RIO CHINGADEROS LOCOS, GEORGIA — Authorities in a small Georgia town are reporting that they have a single newborn baby in custody, awaiting arraignment on murder charges. Because the suspect is a minor, their name is being withheld, but we do know the alleged killer was born female. “This morning we took a young newborn […] More
It’s probably a pretty safe bet that your average global citizen doesn’t spend much time reading academic research papers. It’s certainly understandable why, too. If you’re harccore into climate change, but not a climatologist, a lot of the jargon and terminology used could send your head spinning, no matter much you’ve tried to read-up on […] More
For action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I’m pretty sure I just made that up, and as a science blog, I’m sure you readers will let me get away with that assertion. Anyway, while that may be Newton’s Third Law of Gravity, I find it a scientific way of saying the more poetic, […] More
If someone wants to belong to a particular religion, I may find it unnecessary and silly, but I truly do not care at the end of it all. Someone’s personal faith doesn’t bother me. What I don’t get, though, is why certain super-religious people still want to participate in things the rest of us do, […] More
Man, I wanna party with those shrimp! What shrimp you ask? The shrimp that researchers say they are finding trace amounts of cocaine in. I’m not saying I need to do coke with the shrimp, I’m just wondering what the cokey-shrimp taste like. I’m also wondering what the scene at Red Lobster would look like during Shrimpfest […] More
They call Missouri the “Show Me State,” and a recent tweet from someone called themselves a “devout follower” of Christianity who spent half his life as an evangelical pastor is going viral because it’s showing the world what it looks like when someone abandons their faith after a lifetime of devotion to and practice of […] More
I like to expose myself to a pretty wide variety of people all over the political spectrum in order to write political satire. I frequent right-wing and left-wing social media channels every day, so I feel like I get exposed to just about everything out there. In all my years writing hopefully funny fake news […] More
The idea that anyone would hunt a gorilla at all makes me furious and sad. I live literally just minutes from the San Diego Safari Park, which is the sister location to what I believe is the best zoo on the planet, the San Diego Zoo. I’ve fortunately been able to visit the Safari Park’s […] More
Thinking of getting your cute little progeny a bunny for Easter? Well, one bunny owner thinks you should really reconsider that thought. Her advice to potential bunny-buers is going viral. On image hosting site imgur, user MissHissyPants gave prospective bunny owners a primer on why it’s a genuinely bad idea, in her view, to buy […] More
Being anti-vaccine is, decidedly, not a very smart position to stake out. I’m not telling you that you don’t have a right to be against vaccinating yourself, or your child. I’m just telling you that making an active decision to eschew vaccines that on the whole prevent infectious, deadly diseases from wiping out our species […] More
A Twitter account recently shared two photos for comparison to one another and the Internet is now full of people who believe they have a condition known as “astigmatism.” Though it sounds like something from some kind of low-rent horror film about Jesus, astigmatism is a condition of the eyes that prevents them from focusing […] More
Don’t adjust the brightness on your phone; you read the headline right. The Mormon Church, which was so vehemently and virulently anti-LGBT that they helped pass California’s old Proposition 8 — a ban on same-sex marriage — a little more than a decade ago, has reversed its stance on homosexuality and will no longer label […] More
