En Tequila Es Verdad

Oh, my.  When one gets linked by PZ Myers , Maria Dahvana Headley , and Neil Gaiman in the course of a few days, traffic suddenly goes thro...

What a difference less than a year makes!  So no shit, there I was, sitting in training class watching one of the most mind-numbingly boring...

Source It's time to take a moment out of the week's blogging topics and say, "Thank you!" You, my dear readers, are a...

Thank you thank you THANK YOU to all of you who commented, emailed, and otherwise made sure I could, in fact, have my new computer and my Mo...

Things have changed rather drastically.  As recently as six months ago, I couldn't have read a scientific paper to save my life.  Oh, I ...

In more ways than one.  For instance, I'm not at work.  Woot! By the time you read this, it'll be Boxing Day , so Happy Boxing Day...

You people are amazing . When I wrote up my college field trip experience for the Accretionary Wedge , I spent most of my time doubting w...

Wednesday was fun.  About half an hour into my shift, the mild discomfort I'd been feeling announced itself as a full-blown kidney stone...

Those of you who recommended books have earned a free drink when next you're in Seattle.  Not that I wasn't going to buy you one any...

Far too many years ago, I was in a Mexican cantina (continuing my) drinking after my first Circus Mexicus .  Stevie, then the Peacemakers...

The holiday season's almost over.  It's a new year and a new decade.  I've spent a considerable part of December thinking about ...

If you're a regular reader of Dispatches from the Culture Wars, you know that Ed Brayton gleefully exposes every bit of police corruptio...

No dose of health care reform stupidity today, my darlings.  I refuse to take my medicine.  I'd rather cheer on my Rep instead. First,...

Seriously. I don't respond to comments as often as I should - okay, call it next to never - but I read each and every one.  And I have...

Some of you may remember the battle against the FISA bill last year, which basically gave the government broad new spying powers and immun...

A few days back, I mentioned that the commercials for the new season of The Shift contained an unidentified promo song. No one on the inte...

A glass of the premium stuff is tipped heartily in the direction of the ATF this morning: Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassina...

Richard from the Panda's Thumb earned my undying affection long ago. He works his ass off keeping us up on the antics of the anti-scie...

Sitemeter led me to a new delight tonight: PTET . Leads DaveScot around by the nose . Unleashes the Smack-o-Matic until Denyse O'Leary b...

(Oh, dear lord, I didn't realize the word for "times" looks almost exactly like "feces." Silly español . Don't...