If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

PZ is salivating over a peaceful coup, just like the one in Ukraine, happening in his home town. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/02/22/fascinating-developments-in-the-ukraine/ A peaceful transition that kicks out the rich exploiters and opens the doors to the public? Yes, please. Can we...

Dick Strawkins wrote:Shall we form a band?

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Can't quite put my finger (or thumb) on why, but that's creepy as fuck. :shock:

[ http://groundedparents.com/2014/02/19/in-praise-of-standardized-tests-and-those-of-us-who-grade-them/ Is that really the article that got pulled? Yes because "We have since re-published the article with the comment section intact and open. The author was relieved of her blogging duties." and Elys...

Rebecca Watson's favorite surf band -- The Aquamen - Do The Alkeehol! Recorded in Gin-A-Sonic Sound! Tracks include: * Wild Turkey * Jose Cuervo * On The Rocks * Blue Hawaii * Gin & Tonic * Ouzo * Mezcal * Rioja * Malibu Pineapple * Black Velvet * Thunderbird ... and the title track. Used to see th...

That "ratemyprofessor" site is utter crap, IMHO. Even official university evaluations (also anonymous) can be full of butthurt, entitlement, and sometimes outright lies and confabulations. In general, I receive very favorable evaluations (and just received a teaching excellence award), but there are...

I tried reading Alex Gabriel's "article" on binary gender wars or whatever, but the obscurantist prose made my brain hurt. Maybe he should attend ScienceOnline Together 2014 with the PeeZus, to improve his writing and to help find some new target to demonize, now that Bora is out of the picture. A d...

I've worked in various research departments in Europe for the past twenty years or so and don't think I've ever been in one that was primarily supported by State grants. All the funding for my salary and projects have come from private sources - usually national or local cancer research charities. ...

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't mean that to most academic scientists. To them it means 'having the sort of employment rights that every other public employee gets after about a year into their employment.' The 'academic freedom' issue is something I don't think I've ever heard crop up in scientifi...

I built up a credit rating very slowly, through buying appliances from places like Sears and Monkey Wards, and making the monthly payments diligently. By the time I bought my current car, a Honda Accord, the salesman returned from doing the credit check and told me "You can buy anything here that yo...

You jest of course about PeeZuss and his ilk. Unfortunately, as of yet I do not have what I think would be a viable solution. I believe there was a time where sheer shame would provide the required incentive for the owners("controllers") of companies such as GE and Microsoft to pay their "fair" sha...

One of the curious aspects of the net is that tenured profs really seem to write the most outrageous stuff of anyone on the net. And that's invariant whether the reader is left or right. Does free speech really require financial security? However, often those profs are public employees meaning much...

Heaven forbid if I appear to be support PeeZuss Christ but he may have a point or two. To me the issue is simple. The elites used to at least pretend to care (even if they did not) but nowadays they appear to not even be bothered to do that. This is true for the UK and the US at least. Meanwhile, i...

PeeZus links to an article by a reporter who infiltrated a dinner for the extremely wealthy members of the Kappa Beta Phi Club in NYC: So the obscenely rich arenâ€™t just profiting off us, theyâ€™re laughing at us. The wealthy scum floating at the top of New York society have an annual dinner at whi...

I just noticed the following comment from the normally intelligent Sastra (probably the last of the old guard of thoughtful pharyngula commenters - the rest, like Paul W have long since given up in disgust) The dictionary definition of atheism is a fine way to begin at the very beginning. It allows...

<snip> If you can get past his annoyingly obnoxious personality and listen to what he says it becomes abundantly clear that this is simply identity politics with no holds barred. Including the question of whether telling the truth is important. "The majority of rape threats I see online, the majori...

Kassiane is apparently following a ketogenic diet , which seems to be effective in reducing epileptic seizures. I hope she's nicer with her doctors than with the internet. I've heard that a ketogenic diet can be effective in treating pediatric epilepsy that's refractory to anti-convulsants, but I d...

Grimalkin is a woman who sometimes likes to pretend she's a man. She's a lesbian. And she likes also to pretend she has autism, even though she's never been diagnosed as such. She likes cookies. Is Kassiane the one who has to consume 16,000 calories per day, in order to be able to pick up her spoon...

You think she would have done some of the slightest of research on Spina bifida prior to claiming that it is just glued on, or that there is no flesh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spina_bifida#Spina_bifida_occulta The skin at the site of the lesion may be normal, or it may have some hair growing fr...

