Censorship

The Great Accomplishments of Hired Skeptics

Shermerism: (noun) A delusional, pedantic belief system wherein all scientific wisdom is presumed already known. “Behold my marvelous Shermerism. I am so smart I know all science laws and paradigms and that includes future mathematical branches I prematurely criticize. As a gatekeeper in a secret brotherhood of illuminated miscreants I am the self-appointed judge of ultimate wisdom and falsehood. I play a devil's advocate just to be an asshole, and most people don’t really like me.” […]

JAG

Why Cecil the Lion Matters and Other Lives Don’t

When we hear about a beloved lion named Cecil tortured for 40 hours by an American trophy hunting dentist, we still have a child-like innocence and can still see this majestic creature unsullied by years of negative media conditioning. It would be different if that innocence was exposed to lion "terror alerts" every day. […]

Hillary Clinton

Guess Who Opposed the Civil Rights Act?

Hillary Clinton of course. But who was Barry Goldwater, the man this Young Republican was supporting? "Former U.S. Senator Prescott Bush was a friend of Goldwater and supported him in the general election campaign. Bush's son, George H. W. Bush (then running for the Senate from Texas against Democrat Ralph Yarborough), was also a strong Goldwater supporter in both the nomination and general election campaigns." […]

Independent Press

Thirty – Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer

Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend.
Use different meanings of your opponent's words to refute his argument. Example: Person A says, "You do not understand the mysteries of Kant's philosophy. "Person B replies, "Of, if it's mysteries you're talking about, I'll have nothing to do with them." […]

History

Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State… It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." […]

Cloak and Dagger

CIA’s Greatest Hits: COMING SOON

Chairman Frank Church, D- Idaho., the Senate Intelligence Committee, holds up a poison daft gun as co-chairman John G. Tower, R-Texas looks at the weapon during a session the panel's probe of the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1975 in Washington. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin) […]

Censorship

The Lincoln-Kennedy Parallels That Really Matter

Booth:  "I would be permitted to pass and protected by himself (Mr. Johnson) absolutely in my escape, and that on the death of President Lincoln, he (Vice-President Johnson) would become president of the United States, and that in this official capacity I could depend on him for protection and absolute pardon, if need be, for the crime of killing President Lincoln, which he had suggested to me and I had agreed to perform." […]

Entertainment

Select Children’s Books by Madonna

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like Madonna's sham. Would you like her shitty books here or there? I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham, "The English Roses," or Viagra spam. I do not like Madonna, ma'am. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse? I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like how you inquire. I hope you all die in a fire. […]