Recently I was talking with a friend who works with a 9/11 truther. He didn't think the truther's ideas were very credible but does find it intriguing that WTC7's collapse has never been explained. Except that it has; since 2002, there have been a series of explanations that put an increasingly fine point on what actually happened ( Read more... )

A frequently repeated myth in alt-med circles goes something like this:

Q: If naturally-based alternative medicine __$X__ is so cheap and so powerful, why isn't it dispensed or prescribed as medicine by doctors ( Read more... )

Two nights ago the Daily Show did a story about the peculiar case of Alvin Greene, the unemployed and simple spoken black man living at home with his father who, with no funds beyond his $10,000 entrance fee and no campaign website, defeated former Circuit Court Judge and four term state Senator Vic Rawl.

538dotcom_feed has been getting past the bizarre nature ( Read more... )

During the 2008 election Barack Obama's citizenship was challeneged and the campaign showed his birth certificate, but that wasn't enough for some people. They questioned the document's authenticity or pointed out that it's merely a "certification of live birth", not a "birth certificate". More recently recently it's popular to point out that the ( Read more... )

Summer is coming, which means it's power company scaremongering season. Specifically, the story about how power companies want to put "smart meters" and "smart thermostats" in your home so that they can "control your thermostat and appliances". Here's what's really going on ( Read more... )

There are at least three 9/11 conspiracy theories:

• One theory says that a group of Saudi Arabians conspired in Afghanistan to hijack jet airliners in New York and destroy the World Trade Center and Pentagon by flying their planes into them.
• Another theory says that the Bush Administration failed to protect America from the threat, then capitalized ( Read more... )

When George Bush suspended habeas or wiretapped without warrants it was bad, and I criticized him for it. When Barack Obama continued the practice it was also bad.

The same is unfortunately true for idiot political subgroups. I've mentioned that between Obama's birth certificate, death panels, and other conspiracy theories it's been a stupid ( Read more... )

I've heard the birther argument about "isn't it weird that Obama can't produce his original birth certificate?" I'm curious how many people actually can. I can't, but I can produce an officially certified physical copy of the original, which I think puts me in the same category as the President.

Poll Birth Certificate

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This morning matrushkaka and I had breakfast at Swan's Oyster Depot, and noticed that See's Candies had been evicted from their 1519 Polk location. The landlord has posted a sign in the window explaining that this has happened because of See's Candies' contribution to the Enron-sponsored 9/11 attacks.


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Gas prices are cheap right now. Really cheap. Between June and December, gas prices have dropped 56% from a national peak over $4 to $1.79 today. What's going on? The election's been over for almost a month now and prices keep falling. Wasn't the point of the Flying Spaghetti Republican Gas Conspiracy to artifically lower gas prices during ( Read more... )