By now, everyone is familiar with the quasi-psychotic paintings, performance pieces, and music (which oftentimes use turds, vaginal blood, or turds doused in vaginal blood as the medium) that pass for art nowadays. Even art criticism has slowly become indistinguishable from bloody turds, mostly resulting from the influences of the postmodern turn in the humanities …
Monthly Archive: December 2008
Dec 28
Baby-Eating Atheists
Other than my love of transexual midget clowns, my strangest interest is my compulsion to eat odd, disgusting, or nearly inedible food. My love affair with strange foods began when I was young. My brother had offered me some crazy mexican lollipop covered with chili powder and said he would give me a dollar if …
Dec 28
What If You’re Wrong?
Pascal’s wager has a long and ridiculous history among proselytizers, and the sheer stupidity of the argument is overwhelming and almost incomprehensible. Blaise Pascal, the original formulator of the argument, was no doubt a very intelligent man, and that is exactly why the argument itself seems so inexplicable. Of course, contemporary users of the argument …
Dec 23
Moral Purity, Hypocrisy, and the Plight of Homosexual Conservatives
Aside from Youtube videos featuring cats attacking babies, moral hypocrisy is perhaps the most hilarious thing one can witness. Larry Craig, a conservative senator who was known to support anti-gay legislation, provided countless hours of hilarity when it was discovered that he frequents men’s restrooms in search of man-on-man lovin’. His infamous foot-tapping signal for gay …
Dec 22
Evolution Prefers Blondes (And Believers)
While I tend to have my doubts about evolutionary psychology, I nevertheless find it fascinating and worth thinking about, even in spite of the difficulty in confirming such hypotheses. The subject becomes even more interesting when used to explain the lack of skeptical thinking in human beings, as Acinonyx Scepticus has done in a recent …
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