Uncle Fishbits

Mark my words – today was one of the most important days in the history of science, humanism, and non belief in regards to politics and science’s “rightful place” in our society.
It was truly momentous.
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Reprint from the Center for Free Inquiry email bulletin.  Press Release, 20th January, 2009 – IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 20, 2009

Center for Inquiry [...]

Ode to a Fixed Gear hipster jerk (I half expect him to read this here on yelp):
So… if you have an impressionable 20 something hipster chick, and you are a total asshat that thinks it would be cool to get her on a fixed gear bike without helping her understand how it works, take a [...]

I don’t want to sound cynical in an attempt to be skeptical; but I have a problem with our current panicked mindset about global warming.
Everyone is stating that it is happening.  Not that I don’t agree… but I like to see evidence, and often when that evidence is over my head or lacking I adopt [...]

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=12811433

Wow.

Atheism is such an absolute lack of faith.  I never had religion to lose, nor can I shake my lack of faith.
But agnosticism, as a wise man recently told me (while musing that we are leaves of some sort), is “where it’s at”.
I think agnosticism might be even more skeptical than an absolute, possibly.
I think [...]

What is yelp?  Yelp means frat boys playing business long enough to build a psuedo hipster social fan club group of alcoholic scenesters so that they can, as the bouncers did to them, say “no, you can’t come in.”

5 years ago wouldn’t have made sense
10 years even less sense.
I wonder if it makes any know.

I am too tired for some rambling espousal on the nature of horror film and the curiosity of how the human condition is entrenched in tragedy and pain… and why we all want to watch.
BUT….. PAIN IS ENHANCED IF DELIBERATELY INFLICTED
Wow.
That is all.
The implications seem impressive.  At least…. I know I could tie this in [...]

This is wholly hypothetical.  This is my ode to 80% of people who are on user generated travel or peer review sites.  This has nothing to do with anyone or anything, and was written esoterically and without a situation in mind.  It is simply the direction of social media I have seen as of late:
So, [...]

Where does the time go?  A wayward lunch hour led me to an exchange of misprinted vinyl… and 40 minutes in the meter turns into another 20 with a race to beat the meter maid while accidently freaking out ameoba security that I was stealing the records I accidently ran outside with.
So the mind goes [...]