The Smug Baldy Speaks

Over on the comments on my Sylvia Brown’s 2007 predictions post, Bethany asked this: WHO CARES IF SHE IS FAKE?! WHAT HARM IS SHE DOING?!?!?!?! I almost let this slide, but couldn’t do that in good conscience. You tell me: Most famously, Sylvia tells Shawn Hornbeck’s parents that their child had been murdered. Oops, he’s [...]

This video is priceless. Here we have an Atheist and a True Believer having a calm, rational discussion about belief, knowledge, epistemology, and the existence of God. Of course, it’s rational up to the point at which the caller cannot contain his righteous fury.

Just when you thought that the battle for America’s soul was won, and the forces of lunacy and idiocy had retreated to the fetid holes from which they sprang, we find that Texas will be the new battleground for creationists bent on the destruction of rational thought in science education. In an editorial today on [...]

From Satire and Comment we have the miraculous story of an atheist that found an image of Big Bang in piece of toast: “I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. However, the direction and splatter patterns of [...]

You’re surrounded by Ghost Whisperers, Allison DuBuois, and freaky kids seeing dead people, so it’s only (super)natural to ask yourself, “Hey, could I be psychic?” Take our little test and find out if you have a hidden psychic ability. Have any of these things ever happened to you?

Many people like to think that humanity is rightfully master of the universe because only our species can perform complex symbolic reasoning and do cool things with our opposable thumbs. We enjoy our spot at the apex of the food chain, at the very pinnacle of evolution, even though we defined the rules by which [...]

Over on StupidEvilBastard recently, someone (not naming names) forgot “That guy with the million dollar challenge” for psychics. That guy, if you don’t know, is the esteemed James Randi, of the James Randi Educational Foundation (or JREF). Mr. Randi has been debunking kooks and frauds for years, and the JREF recently announced that it was [...]

The question is simple enough: As you watched the scores of U.S. Presidential debates, did you ever wonder why there has been no debate devoted to policy surrounding what may be the most important social issue of our time: Science and Technology? Well it turns out that plenty of folks wondered about this, and were [...]

With every presidential candidate shifting into total balls-out (or labia-out, as the case may be) pander-or-perish mode, I think it’s important to cut through the inane hype where possible, and get at their positions on issues that matter to me. One such issue is education. While the uneducated and undereducated aren’t necessarily stupid, they’re still [...]

Last year we took a look at the 2006 predictions of self-described psychic, Sylvia Browne. We had to wait until the 2007 in order to be able to make a fair judgment of her psychic predictions for 2006. Since it’s now 2008, let’s go back and track how well Sylvia Brown’s predictions for 2007 hold [...]