http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/mental-illness-physical-i_n_6145156.html I have a problem in that I hate shoddy journalism, so that will detract from what is probably a more reasonable comment on the topic of mental health awareness. Forgive me. HuffPo posted an article that caught my eye. And by article, I mean ~150 word comment on a webcomic the author found. “It’s…
Men in STEM Are So Sexist They Don’t Even Know It!
Or: females and university faculty have a small bias regarding sex and institution when reading psychology abstracts, and male university faculty in STEM departments slightly more skeptical than females about abstracts that accuse men of being sexist “Even With Hard Evidence Of Gender Bias In STEM Fields, Men Don’t Believe It’s Real”, reads the…
Likely Meaningless Dutch Study to Sooth American Parental Neuroticism.
“No offense, Homer, but your half-assed under-parenting was a lot more fun than your half-assed over-parenting.” Science has now proved that all that bitching adults have been doing about kids these days being spoiled is totally justified, so pat yourself on the back if you have not done so already. A new study from The…
Lee Strobel , Author of “A Case for Christ” and Other Books
I mentioned this author in a conversation the other day. I’ve read (and re-read) his books, so here’s a brief review. He has a fairly successful series of apologetics books called The Case for Christ, The Case for a Creator, The Case for Faith, and The Case for the Real Jesus, respective to their dates…
La Vie en Rose
Paris was hit by multiple, coordinated terrorist attacks on November 13 that left 130 people dead. I do not live in France, so I don’t know how the French processed their grief. The President made a speech, there were vigils. One of the guys at Charile Hebdo made a little cartoon that went around that…
In Defense of Freud’s Ego
Cocaine magnate and cigar fetishist Sigmund Freud is certainly the world’s most famous psychologist. He’s perhaps best well known for putting forth the argument that everything in your dreams is some approximation of human genitalia, and how you either want to have sex with your mother or want a penis. Nobody really takes anything he…
I Fucking Love Phrenology
“Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.” – Mr. Smithers “Of course you’d say that; you have the brainpan of stagecoach-tilter.” – Mr. Burns To get to the part where I talk about phrenology, skip the first 1,600 words or so. On the off chance someone over 30 stumbled upon this,…
War On Christmas
Guys, “war on Christmas” is an annual tradition at this point. It’s largely a Potemkin village type deal too. You get one or two loudmouth assholes with media connections to place the seed crystal, the media dumps gasoline on the fire, and then outrage /about/ outrage gives the final burst of momentum. (Yes, those are…
Democratic Politeness Versus Decorum
In the wake of the recent Democratic debate, commentators have been identifying the Democratic candidates as cordial and respectful of one another, particularly in contrast to the Republican debates, which seemed to exude more antagonism and hostility. There is then the strong proclivity for the folks who made this observation to conclude that Blue Team…
Christians are greedy assholes, says science
…paper with a lot to be desired Or, little kids are sociopathic little shits, confirms science So articles like this one in the Economist have been making the rounds amongst my atheist friends. If they’re sharing from an atheist social group, it usually comes with a tagline to the effect “atheists more generous than religious…