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Dear Survivors
This is the truth I’d like you to place in front of you right now, where you can see it: you survived. You did what you had to in order to survive the assault or abuse or other horrible thing that...
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Dr. Phil’s Rape Culture Goggles
Another day, another clueless dude* asking a dumbshit question about rape. “If a girl is drunk, is it OK to have sex with her? Reply yes or no to @drphil #teensaccused” Screen cap courtesy Change.org....
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My Carpet: A Fable
Your carpet is old and disgusting. It’s worn and torn, stained and strained. It’s filled with the remains of hairball-hurfing episodes, and smells distressingly of elderly cat urine. Babies break out...
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Republicons Determined to Protect America From Menace of Health Care
Ah, yes, because the last government shutdown went sooo well for the GOP, it appears they want to try, try again. In case you didn’t care about science or kids with cancer or needy families or the...
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In Solidarity With Students, I Present Jesus -n- Mo
The following photo would be enough to get me kicked out of just about any freshers’ fair in Britain: Jesus -n- Mo So these are two lovely rocks from the Skykomish River, and I’ve named them Jesus and...
View ArticleNew at Rosetta Stones: Wherein I’m #standingwithDNLee
So this thing happened where the editor of a sciencey sorta website *cough Biology Online cough* decided it would be hi-larious to call a black woman an urban whore for refusing to write for his shit...
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Unfollowing Bora
I see Bora’s decided he’s spent enough time in the penalty box, and has returned to the social media world. This move was classic: mention you moved your blog from Scientific American, but fail to...
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An Atheist at the Grand Canyon
Ah. I see someone’s living in a fantasy world. Via Steven Newton at the NCSE blog, I’ve learned that Time Magazine has a wretchedly ridiculous article up entitled “Why There Are No Atheists at the...
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Oh, Sochi, No!
Good job, Russia. Arresting the first openly trans* legislator in Europe for waving a “Gay is OK” flag is fantastic PR. I’m sure all the people in the world who love to persecute LGBTQ people are...
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To The People Who Love to Opinionate on Not Medicating a Mental Illness
Fuck you. Fuck you and your sanctimonious crap about how you believe psychiatric drugs aren’t good for us, and we shouldn’t take them, because we’ll be oh-so-much-better. Bullshit. You know, I really...
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