No, Seriously, Jack The Ripper Hasn’t Been Unmasked
I'll turn this over to Skepchick Rebecca Watson, who turns the question over to two bona fide forensic scientists. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOz9-B_K1hU]
M’Colleague
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that my riffing partner's show is doing awfully well. Post by Casey Raiha. By all means, check it out if you're local, and…
If My Daughter Wanted To Do These Jobs, I’d Prefer She Turn To Porn
Damon Linker, pundit, columnist for The Week, and minor league irritant, tries to critique what he sees as creeping moral libertinism by asking "What If Your Daughter Was a Porn Star?" He…
Anybody Out There Know Anything About Riesling-Based Cocktails?
Why do I ask? Because I've been called upon to do a guest post as part of my book blog tour, and the request is that I write about a cocktail recipe…
On Depression and Creativity
Whenever a famous artist attempts or commits suicide, articles pop up like skin boils with headlines like, "Robin Williams’ death rekindles questions about creativity and depression". Since I've been dealing…
Local Grifter Makes Shives’s List Of Five Stupid Things Of 8/11
Steve Shives, one of my favorite Youtubers, is talking about Mark Driscoll, the lying sexist homophobe who started Mars Hill Church, which is a big deal among the dudebros of the…
Robin Williams, An Appreciation
The first great stand up comedian I ever saw was Robin Williams. When I was ten or eleven, my parents let me watch my first uncensored comedy show, a rerun…
Warning: This Post Will Make You Think About Death
I'll be doing this one David Shields style, with selected quotes. (Shields, by the way, is the author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead) Franz…
Five Stupid Things About Faith Healers
I have strong personal reasons for disliking faith healers. By now, I'd have probably lost my grandmother anyway, but when she died in 1988, she still had at least 5-10…
How Long Do You Want Me To Be Scared?
Accorting to Slate, Michael Robbins's Slate book review of Atheists: The Origin of the Species is one of Slate's more circulated articles, probably because few subjects (except porn) drive traffic as much as atheist trolling.…