The Smug Baldy Speaks

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.

Over at ThinkProgress, there’s a small piece about President Bush’s remarks about something he’s learned from his visit to the Rawandan Genocide Museum:. BUSH: A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other [...]

So I took a touch typing test on my new iMac, and what do you know: 8,789 words BAM – top that luhoo-zuhers. No wait, that’s my XBOX gamer score. Shit, at least I can edit html to make it look as if I broke the mythical 35 wpm barrier.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Someone posted a stupid comment yesterday in my post about comedian Sylvia Browne’s horrible accuracy for her 2006 predictions, and I wondered why it was that my claims were treated with such disdain, while Sylvia’s wrong predictions (like the one that Arnold Schwarzenegger would lose his re-election bid) were glossed over. Then it occurred to [...]

Please see the updated analysis at the bottom of this post for any corrections and notes. Below is a list of predictions that famed psychic superhero Sylvia Browne made at the beginning of 2006. Let’s see how well she did. Weather and Natural Disaster Predictions for 2006: The weather this year will be worse than [...]

On the Skeptic forum, Robbynne asked: Does anyone happen to know if there is a website anywhere that documents her [Self-Proclaimed Psychic, Sylvia Browne's] hits and misses? I’d love to see what type of an average she gets (I suspect random guessing produces a higher average IMHO). I tried googling it, but I didn’t come [...]

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 [...]