How fundies and conspiranoids are reverting to an ancient, superstitious mindset and taking you with them Check out the no-head guy in front. You suck, AI "art." ----------------------------------------------------------- In her 1979 essay "Total Eclipse," Annie Dillard (the Werner Herzog of nature writing) described her viewing of a solar eclipse in Washington's Yakima Valley as a... Continue Reading →
2014: The Year in Psychic Fail
It's that time of year again: Time to review some of the psychic predictions made for last year. Sylvia Browne is out of the picture now, but as Illuminutti has pointed out, she made one last set of predictions that turned out to be very wrong. How did the upstart psychics fare? Nikki, "Psychic to... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup: Slow News Week
As the U.S. seethes with racial tension, protestors swarm the streets of Hong Kong, and missiles gut Syria, a few intrepid journos have somehow managed to ferret out the real stories... Say, does anyone remember the absurdly disappointing mystery of those invisible flying creatures known as "rods"? No? Well, let Oklahoma City's News 9 take... Continue Reading →