It’s the modern world I live in, And I use it when I can I get all my information From my common, fellow man I won’t venture an opinion Till I see what others think— And I’ll read it all in pixels, Cos I cannot wait for ink. Yes, the internet is perfect When you …
Category Archive: Critical Thinking
Jan 30 2013
Doing “Wrong” Right
Two experts, both alike in views (So much, you can’t tell whose is whose) Saw something on the evening news Which challenged their belief And something that they’d thought was right, Believing in with all their might, They now saw in a different light— It brought them both to grief The first said “well, I’ve …
Jan 18 2013
Disaster Preparation 101
There’s a chance we’ll be demolished by an asteroid from space There’s a chance a wayward comet comes our way There’s a certain probability the dangers that we face Mean tomorrow is our last surviving day There’s the promise of a super-quake that shakes us to the core Or the ultimate volcano of them all …
Apr 25 2012
Clues…
A small handful of commenters on my Rainbow Connection poll said they knew what I was getting after. Could be, actually. If you know me well, I’m pretty predictable. As a clue, a hint, to those people (and anyone else who wants to guess), I’ll refer back to a favorite verse, and my all-time favorite …
Mar 24 2012
Adam Savage’s Reason Rally Speech
I heard great things about this on twitter while he was speaking. Very nearly teared up at the end, watching it. Embedding has been disabled for this video, but watch it here, on youtube. EDIT–Commenter Articulett points us to a very nice video of part of Tim Minchin’s performance. Also via Articulett, Nate Phelps’s speech. …
Jan 27 2012
On Adequate Sampling
He claimed it was a goblet of the sweetest, purest wine But the first sip tastes like vinegar to me. He said, “but near the bottom there’s a sip that’s just divine— You may have to drink a lot of it to see.” He calls me narrow-minded cos I haven’t tried the rest Says my …
Jan 04 2012
Attack Of The Undead Scarecrows
If the scientific method uses senses, which are flawed, Then the scientists who use it, when they poke their fun at God, Have no guarantee of certainty, and so they might be wrong Which is what religious faithful have been saying all along. Religion studies subjects, though, which no one has observed, There’s no observation …
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