Monstrous
A gunman walked into a midnight showing of the new Batman movie, threw some smoke bombs, and started shooting. 14 are dead, 50+ are wounded, and the killer has been arrested. I don’t even… What gets me...
View ArticleIt’s time to abort the Catholic Church
Bloody butchers and pious toads who mask their medieval ignorance with a pretense of charity and care; it’s long past time to end the illusion and recognize the barbarism of the church. Shut ‘em down....
View ArticleNever forget
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. The killer, 25-year-old Marc Lépine, was armed with a legally obtained Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife: he had earlier told a shopkeeper he was...
View ArticleA new life awaits you in the off-world colonies^W^W^W Dalkey Archive Press
Because we here at Pharyngula care deeply about you our readers and commenters, and because we like to share possible rewarding opportunities for professional advancement when we find them, I submit...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Women What to Wear, Tell Men not to Rape
There have been some horrific stories coming out of India — a place where rape and molestation are considered perfectly normal acts by many men. The latest terrible event was a young woman, raped with...
View ArticleThat’s not rape! It’s “intercourse marriage”
You know, one of the tough things about being a jihadist is that you get all these…urges, yet all the freedom fighters around you are covered with beards and body hair. And of course, as a devout,...
View ArticleI hope this haunts Michael Nodianos for the rest of his life
A 16 year old girl was reportedly drugged and gang-raped by football players in Steubenville, Ohio, and two people, Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, have been arrested for it. And now a video has...
View ArticleTrumped!
Lately, I’ve been marveling at the stupidity of my foes: I mean, really, the hate campaigns have been getting absurd. Reap Paden put together a crude animated video of me, caricatured with breasts...
View ArticleThe slut was just asking for it
Look at her, exposing all that skin and smiling enticingly, tempting every man she meets. About a year ago, her father, Fayhan Ghamdi, had concerns about her virginity — are you surprised? Look at her!...
View ArticleDon’t let Catholics run hospitals
Imagine if you lived in a town where the only hospital was owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and you were in a car accident — you’ve got a ruptured spleen, you’re bleeding internally, and your life is...
View ArticleAl Qaeda has a magazine?
Apparently, they publish semi-irregularly an online magazine called Inspire. I’ve never seen a copy — and there have been cases of people in the UK being jailed for possessing a copy, so I don’t...
View ArticleDemocracy! Whisky! Sexy!
Ah, remember the good old days back in 2003 when every right wing blog in the country was proudly reciting that phrase? There was Dean Esmay, and Instapundit, and I recall that even James Lileks was...
View ArticleRelax, everyone. It’s only a metaphor.
The Telegraph’s environment denier James Delingpole wants us to know he really doesn’t think environmental scientists and journalists should be executed: Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair...
View ArticleWhy?
It’s another impossibly dreadful story of rape and bullying. Some of you might want to just skip the whole godawful thing. In 2011, Rehtaeh Parsons attended a party where she consumed enough vodka to...
View ArticleNightmare fuel: Kermit Gosnell exposed
The grand jury’s report on the Gosnell Women’s Medical Services clinic (pdf) is freely available online, with photographs. It’s 281 pages of gag-reflex-inducing horror. Gosnell was living the good...
View ArticleDo you want to be like El Salvador?
El Salvador has an absolute prohibition on all abortions — they can’t even be done to save the life of the mother (it’s a very Catholic country, are you surprised?) Now a situation has made the news...
View ArticleIt’s Matthew Yglesias’ world: we just get blown up in it.
I haven’t had much use for The Lizard of K Street since he posted this sociopathic little gem in 2004: Did the president really gut the Endangered Species Act yesterday while no one was paying...
View ArticleA Moroccan hero: Imad Iddine Habib
The state religion of Morocco is Islam, so it took real guts to establish a Council of Ex-Muslims in that country Imad Iddine Habib was awesomely courageous to do so. What followed next was...
View Article“…a pretty little white girl ran into a black man’s arms…something is wrong...
It was a horrific story out of Cleveland: three brothers have been arrested for imprisoning three women for over a decade in their home. I can’t even imagine the nightmare those women lived through....
View ArticleAdam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, you’ve got some explaining to do.
23 years ago yesterday, as my friends Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were driving through Oakland, California on their way to appear at a Santa Cruz rally against clearcutting California’s remaining...
View Article