Who's the biggest protagonist prick on TV? House?

Dexter.

JZ Meyers

My favorite typo EVAR. Can you imagine how much awesome we'd get from a hybrid of JZ and PZ Meyers? There would probably be some kind of too-much-awesome-splosion.

I think Richard Dawkins is someone who's so enamoured of biology that he forgets to disclaim about social context when he gets on a roll. And when it's pointed out to him that many people are twisting biological facts to suit their own pseudoscientific goals (evo-psych etc), his attitude is "why should that matter when I'm talking about SCIENCE?" Those people are so obviously wrong that they're not worth addressing. So yes, he's a bit dense, but his heart is in the right place. I think.

As an Atheist, I'd rather have Dawkins speaking for me than Hitchens.

Word, Cash. Hitchens pisses me off. Although I'm not really an atheist.

I am an atheist and Hitchens totally pisses me off. Though mostly it is the right wing pro-war, muslim bashing and anti-woman stuff.

As an Atheist, I'd rather have Dawkins speaking for me than Hitchens.

Oh HELL yes.

Who's the biggest protagonist prick on TV? House?

Dexter.

Really? You think he's actually a prick or you're just upgrading him because he's a murderer and killing people is prickish in your book? I think Walter White is more of a prick than Dexter.

HA! I was so surprised that there was a JZ Meyers and thought this JZ should be introduced to PZ Myers and then it was the same person.

I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.

PZ's head once exploded when he posted about a paper by Jesse Bering (who is probably the most clownish of the current evo psych assholes) about the head of the penis having evolved its shape to "scoop out competitor's sperm."

His experiment? Squirt some viscous goo into a fleshlight, and use a dildo to scoop it out.

SERIOUSLY? When PZ called him on it by inquiring whether the dildo had a foreskin (among other obvious problems), Bering posted a whiny retort about how ethics prevented him from using human models and boo hoo.

SO WHY ARE YOU PUBLISHING RESULTS AS IF YOU HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING ABOUT HUMAN BIOLOGY, THEN?????

Seriously. Fleshlight.

Man, it is cold, wet and windy here today. I'm on campus waiting for Check-in for NIUCares Day to start. (I'm working check in.) Students are starting to get here. I wondered - given the weather what the turn-out would be. (This is the second shift - shift 1 had an 8 am check-in but staff had to be here at 6... I'm glad I got the choice.)

Also - somebody has made Batman and Joker amigurumi.

I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.

Oh yeah, chemists do this all the time. Physicists too.