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I really like this song. That's what kills me.

This is Tom Morello. If that name doesn't sound familiar, his guitar work should be. Rage Against the Machine. Audioslave.

Here's a picture of him.

Isn't that the most darling Mao cap you've ever seen? And there's a hammer and sickle emblem. Precious. Do you really think Morello supports a defunct ( Read more... )

More than one in three women have experienced sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey.

Holy crap, that sounds terrible. One in three? That sounds AWFULLY high, don't you think?

That's because it's nonsense.

Check out these Orwellian ( Read more... )

“We’re not thinking machines, we’re feeling machines that happen to think.” - Blindsight, Peter Watts

For those who don’t know his work, Watts is a hard sci-fi writer. His premises are intriguing and original. Most of his works are available as free ebooks, and are well worth checking out.

feminism (at least in its naive, popular form) that the two sexes are identical in every respect have led many women to assume that their value in the sexual marketplace will never diminish and that young men will perceive them as something other than all-too-willing receptacles for easy, no-strings recreational sex. Men and women aren’t the same. ( Read more... )

It has always mystified me why smart people - geniuses - believe in bullshit. I'm not talking about when they disagree with me, and my ideas - that can be clarifying for me - but when they advocate premises that are demonstrably false.

The answer is in the book Why People Believe Weird Things. Shermer says that smart people use their superior ( Read more... )