Glad you want to point out hypocrisy, but this isn't it. This is how mutual funds work, especially the only kinds of mutual funds you should invest in: passive index funds. Index funds are designed to exactly mirror the performance of their target market, so they own shares of stock in *all* of the companies that…

That reminds me, I saw a listicle today with the headline "Top 30 Hottest Female Politicians"

I often wonder if the people who become wealthy as "holistic doctors" and "wellness coaches" or who write nonsense self-help books have some unique insight into the art of bullshit that allows them to succeed; or if there are lots of these people, and a small number of them get very lucky at the nexus of timing,…

If you are in a spin class and your instructor has you doing anything on an indoor bicycle that you would not do on an outdoor bicycle, you urgently need to find another instructor. All of the new shit that's being done in "spin class" these days is not beneficial, at all, and a lot of it is potentially dangerous.

How far you go depends on how much power you generate. Outdoors, power is easy to measure: more power = more distance in less time. On an indoor bicycle, you generate more power by spinning the flywheeel faster (bad) or by increasing the resistance on the flywheel (good), or both. Optimal cycling cadence varies…

Because it's the most iconic image of her character from the films, and the most popular, and toy companies are in business to make money?

Hey, look, it's a human.

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We're dealing with people who can't be bothered to even try to understand the point of view of the people they are arguing with. If you don't believe in a god, it must be because something bad happened to you. It's the same nonsense in the Left Behind series. If you don't believe in Jesus, there must be something…

Gwyneth Paltrow wanted to marry a rock star, so she went out and found the safest, tamest possible rock star to marry.

So, basically, yes to Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights, no to Techno Viking. Got it.

I remember when MTV would only play the music video for Like A Prayer late at night, because of the controversy over Black Jesus. Yes, kids, that's how openly racist you could be in the 80s.

I hope that Courtney will soon be visited by the appropriate authorities. Emphasis on appropriate.

Keep hiring employees like this, Branson, and I will continue to always fly Virgin America whenever possible.

Meh, not really. Some of his children's books are overtly political. The Butter Battle Book is about the insanity of the nuclear arms race and the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction.

I hope Sarah Palin has accepted that she is now so little respected that she is used for comic relief, or what passes for it, at Republican conventions.

I imagine it is rather difficult for Jared Leto to recognize acting, so I suppose I can forgive him his mistake.

This is what happens when doing an AMA on Reddit is passed off as just another junket interview by publicists. Bland responses to the most tame questions. If you piss off Redditors enough, though, you get the Rampart AMA.

As Hitch says, well, in the Bible, Lazarus was resurrected, as was the daughter of Jairus, and no one seemed to make a big fuss about either incident, so it seems that resurrection was "something of a banality at the time."

This is just silly. Fundamentally, as long as the sun is shining, we will have food — and sunshine is not a finite resource (at least for the next few billion years). Growing more food than we use is not a problem. The problem is food distribution. Some places are overfed, some places are starving. That is the…