The Smug Baldy Speaks

Last week on the season premier of Real Time with Bill Maher, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow raised the issue of a national Voter ID in response to a conversation about how it’s possible to steal votes using Diebold’s automated voting machines. By simply mentioning voter fraud , Tony successfully switched the topic [...]

This is a nice little video from loadingreadyrun.com about the future history of the world following Halo 3.

Mole Men live only in our imaginations and nightmares.

Pat Condell goes on a nice rant about where the limits of Cultural Sensitivity should be in Europe. The take home message? Europeans should stand up and protest the creeping “Islamization” of their culture, and do so to show Americans that they really do have some collective backbone.

There are plenty of horror flicks out there, but way deep down we know they’re fictional and so we’re not really scared by them. Startled, maybe. Disgusted, sure. But not really scared. No, in order for a movie to really reach inside you and send an icy chill all along your spine, there has to [...]

Earlier, we had a bit of fun with Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler from Florida concerning an appearance on The Colbert Report that was, um, edited a bit by Fox News. Last week, Wexler introduced his measure censuring President Bush for : “his unconscionable abuse of his authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events [...]

My wife gets kudos for this one: The Foundation for Critical Thinking has posted a list of critiques in the news, titled Police States or Critical Societies? Critical Thinking and the Forces Arrayed Against It. The list starts with a brief introduction that asserts: There are two opposing social tendencies relevant to critical thinking, each [...]

On Thursday, the Republican presidential candidates demonstrated their support for civil rights at the NAACP GOP Presidential Candidate Forum. Unlike their democratic counterparts, 90% of the GOP presidential candidates elected to skip the NAACP Forum. GOP frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani apparently forgot about the event, and attended a $1000/plate fund raiser instead: After his speech, Giuliani [...]

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 [...]