In order to give my rants a bit of consistency, I’m starting a new series of posts called Sheeple Reports. A large part of skeptical inquir...

“Don’t sweat the small stuff,” they say. Taking each small thing in a vacuum, I couldn’t agree more. The sweat, of course, starts flowing wh...

Celebrate your inner fish ! If you're in the Santa Rosa area, there's a party at 6:30 tonight at the Glaser Center/Unitarian Univer...

Having family members who come to me for my take on various issues makes for great blog fodder. This time we have someone asking for my thou...

Tim Minchin’s reading of his beat poem  Storm was met with rave reviews in the skeptic community. If you read the transcipt in lieu of a re...

Update 1/31/09: Today’s episode of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe discusses this issue. The other day an acquaintance asked for my opi...

None of this is likely worth quoting. Don’t use string formatting/conversion functions to round, truncate, or otherwise mathematically manip...