From Slacktivist: "Only a crazy person would take what we say seriously."

Every few years, tragically, some poor confused bastard fails to realize that it's all a big game, a pretense, a lie. He takes them seriously and he takes their words seriously and he behaves as someone who believes what they say. So Paul Hill murders a doctor in Florida. ( Read more... )

Sometimes people online will link to a comic strip and tell you, "This is the story of my life!" Well, yeah, this is the story of my life. Thank you, XKCD.

In other news, The Doctor has been following the news: Wikileaks, Cablegate, the media, and you.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, now apparently also known as Singles Awareness Day! You know what that means, don't you? It's time for The Cap'n's Unfortunate Valentine's CardsIf you've never visited that link before, do go. It's sure to make you feel better ( Read more... )

Looking Forward to 2010. "The 1910 film Looking Forward, directed by Theodore Marston, imagines a crazy dystopia where women rule the world. Because, as this film accurately predicted, women naturally became a political majority after getting the vote." [/adds paleofuture to reading list.]

And, via supergee: Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants.

First: If you are a LiveJournal user and you don't follow news, you probably should. Anyway, the most important bit is that LiveJournal now has new settings & flagging tools for "adult content," which you can read more about here. Note that by default, your search settings are "Use Moderate Filtering"--filter out explicit adult content. My guess is ( Read more... )

A Source Critisicm of Richard Dawkins, which will likely be entertaining to some of you and utterly confusing to others of you. This was linked to by Andrew Rilstone, comics fan, C.S. Lewis fan, Dr. Who fan, and general geek, who has been doing a fun job of picking apart Dawkins' God Delusion in his series
A Sceptic's Guide to Richard Dawkins. ( Read more... )

Via squidpiggy: Stephen King "considers the story of Anna Nicole Smith, the little girl who became a princess"--as well as the stories of other famous young women: A Modern Fairy Tale. Makes me want to go listen to my Carpenters albums and eat something fattening for Lent.

Reality related to that fairy tale, via mister_wolf, who was looking for good, realistic ( Read more... )

Freud famously declared the measurement of an emotionally healthy person is the ability to love and to work, which leaves the single unemployed person in a bit of a psychic car wreck. Isn’t it time to change the definition of adulthood, to possibly lower the standard a bit? How about just being someone who has never scrawled the name of a state ( Read more... )

A plea for less truths in advertising.

Just this morning I was thinking of some of the advantages of hanging out with weirdos. Among other things, people who know they're strange, folks who realize they're far from the mainstream, unlike "normal" people, tend not to expect me to think the way they do. They usually recognize that my disagreement with their views of reality is neither a ( Read more... )