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EAT IT, BRITAIN
A while ago, a friend sent me a joke that her British friends had been circulating around Facebook entitled “A Message from the Queen.” It starts like this: To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: In light of your failure in recent…
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KICKSTARTER, MEET SCIENCE.
UPDATE: I came back in this morning and elaborated. I was being pretty lazy with explaining the math when I wrote this, but I’ve expanded it a bit. This is where I find a thing on Kickstarter that someone is raising money for, then I point out that it won’t…
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22 STUPID PEOPLE HOLDING SIGNS
As I’m pretty sure everyone on the internet knows by now, Bill Nye recently had a debate with Ken Ham about whether creationism was a viable explanation for the origins of people and animals and plants and rocks and stars and stuff. I’ll cut to the chase: it’s not. Creationism…
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THE TRANSPARENT TOASTER
A little over 18 months ago, this baffling object popped up on Memebase, well known for contributing nothing of value to the Internet ever. It didn’t look like that — I came back in 2024 and added this AI image because some random probably-scammer threatened to sue me for using…
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COSMO’S GUIDE TO THE SUPER BOWL (FOR LADIES)
Hello ladies! As you may know, if a man in your life has informed you or you overheard it somewhere, this Sunday is the Super Bowl. That’s when two football teams play each other, and the winner gets a shiny trophy and tickets to Disney World and bragging rights for…
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SIX REASONS WE’RE NOT GETTING A MOON ELEVATOR
A while ago, several news outlets of varying degrees of reputability reported on the intentions of a company called Liftport to build a space elevator, but not on the Earth where it’d be accessible by human beings. They want to build one on the moon. But first they have to…
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THAT’S NO SQUID…
So apparently I missed out on this, because none of my friends are stupid enough to believe it, but there’s an image that’s been making the rounds on social media, having been re-tweeted and shared by over 500,000 people. Here is that image. The headline that accompanied it says “Giant…
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DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK
In April of 2009, I started this blog to give myself an outlet for the stupidity and irrationality of the world. I get angry about a lot of things in the world, and the blog was how I got angry without getting angry at anyone. Internally, once I’d written about…
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18 REASONS WHY I AM WRONG: A RESPONSE
Two weeks ago, in my triumphant return to writing, as I am determined to keep calling it, I wrote a piece called Six Reasons You Shouldn’t Take Dietary Advice From Cavemen. It was on my blog and I posted it to the Facebook page, anticipating the usual 300 or so pageviews.…
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UNREASONABLY DANGEROUS ONION RINGS 