You know all that screening, profiling and backscatter nudie x-rays you have to go through to get from point A to point B via plane, all “for your safety”? It’s a sham. It’s security theatre. It’s not to make you safer, it’s to make you think you’re safer. Know how I know? A loaded and …
Category Archive: Current Events
Oct 26 2011
Police in Oakland disperse crowd using a flashbang while they try to rescue Iraq vet
Way to go, you jackbooted thugs, you fascist assholes. I hope you feel really big now. These people were trying to rescue the 24 year old two-tour Iraq War veteran you just shot in the face with a tear gas canister — fracturing his damned skull, by the way — and you have the gall …
Oct 15 2011
Unpacking the Astrology Vs Computers lawsuit
The title to this post is grossly reductionist, but it amused me. Regardless, I’m not planning on taking on astrology yet again, just the particular astrologers who are engaged in what I view to be a money-grab along the same lines as the now defunct SCO Group.* A company called Astrolabe was founded in 1979, …
Oct 07 2011
Ada Lovelace Day: who’s your favorite woman STEM researcher?
While I’ve been so caught up in work and trying desperately to manage blog dramatics today, I very nearly missed writing this post. Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day when you pick a woman who has inspired great change in this world in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and post …
Sep 28 2011
Exorcism: what’s the harm?
Oh, no harm, no harm at all. A 13-year-old girl suffocated after she was strapped down and doused with water by her father and a monk who were trying to expel an “evil spirit”, according to Japanese police and media reports. [...] “They allegedly strapped the victim to a chair with belts and doused her …
Sep 02 2011
James Randi in Halifax Sept. 30th
I need to see this. I’ll have to get off work early to make this visit, but this might be my last chance to see the man that took out Uri Geller in person. James Randi’s doing a tour of Canada, and his ultimate destination is St. Mary’s University in Halifax. Randi will be speaking …
Aug 28 2011
Berkeley catches a supernova within hours of explosion
This is awesome. Within hours of it happening, Berkeley scientists observed a supernova in a nearby galaxy, a mere 21 million light years away. This is in relative time, naturally — technically, the light has been travelling 21 million years to reach us, so it happened 21 million years ago if there’s a way to …
Aug 27 2011
This can only end in cruel and unusual punishment.
Via Mother Jones: “We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference Friday. Bloomberg annouced a host of extreme measures being taken by New York City in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, including a shutdown of the public transit system and the unprecedented mandatory evacuation of some 250,000 …
Aug 27 2011
Hurricane Irene as seen from space
It may be a lumbering behemoth that’ll peter mostly out before it hits us here in Canuckistan, but it looks like there’s pretty much no avoiding this one. If you’re anywhere on the East Coast, you’re in this juggernaut’s way. It’s very sunny and bright and cheery-looking here at the moment. Meanwhile, everyone on Twitter …
Aug 19 2011
The Fate of Dennis Markuze
An update on the strange case of “Dave Mabus” and his one-man crusade against atheists, scientists and journalists: The Montreal man who had been wanted by police for allegedly making online death threats against people all over the world appeared in court on Friday to face 16 charges. Known online as “David Mabus”, Dennis Markuze …
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