No, “neat” would be without ice.

The Christopher Columbus proving the world is round myth is thanks to the made up bullshit “history” of Washington Irving. Unfortunately, there’s many bits of accepted US history (the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, for example) that he just made up.

Even the Catholic Church taught that the world was round during…

Step 1: Title says “five (whatevers)“

I deny it because it sounds just like my little brother saying nuh uh, he turned on his invisible forcefield first thing this morning, right after I shoot him with my nuclear grenade launcher. It’s too pat and I don’t like the reasoning, it feels wrong.

Ok, I’ll bite. I am a dark matter denier. “Well shucks, either our math is wrong or the universe is 90% made up of unfindable immeasurable equationbalancer stuff.”

This philosophical train of thought raises another interesting question. If an exact copy of you isn’t really you, then is the future you really you? In other words are you the same person you were 5 minutes ago, or 5 nanoseconds about? If spatial displacement means you are now someone else, shouldn’t the same idea be…

Alter the timetable a little bit and imagine this scenario instead:

There was a nursing home across the street from a mortuary near where I grew up. My dad used to tell me (and I believed him) that they had a big air gun that would shoot the bodies over the street. Every time we drove by I would stare out of the car window waiting to see a body fly over the street. I hold him…

Reading is FUNdamental!

From the article above:
“Look at Chipotle, for instance. Despite a huge, coordinated effort to trace back just where the contamination was coming from, the source of its E. coli outbreak is still a mystery.”

I have been teaching “The Paper Menagerie” to high school kids since I read it here a few years ago. I specialize in the tougher kids. If there’s a kid with a learning disability, who doesn’t speak English well, who’s already dropped out five times, who reads at a third grade level? Welcome to WideStance’s class.

Can I just add this little tidbit:

Or she tried to move on, realized that no one really cares about anything she does that isn’t Harry Potter, and is returning to that well until it’s dry.

I mean honestly after she told us the US equivalent of Muggle was “No-Maj” I pretty much knew by that point she wasn’t even trying.

Oh man, how did I also not catch that. That’s also insanely bad.

I love Harry Potter so much but it doesn’t scale. It works in the confines of a school in a small country. Trying to apply it world wide is where you run into massive problems because not everything can fit into it’s sandbox (how would the magical community explain the Holocaust?). American history is particularly…

Even though the concept of a United States of America didn’t exist until the late 18th Century.

You're baffled that someone who grew up dealing with the problems created by an alcoholic parent doesn't want to touch the same stuff that made his/her childhood so difficult? How is that tough to grasp? Would you be baffled if I don't want to try crack because my mother was a crack whore or should I still just try…

I was absolutely surprised, as was nearly everyone else I knew.

Seriously? No Sixth Sense? I’d put that over Fight Club and even Psycho.