The Smug Baldy Speaks

I recently posted some thoughts about the US recent decision to sell $20 Billion of advanced weaponry to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I just saw this quote by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on the subject. Enjoy: “A few weeks ago the White House announced plans to sell $20 billion in weapons to the [...]

In part of one True Believer’s drive by on my Sylvia Browne piece, in which the commenter admitted that I amaze her, she said: Of course, I’m one that doesn’t believe the human race ever had a tail or gills too. Although she went on to say how she wasn’t, “so closed minded that I [...]

Let’s face it – spam is not going away, not ever. Spam’s resilience in the face of our contempt and outrage is simple to explain: It works. Every so often, there’s a perfect storm of sender and subject line that will entice some poor schmuck to go against his better judgment and open the spam [...]

Today’s Seed Daily Zeitgeist had a really cool link to a portion of a talk given by Ken Miller about a prediction made by evolution that, if wrong, could allow for the rejection of the entire theory. Guess we’re not rejecting evolution today. Ain’t science grand?

I saw this over at Skeptico. Rather than simply ridiculing The Secret for the absolute bullshit that it is, The Chaser’s take a better approach: they entertain us while they ridicule The Secret for the absolute bullshit that it is. Sometimes you just have to make fun of stupidity, especially since it’s immune to logic.

Les Jenkins over at The Stupid Evil Bastard tagged me, so I must needs out this damn spot by upholding my end of the bargain. First, the rules: We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write [...]

On another blog, someone asked this about the Alabama school board : Again, I ask, when did it get to be a good and acceptable thing in this country to be so fucking stupid? My response: You know, to me it’s tempting to fall into the trap of calling evolution deniers stupid. But it’ a [...]