Blogiverse - Talking About Everything

I'm sure many of you are familiar with a study where people who generally get their news from The Daily Show tend to actually know what is going on .  I suspect that this is because Jon Stewart ...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2014/01/once-again-jon-stewart-speaks-100-truth.html

Just going to post a video with minimal commentary.  Really, everything that needs said is said in the video itself. Although, I can't resist also including a quote: > “There is a cult�...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2013/04/we-are-universe.html

So today, science minded people are lamenting the lack of funding that NASA gets, and looking at the President's FY14 budget. I'll let Dr. Phil Plait discuss the budget and everything that it mea...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2013/04/heres-your-fucking-refund.html

A while back I was all happy about my new tablet. I figured it would allow me to blog and do a bunch of other things from various locations and maybe engage a bit more. Well, seems that didn't qu...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2013/03/lack-of-blogging.html

I love all these science type videos, but I always have one complaint... No, it's not the artistic license that the artist takes. No, it's not that they made it for the purpose of memorializing...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2013/02/too-short-animation.html

The other day I posted this quote on Facebook and it got a lot of likes: > "Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and > murder without religion telling ...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2013/01/religiosity-and-numerous-ills-to-society.html

Okay, by now it's the 22nd over most of the world, and nothing special happened.  This should come as no surprise to most people, but there were a few idiots and knuckleheads that did buy into i...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/12/still-here.html

I recently gave a presentation at the SkeptiCamp hosted by Granite State Skeptics (Dale Roy in particular), and I wrote it up for Kitty of Yankee Skeptic.  Instead of repeating what she wrote, h...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/11/its-bird-its-plane-its-skeptic.html

So I just saw this quote from someone who is as disconnected from reality as anyone can be: > "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the > Big Bang Theor...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/10/distrust-of-science-conservative.html

I present this without comment...  I don't think I can really say anything that hasn't already been said, but this just disgusts me beyond reason.  Motherfucking assholes need to get their asse...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/09/fuck-you-gop-just-fuck-you.html

The idiots in the GOP are up to their fucktardery again... The worst part is that they can't even tell the irony of their position, even when directly confronted with the madness of their positio...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/09/gop-oblivious-to-their-fucktardery.html

The job of a politician (in general) should be: "REPRESENT THEIR CONSTITUENTS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE CONSTITUTION." You ask any politician what their job is, and they will insist that thi...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/09/politicians-have-forgotten-their-job.html

I spent 20 years of my life defending the Constitution, from all enemies, foreign and domestic.  One of the key things about our democracy is that it should apply to all citizens, even if you ...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-gop-acting-like-fascists.html

Apparently there is an "atheist census " out there.  I encourage other atheists out there to count their numbers if they are willing to put in their information.  Keep in mind that this site do...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/05/are-you-atheist.html

Dr. Plait posted a link to Tree Lobster's the other day (an excellent web comic I suggest you read ), and in that post he linked to a very old post of his that I found particularly inspiring ....

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/04/welcome-to-science-youre-gonna-like-it.html

I have a mancrush on Dr. Phil Plait.  That is a well known joke/fact.  He tackles a subject that my wife, daughter, and I were discussing just the other day (ain't coincidence fun?).  So I am ...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/04/which-moon-has-best-chance-for-life.html

Dr. Phil Plait, all around great astronomer and ginger man about town, just informed the world about a developing supernova in the galaxy M95 .  I suggest you read his article, because he does s...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/breaking-news-of-geeky-variety.html

There is no such thing. A subject as vast, complex, and diverse as biology will never have a single killer argument. To look for one would be a fool's errand, and to believe one would be the ma...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/killer-argument-for-evolution.html

I always like to find good books on skepticism, not because I particularly enjoy reading them, but because they are needed.  Guy Harrison's 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True is a n...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/book-review-50-popular-beliefs-that.html

I just wanted to revisit a couple of posts that I made last fall about my sister.  In particular, talk about the education fund for her children , and repost the eulogy .  Today would have been...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/today-would-have-been-my-sisters-40th.html

Forgive the music at the end, but Neil deGrasse Tyson does say it so well!  I am really looking forward to the Cosmos re-boot that he is doing with Ann Druyan and Seth McFarlane (yes, that Seth ...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/so-much-better-than-any-creation-fable.html

Dr. Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer , turned me on to these videos.  They are mostly aimed at children, but lets face it, a lot of American adults could use these videos as well.  Why do you thi...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/critical-thinking-videos.html

So I just saw this story on Space.com .  Makes me wonder how long before all the nutters will go apeshit about this and proclaim that the end is near...  Now keep in mind, the impact that creat...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/03/everybody-panic-were-about-to-die-or.html

Today the Bad Astronomer himself explains Lead Years .  Actually, a pretty fun bit of information there.  I have always said that the universe has no reason to follow our desires, and when it c...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/02/bad-astronomy-why-we-have-leap-days.html

One thing that I have always failed to understand is how people who are maltreated by the very holy texts they hold to manage to stay part of that religion...  If this god character was really o...

http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2012/02/brainwashing-or-stockholm-syndrome.html