Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
(Not so serious today, this is just for entertainment) For those of you that Use Facebook Pat Robertson has some “Spiritual” guidance for you. Side note, what the heck is “Spiritual” guidance? Apparently, in the 700 club context, it simply means “Whatever Pat Robertson says is fact on behalf of god”. So anyway, a question … Read more
Nothing too serious today, but instead a bit of fun. The folks over at Accounting Web posted up the following request to their clients about 2 weeks ago … What’s the weirdest, most bizarre, or just plain odd expense a client has tried to claim, or receipt they’ve handed in? We may have had a thread … Read more
Just how truly weird can claims made by serious intelligent people become? The answer would appear to be really really weird, because this latest example is truly quite stunning. David Klinghoffer, an author and Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, the organization that is the driving force behind the intelligent design movement has written an article within “Evolution News & … Read more
Shock horror … a “US Presidential Candidate” endorses a fringe conspiracy stance. Oh wait, things are not quite as advertised (but you already knew that, right?). So the story here is that an anonymous poster has posted a YouTube clip that asserts this rather strange claim, and it consists of an interview of US Presidential Candidate Merlin Miller … Read more
People believe some truly weird things, and yet even while believing, end up doing something different. My classical example of this concerns those that truly believed that Obama is the Anti-Christ. Now what makes that last one truly weird is as follows: A poll revealed that 13% of the US at the time of the … Read more
Amanda Marcotte, has a little list up on RawStory that she has posted to honor/mock some of the strangest characters that keep popping up in all corners of the internet … A definitive list of the weirdest people on the internet OK, it’s fun, so digest with a pinch of salt, and yet at the same … Read more