Check out some of Derren Brown’s cold reading videos, he’s a magician who fully admits that he’s not a medium at all, and he performs some pretty astonishing readings. There are a lot of magicians and similar people who do debunking videos, and it’s crazy how specific and accurate they can get just by guessing.

Yep. There’s been a revival of interest in ostensibly “natural” forms of spiritualism, similar to the increased popularity of crystals. More and more people are reading tarot, putting stock in astrology, etc. I think it’s interesting looking at how much our culture has grown to embrace themes of fantasy, magic,…

That’s the power of cold reading, getting enough hits to let confirmation bias set in.

They sound like lyrics to a really fucked up version of “You Can Call Me Al.”

I always felt a little sorry for Wright Thompson, since he was Hunter S. Thompson’s son, and boy, it must be hard to follow in those shoes. But then one day I found out he wasn’t Hunter S. Thompson’s son. And then I didn’t feel sorry for him, and started to really dislike the hats he chooses to don.

At the insistence of his editor, the author ruefully removed the following sentence: “Glumly peering into their half-filled bowls of Lucky Charms, each morning, the downtrodden people of Dublin fill their thermoses full of whisky and stagger down to the pub, where they dance jigs and fight each other as the jukebox…

This is a great example of how government enablers of greedy corporations are far more dangerous than those corporations themselves. No corporation can put a gun to my head and make me buy their shit, but a government can sure as hell put a gun to my head and make me pay taxes for someone’s shit.

There was a real debate in the United States on the left of whether these were show trials. We know today they were; those people were pretty much all innocent. But some people were trying to rationalize, saying they must have been guilty.

...and in Pale Fire he even ripped off John Shade’s poem!
Con artist.

Charger fans have always been a bit fairweather, but the ownership didn’t do anything to endear itself over the last 15 yrs. The stadium issue has been around for a while, and that shit tends to turn people off.

For me it’s like surprise Christmas in July.

My company does business with Pilot Flying J. We asked them to complete a credit application as we were selling them several microwaves to their stores and they are notoriously slow about paying their invoices. They balked at the idea, saying that they were a large corporation with billions in revenue and shouldn’t…

“College athletes shouldn’t be paid because they get a free education.”

Dump the asshole who yanks the cup out of her hand to take credit for the ball. Believe me, he’ll only become more of a controlling asshole, not less.

You’re a typo.

i’m sitting here all like elmer fudd trying to figure out where to rig my trap. i want a lowered goal visible from the street covered by multiple cameras. then i want to string a clothesline in a square about 58" off the ground surrounding the goal.

I knew a girl who swallowed a pin when she was 11 but didn’t feel a prick until she was 17.

He didn’t say “hashtag dab hashtag jakepaulers hashtag yolo”? He has a lot of work to do; he might be the worst ever now, but there are depths he can still plumb!

Maybe in Japan things like facts still matter, but we’re making America great one ridiculous rumor at a time!