Skeptophilia

After yesterday's rather depressing post about politics, today we're going to turn our eyes away from the troubled and turbulent Ear...

Remember what I said about how every time I think things in our government have reached the absolute nadir, someone just raises the nadir-ba...

I keep wanting to bring you some good news, honestly I do.  But lately all I've seen is more reason to fuel my inner pessimist. The la...

It is a general rule of human behavior that it is way easier to make people afraid of something than it is to convince them that what they f...

To all of my readers in California:  I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you're all gonna die. I know, I know, I shoul...

I know I tend to write about frustrating topics -- my usual fare is illogic, irrationality, gullibility, hoaxes, and general foolishness.  A...