10: History, culture, the opinions of the majority, a minority or an authority are not evidence. 9. Beliefs are not truths, opinions are not facts. No matter how much you believe in something or want it to be true or real, that doesn't make it true, real or any more plausible.

Music in stores. You go into a store to buy something and then your ears are assaulted by crappy music. Even when the music is good you don't want to listen to it while you fucking shopping. Half the time I'm in a store I have a fucking headache because of the fucking music. Why [...]

I tried to write a post about this before but it turned into a post about how we are gods. When talking about GM food, cloning, stem cell research, etc some one will inevitably use a tired old cliché argument "your/they're playing god". They say these while they use computers made or metals that have [...]

October 21st was supposed to be the end of the world- or thats what Harold Camping said and it is now 10:00 pm mountain time US on December 23rd. That makes 12 times Camping was wrong. And what has he had to say about it? I’m sorry to disappoint you, but we at Family Radio [...]

Here we go again. I wander what will happen this time. Will the shock of bing wrong finally kill him? No he'll just slink back to his home and roll around necked in all the money his fallows gave him.

I wasn't going to do any posting tod- ... tonight except for one but when I saw this story I had to post about. Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity IN JUST a few weeks single-celled yeast have evolved into a multicellular organism, complete with division of labour between cells. This suggests that the [...]

Expelled on the block? Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the 2008 creationist propaganda movie fronted by Ben Stein — is scheduled to be auctioned, lock, stock, and barrel, pursuant to the bankruptcy proceeding of Premise Media Holdings LP. According to a document (PDF) filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of [...]

French government agency warns of mass suicides over apocalypse fears A report by the watchdog, Miviludes, published on Wednesday said the picturesque village near Carcassonne should be monitored in the run-up to December 21, 2012, when many believe the world will end according to an ancient Mayan prophecy. *sigh* As we get closer to December [...]

Of course it does, most people get that some don't. This is a (very late) fallow up post to my rant on anarchism Anarchists are anti-state, anti-government and anti-taxation. Despite popular belief there is no single form of anarchism. Like many ideologies anarchism exist as a spectrum ranging from anarcho-communism to anarcho-capitalism to a more [...]

Catholic bishops to take second look at abuse reforms (RNS) A review of church sex abuse guidelines will top the agenda when the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meet in Seattle next week (June 15-17). But no major changes have been proposed, according to church leaders, even after several recent reports have raised questions about the [...]