Feminists complain when women are called girls, but it was feminism that took offense at describing women as "ladies", and "gals". http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/i-am-gal-hear-me-roar/253910/ So now I do have to refer to them as moistened bints. Or watery tarts, perhaps. ;)

That idiot PZ Myers is now strawmanning Charles Darwin himself . we should be honest from the very beginning about the complexity of modern evolutionary theory and how it has grown to be very different from what Darwin knew. First thing you have to know: the revolution is over. Neutral and nearly n...

Just to change the subject ever so slightly from DDOS attacks.....The Winter Olympics have some of the most mental sports I've seen. I saw one where loads of people skate around a rink and then a friend of theirs skates in front of them and gets pushed along by the person he just overtook. Then the...

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Awesome! Love this!

My impression, garnered unscientifically and anecdotally from my psychiatrist colleagues, of the distribution of Xanax to patients in the US is something like this: http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2011/03/03/mardigras-membersx-large.jpg 1. IOW, it's the Big Easy 2. Note the snake imagery - that m...

Ape+lust wrote:http://imgur.com/t0SCCcY.jpg

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Just needs a little man in a gold Speedo with a chain around his neck.

So PZ is the guy who "figured out patterns of motoneuron organization in the zebrafish spinal cord"? He has a couple of papers from 1985 and 1986 on this but they are hardly particularly comprehensive. If you know anything about pubmed searching it becomes a lot clearer. Peezus has two or three pap...

I don't know how old she is but she already has that middle-aged California divorcee, pulled back skin look. If her hubby gets another job, rest assured that a chunk of that income is going into face-lifts. This. So much this. You can't swing a Coach bag in most parts of Dallas without hitting at l...

Skep Tickle, sounds like good news for your dad -- I hope it is. Thanks, JacquesCuze. It is, but he has lost a lot of heart function. I hope he can get back to some of the things he likes to do. Re Elyse: She tweeted after the layoff that her husband got 2 weeks of severance pay. Barn Owl's suggest...

<snip> She never stops with these digs at her husband, who, I will mention again, just lost his job. Why is he taking her out to lunch? Why isn't he saving his remaining cash? Why is this bitch still complaining about everything? She's not nearly attractive enough to warrant this level of spoiled p...

ROBOKiTTY wrote:Did BarnOwl see the eponymous video?

I did indeed, oh KiTTYDEiTY - it's ossim, thanks! The part with the talons coming down reminded me of the Once and Future King chapter in the falcon mews.

Avicenna has another of his "I'm an unappreciated living saint, why aren't people sending me Fluevogs?" Post. He's becoming my most disliked blogger at FfTB. In the meantime Steve at Zingularity has also been asking for Fluevogs as well, but he doesn't imply that he's a secular Mother Teresa and yo...

For some reason this: <snip> http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/0004-hebrewdayschool-picture.png Ok, that's that out of my system. Did you have to go to any hebrew schools as well? Finally at around age 12 I think, I asked my mother if I could stop going to hebrew school, and she said sure, if yo...

I detest the Lord of the Rings , the films as well as the book. I think it's pulp. There. Now hate me. I also wish I knew even one really great science fiction novel. I would love to read one. I can't think of any. The writing is mostly abysmal (compared with the writing of Flaubert, Chekhov, Kafka...

<snip> Maybe there's something about reading and preferring short fiction that makes me feel a bit jaded towards the myth-building of fantasy novels. You couldn't pay me enough to read that Silmarillion shit. For a long time, I preferred The Hobbit over LotR because of how it was so compact and yet...

Over at PZ's place, they're plotting a bloody revolution and playing at The Four Yorkshiremen : Onamission5 8 February 2014 at 2:54 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment My mom didnâ€™t make hardly a dollar at her work when I was a kid. Raising rabbits and chickens, turning a half acreâ€™s worth of soil ...

NEEDS MOAR FLAG!!!11!!!!:

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Dick Strawkins wrote:
To be fair, the statue is pretty creepy...

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PEEZUS Christsicle, the nightmares I'm going to have!

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Lavatory sign in Sochi:

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Not that it makes the various hateful responses to the Coca-cola ad any less xenophobic and bigoted (but it does make them even more stupid), but America the Beautiful , which was sung in different languages in the commercial, is not the national anthem of the US of A. /pedant or /confused by the fu...

Some of us have wondered what Nerd of Redhead really looks like. I once pictured him as a kind of deranged Mussolini (who himself was already deranged, making Nerd deranged squared). Turns out I was not too far off. 2 February 2014 at 3:41 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment Nich #360 about the death ...

This is one of the least entertaining Super Bowls I can remember. I haven't watched a sporting event in years, and the Super Bowl is what I miss the least. Bread and circuses and all that. There was a Super Bowl? Well, that explains the sudden absence of Velveeta, Tostitos, and Rotel tomatoes and p...

