Last month, when I addressed the St. Louis Skeptics Society, I talked about the lack of skepticism in the mass media and how the vast majority of outlets report trend stories without bothering to fact-check them. They just run with what they think is “common knowledge” because they see everyone else running with it. That […]
I’ve been having a problem with my left foot since April, when I strained my achilles tendon playing tennis. I thought it was the kind of injury that would heal itself if I just stopped playing for a few months. I’ve had lots of those injuries, like the broken toe, in which there’s no reason […]
You go out to dinner, park your car in a public area, but forget to lock the doors. When you come back, a thief has opened the door and taken something valuable you left on the seat, or perhaps ripped your car stereo out. That scenario has played out thousands of times in thousands of […]
My friend Danny got into a fight the other day. A drunk had been ragging on some other people repeatedly, being a genuine jerk, and when he finally used a derogatory word towards Danny, they ended up taking it outside. I wasn’t there, but saw cell-phone video shot by a mutual friend. It was less […]
Imagine if every kid who took a towel from the linen closet, wrote a big “S” on it, tied it around his neck, and then got hurt while pretending to be Superman turned around and sued someone. Now stop imagining, and meet the reality of litigious America in the 21st century. Yet another school district […]
There were a protest and counter-protest in New York yesterday over the Islamic community center project, a controversy that has lasted far too long already. Many of the protesters who don’t want the project completed held up signs with viciously anti-Muslim sentiments, while they should have had signs saying “I’m among the easily manipulated Americans […]