More in the everlasting battle between reason and blind faith. This one’s pretty good.

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For a bit of background, first watch this: Ok, so that breathtakingly stupid woman is a Senator from Arizona. She probably spends all her time finding vortexes in Sedona, but no matter. The really scary part is that she can influence policy discussions. And look at one argument that video caused on Facebook. I only [...]

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Something struck me the other night, a neat way of categorizing the people one sees in a moshpit at rock concerts. Maybe this is true only for metal shows, who knows, I’ve never seen any really violent pits at hard rock concerts. As you can see, the people right at the front are completely engrossed [...]

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Billed as the “Most Extreme Metal Tour of 2009″ and sponsored by such heavies as MetalSucks.net, the Summer Slaughter tour of 2009 was a mix of many things. It was long, from 2 PM to 12 AM, a full 10 hours of death metal goodness. We got to the King Cat theatre in Seattle around [...]

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Here’s the septoplasty update. My nose seems to have completely healed, but there are some post-operative swellings that refuse to die down.  I believe the technical term is “edema”. In any case, they must be dealt with, and so the surgeon’s prescribed all manner of pills and nasal sprays. The side-effect: insomnia! Sleeping at 3 [...]

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