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

It is entirely appropriate for Big Fish like Dawkins to ignore Sea Lice like RW etc. But the 'pit is nobody ( and yet, as Alain de Bottom might say, everybody). We are here to make mock, to document the atrocities and generally show that there is an alternative to the crap the Bad Guys spew. Result...

I actually consider myself, in a mild way, a feminist. I don't have to agree with everything Marissa Mayer says and does. The fact she's a CEO of a major company is doing as much for feminism, or at least my take on it, as anything she'll say. She seems to be doing a hard job well, or at least as w...

Meditating rape?

Absolutely - it reeks of a woman scorned.

I have always enjoyed the kind of passive-aggressive humour where you say one thing - outwardly it seems to congratulate the audience - but on a second reading the complete opposite is the case. I remember corrupting my son in elementary school with a speech about the drug education programme ("The ...

of course even with dawkins we have no idea its anything he pushes or just something that was still boiling over at the time that he was pissy about. still poor form even if it was only that Or it might have been a rational calculation that the Reason Rally would be more likely successful without t...

It always come to Rebecca Watson bitching about Dawkins, doesn't it? Peezus Christ. Seems every time there is Skepchick drama the same punch bags get dragged out and punched a few more times, even if they weren't remotely involved. Good way of whipping up the fervor among the troops. Bit like Emman...

And kind of interesting that the "Myers Legal Defense Fund" has not materialized to date. It's almost like they just want that week of bendering, when they were cray cray outing "rapists" to just go away and never be seen again. Unfortunately, uh, this is, like, reality? Wait... (in the true Myers ...

I know, we're one line away from quoting Geordie Best, aren't we? No, he said Geordie Best, who's he? I assume some bloke from Newcastle instead of Norn Iron. (And George Best is remembered for his football skills rather than that quote unless you're an idiot who knows nothing about the game). I'm ...

<SirHenryRawlinson> If I had all the money I'd spent on drink I'd spend it on drink. </SirHenryRawlinson> I know, we're one line away from quoting Geordie Best, aren't we? Who the fuck is Geordie Best? George Best, remembered for this quote rather than his football skills: "I spent a lot of money o...

Southern wrote:Whoever this dashing Felch Grogan fella is, I'm sure he loves Ophelia Benson. Right? Right?

Whoever it might be, he or she has spent some time on alt.tasteless to come up with that monicker. Probably after my time.

Proctalgia, who knew even then that x-no-archive is your friend!

Skep tickle wrote:Besides the ever-increasing $ amount, I'm heartened by the # of funders, currently 147.

To be technical, 146. ;)

Oh my, two more $500 donations to Michael Shermer's legal fund, total currently at $6445. I guess he won't have to sell that bicycle after all :lol: Both minor Shakespearean characters occasionally concerned with justice, though generally speaking, playing the roles of fools: Dogberry: "Marry, sir,...

Entirely correct - I have had too much wine whilst waiting for account approval. My apologies.

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Hi guys and gals, I joined merely to add my support for the Robinson as being the best screw drive mechanism in the known universe, and here I find myself another comment thread at Pharyngula further on. Perhaps naively, I have posted there on several occasions using various minor Shakespearean char...