This Whole Susan Boyle Thing

I really don’t like “talent”-type TV shows… but that has changed. If you don’t know why or you haven’t seen this clip from Britain’s Got Talent, then you should watch it immediately.
Now if the fame and attention causes Susan’s life to spiral out of control and she end’s up hooked on pain-killers, used-up, and dead [...]

Truth Is a Woman Turns Six! (months old)

Last week Truth Is a Woman did what only 33% of blogs do — made it past the 6 month mark! Of course the real test is 1 year, so come readers and commenters and help Truth live! (at least for a year or so…)
Here’s a round-up of what we at TIW consider to be [...]

More on Non-Physcial Existence

This is the kind of reasoning we get when we assert that non-physical, non-material things exist. You may recall that over the past couple threads I have argued that concepts (like the number 2) are physical because they exist as ideas in our heads — and ideas in our heads have a physical component. They [...]

Creating Fear with Large Numbers

Yesterday, a friend of mine brought to my attention a set of figures concerning our government’s injection of money (it doesn’t have) into businesses (that have mismanaged themselves into needing it).
A post at boingboing puts it this way…

The “Fuck You Elmo”

Are you prepared for this future?

The Supreme Court is debating the f-word. You know–that one. No, not “flag”. No, not “founding fathers.” No, not “freedom” either. Yeah. That one. And since they couldn’t say it, I won’t say it either… not until the next parapraph.
The problem at hand is the use of swear words [...]

How Stupid Are We?

And by we, I mean thee. Obviously Ty, Roger, Yeiser, and I have a lot on the ball. Just kidding folks. A good interview with Rick Shenkmen, who lifts the hood and takes a look at ideas like “the Americans are smart voters” and “I believe the children are our future” and throws a few [...]

Dragons: a matter of true or false

Recent posts on this blog have addressed the scientific process in different degrees. A cornerstone in science is not only how to know what is true, but also how to identify false claims.
Brian Dunning, host and producer of the Skeptoid podcast, presents invaluable tools to assess the truthfullness of different claims in his video “Here [...]

Playing the sexist card…

Who knows how the McCain camp will characterize the following plea (after the jump) by Campbell Brown of CNN to take down the sexist forcefield around veep Nominee Sarah Palin. Perhaps by saying that it’s an example of the “the Sexist Card.” I hope somewhere, someone is holding the “Rational Card” which in most games is [...]