you want to go to heaven, but you’ve got all this money. You don’t know how to squeeze your camel through the eye of a needle…but have no fear! Just slather that camel in crypto and it’ll...
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How to make tea
An American has weighed in on the proper way to make tea. The great Anglo-American War will commence shortly. …Michelle Francl, a chemistry professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania with a new...
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Did you sign up for the war on Mary Lou Retton?
I didn’t. I know next to nothing about her. Apparently, she’s facing all kinds of health problems now that she’s in her late 50s and did the usual thing we Americans do when facing a health crisis: go...
View ArticleKen Ham is probably thrilled
There’s a new movie out, titled Fly Old Bird: Escape to the Ark, which makes the Ark Park its MacGuffin. It’s perfect. Free PR for creationism, and it’s targeted directly at the prospective clientele...
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It’s a start
A GOP Super Pac asked their members what their gender was. The choices are mildly surprising. We men have to complain, though, that they left out our genders: alpha, beta, sigma, and cuck.
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Israel is lost
The UN has a few words of condemnation for Israel. The top court for the United Nations on Friday ordered Israel to take measures to prevent and punish direct incitement of genocide in its war in Gaza,...
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The illusion of the good old days
You may have heard of the concept of retrospective coronation — the idea of looking back, and well after the fact deciding that a moment or phenomenon was the key event in history, even though at the...
View Article$83.3 million!
Who would have thought it? Having a classless, obnoxious lawyer, ranting on social media, and stomping out of the courtroom during closing arguments is not a winning strategy. Donald Trump lost again...
View ArticleEncouraging news from the young’uns
I may have to give my students extra credit just for being born. They’re all “Gen Z” (personally, I’m not a fan of lumping people into these cohorts), and polls are showing some heartening trends. A...
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Oh no! It’s Monday!
It happened again. Monday rolled around. When will Science master the ability to predict these cataclysmic disasters? Surely there is some cause that we can treat. Vaccinations, maybe? Monday shelters,...
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Ken Ham is sad that other denominations have gotten smarter
Poor man. Ken Ham is being left behind by other creationists, which is of course not his failing, but of all those other faithless Christians. So he’s going to tell us where they are going wrong. Many...
View ArticleThe sad death of a distant drone
I am disappointed to learn that another robot has ended its mission — the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. Scott Manley breaks down the details. Wow, those are some amazing shots of Martian landscapes,...
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We have to talk about this
Minnesota is shrinking? By about a millimeter a year? xkcd I agree. Minnesota should not be squishy, and it’s going to be all we talk about around here. In tangentially related headlines, the...
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Spider season has come early
We are experiencing unseasonably warm winter weather here in Minnesota — it’s been above freezing for a week, the snow is all melting, I can go outside without a coat, all that stuff you might take for...
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Sam Harris and the disgraceful “philosophy” of bigotry
I made a terrible mistake. I read an essay by that amazing moral “philosopher,” Sam Harris. He hasn’t changed since those days of rationalizing nuking Mecca — he still hates Islam in his slow,...
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