Please Remember That Funding Terrorists is Illegal…mmmk?

Posted: March 15, 2013 by JesusLovesBags in Politics, Sports
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When I saw the Salon.com headline NFL under scrutiny for “gay checking” – NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told the NFL’s Roger Goodell to investigate, I was initially glad to hear that the NFL was getting some real pressure on this.  After all, what the hell does one’s sexual orientation have to do with whether or not you can run fast or catch a ball?  It doesn’t.  But NFL recruiters are concerned with gays because hyper-pseudo/faux-maculinity (of which homophobia is an integral ingredient), is a defining characteristic of football culture.

But as I read on, I felt nagged by something that I couldn’t quite put my finger on.  Read the rest of this entry »

Vitamin C Megadosing & the Nobel Disease

Posted: January 27, 2013 by JesusLovesBags in Skepticism
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Anyone that has ever been to one knows that the gym locker room is a curious place as one often over-hears others’ conversations (not to mention the strange predilection for some guys to feel compelled to walk around in nothing but a t-shirt).  

Last week I overheard two strangers talking about the cold season and how its especially bad this year.  Then one of them offered a solution: megadosing on vitamin C.  Oh boy, here we go; some dumbass is going to start offering some dubious medical advice to a stranger (at least I assume they’re strangers to each other as one guy asked the others name when they departed).  His protocol was to basically take about 30,000mg of vitamin C over the course of the workday.  First you start out taking 500mg; an hour later, 1,000; another hour 2,000; and keep doubling until you get up to 16,000mg.

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Penn Sate and Steubenville, OH – Not So Different

Posted: January 6, 2013 by JesusLovesBags in Sports
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The fallout from the Sandusky scandal and the ensuing Penn State coverup continues.  Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Corbett, has filed suit against the NCAA claiming that the sanctions it levied against Penn State were “arbitrary and capricious” and that the “punishments threaten to have a devastating, long-lasting, and irreparable effect on the commonwealth, its citizens, and the economy.”

This is a very curious lawsuit in my un-professional opinion since as far as I can tell, the economic impact resulting from the sanctions is the primary complaint and basis for the lawsuit.  This is curious because that is precisely what the intended impact was.  Sanctions without any detrimental effects would fail to adequately punish the institution that so blatantly covered up child rape in service of its football team, not to mention that it would fail to serve as a meaningful deterrence to other would-be obfuscatory institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill Gates Did Not Say That

Posted: December 19, 2012 by JesusLovesBags in Politics
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Over the past few days I’ve seen the revival of a quote attributed to Bill Gates giving a commencement speech to a high school.  It seems that this trope has been going around the intertubes for over a decade, originally as part of an email chain.  Here’s what’s been making the rounds on Facebook (including the pic):

Bill Gates recently gave a Commencement speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Thoughts

Posted: December 17, 2012 by Marc Johnson in Religion, Skepticism
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It usually doesn’t take long for the rage felt because of some bastard in Connecticut shooting up a school full of kids to dissipate into a melange of Facebook Philosophy, Tawdry Tweets, Paltry Prayers, and Fruitless Photoshop. Already, I’m being hit with drawings like this that would make Van Gogh go Van Nuts:

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I’m a Negligent Blogger

Posted: December 7, 2012 by Josh Bunting in Uncategorized
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Hey, I just wanted to update this really quick. I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t had much time to write here. And that probably won’t change for about a month. So I’ll be back, hopefully at a more regular pace, in 2013.

Man Plays God and Wins…Again

Posted: November 29, 2012 by Marc Johnson in Religion, Science
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In another startling instance of human beings doing a better job than god at creating stuff, Scientists at the might have unexpectedly created a new form of matter inside the Large Hadron Collider.

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