Skeptophilia

After ten years of writing this blog six times a week, you'd think I'd be inured.  You'd think I'd long ago have stopped run...

As further evidence that there is nothing so innocent and sweet that someone can't interpret it so as to make it appear satanic, today ...

You might have heard that a while back, there was a recall on Toyotas because of a problem with stuck accelerator pedals , a malfunction tha...

The whole subject of "book reviews" has been much on my mind lately, because being (as well as a blogger) a fiction writer, with s...

There's an odd tendency of conspiracy theorists to eat their young. Not literally, of course.  I wouldn't want that  to get out as...

After four years of writing this blog six times a week, you'd think I'd be inured.  You'd think I'd long ago have stopped r...

Writing this blog sometimes puts me into very odd conversations. Witness what happened yesterday, an exchange between myself and a friend ...

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we survived (1) the Rapture, (2) the Mayan apocalypse, and (3) the 2012 Christmas sho...

I am happy to be able to tell you that we finally have figured out what is wrong with the public education system in the United States: it i...