Skeptophilia

Today, we have three stories that are particularly interesting in juxtaposition. The first one is heartbreaking.  A unique species of cactus...

If you needed further evidence that whoever is controlling the simulation we're all trapped in has gotten drunk and/or stoned, and now t...

As I write this, category-3 Hurricane Idalia is currently battering parts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.  It strengthene...

I always give a grim chuckle whenever someone on the far right calls us liberals "snowflakes," because when it comes to taking off...

I wonder if you've heard about the latest attempt to turn the state of Florida into an autonomous authoritarian oligarchy. No, I'm n...

A couple of days ago, I received an email through my author website that started out, "Are you by any chance the Gordon Bonnet who taug...

Dear straight people: I hope you recognize the path the United States is on, and where it leads.  Because it's easy to blind yourself to...

A dear friend of mine sent me a message a couple of weeks ago.  It was a recommendation to watch a recent Netflix series, and read the graph...

If you needed another reason to be outraged at the direction the United States is going, a bill currently moving through the state congress ...

When I was in eleventh grade, I took a class called Modern American Literature. To say I was a lackluster English lit student is something o...