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Haha, didn't think of that. I've been in there, though, it's a shithole with no clean surfaces. I just assumed it was the ghost again.

Ok, another really kind of strange thing just happened at my school. Last night I asked a professor if I could hand in a more revised copy of a lab report, and he said, yes, just drop it in my mailbox (they have folders on their doors for this purpose) within the next day or so. So I go to...

That one's particularly bad, but it's also really beligerently made up. Usually they contain some kernel of truth that makes it even more galling that they actually published such misleading crap. Then you realize, this is probably the writer doing the best they can to interpret science with...

Here's where I'm going to get snooty and say that, yeah, ok, maybe some of the general population is educated and has the knowledge basis necessary to interpret scientific journal articles. But the vast majority don't. In fact, it's hard for most scientists to properly interpret stuff...

Speaking of enjoyably bad science: I can admit that I watch Mythbusters sometimes when I'm in a house that has a TV. And that show is about as scientific as... Peewee's Playhouse.

I always read the NYT pieces, which is why I shouldn't really feel superior about myself. I read the whole damn thing, usually. For every decent "history" type of piece (I remember they had a really good one on Jung a while back) they publish, there are about 10 really stupid like Simon...

Thanks...I've heard of it, and I think read a couple of linked articles before, but I always forgot to save it... It's getting more difficult all the time, but it's nice to see there are bloggers out there who are trying to stop the spread of false information through science journalism.

And of course, it's "groundbreaking news" with some faux-populism to it. We don't need no stinkin anti-depressants. Well, yeah, it's unlikely that you do, you dumb fucks! Since something like ~5% of the population has MDD, possibly less. It's a new Dark Age.

Uck, that Newsweek article is ridiculous. It doesn't actually cite any numbers from any studies, just insists in passing that these numbers exist. It's flagrantly exaggerated BS. Just because anti-depressants were overprescribed to people who probably didn't need them over the past decade or so...

Yes, lengthy New York Times pieces aside, there's nothing fun about depression, and it's not an "ontological" problem. (Seems like the Times runs at least one really lame article per week about the "upside" of mental illness or autism or something once a week that's always supremely...

You can make more money off 'em if you're a sex worker.

No, it's true. My brother's fiancee is one of those ridiculously good looking people who gets slack-jawed stares wherever she goes. (She's Polish and Native American and has bright green eyes and very dark skin...she's like a prettier version of Lisa Edelstein) And she has the best body I've...

Most men who see prostitutes are married, yes. But that doesn't mean they aren't socially awkward.

Heh where did you get those chats? That's hilarious. That's why when people who are anti-sex work get all righteous about it based on the imaginary fact that the men who see sex workers are all basically frat boys who entertain alarming sexist notion about women, I'm usually thinking, oh...

He's too busy with chatroulette, the latest trend in instant web communications and pr0n. How can we compete with that?

"Wymin must provide an alternate view of everything, be different, be other, be elusive." That was the next gem, I knew that was coming. You know, if there's a hell, Dworkin's in it, I hope. She basically gave every male misogynist (and a lot of female misogynists) on earth a "feminist"...

Uck, today I wake up to a gay man lecturing me about how the only truly feminist show would be "No Sex in the City" modelled after Andrea Dworkin's sex fascism. Yeah, right. Meanwhile, he gets to have sex with the male oppressor whenever he wants. Something's fishy about all this...

She also uses the Qlipoth ID. She did it in my blog comments, dude. And then it was confirmed by MacCruiskeen afterward. Look at it if you don't believe me. Not that it matters much...but she does write and post comments as Qlipoth.

We could start a thread alone on "common sense"...that'd be a good procrastination tool... I wish people who used that term would admit to themselves that when they're using it they're basically admitting that they have an opinion based on their own very 'common' sense that happens to run...

It's not all bad, but as far as technology goes it's just sort of like an internet text message. It's really not all bad. But there's never anything good on there. Like half the people on my list post obsessively all day to the point where you can't even follow what they're saying. Then most of...