Hillary Clinton conceded today.  Barack Obama has finally emerged as the democratic candidate for president.

This was a fascinating parade of delusion campaign.  The democrats truly have made history, and will again in November, no matter who wins.  But what really floored me were the rabid Obama fans denouncing Clinton for "splitting up the party" ( Read more... )

This was originally a post over at my skeptic blog, Some Canadian Skeptic.  Why aren't you going there more often, and clicking on every single ad on the page?  Pappa needs to get laid paid!

As regular readers of this blog know (both of them), I've been way sick as of late. Shortly before my birthday at the begining of May, I was struck down by a ( Read more... )

 My skeptic blog, Some Canadian Skeptic is starting to see some decent traffic.  How do I know this?  I know this because someone is starting a fight flame war with me, and other people are joining in to help me.  Someone has even truncated my name to SCS (for some canadian skeptic.....duh).

Kickass.

For the first time in years, I yelled at a total stranger. It was some kid, early 20's, in the parking lot of my local strip-mall. When I pulled into my parking spot, all the surrounding cars had a piece of paper on their windshield. We've all had them: those annoying, litter-enabling advertisment flyers for some local what-ever-it-is that just ( Read more... )

I write this every year, it’s a kind of self-indulgence I allow myself every march: St. Patrick’s Day is the most racist day of the year.

Every year we “celebrate” St. Patrick’s Day by drinking ourselves stupid, beginning in the middle of the afternoon, then maybe getting into a few fights.  This is acceptable behavior because, we’re told, this is ( Read more... )

a re-vamp....again.

This blog is going to revert to its old format, that being personal/political/nonesensical stuff.

The new Skeptic Blog, Some Canadian Skeptic, is up, so check it out.

 Thanks to Mike Lacelle over at SGUFans.net for posting my bio.  The more I learn about the Skeptic community, the more I want to be a part of it.  I sure wish I could afford to get to TAM6 and meet some of these good-natured critical thinkers....it sounds like a great time!

But its snowing out, and I have to get out there and shovel the driveway ( Read more... )

 
Make like Pearl Jam & do the Evolution

When I was attending college in London, Ontario a few years ago, I was reading Roger Fouts’ exploration of the capacity of chimpanzees, both in the wild and in captivity, to learn language from humans, and their ability to create their own language. The cover portrayed a chimp in a Mr. Rogers-like sweater, an ( Read more... )

Trust no one: Especially Conspiracy Theorists

Let’s be honest: the world can be a scary place, where insurmountably terrible things can happen to destabilize our way of life, and our confidence in our place in the world.  When things as terrible as the JFK assassination and 9/11 strike a blow to our culture, we seek many things: solace, revenge, ( Read more... )

Being that facebook has become my go-to place for nonsensical this-and-thats, I've decided to change the content of this blog to reflect a more Skeptical bent.   So to inaugurate the new format (of sorts), I'm going to throw out some news about that old gold-mine of absurdity, Scientology.

Enough people (myself included) have written in great detail ( Read more... )