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Main Cause of the Civil War: A) Slavery B) Economic Troubles C) Soylent Green
Okay, last I checked, Charlton Heston is not a Nazi, is not a Kennedy, is not yet a ghost, and has only played Biblical characters in various movies. So why the Hell does the History Channel keep...
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What the fuck, Discovery Channel?
You know, I realize that the Discovery Channel isn’t exactly a bastion of critical thinking and good science. It’s pretty much “Mythbusters” and the occasional special, and then everything goes...
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And I thought “A Haunting” was bad
I was flipping channels when I stumbled on a show called “Scary…but True” on the Chiller network. I’ve managed to catch quite a bit of “Unsolved Mysteries” over the last several days, and I’ve heard...
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“And you draw the line at intelligent breasts?”
So, there’s this new Reebok commercial for their EasyTone shoes, which supposedly help work out your butt as you walk. It seems to me that shoes which leave you more tired after walking than you would...
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Minor things
First, this column at Slacktivist is amazing. Second, tomorrow is Wednesday, January 27th. At 10:00/9:00 Central is the mid-season premiere of Psych on USA Network. I’ve been planning to write up a...
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Answering a Challenge
Akusai and I have been conversing quite a bit lately over GMail Chat about the recent skeptic infighting. Yesterday’s exchange was very odd, with an unintentional one-upping of overextended metaphors....
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Disappeared for a Reason
When I was a kid, I watched an assload of Unsolved Mysteries, and one of my wife’s preferred background-noise shows now is Disappeared (and a myriad of other Dateline-type true crime shows). While the...
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Thoughts on “Cosmos”
I just finished watching the first episode of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s revival of the classic Carl Sagan series. Now, on one hand, I’m a fan of the classic “Cosmos.” I’ve...
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