Ape+lust wrote:
bhoytony wrote:Wrong movie
By gum, you're right!

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Admit it, that's like the easiest 'shop you've ever done, Ape+lust. You didn't have to blend, gloss, adjust colors or transparency ... crap, even I could have probably managed it. :mrgreen:

Can my fellow pitters recommend some good movies to watch on Netflix streaming? I've decided not to waste any more time watching the absolutely awful Torchwood, and so am looking for something to unwind to in the evenings. Thanks! I couldn't get into Torchwood at all. For movies, I think John Sayle...

Well, just finished watching All Is Lost. A laugh a minute! I need something with a bit less misery on top of misery on top of more misery. Think I'll watch a Disney film or something now. Buena Vista Social Club - interesting people and subject, great music, beautiful cinematography, Ry Cooder, Wi...

Forgot to add that kawaii also means "Japanese-style misogyny," according to Ophelia. :roll:

Ugh, gut illnesses are the worst. I'm one of those weirdos who cannot vomit, unless I've swallowed polonium or something. So I sit with a gut full of toxins and my innards torn up from heaving. M-i-s-e-r-y. Sending you virtual tea and slymey pouncehugs. I watched the Intersectionality and Allies: E...

I started watching the video for the FtBCon2 session on fabric/fiber arts, and quickly became quite bored with it. I might try watching the rest of it later today, if my recovering-from-student-borne-gastroenteritis GI system can take it. None of them appeared to be working on interesting projects -...

Someone might say "bachelor of science in communications" because it's a different path that getting a bachelor of arts in communications. For me, (as an example) I have a BS in Natural Science. I could have taken a lot less science classes and gotten a BA in Natural Science. /carry-on I have a BA ...

<snip> I've seen that image criticized before, but not because of objectification. It was the target of feminist ire due to the fact that it looks a bit gang-rapey. The woman looks a little like she's being held down by the central guy and the others are just standing around watching. That said, it...

The crested black macaques on this Nature program appear to have excellent 'shoop potential.

And they're funky.

<snip> One example for instance is where Dalrock opines about aging feminist Liz Jones which he titled A post-marital spinsterâ€™s rationalization hamster in the final stages of exhaustion. Here she is, holding one of her 17 cats: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/21/article-1237311-0748FFC800...

Bummer: Peter "Pete" Seeger (May 3, 1919 â€“ January 27, 2014) Well that's a depressing start to the day. :cry: A real social activist, even into his 10th decade. I grew up with his music - we had all those great 1960s Pete Seeger albums for children, like Story and Play Time , and American Folk So...

They continue to act like a parody of themselves. If not for Caine exhibiting every indication of being completely sincere, I'd be tempted to call xir a troll. I mean, what kind of person threatens to leave a forum, anyway? Just leave if you're not enjoying yourself! It's what makes the internet gr...

The weeknight radio programs that I usually listen to have been pre-empted by a debate amongst the Republican candidates - including David Dewhurst - for Lieutenant Governor.
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OH HELLZ NO!11!!!!11!

Radio turned OFF NAO.

How long? http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6900/kn2k.png :lol: :lol: BumOngo from Congo :lol: Y'all are killing me. I'm going to go make a pot of chili. The garden center up the road is hosting a chili cook-off in a couple of weeks and I'm sure it will be totes racist and stereotypical and ... de...

Prediction: http://imgur.com/ceyq8xA.jpg :lol: Brilliant, yet vaguely creepy. I think I stopped at a gas station like that once, only it was in Oregon and fortunately it's not warm enough there most of the time for people to sit around buck nekkid. PeeZus is hunkered down in his bunker (has he been...

<snip> It is not as if she has not had an interesting life that she can draw upon for her videos. Those of us who photoshop regularly will have long since found the skepchicks flickr account, from where we choose various pictures containing facial expressions that fit whatever pitshop we are doing....

Gumby wrote:Off to drive 10 miles over skating-rink roads to do snow removal on a 40 acre property in subzero weather for 4 hours.

It's great being me.

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Ugh. My sympathies. Sending you virtual vegan pounce-soup, gluten-free muffins, and a thermos of sustainably-harvested herbal tea.

another lurker wrote:http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/

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Squirrel Nutkin: Definitely an annoying little twat.

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Aren't all current brand of Absinthe fake, so to speak? I mean, haven't all the Magic Green Fairy juice's active ingredients been removed? I thought true Absinthe was illegal the world over now? No? Yes? Anyone know for sure? It's legal again, with the wormwood. The US was like the last place to le...

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