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Is the earth flat or round? What’s your opinion?

Today, I saw a headline that pretty much summed up what I think is fundamentally wrong about this society. On ATL Boy, they featured a story from American Idol Buzz that asks, “Who won American Idol? Scotty or Lauren?” As if. Needless to say, Scotty McCreary, the teen country singer, took home the [...] [...]

Beck’s Egypt conspiracy: when ignoring idiocy is no longer an option

Sometimes, I think, people’s insane babbling is so ridiculous that it doesn’t even bear addressing, but rather should just be dismissed quickly and quietly, lest its lunatic, baseless nature be given some credence and validation. “I won’t justify that with a response,” the old saw goes. Some years ago, I recall a talk show host [...] [...]

For Love or Money- Political Pull vs Profit

So, Bill O’Reilly says that without sponsors, a show can’t stay on the air. Not true! The liberal watchdog group, Media Matters, this morning takes O’Reilly to task for his commentary yesterday about the MTV show, Skins, and its loss of advertisers, apparently as a consequence of the show’s controversial content . [...] [...]

Arbitrary belief and rational thinking

Two Very Different Functions of the Human Brain Well, today’s Glenn Beck’s absurd “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, and I’m sure Dr King is rolling in his grave, but my doctors tell me that I have to maintain a low distress level to grow my t-cell count, so I’m not going to dwell. [...] [...]

The semantics of deceit

Using Glenn Beck as an object lesson There are several different terms we need to understand in order to accurately analyze deceit. Most importantly, we need to understand that an untruth, or a falsehood, is not the same thing at all as a lie. The word “lie” implies specifically, a misleading argument made on [...] [...]