Ain’t this a nice Christmas present for Mom when you come home for the holidays with that new boy/girlfriend! Merry Christmas, Ma - how about some Shattered Illusions about your Sweet Baby’s Untainted Virtue? Hey, serves her right for lying to you about Santa Claus when you were 6.
Of course, if she still gives […]

Do you want to watch the World Series but find it difficult because you don’t give a rat’s ass who wins? Well, here’s some non-sporting incentive to pick sides: Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, who’s scheduled to start Game Four tonight, will appear in an ad to be televised during this evening’s contest urging voters to […]

Normally we’re loathe to re-link something that’s been BoingBoinged into the stratosphere already, but this was too good to not shout out. Ira Flatow’s “Science Friday” podcast hosted a barnburner of a segment last week: Chris “The Republican War on Science” Mooney vs. Tom “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” Bethell in a sci-pundit cage […]

Hell yeah, the World Cup has begun. It’s happening in Germany this year, so I fully expect the US National Team to get all Audie Murphy on the competition. However, according to many washed-up ex-footballers experts, things aren’t looking so hot for the hosts.
So, in a meager, yet wise attempt to distract the planet from […]

WE WILL NEVER FORGET
Truth to power.

First capitalism, then nuts-on-your-shoulder rim-rockas, now a sudden aversion to abortion? Damn China, quit bitin’ our steez!
The planet’s foremost sausage soiree just got a little more roast beefy, if ya dig. The historically babe-loathing country, which claims a gender deficit of 134 males to 100 females in some regions, today closed over 200 clinics specializing […]

Back in the second century AD, when geocentric Aristotelian astronomy enjoyed widespread traction within scientific circles, Claudius Ptolemy, with a tip of the hat to the miscalculations of Hipparchus, proclaimed that the universe revolved around us. Fourteen centuries later, Copernicus would correct the error, humbling those whose solipsism placed Earth at the center of an […]

A new study says that 1 in 7 New Yorkers describe their mental health as being “not good,” whereas the national average is 1 in 10.
Ah, New Yorkers. The fuckers just have to be “best” in everything, don’t they? “WhatEVar, Calcuttan beggars! My mani-pedi got cancelled, I have to drop off Cassidy and Madyson […]

Maybe it was the specter of April Fools Day looming last week, or maybe “social scientists” are just getting brasher with their grant applications. Either way, as I lube up in anticipation of the IRS’s annual fistfuck, I shudder to think how many of my dollars might have gone to support studying the shocking connection […]