Skeptical Schlongs

I’m very late coming into this discussion, so perhaps this post won’t have much impact. But it feels good to put one’s thoughts in order, so I decided to write this piece.

I’ve followed with some degree of care the ongoing debate within the skeptical community about Phil Plait’s now famous “Don’t be a dick” [...]

Ba-BOOM!

Yesterday I was talking on the telephone when I heard them; two sonic booms. The sound was loud enough to rattle the windows of my house, though not disruptive enough to change the conversation I was having about sandblasting media…

I knew they were sonic booms because I’m 47 and I used to hear them periodically [...]

A Shard Experience

After walking down Alki beach this evening, I went to 7-11 to buy some diet pop. Sitting in the parking lot was a young man digging something out of the sole of his bare foot. As I exited the store, I saw he had moved under a floodlight. I pulled out my 3D Maglite from [...]