The atheists, in arrogance, say man evolved from slime From nothingness to everything, and all you need is time With no one there to witness it, they simply cannot know The truth is, they are idiots… the bible tells me so. I may not know my science, but I know my holy book It’s got …
Category Archive: skepticism
Aug 07 2012
Olympic Placebos
The reality’s hard to escape: It’s just sticky and bright-colored crepe. It’s absurd, or it’s funny; It’s made lots of money— The placebo, Kinesio Tape Just a few observations, prompted by a post on NPR’s Health Blog and by my observations of the US Olympic trials. That brightly colored tape adorning the shoulders, legs, and …
Jul 21 2012
21 Burned, In Clear Lack Of Faith
All the misses and the misters Who walked barefoot over coals And whose tootsies got some blisters In defiance of their goals Will be told they lacked conviction Or they’d overcome the heat— It’s a victim-blaming fiction, And a scam that can’t be beat You can pay a lot of money To achieve a state …
Jul 14 2012
On Open- And Closed-Mindedness
They’re calling us “closed minded”, cos we say we don’t expect Any evidence for god to come along Their sycophants agree with them, or did last time I checked, But their use of “open-mindedness” is wrong The odds are very small that there is evidence to find That would make a non-believer come around What …
Mar 22 2012
It Just Goes To Show You, It’s Always Something…
I once met a fellow whose face would turn blue As he thundered “I’m tellin’ ya, brother— When I look at the things people tell me are true… If it isn’t one thing, it’s another.” “To doubt the Big Bang—why, the notion’s absurd— The trick is, before the Big Bang was God’s Word” (more, after …
Feb 24 2012
Nebraska Ghosts! (This Way To The Egress!)
They heard the museum was haunted! Undaunted, They brought their equipment, to see for themselves. Recorders and other such get-up were set up Midst Indian artifacts filling the shelves You might, given that’s what your choice is, hear voices In fuzzy recordings and that sort of thing The noises they’ve heard may be ghostly, but …
Feb 05 2012
Reading Asparagus
We’ll fathom what becomes of us By tossing some asparagus; Examine it; determine, thus, The path we’re bound to take. A path we know; we need no scouts! We know it well; we have no doubts! We heard it from the Brussels sprouts, The choices we must make. The cabbages and collard greens, The lettuces …
Jan 08 2012
NH Primary, Written In The Stars
The stars and the planets don’t give half a fuck For the fates of the people on earth But astrologers think they can tell us the luck Of the candidates, based on their birth. Who will win? Who will lose? How can anyone know? All the pundits are seeking an answer; Can we know who …
Dec 28 2011
Times Square Jumbotron Strikes Again
Via James Randi’s Swift, a time-sensitive message. Remember when the National Vaccine Information Center ran ads this past April, on the Times Square Jumbotron? They’re baaaack: (Important stuff, after the jump:)
Dec 22 2011
Hey! A New Book!
With me in it! How did I not write about this yet? The Young Australian Skeptics have put together a Skeptical Blog Anthology, which is now available–proceeds from sales go directly to the Young Australian Skeptics, which is only part of why you should buy several copies. The other reason is, well, the stuff between …
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