Archive for the 'Skepticism'

This post is undoubtedly going to irritate some of my longtime readers, but as I often like to say it has the great virtue of being true. I mostly agree with Michael Moynihan that the Koch brothers have too often been used as a cartoon bad guy by liberals painting with too broad a brush and that them buying the Tribune Company and the many newspapers it owns isn’t really that big a deal. Do try to read the whole post before firing up the flamethrower. Read more

With Sylvia Browne getting a huge backlash after her claim a decade ago that Amanda Berry was dead was disprove by Berry showing up alive, other “psychics” are trying like hell to distance themselves from her. Oh yeah, we knew she was a fraud, they claim, but we’re totally different. Read more

After several days of taking a well-deserved public beating over having told the mother of one of the young women who was kidnapped a decade ago and was found alive last week, Sylvia Browne has finally responded to the uproar with a self-serving and inane statement: Read more

Three women in Cleveland who disappeared ten years ago were found alive this week and three brothers who allegedly kidnapped them have been arrested. One of the women actually called the police and it turns out that they were living a few blocks from where they were abducted from: Read more

Today is the official National Day of Prayer, declared so by congressional decree. As an alternative, the American Humanist Association has also declared it to be the National Day of Reason. And one of the supporters of this idea is Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina and the nominee to be the next secretary of transportation. Read more