Not cute

Amanda Marcotte makes the reasonable point that we should not encourage teenage boys to pester women who are not interested in them. Idiots attack.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Homeopathic urine and antivaxxers

Jon Carroll on the reservoir someone allegedly wee-weed in. You know what W.C. Fields said. ( Read more... )

Dope menace

Republican says that the president isn't allowed to pardon drug fiends. Charles Pierce points out that the real problem is electing morons.

But hurt

Lingua Franca looks at the tabu against beginning a sentence with "but" or "and." I do it myself, and I defend it with an argument from near-divine authority: The Authorized Version of the Bible does it all the time. Good enough for the King James Gang, good enough for me.

William H. Patterson Jr. (1951-2014)

The author of the two-volume Heinlein biography has died. He did finish it; the second volume will be out in June

Thanx to File 770

This is your brain on bad analogies

Study of Pot Smokers' Brains Shows That MRIs Cause Bad Science Reporting

Thanx to Reason

A scientist I hadn't known about

Melba Roy Mouton

Thanx to Geek Feminism.