Once upon a time there were two people who made very silly jokes that offended a lot of other people—at…
Popular culture loves an apocalypse, with special fondness these days for zombies, pandemics, and zombie pandemics. (The 2012 thing is…
So a selection of snakes has again been pushed out of the Emerald Isle. Atheist Ireland has dissociated itself from PZ…
The Ancient Egyptians have something of a reputation when it comes to death: morbidly obsessed, in a nutshell. Gloomy, fearful. …
Yes, I think rape is evil. And no, I do not think it is remotely necessary—except to the purveyors of…
Apparently, we live in a brutal patriarchal society, awash with misogyny and toxic masculinity, where women are excluded, exploited, oppressed,…
They are barbarous, loathsome, bloodthirsty, and very scary—yet, according to their own lights, they are doing exactly what their deity…
In ancient Carthage, infants were murdered, cremated, and buried under stone thank-you notes to the gods, in return for services…
Joseph Tittel, aka Spiritman, sees the headlines of the future long before the news happens, according to himself and his…
The year 2015 has dawned, and the tabloid prophets have been at it again, telling the world what wonders and…